chrisfrew.in VS manuel.kiessling.net

https://chrisfrew.in

I try to focus on software and everything I've encountered through projects throughout my software career, but often a general post about thoughts on life / software in general sneak in here & there.

My goal is always to share real world examples and code snippets, instead of the 1,000th iteration of the todo app.

If you check out the repo for my blog, you'll see that I have a folder with each snippet actually as a normal code file in it's own language (.py for python, .cs for C#, .ts for TypeScript, and so on). As we'll see by the end of this post, I actually import each of these files as a raw string and then syntax highlight them using the prism-react-renderer library.

https://manuel.kiessling.net

Some personal favorites:

Applying The Clean Architecture to Go applications (2012):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/09/28/applying-the-clean-a...

Object-orientation and inheritance in JavaScript: a comprehensive explanation (2012):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/03/23/object-orientation-a...

Why developing software without tests is like driving a car without brakes (2011):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2011/04/07/why-developing-witho...

Tutorial: Single Page Applications with a Serverless Backend and Infrastructure as Code (2021):

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl...

https://manuel.kiessling.net

Covers topics on architecting, building, deploying and running software and systems for the web based on open source tools with lean methodologies.

Sorry, that's not minimalism. gwern.net isn't either; I'd call that "brutalism" instead.

THIS is minimalism: https://manuel.kiessling.net

Precisely in the sense of "NOT a lot going on at all times". Just the content, presented pleasently.

And importantly, it's not only minimalism in look-and-feel, but also technically: even a long post with an embedded image like https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl... weighs in at under 200 KiB. Loads in under 3 seconds even on "slow 3G" in Chrome. 362 milliseconds via my office's wifi.

Also, no JavaScript. Nothing moves or jumps. Perfectly usable and consumable in a CLI browser like Lynx.

All of that without looking brutalist.

It’s also a great extension of a CV, at least I see my https://manuel.kiessling.net blog that way.

I have a very oldschool "FTP webspace" with Ionos (from 1&1) - it's really just your run-of-the-mill static website hosting package, basically unchanged since the late nineties.

Well, it surely changed a lot under the hood from the provider's perspective, I assume, but from the user's perspective, it works as it has always worked: you have a domain, you have an (S)FTP account, you upload your static HTML/CSS files, et voilá, you have a homepage/blog.

I create my HTML/CSS locally using Hugo. The source for my homepage and its blog posts can be seen at https://github.com/manuelkiessling/manuel.kiessling.net.

Super simple, no headaches, no downtimes. Less than 4 bucks per month.

I do depend on Ionos, of course, but as it's only HTML and CSS, it with every web site hosting solution on the planet.

I also depend on Hugo, of course, but Hugo is open source, and I've even stored the Hugo binaries for different platforms locally.

My homepage is at https://manuel.kiessling.net/.