The Blog

My literary effusions. Mostly, but not exclusively, about web technology and geeky things. Can also contain health topics and rants. Some of those posts are only in German. Ye be warned!

Non-Functional Requirements

December 15th, 2021

Every now and then I stumble upon projects, which do not have a defined set of Non Functional Requirements (NFRs in the following) or teams who do not even know about the bits and pieces. Therefore I thought it a good idea to refresh and collect my knowledge and write down my current state of mind about NFRs.

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Pimp my Powershell - Use PSColor, Oh My Posh and Posh Git to color up your life

November 26th, 2021

Since I recently spent a lot of time in Windows Terminal and especially in PowerShell, I searched a way to get more information in the prompt, like in Git Bash or a Unix shell. Luckily there are some awesome people, who think the same and created some nice tools to achieve exactly this. Which to choose and how to setup everything, I will show you in the following article.

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Pimp my GitHub profile

March 6th, 2021

Most likely everybody around already found out how to setup a customized GitHub profile by now. But you can do a lot more than just add some text to your profile. What I did on my profile page and how to setup everything, I will show you in this article.

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CSS architecture | OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM, ITCSS? - Part II

February 17th, 2021

In the previous part of this article I presented the CSS frameworks and methodologies which had the most influence on my way of writing CSS today. In my comments to the specific frameworks I already gave you some pros and cons and in this second part of this article, I want to show my final thoughts and the way I decided to go with this very blog.

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CSS architecture | OOCSS, SMACSS, BEM, ITCSS? - Part I

February 3rd, 2021

While musing about the future CSS architecture for my blog and deliberatly questioning my past direction of thinking. So I decided to start from the beginning and update my knowledge on CSS architecture frameworks or paradigms. With this post I want to take you on my journey of thoughts und and my decision finding process.

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Temporal Dead Zone in JavaScript

November 2nd, 2020

Diving into CSS display modes

October 1st, 2020

Disable GitHub Pages for legacy projects

September 30th, 2020

NodeJS-Umgebung prüfen und stabilisieren mit check-engine

June 18th, 2020

Node Version Manager (nvm) unter Windows nutzen

June 16th, 2020