nilsmielke’s blog.

TL:DR Recordings of the first ever Kirby Konf will become available over the next few weeks.

I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI, kill it.”

Last night, Kirby Community Meetup Karlsruhe #4 happened.

Hey Nils, it’s me—Nils.

Yesterday was the big day.

Ever since last year’s Olympic surfing competitions, I have had a nag for the sport.

In October 2024 Bene Zorn and I started a recurring Kirby CMS Community Meetup for the greater Karlsruhe region—or “Kirby KA” for short.

I am a simple man.

Print isn’t dead—it only looks that way on paper.

If you have come to Kirby from another system—e.g. from Perch, as I have—or if you are simply in search of such a feature, you might struggle to find a solution to just “plug in” a CMS in certain places to make a tiny bit of your project editable as neede…

A good conspiracy theorist, won't be distracted by facts.

Just leaving this link to Wil Wheaton’s blog post on the results of the 2024 US presidential election here: https://wilwheaton.net/2024/11/what-have-you-done-america/ I like reading Wil’s posts a lot.

As of yesterday I have been meditating—almost—every day for 18 months straight.

Complete the motion if you stumble!

You wouldn’t believe, how much I enjoy listening to DJ Mark Farina delivering—amongst others—his infamous Defected Broadcasting House sessions.

Happy New Year to everyone, who celebrates!

This is more of a Note to Self (hence N2S), to remember, what the Elvis operator (?

The most important part is your mental game… I would say it’s 90 % mental and the rest is in your head.

Thanks to a post on Mastodon, I came across Airbus’ open source font “B612”.

I was having a hard time, figuring out, how to use cURL to retrieve Airtable records with their new token-based API.

[…] humans don’t communicate very well by default.

I have recently migrated a bunch of websites, that were on Perch version 3.2 (a.k.a. the last “regular” release), to Perch Runway 4.x.

I enjoy using list() (php.net/manual/en/function.list.php) to disassemble arrays into named variables.

On Mastondon, there are a few posts about how to implement an alias for your actual handle using different setups.

As always (😬), I am most likely late to the party, but have you enjoyed writing shorthand PHP, yet?

Here’s to a new era—of posts on this site only being published in English.We didn’t even have a good run, German posts.

If you are scared of people, you never feel lonely.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

If you follow me on Twitter, you are most likely aware, that I am a big fan of the privacy-first website analytics solution Fathom Analytics.

Do you listen to podcasts?

Done is better than perfect.