Some of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Remote work is much more than just working spread across the globe. For me, it also means working in an asynchronous and autonomous way. I might even boldly state that remote work is not possible in the long term without asynchronous and autonomous thinking. How do we get to it?
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Let's be honest... MailJet is a bad service. I had hoped it would get better after Mailgun bought Mailjet a few years ago. I was disappointed. MailJet's service is incredibly inconvenient to use, but it's cheap... so it shows. However, there is one thing I really like about MailJet and that is their template language MJML. Let's discover its undocumented features!
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Radix colors are an insanely versatile UI library for colors. Actually it is meant for React/vanillaJS but can also be used beautifully in projects with Tailwind.
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Most input fields have a terrible UX. One tends to forget the many states an input field can be in. Material UI offers a great starting point. Not the prettiest, but very explicit with great UX. Lets reimplement it in vue 3.
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Building state machines is fun, and we can build UI to let them shine. The package xstate/vue allows you to use state machines as reactive objects in Vue to do just that. But there are a few pitfalls and specialities beginners might throw off at first. A beginners guide combining xState and Vue.
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I first heard about state machines in December 2019. It was on the episode no. 206 of „Syntax", a podcast about web development. I immediately fell in love with the idea behind it: Having an explicit state to rely on. But it is way more than that. Let me explain.
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All the open source galleries out there are super ugly. When I built this page, I was searching for a gallery component that wasn't. There was none so I build one. If you want to copy it here is how.
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This past year was no big change for me in terms of my daily work routines. I haven't worked from an office for a long time and have quite some experience working remotely. I want to share my current desk(s) setup, how I tackle audio quality and long video calls. Let's dive in.
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