In order to get the development environment on localhost closer to the production environment, I’m using HTTPS on localhost. This helps me with discovering bugs much earlier, which saves a lot of time. I use the excellent tool mkcert for managing the certificates locally. mkcert is built exactly for this purpose and removes most of the friction. ...
If cognitive diversity is what we need to succeed in dealing with new, uncertain, and complex situations, we need to encourage people to reveal and deploy their different modes of thinking. We need to make it safe to try things multiple ways. This means leaders will have to get much better at building their team’s sense of psychological safety. ...
A lot of my work in the last decade has been with partially or entirely distributed teams. I expect that to be the case going forwards as more and more software engineering work switches to distributed / remote teams. To communicate with other members in the distributed team, I use video calls for: ...
On Wednesday 2020-01-29 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...
Full-stack software engineer with a bent towards web standards, quality and longevity of applications available for hire. I have worked professionally as a software engineer since the late 90s. I’ve seen a good breadth and depth of applications over the years, having worked on green field, established and legacy applications. ...
A well built, performant website can be created with any framework or type of technology in existence. It may be harder with some than others, but it can be done. The issue is the developer and designer mindset in many companies. With said mindset being that web development and design should be ‘fun’. I fully believe a lot of developers and software enginers put their job satisfaction above their users or customers. ...
For a project at work, we needed an autocomplete component, that meets the following criteria: zero dependencies decent WAI-ARIA / accessibility support reasonable license good test coverage remote filtering custom rendering of options separation of presentation from the value selected I am a firm believer in open web standards. Whenever feasible, I prefer to apply lean web principles and leverage the full feature set of the web platform. ...
On Wednesday 2020-01-15 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...
The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 30th at 18.30. Venue We will be hosted by my former client, employer Zalando SE, in one of their offices. Zalando SE Mühlenstraße 25 10243 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find and the front desk know we’re coming. ...
The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 2nd at 18.30. Venue Fy! Hinterhof Rechts - 5’ Glogauer Strasse 5 10999 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find. Structure We will try to follow the recommended structure. This means we will have a “Quiet Writing Hour”, which I am very excited about. ...