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 discuss business ideas, the conversation often leans towards problems suited for startups, such as using artificial… More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 of the highlights. More »
This post has moved to my other blog. It will be updated there in the future. More »
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 »
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. Let’s jump right in! Bike-Shed… More »
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 »