Writings

I write articles on various topics, and recently I've also started to publish shorter, more loosely themed notes. I used to do weeknotes, but those are currently on hiatus.

A few drafts, works-in-progress, potentially more ephemeral notes can be found in my take on a digital garden, the Wingert.

I've also visualized the internal links as a content graph.

Date
CSS Naked Day
Type-safe lookup tables
KWIC, quickly
Blog Questions
Accidental complexities of the IndieWeb
Receiving webmentions from (almost) nothing
Exemplary software designs
A few old ideas
A handful of links
Ontology is overrated, revisited
Configure basic auth in nginx only for specific HTTP methods
Websites as a catalyst for personal relationships
A short bleep...
October retro: Accessibility, Dev Events, Sustainability
GDPR, gamified & a serious DX issue
First you shape your tools...
Everything is intertwingled
Digital clean-up
On cognitive taxes
Other people's code
A bit of progress
Technical problems with non-technical solutions
To-do or to-don't?
Rebooting
Gauging code complexity by visualizing SLOC metrics
A Great Books curriculum for Software Engineering?
Preserving the web is an unsolved problem
Writing frequency and publishing cadence
Some lessons from a side project
How to calculate the contrast ratio of two colors
Adding dark mode
An easteregg - literate programming style
In defense of internal links
Hal Abelson on Big Design Up Front
Introducing a blogroll
An old book and today's web
I will read it
Thoughts on the barriers against writing on the web
Is blogging back?
Making feeds automatically discoverable
API design rule-of-thumb: Wrap all arrays into objects
Happy new year - Let's bring back blogging in 2023
Using ChatGPT to implement tic-tac-toe in bash
Long week - short note
Leisure time, Curiosity, Book club
Dependecies, Writing process, Time budgets
On the state of software development in general & coming to terms with having a lot of loose ends
On unintended consequences
What to do about too much work-in-progress...
You have to start somewhere...
Small things matter for accessibility
Write down your makers bucket-list
Content - fast and slow
Don't 'cd' to change directory
The lazy webmaster's way of providing a RSS feed
Avoid collecting without acting
On digital gardening
On Satisficing
The benefits of a classless approach to CSS
Add expiration dates to TODO comments
Is it worth my time?
On the risks of quick fixes
The Second-System Effect - Excerpts
Two classes of disagreement
Can you ever know enough about people?
It's been a while...