Beware the AI middleman
The shift towards "AI" in software products changes what we are able to do with computers for the worse.
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Own Every Feed Type
Why organizations should own all three digital feed types and how hosting your own feed supports decentralization and digital publishing independence.
State of mind
I haven’t posted here for quite some time, but now some thoughts feel like they are leading somewhere.
Using Tailwind CSS in Elm and VSCode
There is no official Elm support of the Tailwind CSS intellisense plugin for VSCode, but with some settings we can get close.
Goodbye diesdas
After four and a half years I’m looking back at my time at diesdas, share how my decision to leave diesdas evolved and what’s lying ahead of me.
How to connect a local Hasura instance with Postgres.app
This took me a bit of time to figure out, therefore I’m sharing it to maybe save you the research.
Stop breaking my software
My goal for the latest version of my website is to never have a reason to update it again. I realized how little web devs value long-term stability.
Why we feel disconnected working remotely
If digital coincidences are impossible, what is digital missing that analog has?
Default to async, not remote
Companies should focus on the real benefit people mistakenly associate with remote work: asynchronous communication.
Coincidental Social Interactions
The biggest loss of the decentralization of the workplace is eliminating coincidental social interactions.
How to create a highlighter marker effect in CSS
This tutorial explains how to create a text highlighting effect as done by a marker pen with pure CSS.
How chat and email cause ineffective communication
What if Slack, Microsoft Teams and email have a negative effect on our communication?
Remote work, a neoliberal love story
How to dramatically increase your company’s profitability with remote work in 5 easy steps.
The systems we rely on are failing
Although the climate crisis is the biggest threat for human civilization, we won’t overcome it without addressing the other failing systems.
3 years of receiving my twitter feed via mail
After three years of reading twitter as mails in my inbox, I share my experience and finally open source it for everyone else to use for free.
Free blog with less than 10kb
Free hosting is great. No barriers between your visitors and your content is even better.
A new microblog
It’s almost 2am and I’m still working on this website. This usually happens when I build something new…
Default to Remote Work?
Companies that enabled remote work due to lockdowns might wonder if it could be the default way of working. Should all companies be fully remote?
Downsides of choosing popular tools
Nobody questions a programmer’s decision of choosing the most popular tool, but does that mean that this choice comes with no trade-offs?
2 years at diesdas.digital
A lot has happened since I joined diesdas. This is an incomplete list of things I’ve worked on during this time.