Let's try this again. This time with more ways to publish and with even less between me and the code.

Over the years I've spent a lot of time building websites. At first with static html that arrived at our home on an AOL CD-ROM. We didn't even have an internet connection back then, but there was an index.html file on that CD which I dissected and built my first homepage upon.

I grew up and started putting more and more PHP into my HTML until I arrived at WordPress. That CMS accompanied me through a few years of self employment building sites for other people and way better, introduced me to the world of open source contribution. But WordPress got too bloated over the years.

For this site I wanted something simpler. I played around with 11ty for a while, but I don't want to rely on package managers and build processes that can break at any time. It simply wasn't simple enough.

This is how I arrived at this point: I'm writing everything myself in HTML and CSS (and Gemtext for Gemini ). No frameworks, no AI, no CMS. Except of course on the Fediverse, where I use a PieFed community on my selfhosted instance to host this blog. I'm finally having fun building again, not just configuring tools and setting up systems.

Why? Because I love it, I like to write clean code myself and I understand everything that's happening.

The 3rd Berlin Fediverse Day is a networking event for people in the Fediverse. With talks, workshops and networking opportunities, we want to spread knowledge about the Fediverse, promote creative solutions and strengthen the exchange between developers, administrators, academia, civil society and content creators. The conference will take place 11-13th September 2026 at c-base Berlin.
https://berlinfedi.day/en/

Maybe you're already on Mastodon, Pixelfed or PeerTube. Maybe decentralised social media touches your work without you thinking of it that way. Either way: If you have something to say, show, or ask: We want to invite you — developers, researchers, journalists, lawyers, artists, and everything in between.
https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/

You can enter proposals until 2026-06-14 23:59 (Europe/Berlin)

One of my favorite artists right now. Her new album comes out 22nd May.

Hi, I've published all the custom CSS that I use on my PieFed instance. It's inspired by the Mint color palette from Voyager. It's almost a theme, but for now I'll keep it all in custom CSS to keep things simple.

It's only optimized for darkmode, for now.

If you don't like mint, you can change the main color variable --bs-base-color in line 7 and 17 to a color of your liking. That'll change the base color for everything, except the logo, that's a png from my codeberg repo (corresponding logo code starting at line 108). I tried filtering the original blue PieFed logo to mint with something like filter: hue-rotate(305deg) but it wasn't quite right.

You can find the code on codeberg.

And you can see a demo running on my instance.

Have a nice day :)

Klassiker :)

The opener of her album "Lotus". My album of the week 💚

cross-posted from: https://tube.funfacts.de/videos/watch/faf1a05d-21a0-41f7-97d5-e64504cd7224

Unterstütze uns und werde jetzt Teil der Bande: https://bande.funfacts.de/join

Erlebe die Show live – Tickets gibt’s hier: https://www.funfacts.de/tickets-kaufen

Steuerhinterziehung in Deutschland steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Folge mit Anne Brorhilker. Es geht um die Frage, warum der Aktionsplan gegen organisierte Kriminalität zwar Finanzkriminalität anspricht, organisierte Steuerhinterziehung aber weitgehend ausspart. Im Fokus stehen Cum-Ex, Cum-Cum, der geschätzte Milliardenschaden für die Allgemeinheit und die politische Verantwortung von Finanzministerium, Zoll und Justiz. Außerdem geht es um Lars Klingbeil, die Rolle der Finanzlobby und die Forderung nach einer zentralen Bundesstelle gegen international organisierte Steuerhinterziehung. Die Folge zeigt, was entgangene Steuereinnahmen für Schulen, Nahverkehr, Bahn und öffentliche Infrastruktur bedeuten würden und warum bessere Ermittlungen kein Randthema, sondern eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit sind. Mit konkreten Beispielen, klarer Kritik und dem Vorschlag für einen echten BOSS-Move: eine schlagkräftige Stelle gegen Steuerbetrug mit Zoll, Polizei und Steuerverwaltung.

In Kooperation mit CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft

Mehr von zur Finanzwende gibt es hier https://www.instagram.com/finanzwende

Autor*innen:
Anne Brorhilker, Jan Cronauer, Kirsten Fuchs, Jean-Philippe-Kindler, Shari Litt, Marc-Uwe Kling, Maik Matschinkowsky, Henriette Pflug

Produktionsleitung: Seven Elias
Musik: Boris Loebsack
Animationen: Amelie Runkel https://www.amelierunkel.com/
Ton: Simon/Philipp/Hannes/Julian/ Film Sound Lab
Schnitt: Noah Wanner; Katharina Hamann; Bastian Wirth; Jan Vogt; Seven Elias; Luke Cronauer

Quellen https://www.funfacts.de/quellen

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Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/funfactsde.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://social.funfacts.de/@funfacts_de
...und sonst überall!

Hi. I've set up a new single-user instance for myself today and I'm trying to create a local community.

I'm getting this error:

"You are not able to do this action due to being a very new account or because of a low reputation."

Can I somehow get around this limitation?