Nikolaus Gebhardt

screenshot of RocketCake 7

Good news: RocketCake 7.0 website builder just released!

New features include support for CSS animations, HTML Import, table pasting, simple shopping cart component, and a lot more!

Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/

What happens internally in a browser when it takes a text from some HTML code to show it on the screen is insane.
Even whitespace is surprisingly complex.
Re-Implementing these algorithms is quite an eye opener.

rocketcake 6.4 screenshot

RocketCake 6.4 available now:
iPhone 17 support, global css file support, new free website templates, HTML5 video subtitle support, ftp enhancements, and a lot more: ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev #webdesign

What year is this

Just uploaded CopperCube Game Engine version 6.7.2
Small update, small improvements: www.ambiera.com/coppercube/

redditor vibe coding payment processing system

Vibe coding is getting out of hand: In this thread some clueless dev is vibe coding a credit card payment processing system and discards all points by redditors telling him to stop right now. Read the horror yourself here: www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

RocketCake 6.3 just released:
Improved HTML / CSS / JavaScript code generation, swipe support for slideshows and carousels, right side option for side bar menu, and a lot more.
Get it here: ambiera.com/rocketcake/

You are an old^H^H^H experienced developer when you reinstall all your daily dev tools and realize the majority of them are still hosted on sourceforge instead of github.

I can't believe I had to waste development time to implement this today.
Hope the text isn't too harsh - what do you think?

So, reading through the UK's OSA (online saftey act) - and running a small discussion forum - it seems like the only way to continue safely is to just close it for all users from the UK. It's a shame, but what are the alternatives?

Support person was confused.
Then - after a bit of time - she sent me a text saying that apparently they removed that feature last week.
Without telling anyone.
There is nothing she could do.
Yes.. I guess there is also nothing I could do.
*headshaking*
I guess don't rely on google products?

Just had an enlightening chat with a google support person. Which is a sentence surprising in itself (they have support people now?)
A feature which I was using stopped working a week ago.
Support person made me look if I had the settings set correctly.
The settings also weren't existing anymore.

RocketCake 6.2

Good news! RocketCake 6.2 is available now - it's a free update.
Includes a global website color picker tool, improved upload speed, new font family stacks, new free website templates.
Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev #webdesign

Adding a lib to a C++ project can take hours or days.

Everyone uses different or no package managers, build systems, compilers and language versions.
It's so frustrating.

Not sure why solving this and putting all this into the standard isn't #1 priority since years.

Rocketcake 6.1 screenshot

Good news! Rocketcake 6.1 just released - free website builder.
New: modern fullscreen mobile menu, accordion component, and a lot more.
Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev

I created a short overview of all of them here: www.irrlicht3d.org/index.php?t=...

When I started with HTML, we had a these 9 units. Today we have 42:

px % em ex cm mm in pt pc vh vw rem vmin vmax lvh lvw swh svw svb svi dvh dvw dvb dvi dvmin dvmax Q cqw cqh cqi cqb cqmin cqmax ch rch lh rlh cap rcap ic ric rex

Did we create a monster?

popup showing chrome no longer supporting uBlock Origin

UBlock origin is no longer supported.
"Chrome recommends removing it."

I recommend removing Chrome.

After a month of testing I now phased out Outlook and using an alternative email client for business mails.
Much happier now.
Not sure who at Microsoft is thinking this 'new' Outlook disaster is a good idea.

Most dangerous JavaScript API pitfall IMO:

String::replace() only replaces the first occurrence, *unless* you provide a regex instead of a string as pattern - then it replaces all.
String::replaceAll() fixes this, but is only available since ECMAScript 2021

webstatistics component screenshot

Just learned that it's just a few lines of JavaScript to make a HTML table interactive and sortable using the table.rows property - really nice.
So I did this for the webstatistics component - the recent visitors table is now sortable:

Rocketcake 6.0 website builder

Good news: RocketCake, the website builder has just been released in version 6.0!
Includes shape dividers, built-in visitor analytics, accessibility features, new free templates and a lot more.
Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/

Took a brave step and installed Windows 24H2.
Clicking on "new email" notifications by Outlook stopped working.

Not bad but annoying, infuriating after 2 days of work. Tons of people are complaining about this.

How could MS's QA oversee this? Aren't they using Outlook?

It's 2025, and every time I add new features I still have to make sure it still works on this trainwreck piece of software.

IE market share is currently at about 0.2% (that's still 10 mio people) and sometimes your important customers are part of these 🤷

Testing IE compatibility

Look what lengths I go through to ensure maximum compatibility:

Already got two requests this year from companies wanting me to fix their systems.
Which were built partially by AI (and apparently no one understands the code).

So much for AI taking away our jobs.

logo for ambiera's new year discount

To celebrate the new year, most of my software is 40% off for a few days:

• RocketCake 5 responsive website editor
• CopperCube 6 game engine
• MindArchitect 2 mind map editor
• DiagramPainter 2 diagram editor
• and more

Get it here: www.ambiera.com/discounts.html
Happy new year!

Virustotal score 7/72 for a harmless uploaded file

I created a harmless C# .exe which just plays a sound and uploaded it to virustotal let it check if it contains a virus:

7 out of 72 virus scanners flagged it as malicious (!)

That says more about the broken state of the security industry than it does about my file.

OMG, Ms Paint now supports generative delete!
Mark any object in a picture, press the button and the object is removed (= overdrawn with a generated fitting background)
Awesome!

However, there are paid ads of THREE competing products on the top of the search results.

Good job google engineers! I can't believe I'll use Bing from now on.