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• 14^th Feb. 2025
  Fun with overflowing integers
  • coding
• 7^th Dec. 2024
  Not all binary state is boolean
  • thoughts
  • coding
• 30^th Nov. 2024
  Custom git subcommands
  • tooling
• 16^th Oct. 2024
  Shortcut for “docker run”
  • tooling
• 3^rd Sep. 2024
  Keep track of migration state in SQlite
  • coding
• 24^th Jul. 2024
  Inlining images in HTML
  • coding
• 7^th Jul. 2024
  Testing HTTP APIs with hurl
  • tooling
• 9^th May. 2024
  Immediately invoked function expressions
  • coding
• 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