Tobias Watzek

Some weeks ago I added a new form of content to this website: Bits.

I’m currently writing a little program in C# (.NET 9) that needs to do some calculations with weeks.

Tracking the time I spend on projects is often necessary but always annoying.

Some months ago, I was looking for the link to an article I read a while ago.

My last post Fine-Tuning JSON Serialization in .NET introduced JSON converters that can be used to serialize and deserialize types to and from JSON in .NET.

Working with JSON in .NET is pretty easy with the types provided by System.Text.Json.

In my last article, I wrote about how I host my stuff.

This blog isn’t the only website or webapp that I operate from my living room.

Anybody who works with me knows that I’m a big fan of visualizing software with diagrams.

Recently I built a custom audio player for one of my websites.

Today the release pipeline at work broke.

Several months ago, I received a little consulting job that required me to create a structured report.Naturally, I wrote a custom application called dokumentatorin to convert YAML files to other formats.

An image says more than a thousand words.

At work, we are developing a single-page application with React.

Recently I stumbled upon the tool Schrödinger Hat which can be used to transform images to only use the colors of specific color palettes.

At work, I mostly write C# code using the great JetBrains Rider IDE.

While working on projects sometimes the need to add a thing that behaves like a primitive type but only allows a defined set of values.

Go is one of my go-to languages (pun intended) when I want to quickly build something or try something out.

I’m a bit of an Microsoft Azure novice.

My team and I at work are currently working on a website that is built in a very classic way with a content management system in the backend that renders pages directly on the server.

This post contains some CSS style demonstrations which may only work in recent versions of modern browsers.

I would describe myself as a privacy-conscious person.

I’m one of the many employees who work from home because of the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Everyone who works with websites and web APIs at one point will have to test or debug some HTTP calls.

I recently found out about the Mozilla Observatory.

Static site generators are fantastic.

One of the key requirements that I set for the redesign of my website is accessibility.

TL;DR My F# version of the image processing experiments may not be as short as the bash version but it is by far the most beautiful to look at.

TL;DR My bash version of the image processing experiments that I did in three languages is by far the shortest.

TL;DR I implemented an image processing experiment in Rust and was positively surprised.