Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
― Albert Einstein
Color Duel: A pet project game built with Construct 2
Being an early adaptor for Construct 2, it was about time to get a game built with it out of the door. I think I bought this in 2011 for 30€ or something like that. With an increasing interest in educational apps and new teaching and learning approaches I finally dug into Construct 2, building […]
Karma very slow on Chrome? Don’t run it in background tab!
Very recently I started to use the very nice Karma Test Runner. I really do recommend to check it out. However I wondered why tests ran very slow sometimes (>20s) and sometimes they where very fast (<1s). Quickly I realised the issue was having the Chrome tab in the background: The Chrome tab which was connected to Karma was […]
Tame the command line: How to get started with tmux
If you are using lots of command line tools (being a cool guy, you should!), you most probably have a need to organize all this stuff. If you are a web developer for example, you want to edit files, have a look on your webserver logs, monitor automated tests, handle your git repo and so […]
PomodoroEasy: Prelaunch access to the upcoming Pomodoro app
If you stumbled across my article series about how to build a webapp, you already know: I am working on an app to bring the awesome Pomodoro Technique to life on your machines. The Pomodoro Technique is a great, hassle free way to boost you productivity. The main goal is to focus on your tasks […]
Rule the bash: How to edit CLI input with VIM
Sometimes we have to write quite long shell commands, right? And from time to time you have an error in there or want to change a command from the history to do something else, right? If you are a vim user you probably hate to navigate with the cursor keys to the position in the […]