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Know where AI is a crutch and where it’s an abstraction.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

In this blog post, we explore how we can style text that we log to the console in Node.js. Some of the examples use a Unix shell but most of the code should also work on Windows.

Remember when PHP and jQuery let you just build stuff? Now we drown in Babel, Webpack, and React hydrations. Modern web dev overcomplicates everything—and why my 2014 React app is now static HTML.

Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go

One of many stories about a tech market undergoing transformation. (If you’re out there on the market, don’t lose sight of your strengths. You are awesome.)

Recently I got this DM, “Which tech stack should I learn?” “Should I use Next.js or Svelte?” “Is... Tagged with programming, javascript, beginners, webdev.

A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development

How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.

This guide will detail step-by-step how to set up a cheap and simple server to host your web apps.

Build a private, self-hosted, and extensible productivity notes-taking system using Directus and Docker - inspired by Obsidian and single-file workflows

Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.

I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.

Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.

Self-hosting teaches you how software really runs, how systems talk to each other, and how to secure, scale, and deploy real-world apps. Here's why every developer should self-host at least once.

What the docs don’t teach you, 25 years will

Through an interactive visualization, I explore web traffic patterns, bot activity, server optimizations, and the unexpected lessons learned. Including how a zip bomb helped fend off content thieves