The Craftsman's Blog

Interview with Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong ....

A series of videos from the YouTube channel “Getting Real“ with some interesting insights to “How Basecamp gets work done.” Watch Ryan Singer presenting.How We Work #1 Expect to be done How We Work #2 Some Version How We Work #3 Deliberate Allocation How We Work #4 Knowns vs. Unknowns How We Work #5 The Hill Chart ....

I just registered for the ElixirConf 2018®. See you there! I’ll travel from FRA to SEA on Sep 4th. Leave a message if we can meet for the journey. Back from Seattle It was a gorgeous time and I’m exited to work with Elixir for the next project. Other than that, I had a lot of fun, meeting “old friends”. Selfie Ch....

If you know me, you know I like to get rid of stuff, to keep things simple. And today I removed sass from my project. Thanks, Lea Verou for this brilliant talk. ....

One of the best talks about programming languages I’ve seen this year. ....

Yesterday I found this on twitter. 04 Dec, 1995. Published in The Sentinel of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I wonder how it can happen that, in 23 years, nobody fixed at least the stupidest errors of that crock. Sure, I’m not a Javascript expert –and I never will be– but from a language, alm....

Touchbar or not, use Ctrl+[ instead of esc Wow, that is cool! Although I have no touchbar, my caps-lock is configured as Ctrl-key and Ctrl+[ is much less finger moving than using the regular esc key. A big hug for this @tenderlove (vim since the 1980ies and still learning :D) https://t.co/FXCu0pys....

Goodreads While dedusting my physical bookshelf, I remembered myself to update my Goodread Account too ;-) I’m always interested in technical reading, especially in software development. If you have the same interests and a Goodreads account, I would appreciate....

So annoying… I wouldn’t watch the conference’s live-stream because of the music in between sessions! I do want to see the talks; right? For this reason, dear live-streamers of conferences, please mute the sound of the stream in breaks when you play copyrighted music....

Today, I wrote my first HEX-package and published it on “hex.pm”. It is an extract of my daily work and was part of an “Umbrella-App” initially. It is in a very early stage, and a lot of work will be necessary to make it a mature and useful contribution. ....