Carsten Ruhr

Hi!

My name ist Carsten and I am a engineering manager (former frontend engineer), working at DeepL. Previously I worked as a frontend/app developer at Ubisoft Germany and fullstack web developer at a local advertisement agency.

I am also working on some side projects such as Mythical Ink and ran a successful Kickstarter for a physical product.

Latest Notes

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A super simple dice parser

I just published another open-source package. And again something that probably already exists somewhere out there. But I wanted to scratch my itch myself. So I created a tiny library that parses a string in the standard dice notation and ...
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Photo section

I just put up my photo section. It's not very well optimised, but maybe that's something for the future me. It bothered me that I was relying on Instagram to have my own little gallery, so I decided to replace it with a simple gallery on my own ...
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Another website rewrite

Yes, I re-wrote this website again... For some reason Remix felt slower to me than it should. I also had it happen, that the remix production server crashed from time to time. But I am not sure if that's actually Remix's fault or if there is ...
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