Hi, I’m Valentin! on vknabel

Currently reading this book and enjoying it so far.

The book weaves together stories of people connected to Steller’s sea cow and its extinction, though only indirectly.

I devoured this book.

Aborted after page 126, total of 395 pages.

The book follows a slave in the southern USA during his escape journey.

What if electric computers and the internet existed before the nazi regime and the second world war?

Today, I would like to invite you to join me on a calming adventure through winding streets, quiet little towns and magical forests.

In my ongoing efforts to reduce the reliance on US companies and services, I decided from Let’s Encrypt to the Italian Actalis.

Aborted reading after about a third.

Nine years ago I launched this blog to share some thoughts about software development.

From time to time, I like to share what I am up to and how I prefer to spend my time.

The development of global and especially US politics in the last decade made it clear that Europe must become more sovereign and independent from the US.

In my life I worked on many projects, both private and at work.

This website is built using Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages.

This book captivates from the very first minute.

It is slowly told and a bit sluggish in the middle.

Starting with this year, I have decided to discontinue all of my open source projects.

This book is placed in a highly political context: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A few years ago while I started working on Lithia, I decided to use whatever takes me to my goal.

After a long time of procrastination I finally resumed my work on my new programming language.

The book opens with a shocking moment.

The story is told from the perspective of a young boy in ancient Rome who grows up in a brothel.

One of the most iconic species of Anthurium is undoubtedly the queen of Anthuriums: the Warocqueanum.

Featuring bright green to golden leaves with hints of red, the Philodendron Malay Gold is a classic representative of its kind – just brighter.

The Syngonium Wendlandii is truly something special.

Those in search of an Anthurium characterized by uncomplicated care will find success with the Anthurium Gracile, and will be rewarded by its affordable price.

In 2021 I started working on the current Go implementation of my own experimental programming language called Lithia.

There are already many websites offering plant care tips.

My system language on my linux machine is set to English, but as a German raised with 24-hour days, I simply cannot wrap my head around to get the 12-hours am/pm format intuitively.

Acorn is an application deployment framework for k8s, that tries to simplify instead of introducing another layer of indirection.

Did you ever want to access the contents of an auxiliary file from within your repository to access the contents at runtime?

Today I stumbled upon Atomic Design.

With OPA you implement decisions of policies, not their enforcement.

You can override Go values with ldflags during the build.

All the hosted Kubernetes solutions I know of want you to pay roughly 10$ pre month for each load balancer.

I have been playing around with minikube for quite some time now.

I gave the newest tool of Charm Gum a try.

Go 1.19 introduced a new option to customize the runtime Garbage Collection behavior: Memory Limit.

Two years ago, I created Puffery for iOS, which allows sending push notifications to your iOS devices.

When using tailwind, you might be forced to manually write SCSS by hand.

I created a GitHub workflow to automatically build and deploy my website to GitHub Pages.

In Hugo you can simply create a folder within content/ and a template within layouts/_default/.

You can override internal Hugo templates with your own templates.

Unlinke many other static site generators, the syntax highlighting of Hugo does not use client-side JavaScript, which is great!

If you need assets for a specific document or blog post, you can simply create a folder with your desired name and place your assets in there.

This is planned to be a series of blog posts about designing and developing my own programming language, where I want to share some pitfalls, my learnings, design decisions, experience and the development process.

Once you have decided you want to create your own programming language, you need to create a broader concept.

I’m Valentin Knabel, a developer, a cyclist, coffee nerd, vegan and a human.

When iterating over an array of objects in Angular, the change detection compares the references of the objects to detect changes.

You can run your Go program or your tests with the Data Race detection enabled.