Text repository on JavaScript development and art
March 19, 2025
As a web developer with years of experience in JavaScript, I decided in 2021 to expand my skillset by learning Rust. While I was excited about Rust’s performance and safety guarantees, the learning curve was steeper than I anticipated. That’s when I decided to experiment with AI assistance through Claude Code to help me develop a practical project while learning the language.
September 19, 2023
For fast prototyping I create tiny projects consiting of some HTML files with JavaScript and CSS assets. Instead of opening them with the file protocol in the browser, I like them served over HTTP. I used to use php -S for this, but I do not want PHP on my machine, so I had to find an alternative. I wrote the alternative in Rust.
November 17, 2022
During programming I still need to look up a lot of implementation details of features I am using; it appears that I do not know many things by heart, obviously – unfortunately. How to settle a discussion about HTTP response codes when it comes to 422 versus 400, 401 or 403? I need to look that up… I am an avid user of the MutationObserver and the IntersectionObserver, but I find it hard to remember all methods and options. I need to look that up too!
October 06, 2022
My other article about web development via the MAMP stack in Docker is the most popular article of this website to date. That’s great! It feels good to give back to the community from which I learned so much over tha past 15 years! This article is a follow up when using a custom PHP8 Docker image.
October 01, 2022
The CSS feature :has() is a very powerful addition to selectors. This article is about the evolution of feature detection code that is production ready!
August 08, 2022
I developed a new way of handwriting during the first few months of Bullet Journaling. As one of my own requirements is that my Bullet Journals should be well readable and look good, and my original handwriting does not meet this standard.
Actually, I can still write those beautiful standard joined handwriting characters we learned in Primary School, but it takes so much time to write them… over the years this handwriting developed – or degenerated – into an ugly fast way of writing. Not usable in my Bullet Journals.
January 28, 2022
I see so many tips on social media, even implicit, about what you should or should not do in your Bullet Journal, and I must say, I disagree with a lot of them. Even though a lot of Bullet Journalists advocate that anything goes, there’s still a lot of advice that sound like The Law of Bullet Journaling.
I’m against most of these rules. Though this article might sound like a rant, it is not! It is about that you should do what works for you and a hommage to minimalism.
September 04, 2021
Oh Docker…
It took me quite some time before I got on the Docker boat (pun intended), but since last few weeks, I’m totally in. This article describes a way to set up a MAMP development environment with Docker, Apache, PHP and MariaDB (i.e. MySQL).
I was cleaning up my laptop as I had only 6Gb left on my 2013 MacBook Pro. I had both Macports and Homebrew installed… Why? I can’t recall actually. But I found out both use an aweful lot of diskspace. I deleted both and wrote a docker-compose.yml with about 50 SLOC that’s easier to maintain and easy to set up.