There are different ways of configuring Angular applications. By default, new Angular projects are set up to store configuration in the code. But there are other approaches worth considering, especially once you start building larger projects.

Imagine you have multiple frontends and libraries that access the same firebase project and the same firestore database. The general approach to this would be to either create one repository per frontend/library or create a big monorepo with all the code (eg. with npm workspaces). Having seperate repositories means more fragmentation, more dependency management and having no central place for your firebase configuration (unless you also make a seperate repository for that, but that feels quite overkill IMO…).

Two weeks ago I played around with Svelte and Supabase to create Samsboard, a minimal virtual post-it board that helps you get a great overview of everything that’s going on in your life

I have many things going on in my life that I want to keep track of. To get organized, I could obviously just use a whiteboard, an agenda or any of the bazillion tools and apps that exist for this exact purpose. But I could also increase the app count on the market to a bazillion + 1 🤔

Privatsphäre ist eine Grundlage der Menschenrechte. Sie sollte der Standard sein, nicht die Ausnahme. Aber leider ist das nicht mehr der Fall. Alles, was irgendwie geht, wird überwacht, gespeichert und für manipulative Zwecke verwendet. Ich finde, dagegen sollten wir uns wehren. Ein einfacher aber wichtiger Schritt, den wir machen können, ist auf die Verwendung von WhatsApp zu verzichten.

This is a short summary of the talk How to think by André Staltz. He compares the human thinking process to the one of a computer and explains some tips on how to come up with good ideas. Nothing too ground-breaking, but I still thought I’d write it down because I like the brain-computer analogy (and their vast differences).