Hello stranger! This is the personal website of Manuel Strehl a.k.a Boldewyn. I write mostly about web development and topics loosely coupled to it, but there are also posts completely unrelated to this.
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Creating colorized versions of a base icon usuallycalls for heavy Photoshop actions. Recently I created an SVG file with some simple black-and-white icons I wanted to use in an application. The file contains…
A thumbnail view of a website is meanwhile a common sight. Google has recently introduced it in its search results page, and numerous ad services offer more or less annoying tool tips with page previews.…
What are Digraphs? I really became addicted to Vim’s digraph feature. It’s a simple but elegant way to input higher Unicode by entering combinations of ASCII characters. In insert mode, you press Ctrl-K…
Die Grafik „Promote JS” in der Seitenspalte stammt von PromoteJS.com und unterliegt den dort veröffentlichten Nutzungsbedingungen. Die Grafik, die im Fußbereich der Seiten mein Benutzerprofil bei StackExchange…
When I switched from Notepad++ to Vim and MinTTY on my Windows XP machine at work, one thing I missed dearly was the context menu entry, that allows fast opening of files. Reading files from Thunderbird…
