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Public money – Public code – What it is all about and why it is just logical.

Public money – Public code – What it is all about and why it is just logical.

As the world goes, more and more digital, software is required everywhere. Not only to make your internet surfing possible or chatting with your friends and family. Governments need new software to make processes more automated and cost-effective. As taxpayers, we all pay the price for that as well, so

Small things for building better container images

Small things for building better container images

Container images, commonly referred to as docker images, are everywhere nowadays, from the developers' workstation to the data center or even the cloud. It's easy to build those, but also easy to build something that's not ideal. A few useful tips for making your container images smaller, more secure and

Make frontend to microservice communication great again

Make frontend to microservice communication great again

Your frontend is still stuck on a monolithic architecture, while your backend seems to get increasingly distributed? Do you see yourself doing too many API calls in your frontend, maybe even worsening it with different structures? Then this is for you. Abstract it away The first and easiest way is

You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why

You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why

Many gitignore files are full of ignores, for our IDEs and editors. Is it Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or even vim? But why are we excluding all files, many even consider it as a bad practice having them in the project at all! Make setup for new devs easier The

Build a self-contained shell installer

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Build a self-contained shell installer

Have you ever had yourself in the situation where you want to have a one-in-all installer for stuff on *nix-systems or macOS? I got you covered. What are we going to build? The idea is simple, you have an installer, which also includes your files, what? Exactly! We will have

Living in $HOME – Some tips to make your shell more comfy

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Living in $HOME – Some tips to make your shell more comfy

Do you use your shell every day or would like to be more efficient with day to day task by utilizing the terminal? Then this article is for you. Entrypoint(s) There are different configuration files for your shell(s) where you can configure and customize. * /etc/profile – Loaded for

The ultimate guide to DMARC

The ultimate guide to DMARC

DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting (and) Conformance. There are plenty of resources out there but no guide bundling everything you need to know, until now! In a nutshell DMARC is a set of standards making it standardized to detect and report abuse of mail systems across providers all

Best Practices for GitHub Pull Requests

Best Practices for GitHub Pull Requests

Pull Requests are there to save your day and your codebase! They are great and there are many features and best practices not everyone is aware of. To improve your work with Pull Requests for the future, I will give you a short overview of some best practices and hidden

Bookmarklets – Powerful and almost forgotten

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Bookmarklets – Powerful and almost forgotten

What the hell is a bookmarklet? If you are not familiar with it and want to know more about it, then this is for you. We are going to go through the technical basics, why there are so useful and how to create one. In a nutshell As the name

JavaScript—it was never meant to be that way.

JavaScript—it was never meant to be that way.

JavaScript. Nowadays, it is everywhere. And when I say everywhere, take it literally. From the classical use case in the browser, over the server-side logic until you reach the low-level section with embedded devices. And like no other language, it is really polarizing. Some people who hate it, and people

Top 10 DevOps Best Practices

Top 10 DevOps Best Practices

There are plenty of best practices and things you should do out there, but some are essential and universal. I try to summarize them as the “top 10”. Of course, this is somewhat subjective. Pin your versions as specific as possible Software gets updates, updates might break things or include

Rollbacks von Deployments sind von gestern

Rollbacks von Deployments sind von gestern

Rollbacks im Deployment-Kontext bedeutet Änderungen "rückgängig zu machen", in dem einfach wieder die alte Version eingespielt wird. Doch das ist lange nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Warum das eine schlechte Idee ist, will ich heute etwas näher eingehen. Was macht Rollbacks so sympathisch? Klingt erst mal super: Was kaputt ist, davon hol

Wir bauen für Legacy

Wir bauen für Legacy

Legacy, Monolithen, historisch gewachsene Systeme, jede Software wird einmal alt. Meine Sicht auf die Dinge und Möglichkeiten damit zu leben.

From Unity Code to App

From Unity Code to App

From development to release with Gitlab CI and Fastlane

E-Mail - ein Rant.

E-Mail - ein Rant.

E-Mails. Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt "moderner" Kommunikation. Egal - ob eine Bestellung bei dem Shopbetreiber des geringsten Misstrauens, oder der Anmeldungsbestätigung auf einer dubiosen Seite, bis hin zu Benachrichtigungen des Online-Bankings - sie ist einfach nicht mehr wegzudenken. Doch irgendwie ist nicht alles so super wie man jetzt denken mag.

Dokumentation in einer agilen Welt

Dokumentation in einer agilen Welt

Dokumentation ist ein wichtiges, gehasstes und eigentlich selbstverständliches Thema. Gerade in der agilen Software-Entwicklung gibt es hier einige gute Tricks.

Reproduzierbare Builds - Was steckt dahinter und wieso ist das auch für mich gut?

Reproduzierbare Builds - Was steckt dahinter und wieso ist das auch für mich gut?

Was sind reproduzierbare Builds und was bringt das für mich? - Tools und mehr darüber in meinem Artikel.

Go - Warum der Hype? - Erfahrungen & Stuff about Go

Go - Warum der Hype? - Erfahrungen & Stuff about Go

Warum wird Go so gehyped? - Ein Versuch auf Basis meiner Erfahrungen den Hype um Go zu erklären und aufzuzuzeigen was dahinter steckt.

Keycloak - ein Authentication-Server für alle Fälle

Keycloak - ein Authentication-Server für alle Fälle

Quick Start Guide und Vorstellung von Keycloak als Authentication-Server für OIDC (OAuth2) und SAML mit all seinen Schwächen und Stärken.

Migration meines vServer zu Traefik 2

Migration meines vServer zu Traefik 2

Eine Zusammenfassung, wie das Upgrade auf Traefik 2 mit meinem vServer lief. Was mir an der neuen Version besonders gefällt und was ich anpassen musste.

Shuttle - Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Shuttle - Ein Erfahrungsbericht

Shuttle - Ein Build-Tool für alle Fälle. Meine Erfahrungen und eine kurze Erklärung zum Tool

Sandboxed JavaScript inside JavaScript - a proof of concept

Sandboxed JavaScript inside JavaScript - a proof of concept

Die Erstellung einer Sandbox in JavaScript für JavaScript - ein Proof of Concept mit Demo

Entwicklungsumgebung done right - Mach das Beste aus deinem Workflow!

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Entwicklungsumgebung done right - Mach das Beste aus deinem Workflow!

Eine Entwicklungsumgebung ist mehr als nur eine blanke IDE. Mehr dazu in diesem kleinen Post.

API-Design done right

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API-Design done right

Api-Design done right. Die Basics die gute APIs ausmachen. Kurz, einfach und verständlich.

APIs - Meine Vision

APIs - Meine Vision

APIs - Meine Vision wie uns die Schnittstellen das Leben verbessern können.