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10 articles tagged with oss

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 »

17th of October, 2019 · Tagged with dev oss rust

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 »

9th of June, 2018 · Tagged with culture dev oss

That Octocat on the Wall

 So I'm in a bit of a sentimental mood lately. Github got acquired by Microsoft. While I think the acquisition was well-deserved, I still wish it didn't happen. Let me explain. More »

20th of May, 2018 · Updated on 1st of April, 2021 · Tagged with dev culture oss

Ten Years of Vim

 When I opened Vim by accident for the first time, I thought it was broken. My keystrokes changed the screen in unpredictable ways, and I wanted to undo things and quit. Needless to say, it was an unpleasant experience. There was something about it though, that kept me coming back and it became my main editor. Fast forward ten years (!) and I still use Vim. Why is that? More »

10th of December, 2017 · Tagged with dev oss

Making Myself Obsolete

 In December 2015 I was looking for static analysis tools to integrate into trivago's CI process. The idea was to detect typical programming mistakes automatically. That's quite a common thing, and there are lots of helpful tools out there which fit the bill. So I looked for a list of tools... More »

15th of October, 2017 · Tagged with culture dev oss rust

Learn Some Rust During Hacktoberfest

 October is the perfect time to contribute to Open Source — at least according to Github and DigitalOcean. Because that's when they organize Hacktoberfest, a global event where you get a free shirt and lots of street cred for creating pull requests. More »

18th of September, 2017 · Tagged with dev oss rust

Lightning Fast Image Previews with Pure CSS and LQIP

 My website is reasonably fast. There was one thing left which really annoyed me: layout reflow after images got loaded. The problem is, that the image dimensions are not known when the text is ready to be displayed. As a result, the text will be pushed down on the screen as soon as an image is loaded above. I decided to fix that once and for all. More »

9th of April, 2017 · Updated on 26th of August, 2020 · Tagged with dev oss rust

Launching a URL Shortener in Rust using Rocket

 One common systems design task in interviews is to sketch the software architecture of a URL shortener (a bit.ly clone, if you may). Since I was playing around with Rocket – a web framework for Rust – why not give it a try? More »