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My latest articles on topics such as engineering management or web and cloud technologies.

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    Abandoning Wilson and migrating codepunkt.de to Astro

    Why I almost finished my own static site generator, Wilson, then abandoned it, and later decided to migrate codepunkt.de to Astro.

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    Evaluation order of field initializers in JavaScript and TypeScript

    The sequence in which class fields initialized and parent constructors are called might not be obvious. This article explains why.

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    How to create a self-updating GitHub profile README

    How to create a self-updating GitHub profile README - a new feature that allows user-defined content on top of your GitHub profile page.

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    Generating beautiful Open Graph images with Node.js

    Learn how to automatically generate open graph images with Node.js and integrate the results into a Gatsby site.

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    How to set up syntax highlighting for Gatsby

    Comparison of build-time and run-time syntax highlighting libraries and a list of the best Gatsby plugins for this purpose.

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    What exactly is vanilla JavaScript?

    This post explains the origins of the term "vanilla" and how it relates to computer software and the JavaScript language.