The Craftsman's Blog

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....

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. ....

Pretty cool talk by Lea Verou about modern CSS features you might know.....

Let's just skip all the frameworks entirely. Learn how to do the work. Learn how to apply inspect and adapt to the work itself. Learn everything (all frameworks + underlying thinking). Build your own process. Nobody excels by following a rigid set of rules by rote.— Allen Holub (@allenholub) July 4, "2018" ....

My blog moved from Tumblr to Jekyll running on an EC2-instance. To be honest, I’m quite happy with Tumblr and I drive my blog there for several years now. That’s the only reason; it is time for a change. And because I’m even happier when using Jekyll for our company’s projects, I thought I should move my blog as well.....

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 ....