:Last week I attended Jesscamp, a fun week-long event where 60-ish people, who spend too much time on …
:Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is about to launch a new social network. …
:I’m currently a full-time freelancer working with various clients. I also work on a few other …
:Friends who have served me food at their places are sometimes irritated if I only put a small amount …
:I’ve joined Playground, an “anti-procrastination platform” run by Ida, who I know …
:The word “asexual”, when applied to humans, describes a person who experiences no or …
:I’m single. I don’t know if this comes as a surprise to you. Of course, you have yet to …
:I’ve returned from a month-long trip to India and the UAE. I visited Bangalore for around two …
:For January, I set the goal of implementing the PACT I created as part of the Mindful Productivity …
:The mindful productivity map is the outcome of the Mindful Productivity Masterclass, the homework …
:Happy New Year! I wish for us all that 2023 will be a great year with joy, success, and whatever …
:My social media strategy for 2023 still needs to be defined. In my previous post, I wrote about …
:When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I had very few expectations about the impact on the service. …
:“How to flirt with the world” was the name of the Interintellect salon I attended …
:When I was in Lisbon for a month in 2019, I leveraged almost every opportunity to meet new people. …
:Just nine euros to travel throughout the country! It was probably the most-liked policy the German …
:The climate crisis is here, and to prevent the average temperature from rising further, we need to …
:I’m on a train to Berlin right now. Today I will make a stop on the way in Göttingen to visit a …
:Once in a while, you see a tweet that triggers all kinds of thoughts and deserves more than a like, …
:Scott Stevenson’s article “How To Finally Make Something” came up in a Twitter …
:Unit testing is mainly used to test smaller parts of your code, like a single class or function. But …
:Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the Signal messaging app, wrote a widely shared piece called …
:It’s the time of the year that we Germans call “zwischen den Jahren”, which means …
:Procrastination is one of the most annoying human behaviors. Even though we realize that it’s …
:Our book’s pre-release (MEAP) received two more updates since my last post. Now the missing …
:Polywork is a new term that describes the concept of choosing multiple part-time jobs or freelance …
:Path traversal attacks are a typical attack vector that compromises the security of APIs and web …
:I have news to announce regarding the book about designing APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger that …
:Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the idea that every citizen should receive a monthly sum of money …
:Racket is an exciting new social audio platform. Unlike other recently hyped real-time social audio …
:Mishka Orakzai is the founder of thiscodeWorks, a Pinterest-inspired website for developers to share …
:Dominic Duffin’s recent Interintellect salon had the title “Time versus Space: The …
:Browsers restrict API requests to the same origin domain. CORS, or cross-origin-resource-sharing, is …
:Interintellect member Dominic Duffin hosted his first salon. The topic was “Our Spaces on the …
:It’s time for another update on “Designing APIs with Swagger and OpenAPI”, the …
:Performance is a crucial aspect of APIs. Stress testing is one way to determine an API’s …
:With COVID-19 still preventing in-person conferences in most parts of the world, API the Docs …
:Making friends and staying in touch with friends are essential parts of our shared humanity. More …
:Perfectionism is a topic of interest for me, so I was pleased to learn that Anwar Al-Kandari hosts …
:My friend Clo, a user experience designer specializing in mindful design, organized a salon on …
:“What are the Personal CRM setups that different people use to make sense of their …
:On Tuesday, I hosted a meetup on the subject of Personal CRM systems. I believe that digital tools …
:One of the reasons I love APIs is that they provide technology access and empower people to build …
:Yesterday’s post on “Exploration vs. Exploitation” was mostly inspired by my …
:“Exploration” and “Exploitation” are two broad buckets for work-related …
:Stepping away from digital media for some time can be incredibly helpful, and even though I realize …
:Perfectionism is a double-edged sword. The problem is that striving for perfection is not always …
:Happy New Year! We just turned our calendars from 2020 to 2021, hoping that one of the worst years …
:When you’re testing an API, or really any kind of software, functional testing and performance …
:Another API the Docs virtual meetup took place last night, the third one of the second season. …
:API testing and API monitoring are vital parts of a successful API program, just like API design and …
:Releasing an API without any authentication is often a bad idea, but managing users and API keys is …
:The second episode of the second season of the API the Docs virtual meetup series was all about API …
:“System change, not climate change” is one of the banners you can typically see at a …
:Last night, the API the Docs community started their second season of regular virtual events. We had …
:Before the pandemic started, I used to run board game meetups frequently. One of the highlights of …
:Airtable, the spreadsheet-database-hybrid and fan favorite of the no-code community, has announced a …
:I wanted to follow up on my last post about “serial focus” and “parallel …
:It’s time to make an announcement that I’ve been holding back for a while: I’m …
:In my last post, I wrote about micro focus and macro focus, and how I feel I’m good at micro …
:In the realm of productivity, I think there are two types of focus. You could call them “micro …
:As part of CloudObjects, I’m working on phpMAE. The PHP Micro API Engine is an opinionated …
:One of my topics of interest is the future of work. I believe that digital transformation …
:My relationship with social media in general and Twitter, in particular, has been a recurring topic …
:In 2012, Evgeny Morozov wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “The Death of the …
:I’ve struggled a bit with the question of whether I should set up some analytics on my blog …
:Adam DuVander talks a lot about the idea of “signature content”. I recently published my …
:Sometimes people talk about the death of television. Who needs TV when we have Amazon Prime Video? …
:Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, wrote about API providers being API matchmakers. I believe that idea …
:The Interintellect is, according to its Twitter bio, a “global community and talent platform …
:Adam DuVander is a journalist turned developer-focused company content strategist. I recently …
:I’ve been using the Pomodoro technique for most of my work for a couple of years, which has …
:There are various formats to describe data models. One of my favorite approaches is Linked Data …
:Yesterday, I made a little experiment; the first baby step into what is known as a #DigitalDetox or …
:My primary programming language is PHP, which means that I am coding in something that 80% of web …
:I read Stephanie Morillo’s “The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation”, an …
:Last night I joined the Vonage Developer Day live stream for a single presentation, Lauren …
:One of the biggest and most unexpected news from the tech world this week was the acquisition of …
:While going through older stuff saved in Pocket, I found a talk titled “Building A Content …
:There is a lot of buzz around “no-code” tools that empower people to build things …
:It’s May 4th today. Happy Star Wars Day! In case you didn’t know why this is Star Wars …
:In my corner of the Internet (or dare I say “filter bubble”), I’ve seen a lot of …
:It’s May 1st, the start of a new month! It’s also labor day, or worker’s day, or …
:Last night I listened to an episode of the “The Future of Content” podcast 🎧 where Lorna …
:If you are a German and have been on the Internet for more than a few years, you probably remember …
:This blog you’re reading right now exists since March 7, 2018. It is a hosted microblog on the …
:Recently I heard a lot about a new software called Roam Research. According to its website, it is …
:Security is an essential aspect of API design and implementation. And while implementing proper …
:Last night I took part in the first virtual API the Docs edition, where I listened to two great …
:Meetups, events, and conferences remain canceled. That affects API the Docs as well. Just a bit over …
:The new coronavirus is slowing down public life and the economy. At the same time, however, I am …
:The API the Docs conference series is coming back to North America with an edition in Portland on …
:Let’s indulge a bit in nostalgia this weekend. I just remembered one of the websites that I …
:Last week, I’ve published a release of phpMAE and published an announcement post and tutorial …
:I finally managed to push a new release for phpMAE, my open-source PHP-based sandbox for …
:This is my first blog post in 2020, so first of all: Happy New Year! 🎇 The beginning of a new number …
:Today I came across an article by Erik Dietrich called “Learning in a World Where Programming …
:I’m happy to announce that I have launched a new profile website for my freelance consulting …
:Last night I listened to the latest @monday episode in which @macgenie interviewed @ton. It was …
:Right now, I’m sitting on a train en route to Hamburg. A friend and I have tickets for the …
:Recently I’ve encountered the term full-stack freelancer through an article by Tiago Forte on …
:My blog had been on a four-month hiatus during the summer. Since the end of September, I have …
:Good API design is important! And one of the main aspects of any good design (not just for APIs) is …
:When I recently saw the link to a petition for a Fossil Free Facebook, I assumed it was someone …
:Zoho is probably one of the most underrated companies in the tech world. They have amassed a broad …
:A software developer’s job is to write code. That’s the reason people hire them. I …
:While trying to clean out my saved content in Pocket, I came across an article by Evgeny Morozov …
:Next week it’s API the Docs time again. The API conference is coming back to Amsterdam and is …
:I just watched the 4-minute video clip from Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot in which they call for …
:After some months of silence, I’m returning to my blog. And I want to talk about one of the …
:I received an email from Holvi, who provide me with my business bank account. It was a notification …
:I’ve talked and written a lot about the importance of good API design. Now, in my latest guest …
:The Entrepreneur University 2019 Founder Summit On the past weekend, I attended the Founder Summit 2019 in Wiesbaden. Entrepreneur University, led …
:Speakonf 2019 On Saturday I attended the first SpeaKonf in Darmstadt, an unconference specifically for conference …
:After explaining the difference between APIs and microservices in an article for the Stoplight API …
:I’ve observed that sometimes people use the words “API” and …
:Thank you for your interest in my talk Specification-driven API with OpenAPI! I have now uploaded …
:Tonight I will be at the bits, bytes & bier #3 meetup in the FinTecSystems office in Linden near …
:Thanks to everyone who was at my talk Specification-driven API vs. Technical Writers. If you want to …
:I’m at this year’s tekom conference and fair, also known as tcworld18, and I’m …
:I’m on a train right now on my way to London. I’ll be attending the API the Docs London …