Thoughts by Thomas Derflinger

WebAssembly defines a portable binary-code format for executable programs. It can be used to run languages that support WebAssembly in the browser. Thus, you are no longer restricted to only use JavaScript in the browser. In this article I want to show you which programming languages currently support WebAssembly.

Today the market for architectural CAD (Computer Aided Design) software is mostly closed-source and has a monopolistic structure. A few big companies dominate the market. In this article I want to lay out a vision for an alternative future of an open source ecosystem.

Systemd is great for starting and stopping services under Linux. When you want to start a Python application that uses virtualenv, you need to take special care. This article explains how to create a systemd script using the example of the open source Timetagger Python application.

Checklists can be useful tools to handle the complexities of modern life. Used by pilots and other professions handling complex tasks, checklists can also be useful for software developers. Read more in this article about a quality checklist for publishing NPM packages.

When programming applications that run embedded on a Raspberry Pi, it is often convenient to work on a more powerful machine. In this article I want to show how to edit remotely from a Mac programming code that runs directly on the Raspberry Pi. As a comfortable IDE I use Visual Studio Code.

In light of the current short supply of Raspberry Pis, I want to share information about an alternative single board computer, the Odroid N2+. The Odroid N2+ can be used to host a number of applications using Docker. Portainer makes the administration of Docker containers easy on the Odroid N2+.

When you use GitLab to host your web software development project source code, you can deploy your website to Cloudflare Pages. Normally, you would use the GitLab CI pipeline to build your website project. So in this article, I show you how to configure your GitLab CI to deploy to Cloudflare Pages.

When using Storybook in React applications to showcase and document your components, creating the Storybook file is often a repetitive task. Therefore, I want to show a quick alternative using the popular Hygen code generator.