Thoughts by Thomas Derflinger

The experiment maplibre-voice lets you control a map in the browser with voice commands.

The TCX file format is used by Garmin devices and other devices to store data such as GPS coordinates, heart rate, and other sensor data.

When software developers create new open source projects, often they create what they think is useful and fun to make.

Spices have shaped human civilization, driving exploration, trade, and culinary innovation for millennia.

All the big cloud providers like AWS and Azure have an API for the sythesis of text into the spoken word.

The headless open source content management system (CMS) Strapi can be dockerized and deployed via Docker to the cloud.

Although COBOL can be considered a legacy language, there are still billions of lines of COBOL in production.

With WebAssembly you can integrate different programming languages together.

The World Factbook by the U.S. government contains a plethora of facts of all of the countries of this world.

Normally, when buying a home light that you want to control electronically, you need to install custom software.

Functional programming style in JavaScript has become more popular in recent years.

In many circumstances it is convenient to work remotely using Visual Studio Code.

Often people use Nest.js and Prisma together when they program a backend application.

React Three Fiber is a React wrapper for the Three.js library, facilitating the integration of 3D objects into React applications.

Discover how to enhance your React components with type safety using TypeScript typings for events.

In a digital landscape where visual content reigns supreme, the demand for efficient and high-quality web image formats has never been greater.

The production of plastics is a major contributor to environmental pollution.

With the rise of web conferencing and video calls, the need for good audio quality has become more important than ever.

Whenever you start learning a new language, you will be confronted with the question of how to learn vocabulary.

I love reading books.

WebAssembly defines a portable binary-code format for executable programs.

Today the market for architectural CAD (Computer Aided Design) software is mostly closed-source and has a monopolistic structure.

Systemd is great for starting and stopping services under Linux.

Checklists can be useful tools to handle the complexities of modern life.

When programming applications that run embedded on a Raspberry Pi, it is often convenient to work on a more powerful machine.

In light of the current short supply of Raspberry Pis, I want to share information about an alternative single board computer, the Odroid N2+.

When you use GitLab to host your web software development project source code, you can deploy your website to Cloudflare Pages.

When using Storybook in React applications to showcase and document your components, creating the Storybook file is often a repetitive task.

Vue 3 is now the default and recommended version of Vue.

You often need a web interface for your Raspberry Pi projects.

With the advent of the new technology of WebAssembly, it is possible to leverage other languages than JavaScript in the browser.

With the proposed flight to Mars and its exploration, there is a long stay required by the astronauts under claustrophobic conditions.

Everybody knows the contact forms on website where users can send text message to the website owner.

Underground agriculture is an emerging field of agriculture that has the potential to help solve a big part of the current ecological crisis.

Netlify Functions are serverless code that are easy to deploy.

The construction industry's value stands at 11 trillion USD worldwide in 2020.

Often you need to record audio on a mobile device and send it to a server for further processing.

MDX allows you to write JSX in Markdown documents.

Many websites need to visualize data in charts.

GitLab is a popular git-focused DevOps platform.

The Americas were the frontier for European settlers during much of the 15th to 19th century.

Conventional Commits is a specification for writing standardized git commit messages.

Cypress is a popular tool for end-to-end testing for web applications.

LitElement is a Web Component library by Google.

Octave is a free and open source scientific computing platform.

For every serious web application, you should choose a component library.

Interactive maps on the web are a great way to visualize information.

In every responsive web project, you need media queries to adapt to different screen sizes.

Social distancing has shaped an increase in usage of remote working tools.

With Gatsby, you can generate a static website that works great with cloud storage solutions like Google Cloud Storage.