Published inAbout Me Stories·PinnedMember-onlyAbout Me — Louis PetrikFiguring out life, one idea at a time — Hi, my name is Louis. I’m 20 years old. In this post, you can find out what I do away from espresso commercials. Here is a small overview: About me Where to find me Content on various topics you might like: - Programming - Money / Finance - Philosophy / Society - Self…About Me3 min readAbout Me3 min read
Published inMaking of a Millionaire·PinnedMember-onlyWhy Rich People Have More Than One Bank AccountWhat sounds like a lot of effort is worth it — whether you are rich or not — Protect Your Money — From a Bankruptcy In most countries of the world, there is so-called deposit insurance. This insurance usually is government-sponsored and guarantees that the amount you had in your account at a bank that, for example, went bankrupt, will be fully refunded up to the amount of the deposit insurance. So if the deposit…Finance4 min readFinance4 min read
Published inMaking of a Millionaire·PinnedMember-only5 Clever Ways to Spend Less Money#1 Digital money makes us decadent — 1. Digital money makes us decadent You can buy anything almost anywhere. Thanks to modern technology, we don’t even need our wallets anymore. We can pay on the internet with PayPal, in stores with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or simply with our credit card. We don’t really need cash anymore — paying digitally is usually much…Money5 min readMoney5 min read
Aug 17Member-onlyMy Follower Numbers Are Exploding And I Have No Idea WhyIn July, I noticed more and more notifications in my Medium App. I gained new followers – that‘s what the notfications stated. I am used to this. Every then and now, somebody decides to follow me, here on Medium. But these notifications started to appear more and more. More than…Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jul 31Member-onlyHow to Use styled-components in Next.js 13And server-side render it with the app router — Hint: This article is for Next.js projects using the app router. Check out this article for styled-components with the pages router. styled-components is a CSS-in-JS library for React and can be used in Next.js too. Using it in vanilla React, the executed JavaScript creates CSS styles for the DOM elements. …Nextjs3 min readNextjs3 min read
Jul 29Member-onlyNext.js Custom Server with Node.jsFor Next.js 13 and below — While Next.js is a full-stack framework itself, it can be integrated. The custom server feature lets developers plugin their app into an existing Node.js backend. Here is how it works with Node.js and Express. The approach works for the pages router and Next 13’s new app router. We’ll go over…Nextjs2 min readNextjs2 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jun 26Member-onlyCompile JSX To Other Frameworks Using MitosisIncluding Angular, Svelte, Vue, and more — Have you ever dreamed of writing JSX components and transforming them into other framework components? Mitosis makes it possible. The team behind Builder.io is known for their projects like Qwik.js and Partytown. Now they created a framework to enable developers to transform their components. Using Mitosis, we write components very…React4 min readReact4 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jun 21Member-onlyVercel’s New AI SDK Makes Building Apps With OpenAI EasyBuilding a Next.js + ChatGPT app — Vercel just published an AI SDK for Next.js and Svelte Kit. Its aim: Making AI integrations much easier while also offering more features. Thanks to text streaming, developers can now build UIs like ChatGPT itself — with the response to a prompt streaming in, word by word. Here is how…ChatGPT3 min readChatGPT3 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jun 16Member-onlyNext.js’s New App Vs. Pages Router: A Detailed ComparisonEnding all the confusion — We placed our pages in Next's "pages" directory for years. This is about to change now. A while ago, Next.js introduced the new App Router, significantly changing how we create pages. But not only the directory in which we store our app's pages changes — but also the available feature. …Nextjs6 min readNextjs6 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Jun 14Member-onlyHow A Simple Library Can Boost Your React App's PerformanceAn introduction to Million.js — React's virtual DOM isn't that fast. But we can't get around it. If we want React, we need to stick with it, right? No, there is an alternative. Million is an innovative library for React, enabling us to replace the default virtual DOM with a faster and more efficient one…React4 min readReact4 min read
