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• 21^st Feb. 2024

  Happy Anniversary!

  Looking back on 10 years of blogging

  • meta
• 22^nd Jan. 2024

  snapdiff

  CLI tool, written in Rust, to analyse the difference between two directory snapshots

  • tooling
  • project
• 28^th Nov. 2023

  Let’s self-host!

  Get started with self-hosting, using Docker, HAProxy and Let’s Encrypt

  • tooling
  • coding
• 3^rd Aug. 2023

  “Congrats!”

  The future of AI-enhanced online networking for professionals

  • thoughts
• 12^th Mar. 2023

  fail err

  Musings about error handling syntax in Go (2/2)

  • coding
  • thoughts
• 19^th Feb. 2023

  The fallacy of software development principles

  Why SOLID, TDD, or Clean Code won’t make us good programmers

  • thoughts
• 30^th Jan. 2023

  On “free” and “open-source” software

  How language makes the people, and people make the language

  • thoughts
• 16^th Dec. 2022

  Boost klog

  Speeding up my Go CLI app tenfold

  • coding
• 26^th Nov. 2022

  Like App Store, but open, cross-platform and decentralised

  Imagining the future of software distribution

  • thoughts
• 16^th Oct. 2022

  if err != nil

  Musings about error handling syntax in Go (1/2)

  • coding
  • thoughts
• 18^th Sep. 2022

  “Diff it to me baby (aha, aha)”

  A timely refactoring kata

  • coding
• 31^st May. 2022

  run.sh

  Keeping track of CLI commands in software projects

  • project
  • tooling
• 10^th Apr. 2022

  [x]it!

  A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

  • project
• 3^rd Dec. 2021

  klog retrospective

  One year into my open-source time tracking project

  • thoughts
  • project
• 7^th Mar. 2021

  Storytime

  How I failed to become a game developer at the age of 13

  • thoughts
• 31^st Jan. 2021

  klog

  Time tracking with plain text files

  • project
  • coding
• 13^th Nov. 2020

  The Design of Everyday Code

  Two golden principles for building great APIs

  • thoughts
  • coding
• 21^st Oct. 2020

  Espresso

  Reactive, fast and testable sketching for Arduino

  • project
  • coding
• 29^th Sep. 2020

  Waiting for Godot

  The hidden performance implications of sending bits over the wire

  • technology
• 14^th Aug. 2020

  The hyphen text transregional postcard

  How a British Lord accidentally invented the web in the 17th century

  • thoughts
• 4^th May. 2020

  Mental Poker

  Dealing cards, peer to peer

  • technology
• 19^th Apr. 2020

  Crypto Yahtzee

  Rolling the dice, peer to peer

  • project
  • coding
• 3^rd Mar. 2020

  “Run” scripts

  Keeping track of commands in coding projects

  • tooling
• 18^th Feb. 2020

  What are microservices anyway?

  Reasoning about application architecture

  • thoughts
• 20^th Jan. 2020

  connect4-ai

  On building a game AI for “Connect Four”

  • coding
  • project
• 6^th Dec. 2019

  Sabbatical check-in

  Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

  • thoughts
• 30^th Nov. 2019

  Arduino flightseeing

  An explanation of the Arduino Uno hardware components

  • technology
• 16^th Sep. 2019

  “The convoluted converter”

  A refactoring in 10 steps, guided by coding best pracices

  • coding
• 1^st Sep. 2019

  Running in circles

  How I spent half a day fixing something that was perfectly fine

  • coding
• 27^th Jun. 2019

  The continuous delivery mindset

  What software developers can contribute to making CD successful

  • thoughts
• 2^nd May. 2019

  A faint little dot that was Pluto

  The story of its discovery and exploration

  • off-topic
• 8^th Oct. 2018

  The art of receiving feedback

  Learning to listen to what others feel

  • thoughts
• 3^rd Jun. 2018

  Web guards

  Strategies to check and validate HTTP requests

  • coding
• 16^th Apr. 2018

  Swing the brush

  Spring cleaning of my blog

  • meta
• 13^th Jan. 2018

  Open heart surgery

  Successful data migrations during full operation

  • technology
• 27^th Dec. 2017

  Critical debug info

  Sensible logging in web applications

  • coding
• 9^th Apr. 2017

  Shearing layers

  About change, persistence and making decisions

  • thoughts
• 12^th Mar. 2017

  Docker ABC

  A short, fun and explorative tutorial for software developers

  • technology
  • tooling
• 7^th Mar. 2017

  Apartment-hunting

  How to approach the search in Berlin

  • off-topic
• 26^th Feb. 2017

  Fast, cheap and automated

  Deploying static websites to AWS

  • technology
• 5^th Feb. 2017

  Protect yourself

  A basic guideline to computer security

  • tooling
• 27^th Dec. 2016

  The job interview

  Asking questions as a candidate

  • thoughts
• 13^th Nov. 2016

  Optimizing for print

  The champions league of responsive webdesign

  • technology
• 25^th Oct. 2016

  The map method

  Exploring functional javascript

  • coding
• 1^st Oct. 2016

  Storytime

  Learning from challenges

  • thoughts
• 7^th Sep. 2016

  Run Monitor

  How I keep track of my run training

  • project
  • coding
• 30^th Aug. 2016

  Halftime!

  Five learnings from half a year of blogging

  • meta
• 20^th Aug. 2016

  Make 404s fun!

  Suddenly find yourself on the shell of a crashed web server

  • project
  • coding
  • meta
• 5^th Jul. 2016

  Semantic versioning

  Communicate compatibility to API consumers

  • technology
• 19^th Jun. 2016

  JSON Web Tokens

  A brief primer

  • technology
• 5^th Jun. 2016

  “The discount campaign”

  A functional javascript code kata

  • coding
• 15^th May. 2016

  JavaScript city tour

  Two days of JSConf in Budapest (May 2016)

  • off-topic
• 24^th Apr. 2016

  J4N.IO – Deployment and operating

  From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

  • project
  • coding
• 12^th Apr. 2016

  Testing and QA of J4N.IO

  From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

  • project
  • coding
• 4^th Apr. 2016

  Coding J4N.IO with NodeJS

  From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

  • project
  • coding
• 19^th Mar. 2016

  What is a REST service?

  From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

  • project
• 13^th Mar. 2016

  Let’s build a REST service

  Kickoff for a five part blogpost series

  • project
• 27^th Feb. 2016

  Behind the scenes

  The making-of of my blog

  • meta
• 7^th Feb. 2016

  Spread your configuration

  Syncing dotfiles with git

  • tooling
• 31^st Jan. 2016

  Asynchronous conditionals

  The idea behind JS promises

  • coding
• 24^th Jan. 2016

  Stop using ASCII Art

  Explore the super powers of your Mac keyboard

  • tooling
• 17^th Jan. 2016

  Put your stuff into the world!

  Facing the challenges of being a software developer

  • thoughts
  • meta
• 14^th Dec. 2014

  Yet another website framework

  Trading upon constraints in small projects

  • project
• 21^st Feb. 2014

  The beauty of C++

  A tribute to the best programming language

  • coding