2023-05-09: AMP was, in many ways, a step backward for the web. […] But it was fast. And to Google, that was all …

2023-05-09: Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, …

2023-05-07: Vienna, 07.05.2023

2023-04-04: Roughly three months ago I stopped smoking and this means I saved some money, which I used to buy …

2023-03-27: Recently I discovered some new Austrian artists I like and thought I share them: …

2023-03-26: Lola Marsh at Flex, Vienna

2023-02-25: Finished reading: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 📚

2023-02-16: Morzinplatz, Vienna

2023-02-14: How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the …

2023-02-08: Rather than feel impotent and useless, you must come to terms with the fact that as a human being …

2023-02-07: ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes …

2023-01-29: 📝 New blog post: Effective Remote Work by James Stanier (2022)

2023-01-29: 📝 New blog post: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner (2022)

2023-01-29: Table tennis

2023-01-26: I’m preparing a job posting at the moment and I’m going to replace every instance of …

2023-01-17: Finished reading: High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove 📚 However influential and innovative …

2023-01-11: 📝 New blog post: My Favorite Albums of 2022

2023-01-11: Trash

2023-01-10: Your personal website is a place that provides immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to …

2023-01-08: Finished reading: RCE by Sibylle Berg 📚

2023-01-08: A foggy day at Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna

2023-01-08: Nibelungenbrücke, Linz

2023-01-06: Exactly five years ago. There was still snow back then.

2023-01-06: 📸 New blog post: Budapest in December

2023-01-06: Sometimes you discover a band through the news of their breakup. Today that would be For Tracy Hyde.

2023-01-05: Inner City, Vienna

2023-01-03: And lastly my top track of 2022 was Cellophane (Brain) by Middle Kids, followed by Working for the …

2023-01-03: The top album was Laurel Hell (Mitski), followed by Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Big …

2023-01-03: In 2022 the artist I listened most to was Angel Olsen. Followed by Mitski, TORRES, Japanese …

2023-01-03: Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you’re not a language model …

2023-01-01: Altes AKH, Vienna

2022-12-25: 📝 Book Report 2022 florian.ec/blog/book…

2022-12-25: Towards the mountains…

2022-12-16: A quick walk before midnight to get my steps in

2022-12-13: No surprises here:

2022-12-12: First snow day in Vienna…

2022-12-09: There is no bad weather…

2022-12-07: Finished reading: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner 📚 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2022-12-04: Zola Jesus at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

2022-12-04: Anika at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

2022-12-04: Dlina Volny at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

2022-11-28: New Twitter will be hostile to anyone queer, or non-white, or slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan. …

2022-11-28: If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an …

2022-11-27: I thought people were joining, but no, you are actually fighting against a car, not a car Pokémon in …

2022-11-27: My first shiny in Violet

2022-11-27: Finished reading: The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3) by Hilary Mantel 📚 Like …

2022-11-25:

2022-11-25: They are here!

2022-11-24: I’m horny for backpacks all the time, but Black Friday week is the worst.

2022-11-20: Classic

2022-11-20: I‘ll reached the first town and already caught 13 Pokémon in Violet. Looks like there will be more …

2022-11-19: First winter walk of the season ❄️

2022-11-19: The new Weyes Blood album is chefskiss weyesblood.bandcamp.com/album/and…

2022-11-19: Klimaticket year number 2 starts now

2022-11-18: Hey Fuecoco 👋

2022-11-18: Nintendo sent me an email that the physical copies of Scarlet & Violet will not arrive today. …

2022-11-18: They are not cool. They are not sexy. But they are an essential tool to save gas when you live on …

2022-11-18: I haven’t heard anything since the order confirmation and the tracking link is not leading to a 404 …

2022-11-17: The plan was to finish the Pokédex in all the other games before Scarlet & Violet are released …

2022-11-16: 🔗 Marie Kondo your software stack with open source by Mike Melanson Some great points on keeping …

2022-11-12: Going for Punsch for the first time this year.

2022-11-07: Good Morning. VIE ✈️ BCN

2022-11-06: Oh boy…

2022-11-03: I will be today and tomorrow at LeadDev in Berlin.

2022-11-02: Oh hai Berlin. It’s been too long…

2022-11-01: 10.000 steps. 3 years.

2022-11-01: Look what I made:

2022-10-30: So this happened.

2022-10-29: 🔗 Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech …

2022-10-28: 🔗 Welcome to hell, Elon by Nilay Patel

2022-10-28: The center of Vienna knows neither climate nor energy crisis. Restaurants are happily heating …

2022-10-27: Finished reading: The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy 📚

2022-10-12: I saw Efterklang at Theater Akzent, Vienna yesterday. It was the first concert of their tour and …

2022-10-05: 🎸 Angel Olsen at Wuk, Vienna

2022-10-01: Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚 Wow. This was perfect.

2022-09-27: Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 📚 Vacations are for reading.

2022-09-26: Finished reading: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚 A week in between new episodes of The Rings …

2022-09-16: They look a bit bored at the Huawei store today.

2022-09-15: I love the new color backgrounds on the Modular Apple Watch face. Instead of trying to simulate the …

2022-09-14: Maps in iOS 16 still does not have cycling directions for Vienna. ☹️

2022-09-13: “Queen Elizabeth II – a role model for startup founders?” Okok.

2022-09-12: The Arrogance of the Anthropocene by Peter Brannen

2022-09-11: I played around with Stable Diffusion last night and this still haunts me.

2022-09-10: I sign up to new services using FastMails Masked Email feature. Now I receive emails like this:

2022-09-10: Running errands on my bicycle and the clouds are looming dark behind me.

2022-09-06: Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? Interesting approach. When writing CSS with defaults in …

2022-09-06: This is neat. A map that shows how far you can travel by train in 5 hours across Europe …

2022-09-02: It’s the time of the year where every day I wear a jacket when going to the office and every day I …

2022-09-01: Today I got my hair and beard shaved professionally for the first time ever. Doesn‘t look very …

2022-08-31: Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚

2022-08-30: A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno? TLDR: Competition is good, even …

2022-08-29: The web is a harsh manager Dave Rupert on the increasing demands of the frontend.

2022-08-28: 👨‍💻 I released a new minor update for @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. v3.0.1 fixes the engine …

2022-08-28: When buying software you are also paying for the developers vacation time, sick leave, care leave, …

2022-08-28: Apparently I’ve become the kind of person who irons their shirts on a Sunday morning.

2022-08-26: Bright Eyes at Arena Open Air, Vienna

2022-08-21: The results of three hours of foraging in the Styrian woods:

2022-08-19: Later today I will spend three hours in a train and I forgot my book at home 😭

2022-08-13: Living the aperativo life

2022-08-09: Software architecture does not always solve technical problems. Micro-services and micro-frontends …

2022-07-02: Sundown in Piran, Slovenia.

2022-06-24: The best part of my job as a manager is telling people that they got a raise they haven’t asked for.

2022-06-24: I finished reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. A sad, but beautiful historic novel …

2022-06-13: 📸 New blog post with photos from my trip to Trieste in May florian.ec/blog/trie…

2022-05-31: Watched the first episode of Prehistoric Earth on Apple TV+ and this is so well made. Perfect …

2022-05-25: Klarna used a prerecorded video message to lay off 10 percent of employees Filed under Classy.

2022-05-20: How it started: I want to play a sound effect during a video call How it ended: I have an …

2022-05-19: When a Google Meet preview page is open in the background, the sound quality of the music I’m …

2022-05-17: The Smile at Gasometer, Vienna

2022-05-09: I received my Mark Two. Such a nice pen, the magnetic snap is glorious.

2022-05-03: I’m going on my first ever business trip to visit my colleagues in Barcelona 👔🏖

2022-05-02: Lola Marsh at Arena Wien

2022-05-02: From last Saturday: Julien Baker live at Arena in Vienna. My first concert in months.

2022-04-23: 📝 New blog post: Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy

2022-04-23: After nearly 20 years 🚭

2022-04-23: Released a new version of remark-images, my responsive images in Markdown plugin for remark. It now …

2022-04-21: Prism Music is a music player for iOS that can be connected to Plex and Apple Music. This is exactly …

2022-04-16: Accidental Charmander

2022-04-16: I listened to the new live album from Zola Jesus and I miss live concerts so much. I was supposed to …

2022-04-05: The quaking of the duck is a nice change from the pigeon sounds we normally hear.

2022-04-02: We got a taste of spring, but winter is not yet done with Vienna.

2022-03-30: I used this occasion to update the Apple Touch Icons for my site, but I’m still not super …

2022-03-30: 📝 New blog post: Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy

2022-03-08: FastMail and 1Password are promoting their integration of Masked Email, but it does not work for me. …

2022-03-03: I’m not sure what I should think Epic Games buying Bandcamp. Bandcamp has been my favourite …

2022-02-04: Yes! Laurel Hell, the new Mitski album is out.

2022-02-01: Today I spent an hour on optimising how CSS is generated on my blog. Saved a couple of KB by not …

2022-01-29: 📝 New blog post: Convert Audio Files to MP3 with ffmpeg in Fish Shell

2022-01-25: I was updating the categories on some of my old blog posts today in Nova and I noticed a couple of …

2022-01-25: 📝 New blog post: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (2016)

2022-01-25: After breaking my streak yesterday, I got lucky today. Wordle 220 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

2022-01-25: I still don’t like Hawkeye (the character), but we finished Hawkeye (the TV show) yesterday …

2022-01-15: Wordle 209 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ () ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ (1 partial, 1 perfect) ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 (3 perfect) ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 (1 partial, 3 perfect) …

2022-01-14: Upgraded Eleventy to 1.0.0 for florian.ec and everything worked. Nice release 👍

2022-01-14: Did another PCR test this morning. According to my email archive this is the 39th since Vienna …

2022-01-13: Wordle 208 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 (1 partial) 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ (2 partial) ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ (2 partial) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (Wordle done on Line 4)

2022-01-08: There is so much I love about Obsidian, but I cannot use ⌘+↑ and ⌘+↓ to go to the beginning and end …

2022-01-08: 📝 New blog post: Books I Read in 2021

2022-01-06: Released v3.0.0 of eleventy-plugin-remark, which finally supports ESM and works with newer, ESM-only …

2022-01-05: 📝 New blog post: My Favourite Albums of 2021

2022-01-04: 📝 New blog post: Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein

2022-01-04: 📝 New blog post: Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood

2021-12-23: 📝 New blog post: Like the casual blindness toward the cruelty of man

2021-12-16: Haha, there is also Pokémon to Scale.

2021-12-16: This is fun: Emoji to Scale, from Mosquito to the Sun.

2021-12-16: No surprises in my 2021 Switch Year in Review:

2021-12-07: This is great: Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the crappy custom YouTube video player …

2021-12-02: If you know me, you know me like this:

2021-12-02: Received my booster shot this morning. Not sure if I’m tired because of the vaccine or the 8am …

2021-11-26: I brought the coins I collect in my drawer to the bank… 💰

2021-11-25: Tried out the new background removal in Pixelmator Pro and it works incredibly well. …

2021-11-24: 📝 New blog post, with a clickbait-y headline: Automating Meditation

2021-11-19: The only positive thing about the lockdown is that it is well times with the release of the new …

2021-11-14: 📝 New blog post: On File Management Where I describe how I manage my files. One of these blog posts …

2021-11-12: A lot of applause for The Verge to update there background policy: From now on, the default for …

2021-11-09: 👨‍💻 Minor update for @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark: v2.2.2. Includes some updated dependencies and …

2021-11-07: 📝 New blog post: Kissing in the Rain by Sloppy Jane & Margot Nijhuis. The story of a happy …

2021-11-01: 📚 I swear, I bought this book before the real-life chancellor that inspired this novel was ousted in …

2021-11-01: Today I finally achieved the 730 days streak in Pedometer++.

2021-10-29: As a user I’m just happy that Safari 15.1 brings back proper tabs, but as someone who has been …

2021-10-25: Yesterday was the perfect autumn day at Pötzleinsdorfer Schlossplatz. 💯 would recommend

2021-10-23: 🔗 Radiohead put all of their albums on Bandcamp, which is my favourite way to buy music. 👏 …

2021-10-05: 🎸 Yes! New song from Mitski: Working for the Knife

2021-09-28: I started reading the Neapolitan saga by Elena Ferrante and after a couple of pages I’m already …

2021-09-24: 📸 Photos from our road trip through Tuscany in August 2021

2021-09-22: Alex and Merlin keep talking about it on Do By Friday so it was only a matter of time until I fall …

2021-09-12: This weekend I went to my first concerts since February 2020 at the Waves Festival in Vienna. So …

2021-08-01: 🎸 TORRES, my favorite artist for the last couple of years, released her new album on Friday and …

2021-07-13: 📚 I recently read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. One of these books that makes you feel all …

2021-06-30: […] recently surpassed a “strategically significant” benchmark of 69,420 active users, Musk told …

2021-06-30: 🔗 Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically

2021-06-30: Ready for my vacation.

2021-06-25: 🔗 React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application Pretty good introduction …

2021-06-17: Oh yeah. I got my vaccination appointments today. First shot on June 28. 💉💉💉

2021-06-12: I finally added a second Sonos One to my desk setup and a stereo pair sounds so much better. The …

2021-06-10: Bat For Lashes released a Livestream album, it’s beautiful and so 2021: Livestream at Home. …

2021-05-17: 🔗 A Love Letter to HTML & CSS by Ashley Kolodziej for CSS-Tricks.

2021-05-15: Girlfriend: “I need to tell you something very important… … … … … … 🎵 Back in the 90s I was I in a …

2021-05-11: Socialized streaming would not be a fix-all, but it would be a step away from a culture shaped by …

2021-05-11: 📝 New blog: Responsive SVGs with Constant Font Size

2021-05-06: 📝 New blog: JSX as Templating Language and Astro

2021-05-04: Number of Homes I will turn 35 this year and this is only the fourth flat I lived in (and the 2nd …

2021-04-28: Problem and solution

2021-04-27: 1Blocker 4 is amazing. It can block trackers in apps by setting up local network filtering. You no …

2021-04-27: 🔗 Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster by Drew DeVault

2021-04-26: 📝 New blog: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

2021-04-25: 📝 New blog post: Creating pages from data with Eleventy

2021-04-22: 🔗 The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It by Ingrid Burrington for The Reboot …

2021-04-20: 👋 Want to work with me? At mySugr we’re looking for a frontend developer. We have an awesome …

2021-04-16: 📝 New blog article: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

2021-04-14: 🔗 Embrace the Grind by Jacob Kaplan-Moss […] being able to offload repetitive tasks to a program is …

2021-04-13: 🔗 The Healing Power of JavaScript by Craig Mod for WIRED

2021-04-08: 🔗 Prescriptive software is better than descriptive software by Kilian Valkhof

2021-04-08: 🔗 NFTs Were Supposed to Protect Artists. They Don’t. by Anil Dash for The Atlantic

2021-04-06: Take a second and think about how your tongue lies in your mouth. I’m so sorry.

2021-03-25: 🔗 The mess at Medium by Casey Newton for The Verge

2021-03-24: 🔗 GPT-3 tries pickup lines by Janelle Shane You look like a stealth assassin from the clouds.

2021-03-24: 🔗 He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction by Karen Hao for …

2021-03-20: 🔗 Why The IndieWeb? by Heydon Pickering

2021-03-20: 📝 To celebrate the 15th anniversary of my Last.fm account I revisited my article on Last.fm and …

2021-03-20: Silence facilitated blame, she would decide later. In the absence of an other person’s account, the …

2021-03-20: I’ve read The Third Hotel by Laura van Den Berg this week and it’s beautiful. Confusing, …

2021-03-20: 🚀 Released @fec/remark-images v0.5.0-alpha, which adds an option to process captions.

2021-03-16: 🔗 Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by RS Benedict

2021-03-13: 🔗 Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design: look at the little details to judge …

2021-03-12: 🔗 The Future of Group Messaging by Jarren Horrocks

2021-03-11: 🔗 A Short History of Bi-Directional Links by Maggie Appleton

2021-03-08: 🚀 Released @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed v2.0.0 to ensure compatibility with Gatsby v3.

2021-03-08: 🔗 Looking Closely is Everything by Craig Mod

2021-03-08: 🔗 The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt by Memo Akten

2021-03-08: 🔗 Great idea: Bookfeed takes a list of authors and generates a RSS feed that notifies you of new …

2021-03-08: After cancelling my Setapp subscription I switched from Renamer to A Better Finder Rename for all my …

2021-03-08: 🎸 The Baddy Man by Mitski

2021-03-08: 🔗 How Web Components Are Used at GitHub and Salesforce by Richard MacManus The Tab Container Element …

2021-03-08: 🔗 Kara Swisher interviews Franz Leibowitz about technology, the pandemic and New York City: Fran …

2021-03-07: 🚀 I released @fec/remark-a11y-emoji v3.1.0, which directly includes a Gatsby plugin and deprecates …

2021-02-27: 🔗 Pokémon is a huge hit because it’s cooperative by Jay Castello for The Verge

2021-02-27: 🔗 Iceberger: Draw an iceberg and see how it will float

2021-02-27: 🎸 Julien Baker — Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead Cover)

2021-02-21: 📝 New blog post: Cache Busting with Eleventy and PostCSS

2021-02-20: 📝 New blog post: Fixing errors with AWS CLI in Github Actions

2021-02-18: 📝 New blog: My Favourite Albums of 2021

2021-02-18: 🚀 Today I released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.1.1. This release adds an option to disable rehype …

2021-02-17: I’ve been using Nova as my only code editor/IDE for the past two weeks and it’s great. …

2021-02-15: Super interesting investigation how favicons can be used to track users, circumventing VPNs, private …

2021-02-12: 🔗 The web didn’t change; you did by Remy Sharp Sure the choices might be overwhelming, but …

2021-02-12: 🔗 MacKenzie Scott’s Remarkable Giveaway Is Transforming the Bezos Fortune by Sophie Alexander and …

2021-02-11: Today the Biathlon World Championship finally started and Austria surprisingly won the silver medal. …

2021-02-09: 🎸 forwards beckon rebound by Adrianne Lenker

2021-02-09: European touring made Radiohead the band we are. Brexit must not destroy it by Colin Greenwood for …

2021-02-03: What!?

2021-02-03: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship by Amanda Mull

2021-02-03: 🎸 Julia Stone — We All Have (feat. Matt Berninger) Nice, new song from Julia Stone and a new album …

2021-02-01: I find it oddly satisfying when the months starts on a Monday.

2021-01-31: Wall decorations, 2021 Nails, yarn, N95 masks, clothes pins, Sharpie

2021-01-30: 🚀 I have released v1.2.0 of @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. This release consistently handles …

2021-01-26: 📝 New blog: Books I Have Read in 2020 A bit late to the recapping 2020 (aka the shittiest year), but …

2021-01-22: Computers don’t necessarily have to be grey or silver rectangles. Modern Retro Computer …

2021-01-20: He will leave no legacy beyond the stench of rank incompetence. The Last Day of Disco(rd) by …

2021-01-20: I really like the single from Julien Baker Hardline and the amazing video from Joe Baughman. …

2021-01-20: I think I never stopped accidentally using the previous year when writing the current date earlier …

2021-01-19: Whoa, the 7 day incidence in Vienna is slowly down towards 100 cases per 100.000 residents. The last …

2021-01-18: Jodok-Fink-Platz, Vienna

2021-01-16: When I want to watch a movie, I always go to Letterboxd first. Nice portrait in the NYT and good to …

2021-01-14: Finally a bit of snow in Vienna

2021-01-14: If I don’t turn on the heating in the morning, my apartment stays cold. Turns out.

2021-01-14: Sharon Walker: Finding time for creativity will give you respite from worries

2021-01-08: Jenny Volvovski designs new covers for books she reads and they are beautiful. …

2021-01-08: Sometimes I think a single sneeze could be the end of us I noticed this line in Dead Fox by …

2020-12-18: Zeynep Tufekci: Is It Safe to Hold a Holiday Party? We cannot guarantee the future, but just as the …

2020-12-18: Fascinating how normal people use computers fact of the day: when they need to record their screen, …

2020-12-16: Maureen Ryan: Bring Ted Lasso Energy Into Your Life!

2020-12-15: Neudeggergasse, Vienna

2020-12-11: The Correspondent will stop publishing on January 1. This makes me sad since it has been one of the …

2020-12-10: This shortcut from Federico Viticci to import screenshots from a Nintendo Switch to an iPhone is …

2020-12-10: 🎸 My album discovery of the week: Superstar by Caroline Rose

2020-12-07: Ceija-Stojka-Platz, Vienna, last Wednesday a few hours before the first snow of the winter.

2020-12-06: Amy Collier: How Dating During a Pandemic Is Like Being in a Jane Austen Novel

2020-12-05: We’re celebrating our anniversary in a classic 2020 way: Covid19 mass screening in the …

2020-12-04: Lu-Hai Liang: The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’

2020-12-03: Dave Rupert: Technical debt as a lack of understanding

2020-12-02: Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

2020-11-28: Unlocked Achievement #11 in Pedometer++. This was the hardest to achieve this year so far.

2020-11-07: Finally.

2020-11-06: Adult Alternative is a genre. Is Alternative just for kids?

2020-11-01: Yesterday I made my one year 10k steps/streak with a boom.

2020-10-31: Today is gonna be the day.

2020-10-30: Night Mode is so good. (I know, I’m a year late to the party.)

2020-10-30: New toy, my first three camera phone. November in Vienna is also the Perfect time to try out Night …

2020-10-28: I finally got Newton‘s Principia print from KroneckerWallis and it’s beautiful.

2020-10-26: 📝 Deploying a Static Website to S3 with Github Actions

2020-10-25: I wrote four blog posts this month already. I think there have been years were I have published …

2020-10-25: 📝 New blog: Firefox cannot render Source Code Pro in colour Fixed a bug on my site where the colour …

2020-10-19: 🚀 I have updated @fec/remark-images to avoid layout jumps and show a blurred version while an image …

2020-10-12: 📝 New blog: Eleventy and Responsive Images

2020-10-09: Frederick O’Brien for Smashing Magazine: Developing For The Semantic Web

2020-10-08: 📝 New blog: Testing a React file upload component with Jest

2020-10-08: Great news: At mySugr we are currently looking for a Frontend Developer. If you want to work with me …

2020-10-04: 🚀 I have released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.0.0 last night. You can now set options for Remark …

2020-10-02: Zeynep Tufekci for The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

2020-10-01: Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo on building a high-aspiring career without burnout

2020-10-01: Yanis Varoufakis for The Correspondent: How progressives could still win the 21st century

2020-09-29: This is so cool: Pixelmator Pro gets AppleScript support

2020-09-27: 🚀 I have released @fec/remark-a11y-emoji v2.0.0. It adds support for skintones.

2020-09-25: Alona Ferber interviews Judith Butler for New Statesman: Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK …

2020-09-25: I just found out you can change the color of your Memojis shirt by changing the color of the …

2020-09-19: Emily Willingham: The Condoms of the Face: Why Some Men Refuse to Wear Masks The irony is that …

2020-09-16: Alex Hope: When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s …

2020-09-16: Emily Ratajkowski for The Cut: Buying Myself Back - When does a model own her own image?

2020-09-15: I know that Yubikey is about authentication, not encryption, but it would be so awesome if Yubikey …

2020-09-15: I bought one of the new Yubikey USB-C + NFC auth keys and it works great. Unlocking Mac OS with key …

2020-09-10: The Winamp Skin Museum brings me back so many good memories of my early computer days. I wish we …

2020-09-04: Mark Serrela for CNET: The secret Avengers video game the world never got to play

2020-08-29: We went to Kirchberg am Wagram today and had some excellent Grüner Veltliner from Michael Bauer.

2020-08-28: Ana Rodrigues for Smashing Magazine: Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb

2020-08-27: Zeynep Tufekci for The Atlantic: Why Aren’t We Talking More About Ventilation?

2020-08-21: Jesse Frederik for The Correspondent: Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing

2020-08-07: I love the SoundSource update. With video calls all day it’s super handy to have the new …

2020-08-04: 🎸 Thumbs up for the music video for I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers.

2020-08-04: The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave

2020-07-19: 🚀 I finally released cocur/chain v0.9.0 It adds strong typing, three new methods and some bugfixes.

2020-07-18: Yesterday we had dinner at Hotel am Brillantengrund. Amazing Filipino food and a very cozy patio.

2020-07-17: Super Expressive: Super Expressive is a zero-dependency JavaScript library for building regular …

2020-06-28: Caroline Randall Williams for The New York Times: You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a …

2020-05-25: 🎸 I’m enjoying the new album from Diet Cig: Do You Wonder About Me?

2020-05-25: Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea by Ben Taub for The New Yorker

2020-05-18: If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a pizza, then …

2020-05-18: As I look out of my window in lockdown, my attention is fixed on these birds, rather than trees or …

2020-05-14: The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet - WIRED Fascinating story.

2020-05-10: This is incredible cool. The Pudding investigated The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment and looked …

2020-04-17: The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution | Empear 🔗 The Bumpy Road Code Smell: Measuring Code Complexity by its Shape and Distribution by Adam …

2020-04-12: I needed to get out of the apartment today. There were barely any cars, but lots of people walking …

2020-04-12: 🎸 Waxahatchee covers So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings by Caroline Polachek youtube.com/watch

2020-03-31: A one hour lunch break at home is actually exactly the same amount of time as a half hour lunch …

2020-03-30: Today I finished reading Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O‘Neil. Great book on how algorithms …

2020-03-29: We watched Detective Pikachu last night. Wow. What a weird ride. The story made no sense at all, but …

2020-03-27: 🎸 Another new release today: The Caretaker by Half Waif.

2020-03-27: 🎸 Saint Cloud, the new album from Waxahatchee is out today.

2020-03-27: On a related note: I enjoy The Correspondent very much right now. They don’t have real-time …

2020-03-27: 🔗 The Correspondent: The coronavirus is reminding us that anxiety is good – as long as it doesn’t …

2020-03-19: 🔗 Good explainer of herd immunity from The Correspondent: thecorrespondent.com/356/what-…

2020-03-18: You can clearly see on which day we were not supposed to get out anymore. On a related note: it …

2020-03-14: Yesterday the Austrian government announced that due to Corona all social life should be reduced to …

2020-03-10: 🔗 I love this kind of posts: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics

2020-02-18: I hope that the palace Bezos bought is comfortable, but I also hope it’s full of angry ghosts. Has …

2020-01-31: 🎸 Today TORRES released her forth album, Silver Tongue.

2020-01-31: I just wanted to point out to you that the scientist interviewed in this article about the effect of …

2020-01-27: There were two main reasons while I wanted to switch from Gatsby to Eleventy: 1) Gatsby loads React …

2020-01-27: Yesterday I switched my website from Gatsby to Eleventy and I am super with the results. Page load …

2020-01-10: I just found a fix for the most annoying Apple Music bug so far. When I wanted to listen to an …

2020-01-07: The first book I read in 2020 was Das Flüssige Land by Raphaela Edelbauer. An absurd take on the …

2020-01-01: 📝 In 2019 I missed by 52 books goal, but I managed to read 36. Let’s see if I can do better in …

2019-12-23: 🎸 You can listen to all 15 of my favourite albums of 2019 in this Apple Music playlist: …

2019-12-23: 📝 On my blog I have collected my favourite albums of the year: florian.ec/blog/favo…

2019-12-14: Today we released cocur/slugify v4.0.0. This release includes support for PHP 7.3 and 7.4, Symfony 4 …

2019-12-11: For some reason they dumped a bunch of snow in the center of Vienna

2019-12-08: Matthias Ott: There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been …

2019-12-04: 📝 I posted a Recap of Webclerks Community Conference 2019 on my blog

2019-11-29: I just found this picture I took a couple of weeks ago at Burgring and I miss the sunny part of …

2019-11-29: What the Web Still Is by Eric Bailey: Being a pessimist is an easy thing to fall back on, and I’m …

2019-11-26: I thought I write a short recap from Webclerks and then two hours passed and I am at over 1300 …

2019-11-26: Great article by James Scott on How to write a kickass README

2019-11-26: After Charlie Owens talk at Webclerks yesterday about the “good old days” I remembered …

2019-11-19: I am so excited about Nova, the new code editor from Panic. The previews look extremely promising …

2019-11-19: What is going on with Apple? I can see two female nipples in Apple Music today.

2019-11-14: I want to buy a hair cutter and since this is a product for men the product images naturally show it …

2019-11-14: Shit, I really like 1Password techcrunch.com/2019/11/1…

2019-11-14: Lucy Dacus released an EP with original songs and covers for 7 holidays. …

2019-11-14: 👋

2019-11-12: At mySugr we are currently looking for a Senior Web Developer in Vienna. You will be working with …

2019-11-11: I was a good steps boy last week.

2019-11-10: The new accessibility tools in Firefox 70 are super awesome. Great stuff. …

2019-10-31: From the makers of my favorite camera app, an excellent analysis of the iPhone 11 camera and its …

2019-10-29: Yes. New Torres album in January ❤️❤️❤️ twitter.com/torreslov…

2019-10-28: I want to be the Andrew Everett of Austria

2019-10-19: We went on a walk with some alpacas today 🦙❤️

2019-10-14: Well, it’s a bit foggy in Vienna today.

2019-10-13: Google: “soften butter quickly”

2019-09-26: This is weird. When I view an Apple Watch only app on iOS 13.0 I can’t buy it because it requires …

2019-09-26: I find it very nice of this toilet paper to tell me that it can be used by both man and woman.

2019-09-24: Getting the TypeScript typings for React Higher-Order Components right is super hard. It took me all …

2019-09-21: Well, it took me quite a while to figure out how to delete an app in iOS 13. (Hint: Long press the …

2019-09-19: The new album from Jenny Hval, The Practice of Love, is amazing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ …

2019-09-19: Since optional chaining is coming to JavaScript soon, TypeScript is adding support as well. …

2019-09-16: Courtney Barnett at Flex, Vienna on September 4.

2019-09-12: ✏️ New blog post: cocur/chain v0.8.0 released florian.ec/blog/cocu…

2019-09-11: I created a Gatsby plugin for my blog to publish RSS2, Atom and JSON feeds and earlier this week I …

2019-08-18: Yesterday we went for a 13km walk through Prater. Beautiful scenery and reachable by subway.

2019-08-17: Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman Women are genuinely trapped at the …

2019-08-16: ✏️ New Blog Post: Segmentation fault when building Gatsby on Netlify

2019-08-15: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

2019-08-15: Welcome to Bon Iver, Wisconsin Fantastic profile of Bon Iver in Pitchfork.

2019-08-13: Mitski at Flex, Vienna

2019-08-13: Sakura at Flex, Vienna

2019-08-11: Traunkirchen is probably one oft the most scenic train stations in the world.

2019-08-06: It is August and for whatever reason I found a Pikachu with a Santa hat.

2019-08-06: 📚 I’ve read Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy and it’s fantastic. Highly recommended.

2019-07-30: Over the weekend I finally finished the new version of my website and it’s now live. Powered …

2019-07-30: This is a great idea: Do nothing scripts. Instead of writing a checklist you write a simple …

2019-07-28: To remind me to re-read certain articles from time to time I just keep them starred in my feed …

2019-07-28: The problem is that nearly every implementation of a date picker is a barrier for some set of users. …

2019-07-27: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful

2019-07-27: Fast Software, the Best Software

2019-07-25: Since TSLint will be deprecated by the end of the year it is a good idea to switch to ESLint. I …

2019-06-30: 🙃

2019-06-02: Steak with croquettes, asparagus and hollandaise sauce for Sunday lunch 💯

2019-06-01: And What of My Wrath?

2019-05-27: 📚 While I’m waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish The Winds of Winter I read his history on the …

2019-05-27: 🎸 Oh nice, Honeyblood have released their new album In Plain Sight last Friday.

2019-05-24: Sometimes you need to take a break because you need to charge your mouse

2019-05-04: I’ve been playing the adventure mode in Smash Bros Ultimate for a few weeks now and there seems no …

2019-04-23: The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy No …

2019-04-20: 📚 I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and it was fantastic read. This story about a few generations of …

2019-04-19: Wired: 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook

2019-04-15: Loidoldgasse, Vienna

2019-04-04: We got a new fridge and I have finally found a proper place for Ron.

2019-04-04: This Giant Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries And Data By Running Hidden Video Ads In …

2019-04-02: This history of the Array.flat() function in JavaScript is a fantastic read. Yet Another JavaScript …

2019-03-29: The Most Endangered Wildlife in Every US State (via kottke)

2019-03-25: I like this post by Seth Godin about the centralisation of the internet: Clearing the table …

2019-03-20: “Good Code Documents Itself” And Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself

2019-03-18: We humans are not very good in generating random numbers. How random can you be? - Lineae ex punctis

2019-03-12: Screaming Females at Chelsea, Vienna

2019-03-12: Braids at Chelsea, Vienna

2019-03-11: It looks like we finally get an aspect ratio property in CSS. …

2019-03-11: “What the combined efforts of the Uber-for-X companies created is a new form of servant, one …

2019-03-11: A Meditation on the Open Web from WordPress

2019-03-02: China banned millions of people with poor social credit from transportation in 2018 A lot of people …

2019-03-01: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America

2019-03-01: The complete story of A New Hope in one extremely long infographic. swanh.net

2019-03-01: We Need Chrome No More

2018-12-28: Last night in Linz the fog made everything quite spooky

2018-11-29: Beautiful morning in Vienna

2018-11-11: Chvrches at Gasometer, Vienna

2018-11-11: Anger at Gasometer, Vienna

2018-11-08: Mourn at Fluc, Vienna

2018-11-05: Very foggy morning in Vienna

2018-11-05: Metric at Wuk, Vienna

2018-10-29: Laurel at B72, Vienna

2018-10-29: Polly Money at B72, Vienna

2018-10-28: It‘s Sunday evening and I am definitely not old.

2018-10-28: This weekend I finished reading The Storm Before The Storm. Mike Duncan goes through the events that …

2018-10-07: Kattus Sektkellerei

2018-10-06: The polishing in the latest update from Fiery Feeds is amazing. The apps looks and feels a lot …

2018-10-04: Yesterday I wrote a couple hundred lines of code in an hour. The last three hours I have worked at a …

2018-10-03: Philip Walton came up with a great pattern (and library) to execute JavaScript when the browser is …

2018-10-02: Graben 18, Vienna

2018-10-01: Ankerhaus, Vienna

2018-09-30: Pom Poko at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-30: Mascha at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-30: Kids N Cats at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-29: Kovacs at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-29: WWWater at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-29: False Advertising at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-28: The Blind Suns at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-28: Cléa Vincent at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-28: Pauls Jets at WUK, Waves Festival, Vienna

2018-09-24: From Thursday to Saturday the Waves Festival takes place in Vienna and I made an Apple Music …

2018-09-22: Pokémon Fusion is the best thing that I saw on the internet this week.

2018-09-22: Budget audiophile Or as I would say as a programmer: false == true …

2018-09-20: It’s always super interesting to read Apples short description of the new version of iOS, after …

2018-09-19: The intrinsicsize attribute is not yet in HTML,, but I would need it for a problem right now. …

2018-09-18: The new interface for Chrome looks really… ah… dumb.

2018-09-11: I got a MacBook Pro with touch bar at work. I don’t have any problems with the keyboard yet, but …

2018-09-11: In July my flight from Costa Rica back to Vienna was late 22 hours. Thanks to the European Union I …

2018-09-01: Rachel Nabors makes a great point for diversity in browsers css-tricks.com

2018-07-09: Waterfall in Montezuma, Costa Rica

2018-07-09: My flight from Costa Rica to Vienna is 22 delayed. I get a nice hotel, but I’m already waiting for …

2018-07-05: Red-eyed frog, Arenal Observatory, Costa Rica

2018-07-03: La Fortuna and Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica

2018-07-02: Santa Elena Reserva, Monte Verde, Costa Rica

2018-06-30: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica

2018-06-25: Santa Elena Reserva, Monteverde, Costa Rica

2018-06-24: Night Walk at Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica

2018-06-18: Arcade Fire at Stadthalle, Vienna

2018-06-18: Arcade Fire at Stadthalle, Vienna

2018-06-16: I will leave for my friends garden party as soon as I have charged my phone, watch and headphones.

2018-06-09: Genneralm, Salzburg

2018-06-03: Rambla del Poblenou, Barcelona

2018-06-03: The best things always happen at the end 🤬

2018-06-03: Bye bye Primavera Sound. That was a lot of fun 🎸🤩

2018-06-03: Lorde at Primavera Sound, Barcelona

2018-06-02: Carrer de Marià Aguiló, Barcelona

2018-06-01: Chvrches at Primavera, Barcelona

2018-06-01: Carrer de Bac de Roda, Barcelona

2018-05-30: Playa del Bogatell, Barcelona

2018-05-30: On my way to Barcelona. Primavera here I come.

2018-05-25: Preinerwand, Lower Austria

2018-05-25: I have received two kinds of GDPR emails in the last few days: 1) We’ve updated our privacy …

2018-05-25: If you are writing code that generates PDF I recommend Skim. In constrast to Preview, Skim can …

2018-05-25: Preinerwand, Lower Austria

2018-05-24: Preinerwand, Lower Austria

2018-05-23: 🔗 Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals “The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. …

2018-05-23: Preinerwandsteig, Lower Austria

2018-05-22: My allergies were really bad this afternoon and I went through tissues like crazy. I had to go out …

2018-05-18: 🎧 Today I have once again collected some great albums that came out. florian.ec/articles/…

2018-05-17: Since yesterday I am occasionally getting “Secure Connection Failed” errors when going …

2018-05-16: The bird on the Tweetbot 3 for Mac icon looks as angry as I feel when reading Twitter.

2018-05-15: I never dreamt of flying cars, my dream was screens everyone and ways to move stuff around these …

2018-05-09: “In the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., we all …

2018-05-09: Seems like messenger.com is not working when logged out.

2018-05-09: Here is a web bug I have never seen before: messenger.com does not work in Private Browsing (tested …

2018-05-08: Since the Hey Elbow Show tonight was cancelled (😢) I will spend the evening working on the new …

2018-05-08: Kapfenberg, Styria

2018-05-07: Because I have been away this weekend, my album recommendations from last Friday are only coming out …

2018-05-03: Canisiusgasse, Vienna

2018-05-01: Volksgarten, Vienna

2018-04-29: Memorial to deserters, Ballhausplatz, Vienna

2018-04-28: Maybe I move into a small Italian town and cycle around all day getting coffee and bread.

2018-04-28: 📚 I finished reading Die Hauptstadt by Robert Menasse. A novel with an ensemble cast set in the …

2018-04-28: Personally I hate Instagram Stories because they are a weird mixture of Instagram (beautiful photos) …

2018-04-28: 🎧 Once again I have compiled a list of new albums I like. florian.ec/articles/…

2018-04-27: Wye Oak at Fluc, Vienna

2018-04-27: Suno Deko at Fluc, Vienna

2018-04-26: Gumpendorfer Straße, Vienna

2018-04-26: Let the rain wash all the pollen away.

2018-04-26: 🎙 Whoa. This is a really amazing story about an unlikely bank robber. overcast.fm

2018-04-25: Fluchtgasse, Vienna

2018-04-25: I got a really pretty bicycle basket 🚲

2018-04-25: It happens rarely, but in this case I want the one from Google. Super Soaker ❤️

2018-04-25: Another Android phone, another notch.

2017-06-15: Bolzano, Italy

2017-06-15: Achensee, Tyrol

2017-06-15: Achensee, Tyrol

2017-06-13: There will be a point in the future where I buy a Nintendo Switch. …

2017-06-13: What are the rules regarding sponsored content on Instagram in the EU? …

2017-06-13: Mühlviertel

2017-06-12: Mühlviertel

2017-06-12: The internet tells me Fidget Spinners are trendy among teenagers, but so far I have seen only adult …

2017-06-08: Looshaus, Kreuzberg

2017-06-08: Ok, this Shot on iPhone ad is really good.

2017-06-08: Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears’s Instagram account What?

2017-06-02: 🎶 New Chastity Belt Album I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone is out today.

2017-06-02: 🎶 Pixx released her debut album The Age of Anxiety today. Beautiful.

2017-06-02: Remember when Googles motto was “Don’t be evil”? They have forgotten that pretty clearly. Eric …

2017-06-01: Fuck Facebook

2017-06-01: Haha. Pinboard acquired Delicious

2017-06-01: Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

2017-06-01: Great talk about immutable JavaScript from Anjana Vakil at JSConf EU. www.youtube.com/watch

2017-06-01: Angel Olsen at Wuk, Vienna

2017-06-01: I started watching season 3 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt last night and it so good. Really funny and …

2017-05-12: Palais Liechtenstein

2017-05-12: Coffee is art www.instagram.com/leekangbi…

2017-05-12: history of the entire world, i guess www.youtube.com/watch

2017-05-12: Photography tips from Apple. The tips are basic advice, but I really like the style of the videos. …

2017-05-12: New e-mail filter: Body contains “Circling back on my previous email” → Mark as Spam.

2017-05-12: Microsofts Fluent Design looks kinda cool, but also like a paper operating system designed by art …

2017-05-12: Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, Apple If it weren’t for YouTube, I would drop Alphabet third. …

2017-05-11: Lindengasse

2017-05-11: Fuck allergies.

2017-05-07: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside.

2017-05-02: Hi. 👋