Beating annoying minigames with Java☕ - Or: How to create a smart auto-clicker 🤖🎮 (2024-01-08)
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Last week was slow. After a rather busy holiday season, I felt like I needed to relax a bit (pro tip:...
My articles
Here's a list of all the articles I've written across various platforms and blogs. Have a read!
Articles on dev.to
Coding with crustaceans?🦐 - CodeLobster IDE🦞 review (2023-12-19)
8- #webdev
- #programming
- #review
- #tooling
You probably know how much I like to try new things. I've published several posts about how I tried...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: A CMS written in Bash ONLY?? (2023-09-03)
98- #bash
- #webdev
- #programming
- #donttrythisathome
Here we go again. After building an image modal with CSS only (and completely neglecting...
I wrote a book on CSS Grid - Here's how! 📖💡 (2023-05-20)
34- #showdev
- #css
- #watercooler
- #design
It's been, again, a while since my last post here on DEV. In between posts, I've been rather busy...
Use ALL the Features: How To Create a Fancy Password Input With Vue3 🔑✅ (2023-04-01)
14- #vue
- #webdev
- #tutorial
- #javascript
Vue 3 has brought us a ton of fancy new features. The composition API lets us create components in a...
I asked ChatGPT to draft a four-hour agile retrospective - here's how it went 🦾💬 (2023-02-01)
23- #ai
- #agile
- #productivity
- #discuss
Last weekend, I had the task to craft and hold a four-hour workshop for a group of people who have...
Throwing Around Text – Kinetic Typography Part 4: Rotating Around the World 🎡🌍 (2023-01-25)
11- #webdev
- #css
- #tutorial
- #design
Part 4 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 5 (2022-11-12)
5- #community
- #opensource
- #programming
- #ruby
Welcome to day 5! I think we're passt the next "line" of code, so we'll use the most liked "piece" of...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 4 (2022-11-11)
12- #programming
- #community
- #opensource
- #ruby
Another 24 hours have passed and we're now on day 4. @manthanbhatt has posted today's most liked...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 3 (2022-11-10)
5- #programming
- #community
- #opensource
- #ruby
Day 3! We're getting somewhere! Thanks to everyone that contributed! @sherrydays posted the most...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 2 (2022-11-09)
23- #programming
- #community
- #fun
- #ruby
Day 2! The response on the first post was amazing, thanks to everyone that contributed! @ben's...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 1 (2022-11-08)
29- #programming
- #opensource
- #community
- #fun
This experiment is inspired by a post on the ProgrammerHumor subreddit, where the original author did...
Create useful noise patterns with Academy award winning Ken Perlin 🏆🎲 (2022-10-12)
14- #javascript
- #algorithms
- #tutorial
- #gamedev
Randomness is weird. Apart from the fact that true randomness on computers can only be achieved with...
Two years of dev.to - let's celebrate with a "Dance Dance Revolution" clone! 💃🕺🎉 (2022-07-21)
68- #showdev
- #webdev
- #javascript
- #watercooler
Time to celebrate! Today marks my two-year anniversary on dev.to! With a total of 52 published...
Funny Hat Day! 👒🎩 How to do face detection with your webcam and JavaScript 📸🧠 (2022-07-18)
54- #javascript
- #machinelearning
- #webdev
- #tutorial
(Cover image created with Dall-E mini and the caption "an AI wearing a funny top hat" - you know,...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 3: The Walking Text that follows you 🧟🧟 (2022-05-02)
28- #webdev
- #javascript
- #tutorial
- #design
Part 3 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
Speed up your Vue app: The most unexpected and perhaps silliest way 🤪🚀 (2022-04-26)
29- #vue
- #javascript
- #webdev
- #performance
I was experimenting with Vue's v-model the other day. I wanted to figure out if what the Vue docs...
Use your i-moon-gination: Let's build a Moon phase visualizer with CSS and JS! 🗓️🌙 (2022-03-24)
125- #javascript
- #webdev
- #tutorial
- #beginners
Cover photo by Flickr user Brendan Keene Ah, it is spring time on the northern hemisphere! The...
Let's have a blast of fun! How to build a Minesweeper clone for the CLI with NodeJS 💣🔍 (2022-03-09)
59- #node
- #javascript
- #tutorial
- #gamedev
(Cover photo by Flickr user FolsomNatural) Hands up - who has played this absolute classic for hours...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets! (2022-02-21)
422- #css
- #node
- #donttrythisathome
- #tutorial
Here we go again! Another one of these, and promise, you will be questioning my sanity after this...
Start and stop a llama! How to create a non-autoplay GIF web component 🎞️🛑🔥 (2022-02-17)
87- #html
- #javascript
- #tutorial
- #webdev
Autoplay can be pesky. Moving things are taking away the users focus. A listicle with lots of...
5 tips for Vue beginners - stuff to get you started fast🚀 (2022-02-13)
40- #vue
- #javascript
- #beginners
- #webdev
Vue is amazing. Seriously, Evan You and the community have done an amazing job with it and I've spent...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 2: Tricking gravity thanks to matter.js! 📃🛫🤯 (2022-01-30)
32- #webdev
- #design
- #javascript
- #tutorial
Part 2 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 1: A chilly warm-up 📝 ️ 🚀 (2022-01-25)
23- #webdev
- #css
- #tutorial
- #design
Part 1 of a new series! Let's build some kinetic typography with HTML, CSS and JS! So,...
How 1.5 years of writing posts on dev.to made me a better developer ✍️↔️🧑💻🚀 (2022-01-16)
194- #career
- #discuss
- #watercooler
I've been here for a while now. I love the community, the people are amazing and I learned so much...
Self-built Tic-tac-toe AIs vs Human - The ultimate showdown in five rounds, from dumbed down to highly sophisticated 🥊🏆 (2022-01-08)
21- #node
- #javascript
- #algorithms
- #tutorial
Happy new year! We start this year with an epic showdown. Today, we'll teach a computer to play...
Remote pair programming - What are YOUR best practices? 🧑💻👩🏽💻 (2021-12-30)
10- #watercooler
- #productivity
- #discuss
- #programming
The certain situation the world has been in for the past almost two years has affected a lot of us...
I plowed through coding slang Wikipedia articles so you don't have to - 25 terms you probably didn't know 🍝💻 (2021-12-10)
45- #programming
- #computerscience
- #uselessknowledge
- #watercooler
This one's going to be a tiny bit weird. Yes, it's a listicle. Yes, the title is a bit clickbaity....
Create beautiful rosette patterns with JavaScript 🖌️🌼 (2021-11-14)
83- #javascript
- #svg
- #webdev
- #tutorial
I mean, aren't they just beautiful to look at? I mean, look at them: Amazing, aren't...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS-only image detail zoom - As hacky as possible! 🖼️🔍 (2021-11-06)
130- #html
- #css
- #webdev
- #donttrythisathome
No, seriously, don't. We'll be hacking our way through. This will involve a lot of dirty hacks and...
Articles on other platforms
Using Unplugin, Tailwind, Storybook and Figma to create a design system that works (2024-12-17)
At Liip, we recently launched a full-fledged front end and a design system framework for the canton of Basel-Stadt, and we're excited to share it!
Interview mit Pascal Thormeier, Alumni Studiengang Informatik Profilierung iCompetence (2023-12-08)
This interview with the head of the Computer Science and iCompetence program at the FHNW School of Engineering was published on the official blog 'Computer Science Studies' of the FHNW. It is in German.
How Nuxt3, Tailwind and FastAPI helped us kick-start a business in no time (2022-08-15)
Four weeks from the start to go live. Included? A payment provider, an external service, a fantastic design, great Lighthouse scores and a delighted client. How did we manage that?
10 tips for Vue beginners - stuff to get you started fast (2022-02-09)
Vue is amazing. Seriously, Evan You and the community have done an amazing job with it and I've spent a good part of my career working with Vue now. It kind of has become my go-to framework over the years and I would absolutely recommend it to everyone.
Code reviews: Dos, Don'ts and a How-to (2021-04-21)
Our circle recently revisited our definition of done. One point: code reviews. They did happen, but often couldn't unfold their full potential. Question: How could we improve them?
NEXPLORER or a steep learning curve (2020-08-03)
Two weeks for a questionnaire. Built from scratch. No existing API to use. Just an Excel sheet full of questions and answers. And we learned so much. Here's what!
How to point at a screen with your phone (2020-07-01)
Most people know laser pointers. Apple Remote offers something like a laser pointer for Keynote. But how about using your smartphone as a pointer device in a web app?
Deploy your Nuxt.js app to platform.sh (2018-08-06)
Nuxt.js allows to create Vue apps fast. Deploying it to Heroku, Now, GitHub, and more is already covered - but what about platform.sh?
From coasters to Vuex (2018-10-09)
Imagine: You're an expert for real estate economics. You sit in a café, browsing lots for sale and you find the perfect piece of land for your next project. What do you do next?
Shapefiles - Of avalanches and ibexes (2017-12-06)
An excellent way to store spatial and geographical data, such as real estates, municipal boundaries, rivers, lakes, streets, you name it, together with metadata, such as names, IDs, year of establishment, etc. are shapefiles.