One issue left from my CSS-Hacking-Session last month: The Dark-Mode of this Website. Well, today I finally managed to activate the dark side of the force. Enjoy!

Friday afternoon, a long bank holiday weekend lies straight ahead. Time to fix a few issues in this blog. Basically just minor ones and for the most visitors irrelevant. But for me important details, making the difference to the standard modular websites. Yellow Textmarker One of these inconspicuous details is the highlighting with a “yellow textmarker”. I have been annoyed more than once when highlighting is done in the standard system colours. For a viewer, exactly the opposite happens: The highlighting worsens the readability and the contrast as the following picture shows: Read more

The last two days I improved my own architecture and extended everything with a PDF workflow. If you like, you may download my larger blog series from the previous year in one piece as a PDF file and read them offline, a total of 75+ pages of condensed facts: Corona Warning App Home Office Workplaces Macbook Revival Come on, PDFs for old articles? Seriously? Well these are just test-balloons and working examples for my new PDF workflow. With the help of Pandoc, Git, Bash and Xelatex I have been able to achieve a significant improvement. The three linked PDFs are 100% automatically created from the content of this blog without my intervention. In future, this workflow will also be used for audits, documentation or other articles for third parties. Read more

I am in urgend need to talk with my Editor. At the slightest mistake she snarls at me from the side. It’s not possible to work under these conditions ;-)

I would like to wish all my customers, business partners, friends and acquaintances a happy Holiday Season. Please stay healthy! Wherever you are, cosily couch in yourselves and keep the necessary peace of mind during the Corona-Lockdown. May it be like an admin-friend told me recently: Think positive, stay negative! I am winding down my blog activities till January and devoting myself to the persons and activities needing me. For the long, dark and hopefully snowy winter evenings there are some books awaiting me aswell together with a tea, milk and honey. Read more

At the beginning of the (first?) Corona lockdown in March 2020, I was advised during an nightly Jitsi meeting by a befriended admin from Hamburg about giving Hugo a chance. Probably just after I dropped a rant about Rapidweaver, my previous static site generator on the Mac. Making of blog.jakobs.systems The idea needed to grow for almost half a year, till August, when I finally found a test balloon for Hugo: My personal blog and if everything succeeds, my official website, which is slowly getting rusty. Read more

After some finetuning of this blog it is time for a break and to check the current state objectively. Yes, quality is measurable - these online tests give you a quick overview where you stand: Google Lighthouse Mozilla Observatory SSL Labs Servertest Webbkoll Hardenize DNSViz The results are quite impressive. Everything’s shipshape. Postscriptum from October, 18th 2020: I’ve added Hardennize and DNSViz to the list. Hardenize offers wonderful birs-eye view for Web+Email, DNSViz due to the fact that its checking the DNS.

You’re damn late! This was the initial response of a friend while showing him a previev. But finally, here we are. This is a blog round about my work and all the things I am taking care of. Everything is work in progress and this website is kind of Playground seperated from the formal official website. As you might have expected: No 3rd party ressources, no data collection or transfer to 3rd parties. This website is built and operated with free software only (Builder, Hugo, Gitea, Debian, Apache and damn I am so proud of! Read more