A beginner’s guide to building Node apps and automating tedious tasks with Express and Puppeteer. This article is a little showcase for the capabilities of Puppeteer and a tutorial how to quickly implement it in a Node app. It’s based on a problem I had the other day when trying…

TL;DR: 1. you are not a single contributor, 2. making mistakes is great if you make sure to learn from them, 3. meetings are only good if they aren’t bad, and 4. excellent and horrible managers, both, leave nothing to be desired for when they leave. This article is meant…

How shared urban housing can be revolutionized through digital product design — When we talk about digital products, we mostly think of video games, mobile apps, and tools which give us access to content — namely Spotify, Youtube, or Medium. We seldom consider that digital products can also serve as a support function for everyday life processes. Working can be digital. Training…

Conquering the space of numbers - is the first part of a series I’m putting together about the evolution of machine interfaces and their design throughout time. It is based on notes collected during a research I did before starting to work in software development, studying social anthropology at Goethe…

This essay goes out to all those who decided to jump on the developer bandwagon a little later than most of their peers. Maybe you’ve just created your first `index.html` file and are interested in what professional software development looks like. Maybe you’ve just landed your first job in web…