Self-Hosting: Pro and Contra
Self-hosting means to run and maintain your website or service using a private web server. In the context of this article series you can think of it as the opposite of using a managed hosting solution...
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Articles and insights from my everyday work as a cross-background web developer
Switcheroo Handle iGPU and dGPU Under Gnome
Many laptops come with an extra GPU. In the past it was difficult to setup your computer to use the dedicated (powerful) GPU (dGPU) for heavier workloads while it can use the integrated GPU (iGPU) for …
Read moreFun Ways to Learn Sql
If you are new to SQL, there are some nice games you can use to start learning it...
Read moreGoogle I/O Connect 2024 Impressions
Google I/O is a conference hosted by and about Google. While the main conference is taking place in the US in San Francisco, Google started to host the Google I/O Connect conferences in 2023. Those are taking place in multiple places in the world...
Read moreMarp Vscode Setup
Marp is a tooling to create presentations based on markdown and css. VSCode has a plugin offering built in support for previews and exports...
Read moreArch Linux Pkgstats a Good First Issue
If you are passionate about open source software and looking for a project to contribute to, you might want to give the Arch Linux pkgstats project a try. What is pkgstats? Pkgstats aims at collecting …
Read moreMarp: Create Presentations Using Markdown
Marp is a tooling you can use to create PDF or html presentations based on a single markdown file. This offers the benefit of easier cooperation and versioning, since you can simply use a Github …
Read moreSymfony AssetMapper & Bootstrap
It has been over a year now that Symfony offers a new way of asset handling, the AssetMapper Component. This is a short guide on how to enable Bootstrap (styling, js and icons) when using it...
Read moreArch Linux How to Install AUR Packages
AUR is short for “**A**rch **U**ser **R**epository”. A repository is a storage location for software packages. You can retrieve the packages from it to install software. As you can derive from the name, this repository harbors package building instructions (PKGBUILDs) created by the community...
Read moreGet Started Your Own Website
With 2024 just having started you might be tempted to make some New Year’s resolutions. Should your resolutions include finally making your own blog or website, you might profit from my experiences. …
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