My mother Heide Berndt was a professor working in sociology and architecture. I set myself the task to digitize some of her texts. This article documents my experience working with specific free and open source software. Here are the steps I took to create an e-book from a physical source…

Think global, act local. Be the change you want. Here is my list of dos and don’ts for a more sustainable living. Do my tasks have any impact? Where do I stand compared to others? Are we as a society on the right track? Some context: I am a 45+…

SUBJECT: Snail mails without consent, I want to be forgotten! — Dear Vodafone, I have been receiving these postal mails from you on a regular basis:

The end is near! At least for PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0. Why update? Why is there so much old PHP out there? How to establish an up-to-date mindset. This is a long read, including backgrounds, philosophical questions and trivia on the topic. Do not expect code examples. Why upgrade to PHP 7.2 anyway? It’s about…

I have been playing around with MacOS Mojave’s dark mode lately. It’s not 100% pleasing to my eyes, yet. But it’s especially useful when nerding out at night time with little ambient light. Dark mode is a design trend. Many reading applications (Medium App, Twitter …) have it already. …

So, the correct title here would be: “Should I use CSS Custom Properties or variables from a CSS preprocessor such as SASS, LESS or Stylus? Use both!” Motivation I see some hype about CSS Vars lately, which I like, because I am the biggest fan boy here. But I also read…

Teutonic CSS is my recently published CSS framework. Yes —crazy —yet another CSS framework. Anyways. Teutonic CSS incorporates two similar content iteration grid systems. One is based on CSS Grid and the other is based on Flexbox. They have overlapping features, yet they are different. And, I believe, it makes…

C in CSS stands for Cascading. While sometimes it is desired to share certain style attributes across elements, this implicit inheritance can become a nightmare. CSS beginners fight with this. And it still bothers me after years of CSS authoring. Is there a master-recipe? Let’s explore: Problems Style interference happens on…

I am currently writing a CSS framework. Am I crazy? Sanity check! Missing with others There are at least mature 100+ CSS frameworks out there. Let’s have a look what’s missing, perhaps: 1st Gen: Bootstrap & Foundation I loved Bootstrap, I discovered LESS and a whole lot more with it. Both, Foundation and Bootstrap are great eco-system with…