Why most health insurance deductibles make no sense
Digging into deductibles (Franchisen) of Swiss health insurances and comparing how different deductibles actually affect out-of-pocket costs.
hertig.blog
Personal blog of Michael Hertig
Latest posts
TailwindCSS in Play Framework - Without npm
A Guide on how to use and automate TailwindCSS compilation in a Play app with an sbt-web source file task. No need for npm, complicated bundlers or Javascript.
Accessing the request body in Play Framework Filters
A highly performant way to extract data from the raw request body and pass on information to subsequent Filters and Actions based on it. With an example of how to parse bearer tokens as per RFC 6750.
Consumer first; Citizen second
We have reached the final stage of the neoliberal fever dream. From housing, to media, to printers, to everything else. Get ready to own nothing; pay rent on everything.
Epochalypse: When computers travel back in time
There is a computer bug waiting to jump at us in about 14 years. Watch out for it, or you'll suddenly find yourself back in the year 1901.
Using BibTeX for referencing in Zola
Presenting a better alternative to reference sources on a static page generated with Zola. With a single BibTeX file, auto numbering, and the possibility to easily add in-text references.
Gmail might be putting words in your mouth
When Gmail translates multi-language mails, it will rewrite sentences that already are in the target language, and potentially change their meaning
Implementing toggleable dark mode on a website
A minimalistic way to implement dark mode support on any website, respecting the browsers preferred theme, while still allowing to manually toggle between light and dark