Sebastian's Blog

An archive and showcase of my experiences and projects.

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9 months ago

FIRST Robotics as a University Student

My experience with helping a FIRST Robotics team as a university student

last year

Modern State Management with Tanstack Query

Recently I've been diving deeper into the wormhole of frontend state management, here are some thoughts.

last year

The Evolution of Social Media

The downfall of twitter seems imminent and open source may be the alternative

2 years ago

CSS-in-JS is dying

After seeing that the core developer of emotion admit that he no longer uses the tool I explore why it's in the decline.

2 years ago

JavaFX: Does it have a place in your modern tech stack?

Recently I've been learning JavaFX for one of my university subjects. These are my thoughts.

2 years ago

Databases With Prisma - The Ultimate Typescript ORM

How Prisma has made databases easy for everyone

2 years ago

Mantine - The Full Stack Component Library

Why I'm excited to start using Mantine for my Sites

2 years ago

Remix - A simpler solution

Building a full-stack application is annoying. But with remix it's not!

2 years ago

Remixed React Router

Remix is coming to React Router in v6.4

2 years ago

Virtualisation for Everyone with Virtuoso

Infinite scroll is rather trendy these days and with it, virtualisation.

2 years ago

The Ultimate backend with NestJS (Revisited)

How I created the ultimate backend for my personal blog with NestJS.

2 years ago

Revisiting Compilers (Snowpack, Vite and ESBuild)

Seems that everything beats webpack these days.

2 years ago

Backend NodeJS with NestJS

How I built my own node full-stack app using NestJS.

2 years ago

First Post

This is my first post on the new site!

3 years ago

Discord and It's Bots

Over the past few days I've spent time writing Discord bots...

3 years ago

Drone CI/CD

An amazingly simple selfhostable CI/CD system.

3 years ago

Frigate NVR

The future of open-source home security.

3 years ago

KeystoneJS and NextJS

Why KeystoneJS is the perfect selfhostable CMS.

3 years ago

Github Copilot. Risky or Rewarding?

Short analysis of Github Copilot.

3 years ago

Home Assistant and Zigbee

The issues and cool discoveries I've had setting up Zigbee with Home Assistant.

3 years ago

Snowpack and React

Snowpack is lightning fast but is it ready for prime time?

3 years ago

My NextJS Impressions

Recently I've been working with NextJS on some projects, here's what I think.

3 years ago

NextJS Invoice

An invoicing solution built with NextJS and Stripe.

4 years ago

TDU Website

My first public-facing project.

4 years ago

Working with Gatsby

My first larger project, built with GatsbyJS.

4 years ago

My Experience with WSL2 and Docker

Exploring the possibilities of linux + windows.

4 years ago

My 3D Printing Experience a year and a half later

Quick post describing the upgrades I have done to my 3D printer.

4 years ago

My Experience with Highschool Robotics

Figuring out robotics as a highschool student.

5 years ago

Work Experience at Microsoft

In Febuary 2019 I spent some time at Microsoft, here is what I learnt.

5 years ago

Getting my First 3D Printer

A blog post describing my experiences getting a 3D printer.