About tee.ge Updates

My name is Tim Teege and I am from Hamburg, Germany.

I’ve liked the idea of microblogging since the advent of Twitter. None of the services really stuck with me, though. So I moved to long-form blogging and published a lot of posts about my endurance sports projects at teesche.com.

Sometime in the middle of 2026, the idea of creating my own little microblogging outlet crept into my brain. With the tools available these days, coding took just over a day. And now it’s here, tee.ge Updates, in all its glory! I’ve pulled in all my roughly 2,500 historical tweets from Twitter/X (because moving away from that service just feels right) and integrated automatic syndication of future Updates to a few services where I have some followers:

• Mastodon
• Bluesky
• Threads

There’s also a classic RSS feed and a JSON Feed.

This follows an idea called “POSSE” – which stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I learned about it from Derek Sivers. I think it’s brilliant.

It’s very cool that I can now make use of the opportunity to create some automated posts about the things I’m tracking anyway. The first step was connecting this to my Strava activities, because I pull them into my database using webhooks and saw an opportunity to post a tee.ge Update right at that moment, too!

A bunch of other data I already keep in my database can be viewed on my personal blog’s Quantified Self section. I plan on adding auto-posts for many of those in the future.

What I like best about all this is that I am the only person in control of my content. It’s all on my server, which I maintain. No one monetizes it; I own everything. This is just like back in 1998!