I turned 40 today and felt like writing down a list of things I learned along the way. Some of it might be redundant, some of it is as melodramatic as a “carpe diem” motivational poster, but hey, I enjoyed writing it and you don’t have to read it. So without further ado, here are 40 things […]

Hey there Hope you all have a great weekend. Despite this being a shorter week after the Easter break, I felt quite productive and lots of different projects are finally moving in the right direction again. More on that later. But first: here are a few things I found worth reading. Open Web Endgame Anil […]

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either A very interesting and entertaining article about how Anthropic builds Claude and shapes its “personality”, with lots of anecdotes and insights into their work. It also explains some of the basics about how LLMs work (as far as we know) and where/why they differ from traditional software. It’s […]

Hello 👋 A few of the things I’ve read and found worth mentioning this past week. A broken heart 💔 An interesting read about finding a bug in Safari that was slowing down a site by 10x just by using an emoji font. Allen Pike – A Broken Heart On AI bubbles popping 🎈 A lot […]

Hey friends Hope you are well. Last week we were in Sedrun for a few days, Skiing and Snowboarding with the Family and Friends. We had some snow, but looks like we missed the real deal which started coming down exactly from the day we left. We had a fantastic time anyway and it was […]

Hi there It’s been a while, but I’m getting back on track again. I hope you all had a good start into 2026! Here are some things I found noteworthy to start off into this new year. FAIRs Security Architecture The more I read about FAIR the more I like it. Here’s a more in-depth […]

Hey there We’re heading down to Ticino today for a week’s vacation with the family. Looking forward to getting out of town for a bit. Here’s a few things I found noteworthy this week. Nothing is truly random Love these security analyses by Tim Nash. This time about wp_rand() to generate random numbers. Tim Nash […]

Hey 👋 Hope you had a great week! Here’s a few of the things I’ve been reading the last few days. Where’s the AI design renaissance? Erik Kennedy from “Learn UI Design” takes a look at why we still haven’t seen the anticipated big AI revolution when it comes to design, that will render all […]

Hey 👋 Hope you had a good week. Here’s some interesting things I’ve read. Nemawashi in Engineering I never heard of Nemawashi before, but it sounds like a good idea. Matt Hodgkins – Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering WebKit Features in Safari 26 Some good stuff coming to Safari with version 26. […]

Hi there ✌️ Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s what I’ve been reading last week. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work Love this piece about doing the simplest thing that could possibly work when designing software (or anything, actually, but in software development it’s particularly cheap to introduce complexity). It also reminded […]

Hey Another week, another round of interesting links. Visual Journalism at NZZ A very interesting look at how visual storytelling is done at NZZ, and where most of their time is spent to create pieces like these. Nightingale – Why Visual Journalism Is So Slow WP Fusion AI We met Jack at WordCamp Europe in […]

Heya Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content Andy Clarke shows how to make a design more interesting with images in long-form content. Some great examples. CSS Tricks – Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content Accordion Block is coming to Gutenberg The block editor is getting an Accordion Block soon. Finally! make.wordpress.org – What’s new […]

Hi I want to get into the habit of publishing this list more regularly going forward. To make that a little easier, I’ve decided to write less, limit myself to 5 links and hit publish each Friday again – at least for a while. Let’s see how this goes. Reimagining Fluid Typography Miriam Suzanne is […]

Hey there The past two weeks or so I spent a lot of time tinkering with Obsidian, thinking about how to structure my note-taking and make it fit the way my brain works. I found a system that works very well so far (for me) and already ported over more than 700 notes and thoughts […]

Hey there This marks the 100th time I publish this little list of mine, which sounds like a lot, but then again, not really considering I started almost four years ago. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed reading some of these and maybe even learned a thing or two. I certainly did collecting them. On to […]

Ever since I last redesigned this site, I intended to add a dark mode to it. I even had a design semi-ready under the hood but then never really got around to finally implement it. A while ago, I stumbled upon this post by Richard Rutter and he touched on a lot of the things […]

Hey there It’s getting warm in Switzerland this week, with temperatures about to climb to 33-35°C until at least Wednesday. Not sure how normal these temperatures are for June, even though I personally like it a lot. In other news, they are adding an additional floor to the building our office is located in, which […]

Hello Hope you all had a great week! We had some phenomenal weather in Switzerland which I very much enjoyed, even though it was hot. We worked mostly on client projects this week, but did also get a little bit of planning for our next picu releases in as well. Also, I’ve been reading through […]

Hello world After our trip through Italy in April, there was a lot going on in May and I just never really got back into the habit of writing. But here we are again. Client projects have been finished, WordCamp happened and was a success and for picu we just released our long awaited e-commerce […]

Hello friends I finally found some time last night to finish compiling and editing this list with some of the things I’ve been reading the past two weeks or so. Enjoy! 🦊 Ethan Marcotte’s redesign Ethan Marcotte shared a few thoughts on the newest redesign of his own site, which I like a lot. Ethan […]

Hey With temperatures well above 10° C this Saturday, we enjoyed what felt like the first spring day in Switzerland, which was very nice. Hope you all had a great weekend as well! Here’s some articles I found interesting last week. 🔥 New Front-End Features in 2025 This post is packed with “new” front-end features […]

Hello friends The news coming from all sides, make it very easy to feel helpless these days. For me, one coping mechanism to try and stay somewhat sane has been to find things where I can be helpful, even if “only” to one person or in a very small way. Another has been to find […]

Hi Hope you had a great weekend as well! To start your week well, here’s a few things I’ve read. 🙌 Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web! Harry Roberts reminds us about the true costs of using huge frameworks, or loading hundreds of kilobytes of JS just for a […]

Hey there I hope you had a good week – despite everything that was going on. We had half our family sick at home for a good part of the week which made it pretty chaotic. On the other hand, it made not getting sucked up too much in the world news a little easier. […]

Hi This week I took a day off to visit a circus lesson of my son and then spent the afternoon looking at dinosaur bones, which was awesome! Other than that, I didn’t feel all too productive, but we made some good progress on our upcoming e-commerce feature in picu and I managed to finally […]

Hello 👋 Another week, another (short) list of things I’ve read. Let’s dive straight in. Design / Development 🎠 A pretty wild media query Adam Argyle needed a solution to position two scroll buttons inside a carousel when space is tight, or outside if there’s enough room. He achieved this with a pretty wild container […]

Hey there 👋 I hope you all have a fantastic start into this new year! We spent a few days up in the mountains with the family and some friends. Cooking, eating, snowboarding, teaching my kids to ski, some board games and not much else to do. It was absolutely lovely and a much needed […]

Hey again ✌️ It’s been a while since I posted one of these lists. Shortly after the last one, my motivation & energy kind of tanked and I started to feel burned out and just didn’t feel like it. Fortunately, saying no to almost everything for two months worked wonders to get back on track […]

For the past week or so, I gave Claude.ai a try and wanted to see how I could use it for a variety of practical tasks in my daily workflows. Here's what I found, so far.

Hi I spent this week dabbling with some custom block development for picu, where we want to replace our old shortcode to display a list of galleries with a custom block. I’m still far from feeling at home in react, but I finally made some progress and got the basics working this week. Also, the […]