10th of March, 2021
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1st of April, 2021
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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…
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22nd of January, 2021
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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.
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4th of January, 2021
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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…
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14th of September, 2020
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14th of April, 2021
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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.
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21st of August, 2020
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oss
business
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!
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2nd of July, 2020
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dev
What Happened To Programming In The 2010s?
How has programming changed in the 2010s? You'd roughly need a decade to talk about all of it, but let me pick out some highlights.
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21st of June, 2020
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19th of April, 2021
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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 them. Compile times, however? That's a different story.
Why Is Rust Compilation Slow?
Wait a sec, slow in comparison t…
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29th of May, 2020
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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?
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24th of April, 2020
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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…
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4th of February, 2020
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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.
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