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Just three weeks ago I decided to move all my static websites from my own server to a hosting server and went with Netlify.

RSS once was the way to gather all the news you are interested in, in one place.

Synology Diskstations provide a wide range of dynamic DNS providers out of the box.

I recently tried a few project management and issue tracking applications and found YouTrack by Jetbrains to be an excitingly fresh take on the matter and with a lot of possibilities to customize the experience.

Dark Mode is a new trend in operating system design which changes the appearance of your system, be it Windows, macOS or a Linux distribution, to a dark themed look.

First, here’s an abstracted example of the real issue from my LinkAce project.

With the end of 2019 closing the 2010 decade, it’s time to think about the future decade: 2020.

PhpStorm is a really powerful IDE with tons of features and even more settings to tweak the app to behave like you want.

As a developer, the chances are pretty high that you have your own SSH keys to connect to servers, and be it only the server hosting the git repository.

In my first article about PHP Hash Algorithms I explored the current status of the algorithms and how they perform in a race against each other.

The PHP hash() function is one of these functions you don’t use that often, but that can come in quite handy if you want to generate something like unique IDs, shorten content or whatever practical use you can derive from the possibility of hashing some i…

Not too long ago I got an email from my hosting provider, actually a forwarding from the BSI (German Institute for Information Security) that stated my Elasticsearch installation was accessible from the outside.

It’s hard to provide a solution that is both convenient and well working on websites.

Oh my ZSH is one of the more popular alternatives to the basic Bash shell.

I work with Docker all the time.

In case of some outages or a locked account I would not be able to access any Github repositories again.

I really do love the concept of Docker and containerization.

I recently updated some .de domains which are registered with INWX and managed trough Cloudflare.

There are numerous new protocols to build a new internet.

This blog, started back in 2010, was ever since based on Wordpress.

For a long time I used MAMP Pro to manage my local development environment.

You may hear it: Metro Exodus was exclusively released to the Epic Games store.

We do live in a modern world which accelerates further with every second passing.

So, a user stated he would like to start into web development and become a full stack developer.

I am currently rebuilding one of my oldest side projects, the Game Quotes Network.

I was searching for a smartwatch for a long time.

It’s been almost 4 years since I started the project.

My Unix CLI command of the day: watch – execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen.

Roomba is that little vacuum cleaner that explores your house or flat on it’s own and cleans the floors without any action required from your site.

Ever wanted to become a Hamburger, dancing around in an world filled with giant wheat plants?

Peter Beshai explains how to efficiently animate thousands of points in canvas in this tutorial.

Ire Aderinokun just posted an article on his blog bitsofco.de about linting of HTML with CSS.

Movies for Hackers is a curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.

Before the design for a website is presented to the customer, or even in the production process, it’s very important to keep color contrast and accessibility in mind.

HTTPlab is a web server that let’s you modify responses on the go and interactively to test or debug HTTP requests.

If you already used custom fonts for your websites you may know the struggle with slow loading fonts.

Optical Adjustments is an article about how small changes in your designs that can make a big difference and will make your next site look much more balanced.

Heise Tippgeber This portal can be used by whistleblowers to submit their critical information to the news portal.

Need some layout like this?

So the button at the top must certainly be the Toilettenrollennachfüllautomatsionsauslöserknopf Source: Reddit It’s just hiliarous to read about foreigners complaining or making jokes about the German language.

Fallout 4 Power Armor Wallpaper Artwork based on Power Armor Images published “The Art of Fallout 4” by Bethesda Buy the Artwork on Redbubble | Alternative Download via DeviantArt

The Stanley Parable designer releases free game The Temple of No.

Noticed something weird on the startup screen of Bethesda’s E3 preview: Their hard drive has 39 000 TB of free space!

Any mind that believes it can prove its own sanity, is insane.

Laravel caching is really awesome and works perfectly.

The Crabbox 9000 - Valve’s new gaming console

@erqiudao wrote an article about the alignment of icons and buttons.

TIL: You can convert arrays to objects in various ways: $obj = (object) $array; $obj = json_decode(json_encode($array)); $object = new stdClass(); foreach ($array as $key => $value) { $object->$key = $value; }

Very interesting article about the mechanics behind competitive multiplayer FPS games: Never trust the client It describes the architectural problems behind The Devision that implies that you can basically do everything on the client machine and send the…

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