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Hello.forsale

13-Sep-2021

I was looking at some old projects I made sometime ago and I decided to refresh/partially rewrite tech news site (source HN) with some changes: - Revamped layout and user …

Django 3 Redirect all 404 to homepage

11-Sep-2021

Handling 404 pages in Django is very easy: just add a 404.html file inside your templates folder (e.g. inside your app) and it will work just fine.

But what if …

Generate a slug in a Django Web Application

04-Sep-2021

One of the most tedious aspects of writing a blog post is writing the slug. For these not in the know a slug is simply the url at which your …

From Jamstack to Django

31-Aug-2021

Since quiet a bit of time I am writing this article not on a code editor but on a form inside a cozy admin section. A bit like the web …

Azure Static Web Apps vs Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages

19-Aug-2021

Today I tried Azure Static Web Apps . The offer tries to enter the growing market of static (or rather said frontend) web development. It supports the major frontend …

AWS S3 Serverless email

29-Jul-2021

While browsing my hackernews clone I came across an intriguing and at the same time bizarre project: S3 Email that will make you forget everything you thought about …

Next.js Review

06-Jun-2021

In the past month I lead the effort to migrate three major projects from Express/Node.js to Next.js.

Why Next.js and not Svelte, Gatsby, Hugo or another Jamstack and...why …

Marienkäfer 🐞 app

09-Mai-2021

I have just finished my new iOS app: Marienkäfer. It is a small app yet --at least to me 😜-- very useful. But wait: there is already a wide …

Github action workflow to fetch and commit API data

08-Mai-2021

In my quest to move a lot of work projects to a serverless architecture I have used Use Svelte + Svelte Spa router svelte spa router in several projects. …

Sveltekit Review

03-Mai-2021

I have now finished migrated a website developed in Nodejs/Express/MySQL to sveltekit so I thought it would be a good moment to pen down some of my experiences.

If …

Flags.lol update!

27-Apr-2021

In the enthusiasm of moving much of my stack to svelte I re-wrote flags.lol a simple game inspired from "fun with flags" from the series big bang theory.

The …

Netlify vs Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages vs Google Cloud vs AWS Amplify

25-Apr-2021

As soon as I decided to move some of my websites using jamstack I was faced with the the issue of hosting or -- better said in the case …

Website update, Now powered by Svelte!

24-Apr-2021

Previously, I was very sceptical (to say the least) about "static websites". There are several limits and somehow don't feel as cool as dynamic websites.

Little I knew that …

Sapper Svelte New Review

18-Apr-2021

After a few months I am not revisiting the previous review of sapper-svelte. Recently, I decided to try to migrate a project from a dynamic to a static …

Protonmail Review

04-Apr-2021

I have been using Protonmail for several years with some ups and down. In 2018 I think I stopped using it because it was suddenly unavailable for serveral hours …

Neu.SH

28-Mär-2021

I have now migrated my silent hacker news clone form node (which was using also streams) to PHP 8.

What is pretty nice is the design that is now …

Sans Variable Font

03-Mär-2021

I have been working on a new font adaptation and I wanted to try to create a variable font. The benefits of variable fonts for the web are clear: …

Guideline 4.2.2 - Design - Minimum Functionality

26-Feb-2021

If you are reading this article chances are that you just received this message from App Store Connect, Apple. I have recently received this message over and over again but …

New App: Schweiz.Press

25-Feb-2021

I am happy to announce that my new app schweiz.press is now available in the Apple App Store. This app includes the latest Swiss News in German with a …

Welcome PHP 8! 🐘

17-Feb-2021

A few months ago PHP 8 was released: since a lot of new interesting functions were added, most notably the JIT (just in time) compilation that will make PHP much …