Maximilian Hoffmann | @max_hoffmann

01.

Default to Remote Work?

Companies that enabled remote work due to lockdowns might wonder if it could be the default way of working in post-corona times. Should all companies be fully remote if they can?

02.

Downsides of choosing popular tools

Nobody questions a programmer’s decision of choosing the most popular tool, but does that mean that this choice comes with no trade-offs?

03.

General and specific knowledge

How do you decide which tool to learn next or which one is better? Learn about general and specific knowledge as an important criteria when evaluating software.

What I Do

I enable people to create and use software which empowers them to do things they couldn’t do before.

21.06.2020

Autoresizing Textareas

For one of my side projects I wanted to use a textarea that auto resizes to the length of its content.

19.06.2020

General and specific knowledge

How do you decide which tool to learn next or which one is better? Learn about general and specific knowledge as an important criteria when evaluating software.

19.06.2020

Downsides of choosing popular tools

Nobody questions a programmer’s decision of choosing the most popular tool, but does that mean that this choice comes with no trade-offs?

18.06.2020

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

by Jonathan Blow

Default to Remote Work?

Companies that enabled remote work due to lockdowns might wonder if it could be the default way of working in post-corona times. Should all companies be fully remote if they can?

09.05.2020

The Wet Codebase

by Dan Abramov

Dan Abramov giving his talk 'The Wet Codebase'

How to make a cultural transformation

by Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek giving his talk 'How to make a cultural transformation'

Effective Confrontation

by Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek giving his talk 'Effective Confrontation'

How to write maintainable CSS

CSS has a maintenance problem and preprocessors or current CSS architectures don’t help solving it. Instead they reinforce the language’s weaknesses and add more problems. But we can use components to do better.

27.11.2019

High-performance GraphQL with databases

by Tanmai Gopal

Tanmai Gopal giving his talk 'High-performance GraphQL with databases'

Unison: The joy of an always live, never broken codebase

by Paul Chiusano

Paul Chiusano giving his talk 'Unison: The joy of an always live, never broken codebase'

Dark’s Philosophy

by Paul Biggar

Paul Biggar giving his talk 'Dark’s Philosophy'

2 years at diesdas.digital

A lot has happened since I joined diesdas. This is an incomplete list of things I’ve worked on during this time.

03.10.2019

DRY CSS is a lie

I’ve already written about how to write maintainable CSS, but since this is still quite controversial for many I’d like to elaborate my point from a different perspective.

03.10.2019

Ideology

by Gary Bernhardt

Gary Bernhardt giving his talk 'Ideology'

Why isn’t Functional Programming the Norm?

by Richard Feldman

Richard Feldman giving his talk 'Why isn’t Functional Programming the Norm?'

Elm exercise solutions

This post contains the solutions to exercises which could be found on Elm’s official page for version 0.15.

03.10.2019

Code is the Easy Part

by Evan Czaplicki

Evan Czaplicki giving his talk 'Code is the Easy Part'

"ES7: The Evolution of JavaScript"

by Jafar Husain

Jafar Husain giving his talk '

Make the backend team jealous

by Richard Feldman

Richard Feldman giving his talk 'Make the backend team jealous'

There’s more to explore

Have you seen the 3D effect on my favourite books page?

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