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Welcome to my Ted Talk Blog!

This site is home of countless blog posts I made throughout the years.
You can find a list of them below.

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  • 4 min read

Create a custom (sub-)domain for your MC Server

I'm in the process of creating a Minecraft Server. And at one point in that process did I had to setup a custom subdomain for it.
Since I was not running a server for such a long time did I had to look up tutorials, bud sadly, these tutorials either didn't explain how you set up a DNS entry with Cloudflare, showed outdated pictures and info on Cloudflare or explained it so poorly, that it didn't help.

So after figuring it out did I now decide to create my own quick guide to explain things. Enjoy.

  • in Guide
  • 7 min read

Add Share buttons to your Blog

One feature that is currently missing from the Material for MkDocs Blog plugin1 are share buttons that would allow your readers to share your blog post on Social media platforms.
This guide will show you how you can implement this yourself!

  • in Guide
  • 7 min read

Integrate Gitea/Forgejo Stats into Material for MkDocs

One core feature of Material for MkDocs1 is the display of statistics of a linked repository, such as latest release, fork count and star count.
However, this feature is limited to GitHub2 and GitLab3 repositories and other repositories cannot be added the same way as these two.

A prime example is trying to add statistics from a Gitea4 or Forgejo5 hosted repository, which requires some extra steps to be done here. And this post will explain how!

  • in General
  • 10 min read

The Development History of AdvancedServerList

Just in time for my birthday did my plugin AdvancedServerList reach 25 thousand downloads on Modrinth1.
This is a number I've never expected to reach here. So as a small thank you am I sharing some snippets of the plugin's development throughout the past 3 years and how it evolved to what it is now. Enjoy.

  • in Guide
  • 5 min read

How to add the fediverse:creator meta tag for blog posts in MkDocs

Mastodon 4.3 added a feature, where links to sites can display an author affilialtion, linking to a Mastodon account associated with that site.
This feature works through the usage of a meta HTML tag containing a specific name and content value.

This small blog post explains how you can add this tag to Blog posts of your MkDocs site.

  • in General
  • 4 min read

The Status Quo of Games

The term "Status Quo" in its most basic description means "The current state" of something.
Many things have a Status Quo the community accepts and/or tolerates, including Games.

I want to take the time and talk about why some of the things accepted as the overall norm is not a good idea, nor a good excuse for others to implement.

Why buying plugins won't give you a right for support

I provide support for the Premium Plugin ItemsAdder. And throughout my time doing this have I encountered lines like these:

  • "Can you finally add support for x?"
  • "I bought this plugin, so why won't my issue be solved?"
  • "No update in ... did the dev abandon the project?"

Some of these lines may sound extreme, but I've encountered them before at least once. And not just with ItemsAdder, but also other (often times not even premium) plugins.
And they all have one thing in common most of the time: The user thinks they have a right for support, because they bought (or simply use) the plugin. This couldn't be further from the truth.

Do not use the Essential Mod

The Essential Mod1, not to be confused with the Essentials Plugin2 or its updated Fork EssentialsX3, is a mod that tries to be a all-in-one solution for players similar to what you imagine with Mods like LabyMod4 or the 5zig Reborn5 Mod.
The issue here is, that it has a lot of problems, making it a worse mod and not really a good choice to begin with. This post will cover all the points I managed to gather from the community over the years I've heard of this mod. Enjoy.

  • in Guide
  • 11 min read

How to use JDA-Utilities' EventWaiter

If you're developing a bot with JDA1, changes are high that you want to implement a system where your bot is waiting for an input from the user after performing a command or action.
Doing this in JDA can be a bit tedious, especially if you want it to do things such as having the action expire after no input for a while. This is where JDA-Utilities2 comes into play. And this is where this blog post will explain how to use it and especially its EventWaiter functionality.

  • in Guide
  • 9 min read

How to use Codeberg Pages for MkDocs

Codeberg1 is a Website providing Git Hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.
It's managed by a non-profit (Codeberg e.V.) and offers a lot of things, including their own static page hosting Codeberg Pages.

Since I moved my blog to Codeberg Pages a while ago and since I find its set of features quite good did I now decide to make this little tutorial on how you can automate the publishing and updating of your MkDocs Site for Codeberg Pages.