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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Image Compression Utility: Squoosh

When working with images on web applications and websites optimising images and reducing their download size is a quick win in terms of optimising page and app load times. There are plenty of image compression utilities out there - both web apps and tools for local installation. Recently, I've tried out several of those again because I wanted to reduce the overall load time of this website and according to website audit tools such as Lighthouse image sizes definitely was an area ...

Latency by The Radiophonic Workshop

On the 22nd of November, the electronic music pioneers of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop (of "Doctor Who" theme music fame, amongst others) performed a unique piece of music called 'Latency', in which they make clever use of network latency to create a musical loop. Each of the musicians involved sequentially played his part in a loop. The result then was sent via the Internet to the next musician at another location, who in turn built upon what had been played until ...

Sunday December 13th, 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Music, Web

Reprise: Petro Salema – Storyteller Extraordinaire

Almost five years ago I wrote about a talk given by Petro Salema at that year's edition of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf: Petro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf 2015 A common advice given regarding talks and presentations, especially ones of a more technical variety, is to not just talk about technical details but to tell a story. While this piece of advice is good and well-intentioned it's not usually exemplified or specified in any more detail. Steve Jobs is ...

Sunday April 12th, 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applications, Software, Web, Web Applications

Raymond Camden @ Fronteers 2019: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Raymond Camden - It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday January 12th, 2020 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Rachel Andrew @ Fronteers 2019: Who Designed This? Where Web Platform Features Come From, and How to Get Involved

Rachel Andrew - Who Designed This? Where Web Platform Features Come From, and How to Get Involved from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday January 5th, 2020 by Bjoern in Web

Jeremy Keith & Remy Sharp @ Fronteers 2019: How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

Jeremy Keith & Remy Sharp - How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday December 29th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web

Paul Lewis @ Fronteers 2019: Custom Web Shadow Elements, or Whatever

Paul Lewis - Custom Web Shadow Elements, or Whatever… from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday December 22nd, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web

Peter Müller @ Fronteers 2019: High Performance Web Fonts

Peter Müller - High Performance Web Fonts from Fronteers on Vimeo.

Sunday December 15th, 2019 by Bjoern in Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

HTTP and REST Standards, Protocols and Headers for More Secure and More Robust Applications

Standards.REST is a website that helps you create better, more robust HTTP- and REST-based applications by providing an overview of existing, proven standards that allow you to build on existing solutions rather than re-invent the wheel yourself. The list of standards mentioned includes OAuth 2.0, the HTTP Caching standard and Application-Level Profile Semantics (ALPS), which - among others - is used extensively in Spring Data REST and Spring HATEOAS. On a closely related note, Stefan Judis published an article on HTTP headers ...

Sunday September 29th, 2019 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web, Web Applications

Data, Design, Code – Shirley Wu @ beyond tellerrand 2019

Data, Design, Code - Shirley Wu from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo.

Sunday September 1st, 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web

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