Max Dietrich - Technical Product Owner GIS

I had an old Kindle sitting in a drawer for years.

For a long time I used Plausible Analytics to track pageviews on this site.

I have been using Colota daily since the closed testing phase and kept running into things that bothered me.

Securing web applications with HTTPS is a must, and Let’s Encrypt makes it easy by offering free SSL certificates.

Plausible Analytics is a lightweight, privacy-focused, cookie-free analytics solution.

When running databases like PostgreSQL and MariaDB on a server, ensuring regular backups is crucial for protecting your data from unexpected events such as crashes, human error, or system failure.

Webmentions are a powerful tool for adding decentralized social interactions, such as comments, likes, reposts, and replies, directly on your website.

Many developers rely on Google’s Static Maps API to generate map images, but this has limitations such as: API rate limits Cost for high-volume usage Potential data privacy concerns Dependency on an external service For a long time I was looking for an al…

In general there are two possibilies to use GoogleAdsense on your GatsbyJS website: Auto Ads and custom ad blocks.

Maps have long been a fundamental element in web development, transforming static websites into dynamic, location-aware applications.

GIS and Geo Blogs Of course, to find out new things, I take a look at one or the other website that deals with GIS Or geoinformatics in general.

In this article, we'll explore how to Dockerize a Next.js application and automate its deployment using GitHub Actions, thereby simplifying the deployment workflow and enhancing development productivity.

MapProxy is a powerful open-source proxy for geospatial data that allows for efficient caching and serving of map tiles.

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Next.js Image Component next-image is a feature introduced in Next.js version 10.0.0 to optimize images and improve the performance of your web-application.

Since I store blog posts in a self-hosted version of strapi, I've been looking for a way to automatically generate a table of contents from Markdown for all posts in my Next.js site.

Recently I went out of storage for my homelab so I bought an used NAS (Synology DS214 play) to have some more capacities for Proxmox Backups and OpenStreetMap.

This guide is designed for people who want to learn docker infrastructure.

In this article I will explain how you can create a basic web map with Leaflet and React by using functional components without any third party packages.

When setting up my Next.js site, I opted to build a custom cookie banner instead of using prebuilt solutions.

Some blogs have these related articles or posts sections where visitors can have a preview at more content after they just read a post.

In this article I am going to explain, how you can implement Google Adsense in Next.js applications (or any other react applications).

With Gatsby 4 bringing in Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Deferred Static Generation (DSG) you need an alternative methode to just hosting static files.

2021-03-02 i started tracking my current location with OwnTracks and Strapi (How i constantly track my location and display a web-map with all the locations) and created a /map which shows all the locations i have ever been to.

This guide will help you prepare DEM data using QGIS in order to render 3D looking shaded-relief maps in Blender.

Inspired by Aaron Parecki who has been tracking his location since 2008 with an iPhone app and a server-side tracking API, I decided to build a similar system, but entirely with tools I control.

Tyler Sticka published an article on cloudflour where he presents an awsome library he made which allows you to create svg placeholders for img-elements.

Went on top of the Brünnstein via the Dr.

The creator/s of a11yproject.com have created a checklist for reviewing a website in terms of accessibility.

Pretty easy climb with phenomenal view

Bike trip in the Chiemgau Alps.

After work session with my new Scott Spark 😎 #happyplace #mountainbike #scottspark #chasingsunsets

First ride with my new spark 🌄 #ridemore #scottspark #scottbikes #thatshowweroll

With getting into the IndieWeb i started to reflect about myself and how i can actually own my data instead of giving them to so called silos.

In this article Francesco Schwarz is explaining how he fetches data from Garmin Connect and uses it to display runs on his website.

WebAIM provides some very interesting documentation on how to create a web with web accessiblity in mind.

A brilliant post by Max Böck on how to get incoming and outgoing Webmentions for example via Bridgy and webmention.io and how to handle and filter the data to be able to finally implement webmentions on your website.

Integrating syntax highlighting into a Next.js project has evolved with the latest Next.js versions (12–14) and React Server Components.

This article shows you how can host your Next.js site on a (virtual private) server with Nginx and a CI/CD pipeline via PM2 and Github Webhooks.