The world needs to know about my new calendar app.| niqwithq.com
Driving a scooter in Vietnam without using Maps.| niqwithq.com
About a month ago, I updated the apps on my phone. Signal, my favorite messaging app, announced that it now supports usernames. "So, Signal has usernames now." I thought, when actually not thinking at all. I chose a cool username and immediately forgot this ever happened. Until I read the Internet Review's post about Signal usernames, and it became oh so obvious. Signal has usernames now! My phone number is a sacred piece of personal information that is supposed to stay a secret. With the pow...| niqwithq
I hear birds chirping. The wind is blowing softly. The sound of a scooter passing by. I hear myself whispering "This is fascinating" as I approach the amazing statues of Vinh Trang Pagoda in Mỹ Tho, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. I walk closer to one of the bigger statues. The wind keeps on blowing. A soft "gong" sound in the distance. And now the chanting starts. There's music playing next to the statue. It's a duet of a male and female voice that keeps repeating some kind of chanting. As...| niqwithq
Travel now, sleep later.| niqwithq.com
A name stuck for eternity.| niqwithq.com
The /where page movement.| niqwithq.com
The magic of the /now page.| niqwithq.com
Writing an about page for your website is like introducing yourself in a group setting. Who are you? What would you like others to know about you? What are you all about? As you can imagine, writing an about page is not that easy. I procrastinated writing my own for quite some time. It took me six blog posts before this website had an about page (and for that matter, a menu). But at some point I couldn't procrastinate any longer. How would my readers know who I was, if I never introduced myse...| niqwithq
Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the w...| niqwithq
In the upcoming weeks, I'll take a year off and travel around the world. Naturally, I will blog about this epic adventure. But not on niqwithq.com. And here's why. Writing in German When I decided to document my trip in blog form, I thought of a selected group of people that would be happy to become my readers. I call this group friends & family, with a focus on my family (hi mom). That's when I wanted to try something new and write in my first language, which is German. German doesn't go wel...| niqwithq
How the latest watchOS update expected me to relearn ingrained behavior.| niqwithq.com
It's easy to forget how much happens in your life if you don't look back from time to time. I usually browse through my photo gallery, when I reflect on my past year. This year, I also reflected on the music I've been listening to. As an avid last.fm user, I can time travel to any period of my life and check out long forgotten favorites from my music library. When I reflected on 2023, I created a Spotify playlist of my favorite music for every month of the year. January I celebrated New Year'...| niqwithq
I have been living in a bright, modern, 2-room apartment for over 2 years now. It's on a busy street in Ottakring, Vienna's 16th district, but since it's facing a nice inner yard, it's incredibly calm. Everything about my apartment is amazing. Except for one thing. Only weeks after I moved in, I discovered the problem. The problem with my bathroom ventilation. My bathroom ventilation is supposed to be smart. So smart, that it turns on automatically, once the humidity reaches a certain level. ...| niqwithq
The ingenious idea of turning a blog post into a talk.| niqwithq.com
Simple instructions on feeling bad about your writing.| niqwithq.com
The story of how I became a user.| niqwithq.com
A killer feature for more engagement.| niqwithq.com
How my first website ever was hacked and what we can learn from it.| niqwithq.com
Elements on websites need accessible names so that they can be perceived by all users.| niqwithq.com
Why designing for accessibility improves everyone's user experience.| niqwithq.com
What designers & developers can do to make their forms accessible and improve everyone's user experience as consequence.| niqwithq.com
A personal reflection about the motivations and obstacles of starting something new.| niqwithq.com
It's time to give a shit about email privacy.| niqwithq.com