/about

At this page you will find more about me but also the other /slashes pages like /now or /nope. Enjoy.

Herr Montag works and lives in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. This small website is dedicated to this topic. If you have an interest in it, please continue reading. You can contact me via mail or through my channels.

I started blogging in 2002 using software called b2evolution and changed then to Wordpress, just to explore how this newly established Web2.0 functions. However, my journey with web development began back in 1997 when I created my first website, experimenting with HTML and FTP as I learned along the way. Nowadays, I enjoy vintage computing, writing short poems, and taking photographs. I also appreciate listening to vinyl (actually moving from Instagram to Pixelfed) records and cycling, alot.

/now

Topics that are important to me these days are (not ordered):

• Fighting against depression. Every day. It is hard.
• I lastly built a Terminal Navidrome Client for my streaming Musiclibrary. So I can stream it to my PowerMac G5. You can find it here on Github and read about it here on Apfelhammer.de.
• I started programming Rust. I hate Rust.
• I cycle a lot, I bought a new Bike from Canyon, you can see it here.
• I started running again. I hate running, but it is time-effective. One hour, 10 Km, done. :)
• I created a .microblog for my BSKY and other short thoughts and to have my own data at my own website - I programmed something in python to have all this automatically done.
• I built webmention support for a) writefreely and for b) ghost cms.
• Reducing my own technological footprint. Selfhosting and the use of single board computers rather than the cloud, laptops and desktops. (There are homes in my home now for janmontag.de, apfelhammer.de and my Navidrome)
• Critical view to consumerism.
• Eating more healthy.
• Reconnecting myself with the real world. Digital detoxing from Social Media everytime it is possible.
• Doing sports, running roadbike, going jogging - enjoy movement.

/me

FACTS: ∙ Erfurt ∙ Thuringia ∙ ÖD ∙ e-learning ∙ eTeach ∙ Hochschule ∙ Rennrad ∙ born 1982 ∙ 197 cm ∙ Music ∙ Schallplatten ∙ Vintage Computing ∙ Web ∙ Forest ∙ Poems ∙ hiking ∙ running ∙ Computing ∙ programming ∙

ENTITIES: ∙ Bluesky ∙ .Microblog ∙ Last.FM ∙ STRAVA ∙ Mastodon ∙ Schallplatten ∙ just pictures ∙ Spotify ∙ Tech Stuff ∙ Vintage Computing Website ∙ Apfelhammer.de ∙ GoToSocial ∙

/nope

Things I don't like. Like Mondays in that song. But my Name is Monday so I definitely like Monday. And - think about it - it is not the Monday, it is your job!

• programming
• envy
• Fascism, racism, extremism
• Brussels sprouts
• Apparent closure to the truth

/uses

• I use Macintoshes since 2005 for everything computing
• I also use windows computers when it is needed
• I love Linux (Ubuntu, I use ARCH btw)
• a Powermac G5 and an iMac G3 and an Amiga 1200 and an Atari ST 1040 and also a vintage terminal to connect to linux machines
• Vintage Hifi Equipment to listen to Vinyl. See it here.
• iTerm2, Alacritty… a, here I compiled a list.

/Webrings

This Weblog is part of two Webrings [^1]. One is the Indieweb Webring [^2], which is a webring across IndieWeb sites and blogs, part of the great rebirth of webrings powered by IndieWeb technology that made 2018 the year of the webring, and the other webring is the Uberblogr from Gigold. You can find both webrings in my sites footer.

1. a number of websites with related content, offering links to one another in such a way that one may view each of them without returning to a single referring site.
2. We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing ...

/Cookies

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/Footer

Made with HTML, CSS and LOVE; definitely now with PHP, nodejs and myself.

(C): All content, even lyrics and pictures, created by me: Jan Montag ∙ 2016 ∙ 2017 ∙ 2018 ∙ 2019 ∙ 2020 ∙ 2021 ∙ 2022 ∙ 2023, 2024 & 2025