Pascal Thormeier

Passionate full stack web developer, he/him.

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

Education

BSc FHNW Computer Science (iCompetence)

Work

Senior Software Developer at Liip

IoT, Raspberry Pi

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.

All kinds of tech discussions!

59 posts published

248 comments written

30 tags followed

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Pascal Thormeier

Jul 21

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

#showdev #webdev #javascript #watercooler

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1 min read

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Jul 18

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

#javascript #machinelearning #webdev #tutorial

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7 min read

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Apr 26

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

#vue #javascript #webdev #performance

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3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 24

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

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #beginners

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6 min read

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Nov 12

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

#community #opensource #programming #ruby

4 2

1 min read

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Pascal Thormeier

Nov 11

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

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

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1 min read

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Nov 10

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

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

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1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 9

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

#programming #community #fun #ruby

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1 min read

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Nov 8

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

#programming #opensource #community #fun

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1 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Oct 12

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

#javascript #algorithms #tutorial #gamedev

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7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

May 2

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

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #design

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5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 9

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

#node #javascript #tutorial #gamedev

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9 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 21

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

#css #node #donttrythisathome #tutorial

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8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 17

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

#html #javascript #tutorial #webdev

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5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Feb 13

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

#vue #javascript #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 30

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

#webdev #design #javascript #tutorial

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6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 25

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

#webdev #css #tutorial #design

5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 16

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

#discuss #career #watercooler

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5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jan 8

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

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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

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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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5 min read

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Oct 4 '21

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

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #mathematics

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5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 25 '21

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

#webdev #tutorial #javascript #mathematics

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7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Sep 5 '21

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

#webdev #tutorial #javascript #html

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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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8 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Jul 21 '21

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

#tutorial #computerscience #javascript #maths

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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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5 min read

Pascal Thormeier

May 17 '21

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

#bash #linux #tutorial

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5 min read

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Apr 28 '21

Machine learning in Scratch?? 🐱💡

#machinelearning #scratch #computerscience #algorithms

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5 min read

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Apr 14 '21

Random numbers in CSS? Really? 🎲🤔

#css #computerscience #webdev #random

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3 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Apr 5 '21

I'm going to give Snowpack a try now ❄️📦

#webdev #javascript #node #operations

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6 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 27 '21

Yummyplan🍞📅 got some updates!

#showdev #webdev #vue #javascript

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2 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Mar 20 '21

🕵️Something new every now and then: Trying Brunch🍴

#javascript #webdev #node #operations

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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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Feb 23 '21

Algorithm explained: K-means clustering📈 with PHP🐘

#machinelearning #computerscience #tutorial #php

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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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7 min read

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

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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

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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

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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

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Pascal Thormeier

Nov 16 '20

Algorithm explained: Text similarity using a vector space model

#computerscience #nlp #tutorial #php

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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

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Pascal Thormeier

Sep 7 '20

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

#javascript #webdev #testing #codequality

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Pascal Thormeier

Aug 17 '20

//TODO: Refactor me - A guide to measuring shortcuts

#codequality #bash #git #tutorial

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7 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Aug 13 '20

Tech Prototyping - 5 tips for developers

#webdev #productivity #prototyping #tips

4 min read

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