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 insurance is $100,000 and you had $80,000 in your account, you get the full $80,000 back. If you had more than $100,000, then you lost everything over $100,000.

The trick is to divide the money into several accounts since the deposit protection always applies per account. So if you are…

MONEY

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 more comfortable.

But without us realizing it, it costs us more. The convenience of digital payments is that we don’t have to touch our money — which is the downside. We lose the sense of money and how much we have.

Anyone who has ever paid with cash knows the…

A while ago I wrote about Immutable.js in JavaScript.

Why? Because JavaScript has a little problem with immutability.
Small recap, in case you are unsure what immutability means:

[…] an immutable object is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created.
— Goetz et al. Java Concurrency in Practice. Addison Wesley Professional, 2006

When we think of immutable data structures, we often think of the const keyword in JavaScript. But spoilers: No, constdoes not generally make our variables immutable.

The immutability of const variables applies only to primitive data types.
Here is an example. …

Philosophy

He is the embodiment of the genius and madness cliche.

Nietzsche is perhaps the most misunderstood, controversial, and provocative philosopher ever. I want to shed some light on him.

The man, famous for his god is dead words, wasn’t crazy (At least not for most of his life). Instead, he was a brilliant thinker and writer with a remarkable academic career. At the age of just 24, he gave his first lecture as a professor of philosophy¹.

Yet, Nietzsche seems to be misunderstood by so many. I had the same experience at first, too. When I was 13, I stumbled…

A couple of days ago, I discovered how awesome Cloudflare is.

I used to think it only offers DDoS — protection, but I was wrong. There is a lot more stuff you can do. Hosting static pages via the Cloudflare network is one of these options. Another one is hosting serverless functions with programming languages like Go, Python, and JavaScript.

To make things easier, there are a lot of starter templates for everything you need. A special one I discovered is called Flareact — it’s a React.js-based serverless starter. Don’t ask me how to pronounce it. (Maybe Flare-act?)

To put…

JavaScript

Normal people think of nostalgia as old photos, music, or places.
On the other hand, I have been using jQuery today — after all these years & many projects. The library appeared in 2006, many years before React, Vue, and even Angular.js.

jQuery was once the linchpin of the JavaScript world. It made developing dynamic web apps much easier for us. Especially when it comes to DOM manipulation and network requests, jQuery is more straightforward.

But what about now, with the classic library? What has changed, who still uses it, and what about its popularity? Here are the answers.

So, what’s new in jQuery?

I…

Our beloved frameworks like React.js, Angular, and Vue.js have one small problem: client-side rendering of HTML through JavaScript is very costly — on top of that, it’s said to be SEO-unfriendly.

Static site generators provide a remedy. When building the production version, they render as much as possible directly into HTML, which is then available statically.

It is important to understand that the framework and all its features, such as hooks in React, are still included. Static site generators (from now on, just “SSGs”) render the facade of our site. A lot of JS code is still included.

This is…

Programming

Handlebars is a pretty helpful templating engine to build websites. It used to be very famous in the front end until the frameworks gained popularity. Now, templating engines are primarily used in the back end to render websites on the server. In this article, we look at how to use handlebars as the templating language for your Go webserver. We use Go’s super-fast Fiber framework to make things easier, which is basically Express.js for Go.

Installing what we need

First, we create a new directory and initialize a Go project in it:

go mod init

Then, we install the needed dependencies: The templating language…