Florian Eckerstorfer

I have no idea how I should start writing about Mexican Gothic by Silvia Morena-Garcia.

Eleventy is a static site generation that is most commonly used to take files with content, such as Markdown or HTML and combine them with templates to turn them into websites.

I am standing in a large hall, waiting the 15 minutes it takes that my antigen test for Corona shows the result and I am one of just a few people who does not constantly look at their phone.

In 2015, shortly after Apple Music came out I wrote an article about Apple Music and scrobbling to Last.fm and I still get occasionally questions about it.

Last night I was fixing a few CSS bugs on this site and after deploying them I noticed that the changes were not visible yet.

When I was trying to update this website yesterday I noticed that my deployment script that builds this Eleventy site and deploys it to AWS S3 was not working and throwing errors when running in Github Actions.

Wow, it's already February and I'm only now posting my favourite albums of 2020.

I did read a lot less in 2020, but I did watch all seven seasons of Parks & Recreation multiple times.

Yesterday, after I have finished writing Firefox cannot render Source Code Pro in colour and I was about to run my deployment script, I thought I should finally automate this.

Yesterday I encountered a weird bug where the code examples on this website are always black in Firefox.

Trailer: I have created a plugin to generate responsive images on an Eleventy site by using remark and eleventy-plugin-remark.

A few days ago I implemented a simple React component to upload files.

The funny thing about semantic versioning is that even a small update can release in a major version increase.

Last year I created a plugin for Remark to add accessible descriptions to Emoji: @fec/remark-a11y-emoji.

TikTok App to Stop Accessing User Clipboards After Being Caught in the Act by iOS 14 by Juli Clover, MacRumors: TikTok users who upgraded to ‌iOS 14‌, for example, quickly noticed constant alerts warning them that TikTok was accessing the clipboard every…

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R.

It is the end of the year and therefore time for looking back at my favourite albums of the year.

Today we finally released Version 4.0.0 of cocur/slugify it does not introduce new major features, but adds support for Symfony 4 and 5, Twig 3 and, most importantly, PHP 7.3 and 7.4.

On Monday, November 25, I attended the Webclerks Community Conference in Vienna and I wanted to give a short recap of this excellence conference.

I just released v0.8.0 of cocur/chain, my PHP library to chain array operations.

TLDR: @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed is a Gatsby plugin that publishes RSS2, Atom and JSON feeds of your content.

Yesterday evening I was switching this site from manual deploys to Git-based deploys, but the Gatsby build always failed because of a segmentation fault: 11:19:12 PM: (sharp:1509): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 21:19:12.143: gtype.c:4265: type id '0' is invalid

In June Marina and I took a trip to Windhoek in Namibia and then made our way south to Cape Town, South Africa.

When developing this blog I used a React hook for the very first time: useStaticQuery() from Gatsby.

Well, January is nearly over so I probably should finally post the list of books I have read in 2018.

Here are my favourite albums of 2018 in no particular order.

Monteverde La Fortuna Las Catalinas Nosara Montezuma Cabo Blanco Absolute Natural Reserve Parque Nactional Manuel Antonio San Jose

Occasionally I encounter a text field I can't paste text into.

CSS Modules are a great way to locally scope CSS to a specific component.

When I saw Sarah Drasners Night Owl theme for Visual Studio Code I immediately fell in love with the colours and I created a color scheme for iTerm2.

I missed last week because I was travelling again, sorry, but this week is a good one.

This one is a few days late, but here are three great albums that were released last Friday.

Everyone loves emoji 💯🎉🔥, but if you use eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y to check the accessibility of your JSX you probably know that emoji need special handling to become accessible.

After a break last week because I was graduating from university I have two new albums for you this week.

For a while I am posting my favorite new albums of the week on Friday on Twitter.

I need to get ready for a New Year's party, but here is the list of books I have read in 2017.

Here are my favourite albums of 2017 in no particular order.

Belfast, Northern Ireland Derry/Londonderry Game of Thrones Tour Dublin, Ireland

Wir müssen aufpassen in Österreich, dass die Spenden von der Industrie an die Politik nicht aus dem Ruder laufen.

A collection of songs I like to listen to this summer.

You know the drill by now: another Friday, another list of great new albums.

In 2016 I managed for the first time to read 52 books, that is, one book per week on average.

TL;DR Recently I quit my job and I am now looking for a company that wants to hire a frontend and/or backend web developer (you might call it full stack).

Ich laufe durch die Straßen Wiens und weiß nicht so genau wohin.

After one too many after work beers back in May I decided to go to Zagreb, Croatia in June.

Oslo has been on my list of cities I wanted to visit for some time now and when I saw the lineup of By:Larm festival I knew that I needed to go to Oslo in March.

For the last couple days the weather in Vienna was cold, wet, and windy.

Back in June I talked about Streams in Gulp.js at the Vienna.js meetup and Roland Schütz filmed and edited the video and it's now available on YouTube: Streams in Gulp.js (Video) There are things I could have done better, especially in the question and an…

If you looked at Chain, the library I released yesterday you may have noticed that most of the functionality is implemented in traits to keep single classes small and clean.