I realised that the debugging I do nowadays is exclusively “emoji debugging”, maybe better known as “printf() debugging”. Coming from C# development in Visual Studio, which has the best debugging experience I know, I find this works surprisingly well. Read →

During my first parental leave I built a static web site with Gatsby for the family’s recipe collection. It has worked great and cost us nothing to host, but it has also been all the bad things critics say about the npm ecosystem. In hindsight, Gatsby was the wrong horse to bet on. Read →

Some years ago I had the view that databases were a persistence tool, that they hadn’t evolved in any significant way in the last decades and that they were a somewhat necessary evil. Today I use databases as a tool among others in my developer’s toolbox. I think there are a number of reasons why my views have changed. Read →

Ever since I came to the conclusion to use a US keyboard for programming and built my first custom keyboard, I’ve tried to solve my weaknesses related to using the primary input device of my work. I’ve now settled on the Kyria from splitkb.com, and these are the problems it solves for me. Read →

The last couple of years, I've enjoyed a completely silent mini-PC by putting it into a fanless case. This time I'm using the Akasa Newton A50 to make a machine for my parents. Read →