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Last year I set myself a goal to write a few articles on what you could call my blog. I managed to create four small posts and that was it. So I finally gave in to my true passion: writing code. I created my own tiny blogging system from scratch. You know how every dev writes their own blog at least once in life? I'm planning to document my journey here and there and hopefully give some helpful…
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People are vain. Some have higher tendencies towards vanity than others. This fits nicely into the scheme that the road traffic office of the canton of Zürich has been doing for years. You can bid on vanity plates for your car. These often go into the high five-figures. The auction winners and new license plate owners are not allowed to sell them freely, you may only pass them down to your…
If you were active in various online communities around 10 years ago, no doubt you may have come across the mysterious Cicada 3301 series of puzzle challenges. Other companies put out their own tricky cryptographic challenges to find the right candidate for some of their jobs. So I wanted to create my very own adaptation, with some twists around web development. After collecting a few ideas in a…
A spark lit up in me when I discovered HTMX . Not at first, of course. Like many others, I was sceptical at first, having spent the last years building sophisticated fullstack apps with microservice JSON API backends and hyper-optimized React frontends with SSR that I lost track of how good simple web development could be. Throw away everything you think you know about modern web development. Go…
django-zen-queries is a great little package that helps you track down and eliminate those annoying N+1 queries and more. However I consider this a training wheel, let me explain. Once you've moved all queries to your view code and execute them before passing the data to your template rendering, any template fragment caching with {% cache %} becomes a lot less useful. Sure, you still save on…
Hello World! 🌍 I've been pondering starting a blog for the better part of the last decade but never got the motivation to actually do it. Well no more! Recent events have sparked some new ideas in me and hopefully it will stick this time. There was never a tool that just felt right™ to use for a blog. Maybe I need to write my own blog? No that would take too much time. Or use a static site…