Articles

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Enjoying the Internet again with the Fediverse and IndieWeb

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

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The 21 best StumbleUpon alternatives of 2022

Are you missing StumbleUpon? Here you can find the 21 best alternatives for the famous Web 2.0 website.

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Why I have chosen to rewrite one of my Projects from Scratch

Game Quotes is one of my oldest projects and in early 2021 I decided to pull the plug on the old version and rebuild the complete website.

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7 things to consider before starting to refactor Code

Refactoring code isn't easy. Here are 7 things to consider before starting to refactor any code.

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A List of all my favorite RSS Feeds

Inspired by a Tweet of David McKay, I decided to put together a list of my favorite blogs and magazines, consumable via RSS feeds.

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Laravel: Why eager-loaded relations weren't working in unit tests

I just had an issue with eager-loaded relations not working in unit tests. Here's how I solved the issue.

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My Predictions for the Technology of the 2020 decade

With the end of 2019 closing the 2010 decade, it's time to think about the future decade: 2020.

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A deeper look into PHP Hash Algorithms

After my first post about the current status of PHP Hash Algorithms, I did another update of the code and dived a little bit more deeper into the matter. Here are the results.

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PHP Hash Algorithms in Detail

Aren't you curious about all the different algorithms available for PHP's hash() function? Search no further, I have you covered.

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Be careful with Docker port binding

In a recent security incident I learned that you have to be very careful with binding port on your Docker setup.