Hi there!

Hi, I’m Florian or @qwtel and I’m the creator of Hydejack, the Jekyll theme you’re currently looking at.

If you’re a frontend engineer and interested in the tech behind it, you can check out its major components separately: hy-push-state and hy-drawer.

Selected Projects

Hydejack 8

“Best Jekyll Theme by a Mile”

hy-drawer

A touch-enabled drawer component

hy-push-state

Turns web pages into web apps.

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Selected Posts

Replacing CryptoJS with Web Cryptography for AES

Alternative title: You Might Not Need CryptoJS. In this post I’ll show how to replace CryptoJS’ AES module with the Web Cryptography API for improved performance and security.

Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with ES Generators

JavaScript is not a great langauge for solving programming puzzeles such as Advent of Code, but ECMAScript’s new generator functions may change that.

Async Generators in the Wild

This post is inspired by my answer to a question on StackOverflow on how to recursively read all the files in a directory. It shows how async generator functions can be used in the real-world.

Side Effects, Get Out of My Yard

This post describes how to write re-frame middleware to replace side-effectful function calls with data.

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