Open-source maintainer, speaker, rebel. About me.

22nd of January, 2021

Starting A Print-On-Demand Business As A Software Engineer

 One day I had the idea to make a print of my Github timeline. I liked the thought of bringing something "virtual" into the real world. 😄 So I called up my friend Wolfgang and we built codeprints. It's my first "physical" product, so I decided to share my learnings. … More »

4th of January, 2021

So You Want To Earn Money With Open Source

 I earned 0 Euros from maintaining OSS software for years, and I thought that's the way things are. I finally looked into ways to monetize my projects last year and in this talk I want to share what I learned along the way. It didn't make me rich (yet!), but I built my first sustainable side-project … More »

21st of August, 2020

Launching a Side Project Backed by Github Sponsors

 Yesterday we launched analysis-tools.dev. It's a project about comparing static analysis tools. What's best about the project is that it's completely open-source and backed by sponsors. If you like to do the same, keep reading! More »

21st of June, 2020

Tips for Faster Rust Compile Times

 When it comes to runtime performance, Rust is one of the fastest guns in the west. It is on par with the likes of C and C++ and sometimes even surpasses them. Compile times, however? That's a different story. Why Is Rust Compilation Slow? Wait a sec, slow in comparison to what? For example, if you c… More »

29th of May, 2020

Gravity

 Here's a test to check your age: Do you still remember that funny JavaScript gravity effect, which Google used on their homepage ten years ago? More »

24th of April, 2020

Hacker Folklore

 Some computer terms have a surprising legacy. Many of them are derived from long-obsolete technologies. This post tries to dust off the exciting history of some of these terms that we use every day but aren't quite sure about their origins. Most of the content comes from sources like Wikipedia (with… More »

4th of February, 2020

A Timelapse of Timelapse

 Timelapse is a little open-source screen recorder for macOS. It takes a screenshot every second and creates a movie in the end. To celebrate its unlikely 1.0 release today, I present here a timelapse of this project's journey. It just took ten years to get here. More »

17th of October, 2019

A Tiny, Static, Full-Text Search Engine using Rust and WebAssembly

 I wrote a basic search module that you can add to a static website. It's very lightweight (50kB-100kB gzipped) and works with Hugo, Zola, and Jekyll. Only searching for entire words is supported. Try the search box on the left for a demo. The code is on Github. Static site generators are magical… More »
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