Published inBüro am DrahtTech Explained — a low-level primer on frontend technologyNo matter if you are a decision-maker, a junior dev, a recruiter or a project manager, our industry has created a plethora of buzzwords…Jun 8, 2022116Jun 8, 2022116
Published inBüro am DrahtGrow yourself by caring for your people — Team Building as a cultureWork-Life-Balance and mental health are more important today than they ever were before and workplace happiness is a major factor. Here…Mar 15, 202256Mar 15, 202256
SERIES: React Native (Step by Step) — Nested Navigation, Persistent Redux Store and Returning UsersMay 2, 202122May 2, 202122
SERIES: React Native (Step by Step) — Auth Flow Navigation with Mock User LoginToday we’ll be looking into the authFlow pattern and user login via mock api…Apr 25, 202141Apr 25, 202141
SERIES: React Native (Step by Step) — Strongly-Typed Navigation with React Navigation 5.xThis time we will integrate React Navigation v5, a very flexible and robust navigation/routing solution and the primary recommendation…Apr 18, 202126Apr 18, 202126
Rapid Prototyping, test often and fail earlyAs the creator of games, it is often hard to see or judge if the core idea is fun to play and within the realms of reasonable complexity…Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021
Freelancing & Pet Projects — Living The Dream Or Building Castles In The SkyWorking in their 9–5 jobs, many people dream about being independent, breaking out of the daily grind or simply being their own boss…Mar 31, 20217Mar 31, 20217
Juggling Home Office, Childcare and your own projects without losing your mindMaybe home office is doable but add in some children plus closed daycare/kindergarten and suddenly things are different again.Mar 22, 2021Mar 22, 2021
Gambits — Behavioural Decision Patterns For A Game Development AIHistorically, gambits are risky moves in a strategical play. Thanks to one game in particular, gambits have become a popular term in game…Mar 15, 20212Mar 15, 20212
Typescript and Test Driven Design don’t fix everything, but…It took me a few years to see how my thinking was completely backwards. TS and TDD they make you think differently about the issues at…Mar 9, 20219Mar 9, 20219
Scrum / Agile is not broken but we need to stop pretendingScrum might be a foot-gun so stop trying to make it fit. There, I’ve said it. We will look at the Idea of Scrum, possible problems, ways toMar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
React Bootstrapping — Deep Dive into Redux Messaging PatternsToday we will dive a bit deeper into the way I work with redux and why I think that, despite recent developments of react hooks, redux…Feb 22, 20212Feb 22, 20212
Build A Bot (DiscordJS) — Better Logging And A Persistent Bot ConfigToday we will spend a little bit of time on a prettier logger and then allow our bot to read and write his own config file on the server.Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
Build A Bot (DiscordJS) — A Bot Factory and Revealing Module Design PatternLast time we made our commands more flexible and improved the structure of our code for better readability and scalability. This time we…Feb 8, 2021Feb 8, 2021
React Bootstrapping — Quick Start with Typescript, Linting, Redux & RouterSetting up a new project can be a daunting task. So many packets that need to work in concert and so many things to keep track of, that…Feb 1, 20211Feb 1, 20211
Build A Bot (DiscordJS) — A scalable setup with command modulesToday we will clean up our central index.js file, make it more readable and scaleable and move all our existing commands to a separate …Jan 25, 20212Jan 25, 20212
Build A Bot (DiscordJS) — Javascript Chatbots made easyDiscord bots can be written in Javascript or Python and getting your first bot up and running is a great way to practice your Vanilla JS…Jan 18, 202150Jan 18, 202150
SERIES: React Native (Step by Step) — React Redux + Toolkit with TypescriptIn our last session, we’ve set up a new and clean React Native Project with Typescript and Linting Support. Today we will add React Redux…Jan 11, 202144Jan 11, 202144
SERIES: React Native (Step by Step) Working with Typescript and LintingIn the first part of our React Native ( Step by Step) series, we will look at how to start a new project with Expo and Typescript…Jan 4, 202131Jan 4, 202131
Rant — Roadmap, Dogfooding and NPMThis isn’t a real article for today, so I’ll just call it a rant. Lot’s has been going on for me (as most likely for many of you too…Nov 3, 2020Nov 3, 2020