How to Fix "throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event"?
npm run watch fails with a rather cryptic "throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event". Here is how I resolved it.
Hey, I'm Peter 👋
Software engineer and Maker by heart. I like to share interesting coding-related things, I've developed or discovered on the web. Besides this you will of course see regular updates on the stories behind my side-projects. If I'm slacking ping me on Twitter. A bit more about my personal background is also available, if you are interested.
Laravel: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
Older MySQL and MariaDB versions trigger this Laravel issue. Here is how to fix it.
How I force myself to work
Shouldn't you be coding? Yeah? Me too. I've been procrastinating for too long. Here is my recipe how to stop.
Laptop Life Savers
Having your laptop fan die in Corona-times is more than stressful. Even more so in a foreign country without massive supply of hardware.
Project #6: Mail Merge for Linux Bash
Solving my own pain, I've built a tiny helper to populate mails and trigger a sending through regular email services.
Project #5: Naming Tools
It doesn't need to be a commercial project every time.
What Is an Open Statistics Page and Why You Should Have One?
Sharing interesting statistics is an interesting way to drive attention towards your side-project or startup and build trust at the same time.
Should I Build My Side-project in Public?
What you need to know before starting your build.
Neat Side Projects No. 6
Side-Project Introduction: “Devlids“ is collecting art-work from developer laptops, stylish and informative status-pages with supstatus.com and “cube.JS“ is using a different approach to visualizing data
Neat Side Projects No. 5
Side-Project Introduction: Help others accessing the Tor Network using a extension, make your website faster by pre-fetching content while idling and earn money with users solving captchas.
Neat Side Projects No. 4
Introducing: An open source library to map your Google location data out, “Close my Tabs“ - a browser extension to stop drowning in tabs, “Read Shit Faster“ - a website+extension helping you to read faster.
Neat Indie Projects No. 3
Introducing: “Ecosia“ - the search-engine that plants trees, “Wavenet for Chrome“ - a browser extension to generate voice outputs, “Kimai“ - a comprehensive self-hosted open source invoicing application and more
Neat Indie Projects No. 2
Introducing: “TrackThis.Link“ - Mess around with analytics data, “Darkmode.js“ - Darkmode as a JavaScript Library, “FlatGA“ - a simplified dashboard for your Google Analytics data, and more
Neat Indie Projects No. 1
Introducing: “AskBlocker“ - an extension to block permission requests, “FullHelp“ - a self-hosted helpdesk, “Enso OS“ - an alternative Linux to elementary OS, and more
Project #4: SEO Tool Extension
Solving my own pain, I've built a little extension to access common SEO Tools quicker! Deeplinks for the win!
Getting Started on Indiehackers
Being new to a community can be interest yet also time consuming effort. Here is a guide for IndieHackers to get you started.
Side-project Ideas up for Grabs
Side-Project Ideas are great, if you have them. Here are some new one ideas for you to get inspired and maybe even build. For free of course. Check them out.
No Real Plan, No Prep, Just Launching Quickly: Random Elon
Quick and dirty fun project: Random Elon - a random Elon quote generator
How to Improve the Security of Your Netlify Site
Netlify allows you to configure how it serves your site. With this, you get the chance to improve your security and performance.
All You Need to Know about the Which Login Launch
The launch of WhichLogin went well. Here are all details you might be interested in.
How I Built My First Browser Extension
From "Damn, I created another account" to my first browser extension. The story of why and how I built WhichLogin.com
Introduction to Static Site Generators
All you need to know about static website publishing and where to getting started.
How to Use Pug on Netlify?
Pug helps you to keep your templates clean and structured. With Netlify it is set up in under 5 Minutes. Read the quick guide now and get started!
How I Rebuilt and Relaunched Startup Name Check
Different challenges came up with completely re-writing and re-launching startup name check. Read this detailed report including fears and mistakes.
Startup Name Check: Experiences of the First week
Launching a new project is always exciting. Here a summary of my first week running startup name check.