janmonschke.com - blog posts

If you've read my first post on music archaeology, you might already know that I had been searching for a very old digital EP release which I ultimately received by simply asking the band for a copy via email.

This is a story about music, backups, nostalgia and, I guess, the iPod touch.

👋 Personal context I wouldn't call myself a homelab/self-hosting enthusiast.

This blog used to have comments.

TLDR: You can find me on @janmon@social.lol now.

GPX editor screenshot When I go hiking, I usually record the trip with this battery-efficient GPS Logger app 🏕.

While working on the implementation of a new design system at work, I came across this nifty little trick that makes color definitions more usable and flexible.

I have started to use TailwindCSS in a couple of side projects now to try out utility-based styling.

If you work on a JavaScript application that stores data locally, think of localStorage on the web or AsyncStorage in React Native, you might have found yourself in the situation where you want to change the shape of the stored data.

Over the last years I've been listening to podcasts more and more.

The topic that I focused on a lot in my recent conference talks was garbage collection in Redux applications.

I am currently building the website for my wedding next year which has to be translated into English, German and French to make the information accessible for all our guests.

I recently came across the 2014's JSConf.asia videos on YouTube and found two remarkable presentation that only very few people started to talk about on Twitter or in Meetups.

Earlier this year Jan Lehnardt, Rin, Robin, Tiffany and me started to talk about making something special for the upcoming JSConf.eu (2014).

This is a post about my personal opinion of how underrated web development is in universities at the moment.

The code and information about the library in this article may be out of date since this article is pretty old now and was written when the library was first released.