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Homebrew Website Club Nürnberg is once again part of Nürnberg Digital Festival. Come join us on July, 1st (and on our other monthly meetings as well).

https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/homebrew-website-club-nuedigital

#hwc #indieweb

Had to leave #btconf a bit earlier because of, well, life happening.

Thanks to @marcthiele for making @btconf this gem that it is and looking forward to meeting all these lovely people I've met in the last days again soon. I'm full of inspirations and ideas right now that I have to process first, somehow.

PostgreSQL major version upgrades in Docker containers are a pain in the ass. How is it that MariaDB handles this much more smoothly?  #postgresql #admin

This cake is not a lie. Yummy! #btconf

Hallo and good morning @btconf - excited for the next two days. #btconf

As nobody seems to need drives A:  and B: on Windows anymore (or are there any floppy disk users still out there), I thought it would be a nice idea to mount the backup drive from my NAS to B: (as in 'backup').

Seems the devs of bun, the JavaScript runtime (https://bun.com), also don't use floppy disks and use B: for their virtual file system.

So, better leave drives A: and B: alone when using Windows.

Fixed Webmentions display and rendering on my website. I even added cute little overlay icons to differentiate the different types of webmentions.

And, well, I reconfigured my Docker infrastructure to properly support IPv6 on the way.  Don't ask why, but this works as well now. ;)

See it in action on https://bjoern.stierand.org/notes/socialmedia - scroll to the bottom of the page.

#indiewebcamp #indieweb

Ready for #indiewebcamp Day 2 at Sia Consulting in Düsseldorf with @tilmn, @jkphl, @tantek.com and many other lovely folks. #indieweb

#indiewebcamp dinner. Could be worse. 🤩

A blast from the past. Love listening to Ray Cokes' voice and his music selection. Takes me back to the good old #MTV days.

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/raydio-cokes-show/

While trying to migrate some self-hosted apps to a new empty VPS yesterday, I noticed an unusually high load, issues during upgrade (initramfs scripts broke one by one because of missing libs) and a lot of network traffic with no actual services running.

I set up the server some days ago and installed a Portainer agent, but didn't configure it yet. Seems this is an ideal entry point for the #perfctl/#perfcc malware and a rootkit to use the server for CryptoJacking and ProxyJacking. The #Portainer agent waits for an initial connection from the Portainer server (and does so after every restart) - but if the attacker comes first, he wins. 🙄

Long story short: I reinstalled the server from scratch, use the Portainer Edge agent from now on (which reverses the communication direction) and have an even closer look on my monitoring.

More infos about the attack vector can be found here:

https://blog.exatrack.com/Perfctl-using-portainer-and-new-persistences/

On the train on my way home from @btconf Berlin 2025. I took the time to write a quick review and now I'll tackle some of these ideas I had in the last two days. ⌨️

https://bjoern.stierand.org/events/btconf-berlin-2025

Leaving @btconf once again with a lot of new input after 2 days of nice interactions with really lovely people. After attending the events in Munich and Düsseldorf I could now cross off Berlin from my bucket list. Thanks to @marcthiele , the speakers and the crew for a really great time and see you all in Düsseldorf in 2026.

Good morning @btconf 🫶 #btconf

On my way to #btconf Berlin! 🚄

Immer wenn Du denkst "Schlimmer kann die User Experience jetzt wirklich nicht werden" findet Ticketmaster einen Weg, es doch noch schlimmer zu machen.

I really enjoy the time when all the software on my servers - the OS, the Tailscale client, Docker, all the self-hosted stuff I'm running - is up to date. What a bliss, those 30 seconds.

Hello Homebrew Website Club! ✌️

Wie soll ich denn mit diesem wackeligen Netz das coole Digital-Nomad-Vibe-Coder-Leben führen? Das geht so nicht.

Auch mal schön wenn die Sitzplatzreservierung im ICE in dem Zugteil ist, der fährt. Sonst hatte ich immer das Glück in dem Teil zu reservieren, der weggefallen ist. Die kleinen Freuden des Alltags.