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Here you can find all my articles. I write about interesting stuff I came across while working on projects or just for fun as well as small tutorials and guides. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing and researching them.

Building a local AI-powered Summarizer chat

Unlock the power of AI right in your browser! Discover how Google Chrome's Summarizer API lets you build AI-powered chats and quickly grasp article content – all locally and for free! Learn about the different summary types, how to enable the API, and the exciting possibilities for web development. Ready to dive in?

web-development

google-chrome

llm

summarizer

Published on: Sep 7, 2025
Reading time: 10 min read
Category: The Sandbox

Building an Astro Integration

After building a custom loader for Astro to load content from PocketBase, I wanted to make the developer experience even better. In this post, I show you how I built an integration with a custom toolbar for viewing and refreshing PocketBase entities, complete with realtime updates.

web-development

astro

integration

toolbar

pocketbase

open-source

Published on: Apr 6, 2025
Reading time: 16 min read
Category: Under the Hood

Yearly review: Looking back at 2024

It's time to look back at the year 2024 and see how my websites performed this time. I hope you enjoy these insights and have a great year 2025!

yearly-review

Published on: Jan 6, 2025
Reading time: 7 min read
Category: Year in Review

Building an Astro Loader

With Astro 5, you can now load content from any source using custom loaders. In this post, I show you how I built a custom loader to load content from PocketBase, how you can use it in your own projects and how you can build your own.

web-development

astro

content-loader

content-management

pocketbase

open-source

zod

Published on: Oct 6, 2024
Reading time: 15 min read
Category: Under the Hood

Integrating local AI into Rainbow Palette

Google announced a local Gemini Nano model inside Chrome that can be used by websites directly in the browser. I tried to integrate this experimental feature into Rainbow Palette to generate color palettes. Let's see how it works and how you can use it yourself!

web-development

rainbow-palette

llm

google-chrome

Published on: Jul 7, 2024
Reading time: 15 min read
Category: The Sandbox

Automatic deployment with webhooks

As a developer, I always like to automate things. One of these things was the deployment process of some of my web services. In this article I show you how I set up an automation process for these projects using simple webhooks.

web-development

webhooks

deployment

pm2

CI/CD

ntfy

semantic-release

Published on: Jun 20, 2024
Reading time: 10 min read
Category: The Sandbox

Building a modern e-learning website

Roughly 2 years ago I was asked to build a website for latin teaching material in cooperation with the department of classical philology at the university of Würzburg. In this article I want to share my experiences in building it, show you the tech stack behind it and what else was needed to make it work.

web-development

angular

pocketbase

ssr

hydration

nginx

pm2

content-management

Published on: Apr 6, 2024
Reading time: 19 min read
Category: Under the Hood

Yearly review: Looking back at 2023

In mid 2023, I started to collect some anonymous usage data on my websites. In this post, I want to share some insights on how the year 2023 went for my portfolio and also this blog. I hope you enjoy these insights and have a great year 2024!

yearly-review

Published on: Jan 1, 2024
Reading time: 11 min read
Category: Year in Review

Introduction to HTMX

A few months ago I came across HTMX and found the concept behind it fascinating. I started reading up on it, which led to a talk at FrankenJS Würzburg and this blog article. First I cover the application architecture and some other fundamentals behind HTMX. After that I will show how a simple HTMX application is build.

web-development

htmx

bun

elysia

daisyui

Published on: Oct 26, 2023
Reading time: 13 min read
Category: The Sandbox