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A grid of cubes connected by wires

January 26, 2026

Jigsaw - Related articles

Even though Jigsaw is a static site generator, it can be made more dynamic and generate related articles too. In this post I will show you how to do that. Create a Listener Jigsaw has a concept of...
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Person on a running track

January 24, 2026

How to set up a self-hosted GitHub Runner

There are several reasons to run your own GitHub Runners: Lower costs More control Bigger, more stable runner sizes The TYPO3 Crawler needs runners that are a bit larger and more stable than...
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Wall with a Life Ring

January 22, 2026

TYPO3 Crawler with TYPO3 14 Support

Earlier this week, TYPO3 14.1 was released. I'm happy to announce that the TYPO3 Crawler (dev-main branch) now supports TYPO3 14 and PHP 8.5. There is no release yet of the TYPO3 Crawler, but one...
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Picture of mobilephone with VPN Protected displayed on the screen

January 13, 2026

OpenVPN Specific Version

From time to time, VPN servers use older software, requiring an older OpenVPN version that isn't always available in the repositories of your chosen Linux distribution. This post shows you how to...
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Picture of birthday cake

December 22, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler - 20 Years in the TYPO3 Ecosystem

On December 22nd, 2025, the TYPO3 Crawler officially turned 20 years old. On that day back in 2005, the TYPO3 Crawler was uploaded publicly for the very first time. Since then, it has quietly but...
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November 24, 2025

Hetzner (affiliated)

It's no secret that I host my services on Hetzner and I have done for many years now. I have set up multiple services at the servers ranging from simple webservers to kubernetes clusters. So far I...
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Snow covered mountains

July 16, 2025

Switch to alpinejs for mobile menu toggle

I'm not really a frontend developer kind of person, so I try to keep it as simple as possible, Alpine.js helps me with that. Below you can see the diff, or directly on GitHub if you prefer. Now I...
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Spiderweb with waterdrops on it

July 14, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler - 10 Years of contributions

Somewhen in 1998, I didn't have the money for buying my Licenses for my Windows, and I started to look for other legal alternatives. I was then introduced to Linux and Open Source. It took me some...
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The corner of a blue shipping container with a clear blue sky in the background

June 29, 2025

Kamal Deploy

After I have been using a total overkill setup for my private hosting a k3s cluster, for more than two years, I decided to cut some costs and complexity. I have now switched to a Kamal Deploy setup...
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Blue jigsaw puzzle, with a missing piece in the center

June 6, 2025

Jigsaw - replace vue with Alpine.js

After updating to version 1.8.0 of tightenco/jigsaw, I saw that their blog-repository had been updated to use Alpine.js instead of vue for the search. So I decided to update my blog, to be a little...
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Internet led sign beside building near buildings

May 20, 2025

Freelancer

I'm excited to share a new chapter in my life — I have started working as a freelancer! My focus areas include TYPO3, general PHP development, DevOps, and automation. If you're looking for support...
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Screenshot of a gitlog

February 3, 2025

Git Alias

Git is an amazing tool, I personally use a git wip alias all the time, which gives a nice overview of which branches have been worked on lately. You can add following to your...
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Ballons released into the air

January 29, 2025

TYPO3 Crawler with TYPO3 13 LTS Support

The "latest" version of the TYPO3 Crawler 12.0.6 comes with TYPO3 13 LTS support. It's been overdue for too long, but now it's out. Only four days later, a new release was created...
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Elephpant on MacBook

December 27, 2024

PHP 8.4 on Ubuntu 24.10

As of December 2024, the Ondřej Surý PPA does not provide support for Ubuntu 24.10. This limitation affects the installation of PHP versions, including PHP 8.4, on this Ubuntu release. To install...
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Painted jigsaw

July 28, 2021

Setting up a blog with Jigsaw

With the blog post you will learn how to set up you own blog with Jigsaw. open your terminal, and type in And that's it for now. Now you can watch you blog Now go to...
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