Björn Friedrichs

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Björn Friedrichs

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Recent posts

August 13th, 2022

Resolving tree shake issues with MUI icons and Parcel 2 for Node builds

This website is built using MUI and bundled using Parcel. Parcel 2 enables a feature called "scope hoisting" by default. This includes tree shaking capabilities which in theory should resolve imports from their main package only if they are actually used, drastically reducing bundle size.

August 1st, 2022

Resolving 404 issues with S3, CloudFront and SPAs

Today I worked on an issue that led me down a rabbit hole to resolve an issue with AWS. We noticed that security headers were missing from some of our CloudFront responses. Weirdly, everything was fine at first glance.

February 24th, 2022

Read: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Before we get into it, I must admit I'm not (or at least have not been recently) a big reader. But in an effort to reduce the impact of using internet connected devices all day long I recently acquired a Kindle. So my bed time now consists of an hour of reading instead of browsing Twitter or other social media mindlessly.

December 6th, 2021

Statistics are weird

As part of my PhD research I have had to interact with way more statistical evaluation than ever before. Even though I would have to go through the occasional ANOVA et al. for my under- and postgrad degrees, I never really needed to internalise how and why statistical testing was actually done.

November 22nd, 2021

Quickly making a website and other fables

One of my main motivations for this website was to finally create a blog. A blog can be easily set up using some prebuilt solution (like Medium for example). But I wanted to see how much fun I could have with this project by building a site from ground up.

October 24th, 2021

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or, humble beginnings. I will be looking to add more content here soon, especially about the inception of this website. .

Björn Friedrichs

Recent posts

Resolving tree shake issues with MUI icons and Parcel 2 for Node builds

Resolving 404 issues with S3, CloudFront and SPAs

Read: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Statistics are weird

Quickly making a website and other fables

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