May Summary
Development
We thought we just published our April summary, but obviously, we're heading towards the end of May. So here comes our May summary!
Kirby
This month we published another Kirby plugin. A question arose in the Kirby forum asking for a way to schedule a blog post and automatically publish it. You can build that on your own, or instead use our "new" AutoPublish plugin.
https://maurice-renck.de/de/kirby/autopublish
In reality, it's not that new because we initially built it for Marks blog. We just needed to create a package and publish it. This way we could help the forum user with his question.
Maurice also released the Bloggerrolle plugin, a Kirby Plugin for the German blogosphere. It pings two services allowing blogs to inform those services about new blog posts:
https://maurice-renck.de/de/blog/2025/bloggerrolle-kirby-plugin
APIs
You may have read it, when you use Postman as your API client and use secrets, those may be leaked. That might be your sign to switch clients! We switched some years ago to RapidApi, the client is nice, but the data is stored somewhere in their system. What if you want to own your data?
Use Bruno.
Bruno is an open-source client with git support. Everything is stored in files on your hard disk and you can sync using git. Most of the features are free, but if you work in a bigger team the Pro or Ultimate subscription might be handy for you.
Until now, we don't miss anything. The UI is clean and functional and comes with everything we need for our daily use cases. If you work with APIs, you should definitely have a look:
Server Side Stories
This month we had a special situation regarding our Podcast. It was the first time we had a guest. Stefan Bothe joined us to talk about UI, UX and how he became a designer:
https://konzentrik.de/de/server-side-stories/se01/gast-stefan-bothe
We also talked about how we became web developers. Which in our cases started with gaming! We talk about our first attempts to write code and how we ended up were we are today:
What we read
Still not enough input? Here are some recommendations out of all the things we read last month: