The IT Blog

Blog

locked.de/

Profile

locked.de/author/franz/

  • Your Company Blog needs RSS! Really

    In the last couple of weeks it happened repeatedly that I wanted to follow a company’s blog – just to see that they have a blog but no RSS feed! It’s surprising and a bit disheartening to see companies investing time in writing / maintaining a blog without providing an RSS feed – even though…

  • Mastodon is how the Web should be: OPEN

    TL;DR: just add “.rss” to a mastodon profile or tags or user-tags to get an RSS stream! My photography profile @hikingdude@mastodon.social for example can easily be followed by an RSS Reader by following https://mastodon.social/@hikingdude.rss. No account required! And that’s not even the end! 🤯

  • How to get rid of Cookie-AdTracking – easily

    TL;DR: Delete cookies when closing the browser, allow-list only the sites you want to stay logged in. It’s really that easy. I recently checked my browser settings and was “surprised” to find more than 3.000 cookies. Most of them from sites I didn’t recognize, many from obvious ad-tracking companies. These companies, with whom I have…

  • Making the Best of a Bad Presentation Experience

    Recently, I attended a conference and sat through a particularly bad presentation. I was tempted to leave, but my colleague insisted we stay until the end. So I somehow had to make the best out of it. This gave me the opportunity to analyze what made the presentation so ineffective and “bad” for me (maybe…

  • Good Conference Talks aren’t just Success Stories

    Recently, my colleagues and I attended the World of Data conference. (The conference is an event in the data and analytics industry, where latest trends, technologies etc are presented in workshops and talks/presentations. It’s pretty nice to be honest!)

  • How to make ActivityPub plugin publish WordPress posts

    If your federation of wordpress posts simply doesn’t want to work – it might be that your wordpress URL points to some capial letters.

  • How to fix: Jabra Elite 75T volume too low / decreasing

    Recently I faced the issue with my Jabra Elite 75T InEars that the volume started to continually decrease until I had to max out the volume on the phone. Yet with a very easy solution: CLEANING!

  • How to Exclude OpenAI GPTBot from future crawling a website

    In order to tell OpenAI to stop crawling a website and thus not use the content for training GPT, OpenAI now supports to disallow GPTBot from accessing your site.

  • How to fix: Jabra Elite 75T different volume of in-Ear headphones

    After some back and forth, the easiest solution was: Simply hard reset the headphones in 2 simple steps.

  • An advantage of remote interviews

    One situation where a personal relationship is quite important is an interview with candidates. Besides the technical expertise you also want to know whether or not the candidate is a fit for the team.