Hi. 👋

I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I am an environmentalist and care about social inclusion & privacy. This is my personal Fediverse server, powered by ktistec. I modified its appearance with my own adjustments.

I typically remove shared posts after ca. 3–6 months. I do keep most of my own posts (for now).

I post about a variety of topics, both in German and English, such as:

I also developed a few tiny & simple self-hostable tools to ease my life (and that of others), such as:

You can find out more about myself on my website or in my introduction post.

JayVii

New #serci updates:

  • Adjusted Wikipedia Search URL
  • Added more Services from around the wikimedia cosmos (wikidata, wikimedia-commons, wikinews, wikisource, wikiversity, wikivoyage)
  • Added rotten tomatoes

Try it out at search.jayvii.de, contribute or self-host serĉi at https://src.jayvii.de/pub/serci/

Older posts about serĉi:

JayVii

A question to #wikipedians: Is there a particular reason why different language pages on #wikipedia use different layouts? For example, German pages still use a lot older, non-adaptive page layout and does not have the new beta-option for dark mode, while the English pages typically use the latest design choices.

English / new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
German / old: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

This is particularly gnarling because the language switcher is in a completely different location in both designs: old/German: left sidebar; new/English: on top, next to the title

JayVii

Went to the (not so) new Ethiopian place in town tonight #food #vegan

Image description: a very large colorful plate with various piles of different food on top of a backed pancake-like Ethiopian bread. There are beans, green salad, spinach, different types of lentils, and more bread. On the other side of the shared plate, which spans across the entire table, sits another person.
JayVii

Due to the heat today, a salad was pretty much the only dinner idea we found enjoyable. Was a good one though! Green salad, tomatoes, a peach, walnuts, onions, kimchi, chickpeas, and soy-based "meat" stripes #vegan #food

Image description: a black plate with the above mentioned ingredients next to a colorful water bottle.
JayVii

Started working on some tiny #ktistec end-user hacks: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks

For now only a user #CSS theme i dupped "purple-ish": https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/file/css/purpleish.css.html

Maybe more to come in the future. Or not, we'll see :)

JayVii

Also... Wie schon seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten per #RSS möglich? 🤔

Bildbeschreibung: Screenshot von tagesschau.de in dem ein Popup zu sehen ist, bei dem für ein ARD-Konto geworben wird. Mit diesem sei es möglich, sich individuelle Newsfeeds aus den verschiedenen Ressorts zusammen zu stellen.
JayVii

Watching #BloodOfZeus makes me really want to replay #AgeOfMythology again...

JayVii

Put #OpenSource code under the #AGPL license!

https://ploum.net/2024-07-01-opensource_sustainability.html

Nice read! I agree to every bit of it!

JayVii

Whenever starting a new slide presentation...

Image description: a plain presentation slide. The headline reads "Motivation". There is a single bullet point on the slide, saying "None."
JayVii

My keyword-based meta² search serĉi learned some new tricks and is a bit easier to use now!

Besides several categories you can browse to find keywords more easily, the backend has changed quite a bit as well! Both keyword-arrays and category-arrays are pre-generated from the configuration now. This makes it easy to configure but still maintain extremely high performance, and keep for-loop cycles low.

Everything in pure #PHP and without database, logging, cookies, etc. Give it a try and send me some feedback!