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

10th of March, 2021 · Updated on 1st of April, 2021 · Tagged with business

Your First Business Should Be An Excel Sheet

 One of the best decisions I made in 2020 was to open my calendar to everyone. People book appointments to chat about open-source projects, content creation, and business ideas. When we talk about business ideas, people usually gravitate towards problems suitable for startups. Things like using artif… More »

22nd of January, 2021 · Tagged with business

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 · Tagged with business

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 so far. It didn't make me rich (yet!), but I built my first sustainable side-project with an… More »

14th of September, 2020 · Updated on 14th of April, 2021 · Tagged with dev

My Blog Just Got Faster: Cloudflare Workers and AVIF Support

 Did I mention that this website is fast? Oh yeah, I did, multiple times. It's never fast enough, so today I go one step further by adding support for the new AVIF image format to the blog. The results were suprising. More »

21st of June, 2020 · Updated on 28th of April, 2021 · Tagged with rust

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 those. Compile times, however? That's another story. Below is a list of tips and tricks on how to make your Rust project compile faster today. Th… More »

29th of May, 2020 · Tagged with dev

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 · Tagged with culture

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 · Tagged with oss

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 »
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