My website has a /uses page now! Check it out if you’re interested in the gear and (software) tools I’m using. In the future, I might add more details and even photos of my desk setup.
The concept of a /uses page is quite popular among developer websites, and many people are having one nowadays. You can check out uses.tech to find a list of other people’s pages.
This blog is now connected to the Fediverse! This and all future blog posts will be posted there. Feel free to follow with your favorite ActivityPub/Mastodon client. My favorite web client is probably Elk: https://elk.zone/@blog@herrherrmann.net
Props go to the WordPress ActivityPub plugin.
A few days ago I released a new EP as bm_128 called “A New EP in 2023”! This release focuses more on the post-rock genre, and the electronic aspects are a bit deemphasized this time.
It’s available on all kinds of streaming platforms: Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, SoundCloud, and others! Here’s a handy overview to see all available platforms: https://album.link/i/1721727147 – And you can also download it for free right here on the music page.
Enjoy! 🎵
I’ve recently released my first browser extension: Omnivore List Popup! It’s available for Firefox and Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers, like Vivaldi).
In the past, I’ve been using Pocket for temporarily storing pages (as a read-it-later tool). Recently, I switched to the open-source app Omnivore. But there was one problem: I really missed using my favorite browser extension In My Pocket, which is only available for Pocket’s API. So, I built my own extension to replicate my favorite functionality from In My Pocket for the new Omnivore platform!
So far, I’ve received good feedback from the Omnivore community, and I’m a happy user among a few other users (according to the extension stats)!
As always, you can find my source code on GitHub: https://github.com/herrherrmann/omnivore-list-popup/
A few days ago, I published my first npm package: react-mini-charts!
As the name suggests, it’s a small library of chart components for React. So far, there are only two charts available: a simple bar chart with labels and a pie chart (without any labels or legend). The bar chart component is an adapted and cleaned-up version of a component I’ve used for landing pages in the past. It’s basically just a bunch of styled HTML. The pie chart component is brand new and the first SVG-based chart in the library!
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