Hi 👋🏼, I am Niklas, a DevOps engineer from Cologne, Germany.

When creating apps and websites, we often need to display data in different languages. Be it currencies, speeds, times or dates. Sorting words in different languages or dynamically setting the singular and plural forms of a word are also such use cases. For this there is the Intl API in JavaScript, which in my opinion still gets far too little attention.

In the past, I have written custom functions or used libraries to do the above in different languages.

So let's take a look at some of the functions of the Intl API and try to understand why it can make our lives easier.

Working with date objects in Javascript can be quite a pain. That is why I usually use a library like date-fns for comparing, adding hours to my dates or working with dates and times in general.

The TC39, which is the group of people who develop the definition of JavaScript, is working on the Temporal API. You can check out the proposal and documentation here.

With this, we no longer need date libraries, because the API itself is a breeze to work with.

I recently tried PGlite because I saw it trending on Hacker News. The idea is cool, having a built-in Postgres database that can even run in the client's browser brings a lot of possibilities. Seeing WASM (Web Assembly) get more use cases is also exciting to see.

Hey there, 👋

I needed to set up a Datadog agent to check remote Postgres instances as a regular container. All the documentation I found was about injecting secrets like passwords or hostnames via Kubernetes secrets. This seemed to be the only way to do it besides using Docker Swarm secrets. Since I had to set up a container definition for AWS ECS Fargate, neither of these options were available. So I wanted to see if I could use "regular" environment variables from which the agent could pull the secrets on startup.

As someone with visual impairment in one eye, I understand firsthand the challenges of navigating websites with less-than-perfect vision. That's why I recently made a significant change to my website: I switched to the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font.