workspace I've put together my dream workspace
This year I put money into a new workspace. After the chair in April, the rest was the Secretlab riser and arms, a 34-inch Philips Evnia, a portrait UPerfect, a…
Blog
I write about programming, tips, and whatever I keep running into.
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fullstack Moving my Blog from Strapi to Markdown in Git
This blog ran on a self-hosted Strapi for the best part of two years. I moved every article into git as markdown and turned the CMS off.
workspace I found the perfect chair for my new workspace: the Hinomi H2 Pro
I rebuilt my home office from an empty room, and the chair was the one piece I refused to compromise on. The Hinomi H2 Pro went in as part of that build, and th…
backend Building a Website in 2026
This year I stopped picking one stack. Next.js took the applications and Expo took mobile, with Astro, Angular and Spring Boot filling in the rest.
frontend Event-Driven State Management with NgRx Signal Store
In my previous article, we explored how NgRx Signal Store simplifies state management in Angular by...
fullstack Choosing Tech Stack in 2025: A Practical Guide
With dozens of frameworks competing for attention in 2025, it's easy to get lost in comparisons. In...
fullstack Mastering AI-Assisted Software Development: From Prompts to Production-Ready Code
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot have become part of many developers’ daily workflows. But...
career Pieces of advice for my younger self
I was going through some old photos earlier today and was thinking a bit about my first years in tech. So if I were to start over now what words of advice would…
frontend Using NgRx Signal Store for State Management in Angular
NgRx Signal Store is a lightweight and reactive approach to managing state in Angular applications....
frontend CSS techniques every developer should know in 2025
CSS just keeps getting better. Last year, I shared some techniques that helped clean up messy...
frontend Building Accessible Web Applications: A Practical Guide for EAA Compliance
Web accessibility is no longer just a best practice, it has now become a legal requirement in the...
generic Personal Projects - Why bother? 🤔
In my opinion the most important one is that they push your knowledge boundaries and grow you as a developer...
frontend Angular 19: Updating our projects and harnessing its latest features
The Angular team recently released version 19 and this version introduces various features that...
backend Building a Website in 2025
In the ever evolving field of Web Development, choosing a Tech Stack is far from straightforward. From the development experiences I had in 2024 here is my stac…
frontend What's New in Next.js 15: New Hooks, Turbopack and more
Next.js 15 adds React 19 hooks, drops default fetch caching, and turns Turbopack on in development. Here is what changed, with a starter repo of the examples.
fullstack Git made simpler: Some modern alternatives to classic commands
git checkout tries to do too many things at once. Git 2.23 split that into git switch and git restore, plus a few other commands worth using.
workspace Ergonomic Tips for your Home Office
Good ergonomics is essential to a productive and healthy workday. Here are some easy-to-implement tips to optimize your workstation’s ergonomics.
frontend Viewport height and width units in modern CSS
vh and vw still lie once a mobile browser chrome shows or hides. Here is when to use lvh, svh, and dvh instead.
frontend Managing environment variables in Angular apps
Angular's environment.ts files are a bad place for API keys. Here is how I wire @ngx-env/builder so those keys stay out of git.
generic Welcome to my Blog!
Welcome to my new personal Blog! I will be using this one to post articles about programming, tips etc. It is powered by Astro and hosted on Netlify.