My Articles & Stories
About web development, design & stuff that I think is interesting.
Date 12.10.2021
Today Nuxt 3 is coming
Nuxt 3 public beta is going to be available a few hours from now – and there are a lot of improvements, which have be done. First of all Nuxt 3 builds up on Vue 3, so it will be supporting new functionality as like the Composition API, Multiple Root Element Components, and it will be written in TypeScript (as like Vue 3) as well. It will also support Webpack 5 and Vite, and seems to get awesome at all! : )
Date 01.10.2021
Dealing with SVGs in Vue
SVGs are awesome, they have small size, can be scaled infinitely and they can be manipulated using JavaScript or CSS to simply change their color or even animate them. In Vue we have several possibilities dealing with SVG files – within this article I’d like to discuss some solutions, what are their advantages or disadvantages and how to implement them.
Date 22.09.2021
Use CSS Custom Properties in Sass
CSS evolves In all the projects I’ve worked on over the last 5 years, preprocessors like SASS or Less have been used instead of native CSS – this is in no small part due to the advanced functionality that results in superior maintainability. For example, a key concept that differentiated SASS from CSS was the ability to use variables – for example, in SASS, color …
Date 21.09.2021
Computed Properties (Vue basics)
In vue we have many options to deal with data visualizing it for the user. One way is to use Computed Properties as one of the basic concepts of Vue. What is the difference between usual Data and Computed Properties, as well as when and how to use them is (quick and dirty) explained in this article.
Date 11.08.2021
My favorite VS Code extensions
VS Code is my favorite editor/IDE, which I use when ever I can – it’s clean, it’s fast, it has an integrated terminal, and so on … further more it lists innumerable extension for countless use cases, and in this article I want to mention some of the VS Code extensions which I am personally using on a daily basis.
Date 26.07.2021
Why I (as a freelancer) use Vue
People often ask me why I decided to work with Vue. As a freelancer, in addition to technical aspects and personal preferences, my strategic orientation also plays a role. In this article, I would like to take a closer look…
Date 24.08.2019
Animated CSS gradients
Background-Gradients can look nice, are very trendy and are supported relatively easily by any modern browser, as you can see at can-i-use.com. But if you want to animate them now, you have to do some tricks.
Date 22.08.2019
Experimental SASS gradients animation
There is a possibility to animate gradients directly and immediately via CSS keyframes. This offers a little more possibilities…
Date 15.08.2019
Atomic design
As a freelancer I sometimes come into existing projects, some are better structured, others have a somewhat higher orientation effort – the better it is to have an architectural structure, which is well structured, tidy and comprehensible – let’s talk about Atomic Design!
Date 13.08.2019
There are no fixed rules in design
Is there good or bad design, on an absolute level?Are there fixed rules that you can strictly follow and always get everything right? Is design a question of good taste? I would like to deal with these questions in this article – beforehand, let me say: context is king!
Date 24.07.2019
Boost your conversion with Pawlow
More than 100 years ago, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov found out that once learned behavior can be overwritten in a learning process and developed the principle of Classical Conditioning – which can also be useful in today’s world.
Date 12.07.2019
An experimental Flex-Gap property mixin
Why does Flexbox doesn’t support a flex-gap property (Meanwhile, gap also works in the flex box context) such as grid-gap!? This article is about an experimental solution, using SASS mixins…
Date 28.02.2019
Experimental approach generating several Elements
Sometime you want to draw stuff using web technologies, to display fancy, interactive elements on a website. To do so there are many proper solutions available – here is an experimental one.
Date 02.11.2018
Hand drawn illustrations
Freestyle creation of several hand drawn comic characters, which I’ve done for a dribbble (a design community) related campaign.