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Vibe Coding

Vibe coding might be the answer, but how much is the fish?

Music to survive a year

A non-ordered list of music that got me through 2023, not necessarily released in 2023. What is time anyway?

Permalink-Driven Breadcrumbs in Eleventy

An approach to add a breadcrumb navigation to your Eleventy site, utilising the permalink structure

A Sunday in hell

I spent a day visiting the coal mines of North Rhine-Westphalia. It’s been depressing.

The value of old

Why I don’t feel bad about bad code I’ve written.

How I built Around the Web

How I added a new format to my website, automated publication to a newsletter, and added categories.

Computer says no

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Computer says no

Überlegungen zum Zusammenhang von Künstlicher Intelligenz und staatlicher und ökonomischer Herrschaft.

Computer says no

Reflections on the connection between artificial intelligence and state and economic power.

Boooooooring

Distilled thoughts about simplicity.

An async function walks into a loop.

A solution for async functionality in template loops, using `eleventy-image` as an example, some basics about JavaScript loops, and debugging advice. All in what should be a short note.

Antifascism is a necessity.

There’s continuity in hate. There has to be continuity in resistance. There has to be antifascism. Every day. Everywhere. Whatever the means.

The blog

I restarted to build my website with Eleventy. Here’s why.

Start

I restarted to build my website with Eleventy. Here’s why.

Getters in a factory

Exploring the benefits factory functions can bring to reduce repeating code in Vuex getter functions.

No.

A short but disproportionately hard word.

Inclusive Inputs

An exploration into how to make inputs more accessible.

Die Nächte sind erfüllt von Maskenfesten

I recently integrated dark mode into this site. Here’s how it went, what I learned and a quick intro to CSS Custom Properties.

Introducing: Tournant

Tournant is an open source project I maintain together with Marcus Herrmann. In this post we summarise what we are trying to achieve with the project – and what that weird name means.

Type-Facelift

A change of style.

A Non-Business Case for Supporting Old Browsers

Some notes on building websites, serving a diverse set of users and why we should never stop building this way.

Cognitive Disso-Punk

A story about tech, standing up against oppression and the fantastic things we can achieve if we build lasting communities.

Our Road to Native HTML Video on the Web

A write-up of the work we at Kitchen Stories have done to implement native HTML video elements together with HLS based media.

Facebook Pixel und Datenschutz

There’s continuity in hate. There has to be continuity in resistance. There has to be antifascism. Every day. Everywhere. Whatever the means.

Mauern in der Werbewüste

Warum Ad-Block-Walls nerven, warum Online-Werbung schlecht für die Privatsphäre ist und kein Patentrezept, was zu tun ist.

Memoiren eines Prüflings

Da mir Wissen während meiner Abschlussprüfung keine Sicherheit geben konnte (Grund: vermeintlich fehlend), musste ich es mit schreiben versuchen. Freundlicherweise hat mir niemand mein Notizbuch weggenommen. Blöderweise hatte ich kein Wissen in ihm notiert.