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Changing your footer’s year is a thing of the past

How you can automate updating the year in your footer, only with a few JavaScript lines. I am still seeing Blogs and Onlineshops with an outdated year in the footer. This looks unprofessional and hurts trusting the website. If someone can’t manage their footer, is it safe to provide my data? Here is a little… Continue reading Changing your footer’s year is a thing of the past

My Favorite 3 GitHub Chrome Extensions +1

There are now over 137.000 extensions available on the Google Chrome Store. Among those you will find several neat extensions for GitHub that will let you browse repositories faster online. Here are my personal favorites I want to share with you: 1. Explore the file tree structure of repositories The Gitako extension will boost your… Continue reading My Favorite 3 GitHub Chrome Extensions +1

Chrome Extension Components: A brief overview

Do you like to write a little chrome extension? Perfect, there is a big variety of chrome APIs you have access to. However, every extension´s component has specific advantages and limits. If you already started and used the components for the wrong purpose you might see one of the following errors. The solution is to… Continue reading Chrome Extension Components: A brief overview

Django: How to synchronize the database of different environments

If you work with multiple environments and have separate databases you probably want to synchronize your databases at some point. Django automatically creates migration if the scheme changes and you can manually create data migrations. However, if you do changes in the admin panel, those migration files are not generated automatically. In the following, I… Continue reading Django: How to synchronize the database of different environments

Mermaid: How to create diagrams and charts in Markdown

With Mermaid, you can embed diagrams directly into your Github repository without installing anything. Until recently, I used to create state diagrams and visuals of some processes with Sketch. Simply to have a better overview and understanding of some processes and how I can optimize them. However, I found out about Mermaid: A JavaScript package,… Continue reading Mermaid: How to create diagrams and charts in Markdown

Easily refresh all your POP3 E-Mail accounts linked to Gmail with a bookmarklet

A missing feature in Gmail is that you cannot refresh your linked email accounts conveniently. It seems to bother the community as you can see here and here on Google, and here at stack exchange. You can speculate that Google doesn’t like that feature, maybe thinking people will use their Gmail account or switch to… Continue reading Easily refresh all your POP3 E-Mail accounts linked to Gmail with a bookmarklet

Creating a Hamburger Menu Navigation with React and Material-UI 5

How you can easily build a React-based hamburger menu navigation with the UI library Material-UI v5 Going through the Material-UI drawer documentation, which in general is a great resource, I have decided to write a post to make it even easier for everyone wanting to implement the drawer. In this post, I will show you… Continue reading Creating a Hamburger Menu Navigation with React and Material-UI 5

Datamaps: How to create and customize a map with JavaScript

In 3 simple steps, you will learn how to create a map and customize it to your needs As a side project, I’m currently creating a website that should provide quick tutorials on how German citizens can get their travel visa and which options there are (visumsuche.de). For this project I needed a custom map… Continue reading Datamaps: How to create and customize a map with JavaScript

Google Data Studio: Combine Metrics of Two Data Sources (e.g. Google and Facebook Ads)

Quick tutorial on how to create calculated field in order to come up with a metric from multiple data sources e.g. Google and Facebook Ads If you’re a marketer and responsible for different channels of your company like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, it’s hard to combine them, if you don’t already have a data management tool… Continue reading Google Data Studio: Combine Metrics of Two Data Sources (e.g. Google and Facebook Ads)