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run system commands with spotlight Alfred is such a great application, and I am a Mega-Supporter, but I also like to use "native" tools as much as possible - like I do when I build things for the web... and I also like to tinker with Software. So one day I go a little bored and clicked my way through the shortcuts.app and recognized, that you are able to run AppleScript with it. Since Spotlight…
As you might know this website runs on 11ty as it is a slick tool to build and maintain a fast website. Eleventy is a SSG - a static site generator, that automatically updates links and so on. Eleventy is build by Zach Leatherman and he also created a leaderboard listing the fastest websites build with eleventy. As I'm always trying to get the best perfromance out of a website, I was instantly…
Recently I stumbled upon a great talk by Andy Bell . Since I'm addicted to writing and optimizing CSS this was a must watch. By the end of the talk I was close to applauding, but that would've been pointless, since no one was around. Anyways, Andy shows how to create a responsive layout by using modern css and he manages it to do it without breakpoints, which is awesome. He even uses Tailwind -…
A couple of years ago a SEO spoke to me and mentioned, that you should prevent the googlebot from crawling css and js. You know for "search engine optimisation"-reasons. Sadly I followed that recommendation. So recently I noticed, that this is a mistake, because if you're doing this: User-agent: * Disallow: /assets/css/ Disallow: /assets/fonts/ Disallow: /assets/js/ Now, the googlebot will no…
Prefer WebPageTest for performance-testing You might discover problems the other tools won't tell you 13 Jul 2022 A great talk: be the browsers mentor not its micromanager Andy Bell gave a great talk about how to write responsive layouts with modern CSS 12 Jul 2022 Allow Google to crawl CSS and JS A small mistake to avoid when dealing with the googlebot 11 Jul 2022
Use Shortcuts.app to run System commands through Spotlight Did you know, that you can use Shortcuts, Spotlight and some AppleScript to build an Alfred replacement (sort of). 15 Oct 2022 personalNews - your news feed. Chronologically sorted Learn more about the development and why I started the project. 01 Jul 2022 BrowserStartpage – the SpeedDial for all your Browsers Host your bookmarks yourself…
personalNews Your news - as a timeline. In chronological order. 01 Jul 2022 browserStartpage Host your own speed dial to be used in ALL browsers 30 Jun 2022 little Helpers Small collection of tools for developers (WIP) 31 May 2022
PersonalNews is a small web application, you can host on your own server. You can run it as an application on your mobile device as well. This way you are always getting the latest of your favorite news. You'll always be up to date. personalNews on the iPhone Features # add your own selection of RSS or Atom-Feeds group several feeds into channels news are ordered chronologically dark mode 🌗…
Are you like me? Do you regularly watch the news? Your feed reader is always full? You like timelines because they are the easiest way for you to read the news? Then my little side project personalNews is probably something for you. personaNews is news in a timeline. Sorted chronologically and with a blacklist to avoid messages that are not important to you. If you still like to read your news at…
Are you switching browsers often? Are you tired, that every browser uses it's own speed dial, and you can't import that in your new browser? The solution: host your own speed dial! This is especially useful if you need/want to share a bunch of links with friends or colleagues. browserStartpage is a speed dial, you can host on your own webserver. You can configure your content using a JSON-file. I…
Little helpers sind kleine Tools, die dir die Arbeit erleichtern sollen. Besonders einfach ist die Umrechnung von absoluten auf relative Font-Größen. Little helpers is a small collection of tools, that will help you getting things done. I especially build this to calculate relative font-sizes. Easily convert font-sizes Features # convert pixel to (r)em easily copy/paste results calculate…
The BrowserStartpage on an iMac and the iPad Do you remember the time when Internet Explorer virtually dominated the web and there was not much choice of browsers? Fortunately, those days are long gone and we have a wide range of good browsers to choose from. Every browser has its own strengths, so it is not always easy to find the right browser for your own surfing habits. I currently use the Mac…
In the past few days, mistakes in the area of social media could be observed that well-known companies had committed. I got the impression that although social media is used for marketing purposes, it has not yet been fully integrated into corporate structures. At this point I would like to use two examples to explain that social media is a dialogue and not a children's playground! Case 1: Social…
I recently came across an interesting article (well, again) that described how sliders and carousels are nice to look at, but can still be a conversion killer. Sliders and carousels were dismissed here as a fad that needs to be questioned. Read the article: Don't Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad Since I'm not a big fan of sliders, carousels and other things that move around…
We live in a time when customers no longer visit and use websites exclusively with their home PC. This circumstance leads to the fact that we (have to/should) develop websites in such a way that they can run on multiple devices. There are different techniques here, such as Responsive Design or custom template sets for different device classes. No matter which solution we prefer - we have to test…
You are developing mobile websites and want to know how the speed and page load feels to the user - and as realistically as possible? If you still have a Mac, then you're in luck, because you can easily throttle the throughput of your network with the Apple Network Link Conditioner . You can then test how fast or slow the website would open for the user under, say, Edge. Websites should be as fast…
Most of us who work with or on the web are now familiar with QR codes. But now, hand on heart, how many QR codes have you already scanned - not to test the code for your own project, but to retrieve additional information, for example? Not that often, right? Let's see if it can be different for the average user. What exactly QR codes are can be found on various websites, so I won't go into the…