Sort dates from json in Hugo

I manage concert data on a Hugo homepage in a JSON file. A distinction should be made between upcoming and past concerts. In addition, the date should be reformatted after sorting. Here is a bit of crazy code for this:

Fun with printers

I manage printers professionally, which we buy from a company, let’s call them „ABC Printers“. The printers are basically Lexmark MS331dn, which have been given a new label.

We bought the printers at the end of 2022 with a 24-month maintenance contract. During this time, I once had a technical problem that I couldn’t solve myself, as all administrative functions on the web front end are protected with a pin. When I asked if I could get this pin, they referred to the maintenance contract, which excludes this.

Simple HTML Form bot detection

I recently had to integrate a contact form on a homepage, which naturally attracted a few bots after a very short time. Since I don’t want to use reCAPTCHA for reasons and I don’t like all the other external solutions, I came up with the following solution:

Hugo homepage as page bundle

My aim was to divide the start page of a Hugo site into blocks, with each block being a separate Markdown file. The same principle should also work (optionally) for normal pages. Here is the code with which this is possible.

Unify OpenScape sucks

I have to work with a Unify OpenScape Business X5 for my job. The plan is to switch to an open source solution by the end of the year, but that doesn’t stop me from giving my opinion on this pile of rubbish.

My rant on Signal

After my Matrix experiment failed in my private environment, I am now a 100% Signal user again. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to complain about Signal, on the contrary. There are a few things that are really wrong, which I would like to list here:

Tolino is broken

I got two Kindles (2nd generation) a long time ago, which prompted me to finally start reading more again. Basically, it worked quite well; I installed Calibre, imported books and moved them to the Kindle from there.

Element is broken

I have been a Signal user for many years and am reasonably happy with it. But soon my son will be of an age where he will also get a smartphone and I will have different requirements than I do for myself. For example, I want a messenger whose server I can host myself and which is not linked to a telephone number. Also I want to keep him away from Telegram and WhatsApp groups for as long as possible.