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I’m currently on a weight loss journey—I’ll tell more about that in a future post.

There’s a new bug in the YouTube TV app for Google TV that is so utterly stupid that I need to rant about it.

The number of times I still see “Loop Engineering” popping up in any of my feeds is truly upsetting.

Every few months, software engineering will be over in a few months again.

This week I discovered Starsailor for the first time.

This video from Waffle House swept into my Recommendations today.

I’m currently working on adding an OAuth/OIDC authorization server at work.

In October I wrote a post about a little experiment I implemented.

My favorite process in software engineering, whether I’m building something new or working on an existing feature, is to first focus purely on the functionality and completely ignore the design.

I’ve just released Storage Buckets on Railway.

More than 15 years ago, I had this idea to autogenerate the header image of my website based on the current time of day, season, location, and a simulated weather pattern that naturally progresses.

I don’t like many of my development-related blog posts for one reason: I often feel like I spend too much time explaining the problem instead of getting straight to the point.

Let’s rebuild a paid Cloudflare feature … on Cloudflare, for free.

Do I really need to write an introduction to button components?

Please don’t make the em dash—the long hyphen I’m using here—an indicator of AI-written text.

Saw a cat, took some photos.

For a long time, across different projects throughout my career, I’ve seen database migrations happen during application startup.

Quick tip: You can follow GitHub Releases in your feed reader.

Whenever the topic of authorization in our Next.js apps came up at Gigs, I had a very strict opinion and rule: we don’t use the middleware for authorization.

I’ve been a zsh user for a long time, though I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with it.

wait a second i know the synthesizer why don’t i use the synthesizer There are a few things I always wanted to do with AI.

Yesterday I learned two weird things that happen when you use pushState() to navigate to a page with a URL fragment: The CSS :target selector doesn’t work.

I stopped scrolling through Bluesky for a month, and I really enjoyed that month.

On 22 January, 3 days ago at the time of writing, Tailwind v4.0 was released with some major changes.

An incomplete list of my favorite videos, shows, movies and music of 2024, in no particular order. 📺 Installing The Sonic Drive-In Operating System Trying to get an old drive-in self-service counter to work.

There’s a poster next to my desk with “Only deploy on Fridays” written on it.

Scenario: a magical fairy—the “magical” is important, so you don’t confuse it with a boring non-magical fairy—appears and grants me one wish.

When adding dark and light mode to your site, a common approach is to store the theme in localStorage and reading it on the next visit.

I have many thoughts about this topic but I’ll try to keep it short: I don’t like this thought leadership in engineering, where it’s mostly about being an influencer and less about having a good influence.

Quiet Company – Winter is Coming (YouTube, Spotify) A cozy EP with a small collection of holiday standards.

Who would have thought that opening the windows several times a day would have a lasting effect on reducing the humidity in my home?

For the past three years, there hasn’t been a single night when I couldn’t fall asleep or even struggled to do so.

I think some apps I use every day, like Spotify for Desktop or YouTube TV, are being way too careless with seemingly small UI changes.

A short story about a small debugging adventure, entirely within the redis-cli.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but trash bags lately suck.

I’ve motivated myself to write shorter posts more frequently!

Early this morning I woke up briefly, it was 6:30am—yes, that’s early morning for me—and heard very faint shower noises.

I recently discovered that Tailwind’s group utility is super useful in web frameworks with nested layouts.

In-ear earbuds are weird, aren’t they?

When I moved into my first apartment over 11 years ago, I learned something that I continue to learn on a regular basis: solve the little problems in your life.

1 year ago I wrote about my first two weeks with my new Herman Miller Aeron Remastered chair.

Today I learned that you can capture a screenshot with transparent background using Safari’s Web Inspector.

Last week, I tinkered with developing a Shopify App.

This was one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

A few times a year, I come across an album that completely captures me.

Lagerfeuer Deluxe, an unplugged concert with 3 artists: Haller, Cäthe and Enno Bunger.

Our semi-annual Gigs offsite was this time in Portugal, Guimarães.

Went there with Chris, was a great night.

Found myself getting totally lost in the music, just vibing along, no sense for time or space.