About

Hi there! I’m Jan, a thirtysomething mechanical engineer, amateur guitarist, and web standards, WordPress and Laravel enthusiast from Belgium, and this is my personal blog.

Questions? Feel free to reach out on Mastodon!

About This Site

(As of June 25, ’23) this site runs on WordPress proper and sports a so-called “block theme.”

Copies of most notes are automatically posted to Mastodon—other social media services may follow.

RSS and Microformats

The /feeds page lists (almost) all feeds available. (Big surprise there.)

Comments and Webmentions

Next to “regular” comments, this site supports webmentions. Additionally, posts and notes that are crossposted—POSSE’d—to Mastodon can be replied to over on the “Fediverse.” Those replies may then appear on this site as well.

I’ve also started experimenting with ActivityPub to have comments from Mastodon and elsewhere federate right back to my site.

Now Playing

If your browser supports JavaScript, it may show a “Now Playing” widget on the bottom left of every page, which should reflect whatever’s playing on either my main laptop or the media player in our living room. It gets its data from this site’s very own “scrobbling” endpoint. (In short, my media player pushes song information to my web server, rather than, say, Last.fm.)

Once the move to WordPress is complete, I’ll be making all this work again!

Privacy Policy

Cookies

This site might place a number of functional cookies on your computer.

Analytics

I don’t do stats. There is no tracking.

Webmention and Aggregated Content

Public webmentions may be linked to or displayed in part or in full. I also occasionally pull in public replies on Mastodon, too, and may one day revive this practice. ActivityPub replies, too, may get shown below posts.