I know there is still a lot of hatred for PHP out there, but in my opinion with version 7 at the latest (which is already over 5 years old!), PHP evolved to a great language that is fun and even type-safe to use. …

In the first post of this series I told you the background story why I built a tool that’s able to show some email analytics in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. After using this tool for a year now, I’ve determined three major issues: ❌ It depends on the mail…

Since their release, GitHub actions are on my long-term todo list for increasing automation of my workflows. Thanks to DEVs GitHub Actions Hackathon, I’m finally tackling this topic. — I’m not really sure if it’s a thing to be ashamed of today, but I’m still pushing build files of most of my personal open source projects manually via good ol’ FTP to my server. Maybe I just don’t wanted to give up too much control over the files that…

Since I wrote my first lines of code in Python, I was fascinated by its simplicity, excellent readability and its popular one-liners in particular. …

I would like to share some examples of useful Emmet commands that heavily speed up my markup creation — and maybe yours too. — If you haven’t heard of Emmet before, see this awesome introduction to Emmet by Thabi. Emmet is integrated in most code editors by default, so maybe you’re using it right now without knowing it’s Emmet under the hood 😅. In VS Code e.g. …

I humbly assume that every single one of us has a bad habit we want to get rid of. At least I have those habits 😅. Be it committing untested code, coding without proper documentation, just copying-and-pasting code or not even programming or computer related things like spending too less…

Normally I write code by using the conventional, obvious PHP functions to solve corresponding problems. But for some of these problems I came across alternative solutions that especially increase performance. — In this article I want to present some of these alternatives. This is useful, if you’re searching for possibilities to decrease execution time even more in production. Let’s see, which PHP methods might be replaced by a more performant approach and if there is any cost or trade-off.

I compiled a list of the (in my opinion) best Cheatsheets and tutorials for some of the top languages, frameworks and tools out there. I considered clarity, interactivity and simplicity for beginners. Lets go! — General Awesome 001 https://github.com/topics/awesome 002 https://github.com/detailyang/awesome-cheatsheet Tech interview 003 https://yangshun.github.io/tech-interview-handbook/cheatsheet/ 004 https://github.com/TSiege/Tech-Interview-Cheat-Sheet 005 https://dev.to/elliot/my-google-technical-interview-cheat-sheet-1lbd

A list of Open Source projects showing the creative potential of Open Source. — Sorry if this is a bit emotional, but I just have to say this now. Even at the risk of boring some of you. This isn’t another Vue vs React vs Angular post — it’s more like the opposite. I love the open source community. I really do. It’s simply…