Walter Ebert

I’m Walter Ebert, a UX engineer from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Making web sites better, one step at a time, since 1995.

Apparently, some engineers expect prototypes to be re-usable 🤨 Maybe the term Proof of Concept (PoC) would be better at setting expectations. Maybe not 🤷 https://matthiasott.com/notes/shitty-code-prototypes

mastodon 3 October 2022

After updating PHP packages in a project, it stopped working. I learned that `getenv()` is not thread safe. https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv#putenv-and-getenv

mastodon 1 October 2022

Birdsite is continiously becoming more useless.

mastodon 24 September 2022

If you're looking for a Figma alternative, try @penpot. It's open source, so you can even self-host it.

mastodon 23 September 2022

Replacing WordPress with plain PHP

blog 9 September 2022

Using deprecated U2F in Gitea 1.16

blog 24 February 2022

Respecting browser privacy settings

blog 13 February 2022

Sicherheit für WordPress