About me I work as Director UI Engineering at smartclip. The web is my passion since 1996, when I developed my first website. I have a bachelor and a diploma in Computer Sciences, but everything I know about the web platform and cloud services today is self-taught. I consider myself blessed that I get to build great stuff and help others do the same for a living. When not dabbling with web and cloud technology, I’m usually playing videogames or reading books or comics. I have slightly elitist views on beer, love to travel the world with my wife & daughter and have spent most of my adult life trying to get into a regular exercising habit. I believe in a culture that allows failure, supports experiments and celebrates learnings. I do some quality freelance consulting and teaching for Web Application Development, Web Security, SaaS and Cloud Architecture and write about Web Development and Cloud Technology on my Blog and Twitter.

Latest blog posts Abandoning Wilson and migrating codepunkt.de to Astro Why I almost finished my own static site generator, Wilson, then abandoned it, and later decided to migrate codepunkt.de to Astro. Evaluation order of field initializers in JavaScript and TypeScript The sequence in which class fields initialized and parent constructors are called might not be obvious. This article explains why. How to create a self-updating GitHub profile README How to create a self-updating GitHub profile README - a new feature that allows user-defined content on top of your GitHub profile page.