Simple HTML Form bot detection

Feb 12, 2025

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:

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Hugo homepage as page bundle

Jan 28, 2025

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.

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Unify OpenScape sucks

Jan 15, 2025

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.

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My rant on Signal

Jan 15, 2025

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:

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Tolino is broken

Sep 9, 2024

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.

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