Pascal Thormeier

Passionate full stack web developer, course author for Educative, book author for Packt, he/him. Find my work and get to know me on my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thormeier

Switzerland Joined on Jul 20, 2020 https://thormeier.dev

Education

BSc FHNW Computer Science (iCompetence)

Work

Senior Software Developer at Liip

My philosophy is to "choose the right tools for the job at hand" - that's why I'm not sticking to any language or framework I'm familiar with.

IoT, Raspberry Pi

All kinds of tech discussions!

66 posts published

297 comments written

30 tags followed

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Pascal Thormeier

Jul 21 '22

Two years of dev.to - let's celebrate with a "Dance Dance Revolution" clone! 💃🕺🎉

#showdev #webdev #javascript #watercooler

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jul 18 '22

Funny Hat Day! 👒🎩 How to do face detection with your webcam and JavaScript 📸🧠

#javascript #machinelearning #webdev #tutorial

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 26 '22

Speed up your Vue app: The most unexpected and perhaps silliest way 🤪🚀

#vue #javascript #webdev #performance

3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 24 '22

Use your i-moon-gination: Let's build a Moon phase visualizer with CSS and JS! 🗓️🌙

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #beginners

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Pascal Thormeier

Jan 8

Beating annoying minigames with Java☕ - Or: How to create a smart auto-clicker 🤖🎮

7 min read

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Pascal Thormeier

Dec 19 '23

Coding with crustaceans?🦐 - CodeLobster IDE🦞 review

#webdev #programming #review #tooling

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 3 '23

⚠️ Don't try this at home: A CMS written in Bash ONLY??

#bash #webdev #programming #donttrythisathome

14 min read

Pascal Thormeier

May 20 '23

I wrote a book on CSS Grid - Here's how! 📖💡

#showdev #css #watercooler #design

8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 1 '23

Use ALL the Features: How To Create a Fancy Password Input With Vue3 🔑✅

#vue #webdev #tutorial #javascript

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 1 '23

I asked ChatGPT to draft a four-hour agile retrospective - here's how it went 🦾💬

#discuss #ai #agile #productivity

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 25 '23

Throwing Around Text – Kinetic Typography Part 4: Rotating Around the World 🎡🌍

#webdev #css #tutorial #design

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 12 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 5

#community #opensource #programming #ruby

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 11 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 4

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 10 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 3

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 9 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 2

#programming #community #fun #ruby

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 8 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 1

#programming #opensource #community #fun

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 12 '22

Create useful noise patterns with Academy award winning Ken Perlin 🏆🎲

#javascript #algorithms #tutorial #gamedev

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

May 2 '22

Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 3: The Walking Text that follows you 🧟🧟

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #design

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 9 '22

Let's have a blast of fun! How to build a Minesweeper clone for the CLI with NodeJS 💣🔍

#node #javascript #tutorial #gamedev

9 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 21 '22

⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets!

#css #node #donttrythisathome #tutorial

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Pascal Thormeier

Feb 17 '22

Start and stop a llama! How to create a non-autoplay GIF web component 🎞️🛑🔥

#html #javascript #tutorial #webdev

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 13 '22

5 tips for Vue beginners - stuff to get you started fast🚀

#vue #javascript #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 30 '22

Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 2: Tricking gravity thanks to matter.js! 📃🛫🤯

#webdev #design #javascript #tutorial

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 25 '22

Throwing around text - Kinetic typography part 1: A chilly warm-up 📝 ️ 🚀

#webdev #css #tutorial #design

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 16 '22

How 1.5 years of writing posts on dev.to made me a better developer ✍️↔️🧑‍💻🚀

#discuss #career #watercooler

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Pascal Thormeier

Jan 8 '22

Self-built Tic-tac-toe AIs vs Human - The ultimate showdown in five rounds, from dumbed down to highly sophisticated 🥊🏆

#node #javascript #algorithms #tutorial

14 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Dec 30 '21

Remote pair programming - What are YOUR best practices? 🧑‍💻👩🏽‍💻

#watercooler #productivity #discuss #programming

2 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Dec 10 '21

I plowed through coding slang Wikipedia articles so you don't have to - 25 terms you probably didn't know 🍝💻

#watercooler #programming #computerscience #uselessknowledge

12 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 14 '21

Create beautiful rosette patterns with JavaScript 🖌️🌼

#javascript #svg #webdev #tutorial

8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 6 '21

⚠️ Don't try this at home: CSS-only image detail zoom - As hacky as possible! 🖼️🔍

#html #css #webdev #donttrythisathome

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Pascal Thormeier

Oct 4 '21

Ancient computer science: Let's build a Roman numeral converter from scratch 🏺📜

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #mathematics

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 25 '21

Let's build a rainbow on a canvas from scratch! 🌈📐

#webdev #tutorial #javascript #mathematics

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 5 '21

Let's build a box pushing puzzle game from scratch! 📦🕹️

#webdev #tutorial #javascript #html

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Aug 25 '21

Let's build a web radio player from scratch 🌐📻

#tutorial #webdev #javascript #css

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Pascal Thormeier

Jul 21 '21

It's alive! Simulate organisms with Conway's game of life on a canvas 🧫🔋

#tutorial #computerscience #javascript #maths

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jun 19 '21

Feel like a secret agent: Hidden messages in images with steganography 🖼️🕵️‍♀️

#javascript #tutorial #cryptography #webdev

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Pascal Thormeier

May 17 '21

How to generate thousands of usernames and halfway decent passwords with Bash💯💯

#bash #linux #tutorial

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 28 '21

Machine learning in Scratch?? 🐱💡

#machinelearning #scratch #computerscience #algorithms

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 14 '21

Random numbers in CSS? Really? 🎲🤔

#css #computerscience #webdev #random

3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 5 '21

I'm going to give Snowpack a try now ️📦

#webdev #javascript #node #operations

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 27 '21

Yummyplan🍞📅 got some updates!

#showdev #webdev #vue #javascript

2 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 20 '21

🕵️Something new every now and then: Trying Brunch🍴

#javascript #webdev #node #operations

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 12 '21

Crunching numbers: Algorithms I wrote for Project Euler🧮💻

#mathematics #computerscience #javascript #algorithms

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 7 '21

Yummyplan - An app to plan meals for an entire week🍞📅

#showdev #webdev #vue #javascript

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Pascal Thormeier

Feb 23 '21

Algorithm explained: K-means clustering📈 with PHP🐘

#machinelearning #computerscience #tutorial #php

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 12 '21

Let's build an actual working digital Drum kit🥁 you can play with your keyboard⌨️🤘

#javascript #css #webdev #tutorial

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Pascal Thormeier

Feb 2 '21

Let's build an actual working Guitar🎸 with JavaScript 💻🤘

#javascript #css #webdev #tutorial

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Pascal Thormeier

Jan 28 '21

Build your own WYSIWYG markdown editor for Vue 📝👀

#vue #javascript #webdev #tutorial

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Pascal Thormeier

Jan 16 '21

How to generate placeholder images with a simple Node script 🖼️🖌️🤖

#showdev #node #javascript #tutorial

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 11 '21

🍳 🍲 Cooking for devs - a creative counterweight

#watercooler #tutorial #tips #motivation

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 5 '21

Tech prototyping tools and libs for backend web devs 💻🚀🌐

#prototyping #webdev #node #php

3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Dec 30 '20

Tech prototyping tools and libs for frontend web devs 💻🚀🌐

#prototyping #webdev #javascript #css

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Dec 22 '20

🌟🖼️ Shiny image loading effect with Vue

#vue #css #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Dec 11 '20

Algorithm explained: Linear regression using gradient descent with PHP

#machinelearning #php #computerscience #tutorial

10 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 26 '20

How I adjusted the Eisenhower matrix to boost my productivity🚀

#productivity #career #agile #tutorial

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 19 '20

Game show feeling: How I created a hardware mute button for Linux

#linux #tutorial #javascript #node

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 16 '20

Algorithm explained: Text similarity using a vector space model

#computerscience #nlp #tutorial #php

8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 9 '20

Algorithm explained: The Doomsday rule

#computerscience #php #tutorial #maths

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 30 '20

Let's build a Mandelbrot set visualizer

#math #javascript #computerscience #tutorial

7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 24 '20

Algorithm explained: Levenshtein edit distance

#computerscience #nlp #tutorial #php

8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 8 '20

The Magic Computer - A party trick's secret explained

#watercooler #tutorial #computerscience #mathematics

3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 1 '20

📋✍️ Hand-drawn border animation using clip-path and border-radius

#showdev #webdev #css #html

1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 19 '20

📃 🖊️ Fully responsive HTML+CSS Sticky note

#showdev #webdev #css #html

2 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 7 '20

Simple and effective: Unit-testing Alpine.js components with Jest ⏱️⏩

#javascript #webdev #testing #codequality

7 min read

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Bash

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