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7^th Mar. 2021
Storytime

How I failed to become a game developer at the age of 13
- thoughts
31^st Jan. 2021
klog

Time tracking with plain text files
- project
- coding
13^th Nov. 2020
The Design of Everyday Code

Two golden principles for building great APIs
- thoughts
- coding
21^st Oct. 2020
Espresso

Reactive, fast and testable sketching for Arduino
- project
- coding
29^th Sep. 2020
Waiting for Godot

The hidden performance implications of sending bits over the wire
- devops
14^th Aug. 2020
The hyphen text postcard

How a British lord accidentally invented the web
- thoughts
4^th May. 2020
Mental Poker

Dealing cards, peer to peer
- crypto
19^th Apr. 2020
Crypto Yahtzee

Rolling the dice, peer to peer
- project
- crypto
3^rd Mar. 2020
“Run” scripts

Keeping track of commands in coding projects
- tooling
18^th Feb. 2020
What are microservices anyway?

Reasoning about application architecture
- thoughts
- backend
20^th Jan. 2020
connect4-ai

On building a game AI for “Connect Four”
- coding
- project
6^th Dec. 2019
Sabbatical check-in

Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study
- thoughts
- worklife
30^th Nov. 2019
Arduino flightseeing

An explanation of the Arduino Uno hardware components
- hardware
16^th Sep. 2019
“The convoluted converter”

A refactoring in 10 steps, guided by coding principles
- coding
1^st Sep. 2019
Running in circles

How I spent half a day fixing something that was perfectly fine
- devops
27^th Jun. 2019
The continuous delivery mindset

What software developers can contribute to making CD successful
- worklife
- devops
2^nd May. 2019
A faint little dot that was Pluto

The story of its discovery and exploration
- off-topic
8^th Oct. 2018
The art of receiving feedback

Learning to listen to what others feel
- thoughts
- worklife
3^rd Jun. 2018
Web guards

Strategies to check and validate HTTP requests
- coding
- backend
16^th Apr. 2018
Swing the brush

Spring cleaning of my blog
- meta
13^th Jan. 2018
Open heart surgery

Successful data migrations during full operation
- database
- backend
27^th Dec. 2017
Critical debug info

Sensible logging in web applications
- devops
9^th Apr. 2017
Shearing layers

About change, persistence and making decisions
- thoughts
12^th Mar. 2017
Docker ABC

A short, fun and explorative tutorial for software developers
- devops
- tooling
7^th Mar. 2017
Apartment-hunting

How to approach the search in Berlin
- off-topic
26^th Feb. 2017
Fast, cheap and automated

Deploying static websites to AWS
- devops
5^th Feb. 2017
Protect yourself

A basic guideline to computer security
- tooling
27^th Dec. 2016
The job interview

Asking questions as a candidate
- worklife
13^th Nov. 2016
Optimizing for print

The champions league of responsive webdesign
- graphics
- frontend
25^th Oct. 2016
The map method

Exploring functional javascript
- coding
1^st Oct. 2016
Storytime

Learning from challenges
- thoughts
7^th Sep. 2016
Run Monitor

How I keep track of my run training
30^th Aug. 2016
Halftime!

Five learnings from half a year of blogging
- meta
20^th Aug. 2016
Make 404s fun!

Suddenly find yourself on the shell of a crashed web server
- project
- frontend
- meta
5^th Jul. 2016
Semantic versioning

Communicate compatibility to API consumers
- backend
19^th Jun. 2016
What are JSON Web Tokens?

A QnA style blogpost
- backend
- crypto
5^th Jun. 2016
“The discount campaign”

A functional javascript code kata
- coding
15^th May. 2016
JavaScript city tour

Two days of JSConf in Budapest (May 2016)
- off-topic
24^th Apr. 2016
J4N.IO – Deployment and operating

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”
- project
- devops
12^th Apr. 2016
Testing and QA of J4N.IO

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”
- project
- backend
4^th Apr. 2016
Coding J4N.IO with NodeJS

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”
- project
- coding
- backend
- database
19^th Mar. 2016
What is a REST service?

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”
- project
13^th Mar. 2016
Let’s build a REST service

Kickoff for a five part blogpost series
- project
- backend
27^th Feb. 2016
Behind the scenes

The making-of of my blog
- meta
7^th Feb. 2016
Spread your configuration

Syncing dotfiles with git
- tooling
31^st Jan. 2016
Asynchronous conditionals

The idea behind JS promises
- coding
24^th Jan. 2016
Stop using ASCII Art

Explore the super powers of your Mac keyboard
- tooling
- graphics
17^th Jan. 2016
Put your stuff into the world!

Facing the challenges of being a software developer
- thoughts
- meta
14^th Dec. 2014
Yet another website framework

Trading upon constraints in small projects
- project
- backend
21^st Feb. 2014
The beauty of C++

A tribute to the best programming language
- coding

Storytime How I failed to become a game developer at the age of 13

klog Time tracking with plain text files

The Design of Everyday Code Two golden principles for building great APIs

Espresso Reactive, fast and testable sketching for Arduino

Waiting for Godot The hidden performance implications of sending bits over the wire

The hyphen text postcard How a British lord accidentally invented the web

Mental Poker Dealing cards, peer to peer

Crypto Yahtzee Rolling the dice, peer to peer

“Run” scripts Keeping track of commands in coding projects

What are microservices anyway? Reasoning about application architecture

connect4-ai On building a game AI for “Connect Four”

Sabbatical check-in Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

Arduino flightseeing An explanation of the Arduino Uno hardware components

“The convoluted converter” A refactoring in 10 steps, guided by coding principles

Running in circles How I spent half a day fixing something that was perfectly fine

The continuous delivery mindset What software developers can contribute to making CD successful

A faint little dot that was Pluto The story of its discovery and exploration

The art of receiving feedback Learning to listen to what others feel

Web guards Strategies to check and validate HTTP requests

Swing the brush Spring cleaning of my blog

Open heart surgery Successful data migrations during full operation

Critical debug info Sensible logging in web applications

Shearing layers About change, persistence and making decisions

Docker ABC A short, fun and explorative tutorial for software developers

Apartment-hunting How to approach the search in Berlin

Fast, cheap and automated Deploying static websites to AWS

Protect yourself A basic guideline to computer security

The job interview Asking questions as a candidate

Optimizing for print The champions league of responsive webdesign

The map method Exploring functional javascript

Storytime Learning from challenges

Run Monitor How I keep track of my run training

Halftime! Five learnings from half a year of blogging

Make 404s fun! Suddenly find yourself on the shell of a crashed web server

Semantic versioning Communicate compatibility to API consumers

What are JSON Web Tokens? A QnA style blogpost

“The discount campaign” A functional javascript code kata

JavaScript city tour Two days of JSConf in Budapest (May 2016)

J4N.IO – Deployment and operating From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Testing and QA of J4N.IO From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Coding J4N.IO with NodeJS From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

What is a REST service? From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Let’s build a REST service Kickoff for a five part blogpost series

Behind the scenes The making-of of my blog

Spread your configuration Syncing dotfiles with git

Asynchronous conditionals The idea behind JS promises

Stop using ASCII Art Explore the super powers of your Mac keyboard

Put your stuff into the world! Facing the challenges of being a software developer

Yet another website framework Trading upon constraints in small projects

The beauty of C++ A tribute to the best programming language

Storytime

How I failed to become a game developer at the age of 13

klog

Time tracking with plain text files

The Design of Everyday Code

Two golden principles for building great APIs

Espresso

Reactive, fast and testable sketching for Arduino

Waiting for Godot

The hidden performance implications of sending bits over the wire

The hyphen text postcard

How a British lord accidentally invented the web

Mental Poker

Dealing cards, peer to peer

Crypto Yahtzee

Rolling the dice, peer to peer

“Run” scripts

Keeping track of commands in coding projects

What are microservices anyway?

Reasoning about application architecture

connect4-ai

On building a game AI for “Connect Four”

Sabbatical check-in

Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

Arduino flightseeing

An explanation of the Arduino Uno hardware components

“The convoluted converter”

A refactoring in 10 steps, guided by coding principles

Running in circles

How I spent half a day fixing something that was perfectly fine

The continuous delivery mindset

What software developers can contribute to making CD successful

A faint little dot that was Pluto

The story of its discovery and exploration

The art of receiving feedback

Learning to listen to what others feel

Web guards

Strategies to check and validate HTTP requests

Swing the brush

Spring cleaning of my blog

Open heart surgery

Successful data migrations during full operation

Critical debug info

Sensible logging in web applications

Shearing layers

About change, persistence and making decisions

Docker ABC

A short, fun and explorative tutorial for software developers

Apartment-hunting

How to approach the search in Berlin

Fast, cheap and automated

Deploying static websites to AWS

Protect yourself

A basic guideline to computer security

The job interview

Asking questions as a candidate

Optimizing for print

The champions league of responsive webdesign

The map method

Exploring functional javascript

Storytime

Learning from challenges

Run Monitor

How I keep track of my run training

Halftime!

Five learnings from half a year of blogging

Make 404s fun!

Suddenly find yourself on the shell of a crashed web server

Semantic versioning

Communicate compatibility to API consumers

What are JSON Web Tokens?

A QnA style blogpost

“The discount campaign”

A functional javascript code kata

JavaScript city tour

Two days of JSConf in Budapest (May 2016)

J4N.IO – Deployment and operating

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Testing and QA of J4N.IO

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Coding J4N.IO with NodeJS

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

What is a REST service?

From the series “Let’s build a REST service”

Let’s build a REST service

Kickoff for a five part blogpost series

Behind the scenes

The making-of of my blog

Spread your configuration

Syncing dotfiles with git

Asynchronous conditionals

The idea behind JS promises

Stop using ASCII Art

Explore the super powers of your Mac keyboard

Put your stuff into the world!

Facing the challenges of being a software developer

Yet another website framework

Trading upon constraints in small projects

The beauty of C++

A tribute to the best programming language