The homepage showed a price list per case, including a day rate. Buyers of
a result need a way to a price, not rates: each case now shows three steps
to an estimate, one line for orientation and a button that opens the
contact message with that topic chosen.
The developer case is booked by the month, not by the day. The day rate is
gone; the freelance page has the booking terms: 100 EUR per hour, fixed
days of the week agreed for one month at a time, an example month, monthly
invoice, two weeks notice to the end of a month.
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The homepage was too long and read as a list of sections. The technical
ones (project fit, tools, how a change is secured) move to a page of their
own, /freelance and /en/freelance, linked from the header, the footer and a
pointer on the homepage. The rest is reordered into one story (who, what you
need, examples, how working together goes, results, questions, contact) and
each section opens with a sentence that leads over from the one before.
routes.ts: a page may now have the same name in both languages. Before,
/en/<german name> was always moved to the English name, which for such a
page would have redirected the address onto itself.
Design: list titles such as "Passt gut" are real headings instead of small
grey labels. The automation examples, their description and the run are one
box, so it is clear they belong together. Digits on light backgrounds are
the blue of the panels instead of black. The square corner marks on the
rounded service cards are gone. The years in the career line are readable.
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On a phone the homepage was about 29 screens long; it is now about 22.
The desktop layout is unchanged to the pixel.
Lists of equal items (automation notes, project fit, principles, reasons for
a web presentation, by hand vs. automated) are swiped through side by side
(SwipeRow) instead of stacked. The four service cards form a compact 2x2
grid, step lists spell out only the current step, the workflow legend and
the per-project task lists are left out, and sections use less padding.
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On a phone the headline was built from 4px cells and the background field
kept its desktop ink, so the digits were specks or not visible at all. The
headline now uses cells of at least 6px there, and the background digits are
larger and stronger below 640px.
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The address is the one thing to act on in the contact section, but it was a
plain underlined line next to a glowing message card. A slow sheen now runs
through the letters and a light travels along the underline; on hover the
whole line lights up.
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The site now exists in German (at the root, with /impressum and /datenschutz)
and English (/en). A request without a language follows the visitor's choice
from the language switch, then the browser language, then German; the old
English legal addresses move to /en for good.
All visible texts are data in src/content/de.ts and en.ts, so components hold
none of their own. The header carries a DE/EN switch whose bit curtain covers
the page while it is swapped and reopens at the same reading position. Title,
description, canonical, hreflang, Open Graph, the share image, the sitemap and
the structured data are per language. The privacy notice now describes the
cookie that remembers the chosen language.
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Dark surfaces now carry light: frames glow along their edge and shed binary
digits (BitAura), dark sections open with a lit seam (BitSeam), the career
path is a line of light and "My work" became a dark stage. Buttons carry a
travelling light and a spot that follows the pointer (BitGlow).
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Only the production deployment may be indexed; testing and preview builds
answer with noindex and a closed robots file. The homepage now describes the
person, the services and the FAQ as structured data, and title, description
and the 404 page are written for what people search for.
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The visitor picks what they need and a prepared email types itself out; one
press opens it in their own mail app with subject and body filled in. The
mailto link is built by a tested pure function (src/domain/email.ts, spec
first) and only in the browser, so the address still never appears in the
page source.
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Section headlines are written out behind a column of digits, mono labels
resolve from binary, the portrait assembles itself from bits, section indexes
rattle and keep one bit alive, cards get corner marks, the header shows the
scroll position as an eight-bit number, pressed links and buttons shed a few
digits, and the work stage leans towards the pointer. All effects respect
reduced motion and leave the content readable without JavaScript.
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The link preview used an old template with a blog description. The share
image is now a screenshot of the real hero (scripts/render-share-image.mjs),
served as Open Graph and Twitter image. Title and description come from one
place and are used by the page, the previews and the structured data. Adds an
apple touch icon and removes the old share-image template and its fonts.
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The site now presents one freelance developer on one page: hero, introduction,
four typical cases (developer for a product, make an app reliable, automate a
process, a website) with what you get, how it runs and what it costs, a
process automation section, technology and project fit, how I work, two live
references, questions and contact.
- Hero and closing headline are drawn from running binary digits.
- Each case explains its four steps with an animated drawing; the automation
section shows example workflows with work travelling between systems; a
pipeline run shows what a test catches before a release.
- Contact is one email address, kept in parts and assembled in the browser so
it never appears in the page source (src/domain/email.ts, spec first).
- Imprint and privacy pages added.
- The old site (blog, case studies, contact form, fixed-price pages, video
rendering and related scripts) is removed. Its URLs redirect to the homepage.
- The deploy smoke test checks the legal pages and the redirects instead of
the removed case study.
- Dev scripts use docker compose v2.
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