Hey there!
I’m melektron, an enthusiastic electronics and software engineer.
My interests include pretty much anything involving the development of cool/useful tech projects/gadgets. From time to time I post about them here.
You can also find me on GitHub and YouTube.
What happened to the old website?
I recently removed the old website based on GetSimple CMS in favour of this new, Astro-based site. Migrating away from the old system was on the ToDo list for a long time. Compared to the light-weight markdown files in Astro, the CMS system really made it a pain to publish anything (which is one of the reasons I rarely did).
The migration was finally kickstarted a few months ago (beginning of 2026) by the end-of-support for PHP 7 by my hosting provider. I upgraded to PHP 8, but the old install didn’t support it, leaving the page in a broken state for some time. Instead of fixing it, I took this opportunity to finally do the migration.
This is not only a technical change, but also a stylistic and structural one. Many concepts of the old system originated from experimentation when I first got started creating websites and were redundant or not really used. The new website is much more streamlined in terms of structure and much more flexible for future expansion.
As part of this change, I also changed my main publishing language from German to English, which I feel much more comfortable writing in. All my other online presences (GitHub, …) already were in English.
I will try to migrate most of the existing articles from the old website to this new one, maybe even translating them to fit in. Due to the organizational changes, many old links will not work anymore. I will try to make some of the old links redirect to the corresponding new pages to limit the trouble caused. All of this will take some time though, so please be patient.