The year 2025. Thanks to a team of fearless investigative journalists, the public is acquainted with the gruesome initiation ritual newly hired developers at a Berlin start-up had to undergo in order to earn full employee status: after a reasonably chummy welcome party (including copious amounts of booze and considerable negligible amounts of sexual molestation) they awake in an empty room (each on their own of course, to render the situation reasonably claustrophobic). Read more...

So far we have bought a domain, installed and setup hugo, setup our git repository, and setup GitHub Pages for hosting. In this final part of our main series, we’re getting to the least fun part: publishing. To get started, we’ll first go into our local clone of our repository and create a new post with the hugo new command: cd theresa-tobias.website hugo new theresa/my-first-post.md hugo will create a skeleton for our new post with some basic information in the file content/theresa/my-first-post. Read more...

In the last part of this series, we bought our domain name on Hover and installed hugo on our computer. This week, we’re looking at creating our repository on GitHub and setting up GitHub Pages. I mentioned briefly how static web hosting (preferably over a CDN) is a core part of the JAMstack experience. There are a number of static web hosting solutions out there (apart from setting up your own with your own server, etc. Read more...

Haferbrei ist ein leckeres Frühstück und niemand kann mich jemals eines Besseren belehren. Hier mein Geheimrezept für den morgendlichen Haferbrei: 1/4 Pint1 Haferflocken (besser: grobe Dinkelflocken 🤤) 1/4 Pint Wasser 1/4 Pint 3.8% Milch ODER pflanzliche Milch (selbst Oatly Barista ist geeignet) 1 Prise Salz (ja, wirklich. sogar essentiell!) Die Flocken in einen kleinen Topf geben und auf dem Herd auf größter Hitze für eine Minute warm werden lassen Milch, Wasser und Salz hinzugeben und weiter auf größter Hitze bis zum Kochen bringen (Achtung: Milch kocht bekanntlich schnell über! Read more...

I can think of three ways to build a blog off the top of my head. First, you can go to tumblr (I can’t believe tumblr isn’t dead yet), click Get Started and you’ll get a full on SaaS blog to get started blogging. Second, you can set up an instance of WordPress or ghost on your own server (physical or in the cloud) and go from there. But both of these aren’t fun. Read more...