Pascal Thormeier articles - 66 total
Beating annoying minigames with Java☕ - Or: How to create a smart auto-clicker 🤖🎮
Last week was slow. After a rather busy holiday season, I felt like I needed to relax a bit (pro tip:...
Coding with crustaceans?🦐 - CodeLobster IDE🦞 review
You probably know how much I like to try new things. I've published several posts about how I tried...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: A CMS written in Bash ONLY??
Here we go again. After building an image modal with CSS only (and completely neglecting...
I wrote a book on CSS Grid - Here's how! 📖💡
It's been, again, a while since my last post here on DEV. In between posts, I've been rather busy...
Use ALL the Features: How To Create a Fancy Password Input With Vue3 🔑✅
Vue 3 has brought us a ton of fancy new features. The composition API lets us create components in a...
I asked ChatGPT to draft a four-hour agile retrospective - here's how it went 🦾💬
Last weekend, I had the task to craft and hold a four-hour workshop for a group of people who have...
Throwing Around Text – Kinetic Typography Part 4: Rotating Around the World 🎡🌍
Part 4 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 5
Welcome to day 5! I think we're passt the next "line" of code, so we'll use the most liked "piece" of...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 4
Another 24 hours have passed and we're now on day 4. @manthanbhatt has posted today's most liked...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 3
Day 3! We're getting somewhere! Thanks to everyone that contributed! @sherrydays posted the most...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 2
Day 2! The response on the first post was amazing, thanks to everyone that contributed! @ben's...
dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 1
This experiment is inspired by a post on the ProgrammerHumor subreddit, where the original author did...
Create useful noise patterns with Academy award winning Ken Perlin 🏆🎲
Randomness is weird. Apart from the fact that true randomness on computers can only be achieved with...
Two years of dev.to - let's celebrate with a "Dance Dance Revolution" clone! 💃🕺🎉
Time to celebrate! Today marks my two-year anniversary on dev.to! With a total of 52 published...
Funny Hat Day! 👒🎩 How to do face detection with your webcam and JavaScript 📸🧠
(Cover image created with Dall-E mini and the caption "an AI wearing a funny top hat" - you know,...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 3: The Walking Text that follows you 🧟🧟
Part 3 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
Speed up your Vue app: The most unexpected and perhaps silliest way 🤪🚀
I was experimenting with Vue's v-model the other day. I wanted to figure out if what the Vue docs...
Use your i-moon-gination: Let's build a Moon phase visualizer with CSS and JS! 🗓️🌙
Cover photo by Flickr user Brendan Keene Ah, it is spring time on the northern hemisphere! The...
Let's have a blast of fun! How to build a Minesweeper clone for the CLI with NodeJS 💣🔍
(Cover photo by Flickr user FolsomNatural) Hands up - who has played this absolute classic for hours...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets!
Here we go again! Another one of these, and promise, you will be questioning my sanity after this...
Start and stop a llama! How to create a non-autoplay GIF web component 🎞️🛑🔥
Autoplay can be pesky. Moving things are taking away the users focus. A listicle with lots of...
5 tips for Vue beginners - stuff to get you started fast🚀
Vue is amazing. Seriously, Evan You and the community have done an amazing job with it and I've spent...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 2: Tricking gravity thanks to matter.js! 📃🛫🤯
Part 2 of my series about kinetic typography! Let's move some text around with HTML, CSS and JS! If...
Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 1: A chilly warm-up 📝 ️ 🚀
Part 1 of a new series! Let's build some kinetic typography with HTML, CSS and JS! So,...
How 1.5 years of writing posts on dev.to made me a better developer ✍️↔️🧑💻🚀
I've been here for a while now. I love the community, the people are amazing and I learned so much...
Self-built Tic-tac-toe AIs vs Human - The ultimate showdown in five rounds, from dumbed down to highly sophisticated 🥊🏆
Happy new year! We start this year with an epic showdown. Today, we'll teach a computer to play...
Remote pair programming - What are YOUR best practices? 🧑💻👩🏽💻
The certain situation the world has been in for the past almost two years has affected a lot of us...
I plowed through coding slang Wikipedia articles so you don't have to - 25 terms you probably didn't know 🍝💻
This one's going to be a tiny bit weird. Yes, it's a listicle. Yes, the title is a bit clickbaity....
Create beautiful rosette patterns with JavaScript 🖌️🌼
I mean, aren't they just beautiful to look at? I mean, look at them: Amazing, aren't...
⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS-only image detail zoom - As hacky as possible! 🖼️🔍
No, seriously, don't. We'll be hacking our way through. This will involve a lot of dirty hacks and...