Peter Thaleikis - Software Engineer and Maker

Hey, I'm Peter 👋

Software engineer and Maker by heart. I like to share interesting coding-related things, I've developed or discovered on the web. Besides this you will of course see regular updates on the stories behind my side-projects. If I'm slacking ping me on Twitter. A bit more about my personal background is also available, if you are interested.

How to Fix "throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event"?

npm run watch fails with a rather cryptic "throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event". Here is how I resolved it.

Laravel: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

Older MySQL and MariaDB versions trigger this Laravel issue. Here is how to fix it.

How I force myself to work

Shouldn't you be coding? Yeah? Me too. I've been procrastinating for too long. Here is my recipe how to stop.

Laptop Life Savers

Having your laptop fan die in Corona-times is more than stressful. Even more so in a foreign country without massive supply of hardware.

Project #6: Mail Merge for Linux Bash

Solving my own pain, I've built a tiny helper to populate mails and trigger a sending through regular email services.

Project #5: Naming Tools

It doesn't need to be a commercial project every time.

What Is an Open Statistics Page and Why You Should Have One?

Sharing interesting statistics is an interesting way to drive attention towards your side-project or startup and build trust at the same time.

Indie Hackers: Should I Build My Side-project / Small Business in Public?

Should I Build My Side-project in Public?

What you need to know before starting your build.

Neat Side Projects No. 6

Side-Project Introduction: “Devlids“ is collecting art-work from developer laptops, stylish and informative status-pages with supstatus.com and “cube.JS“ is using a different approach to visualizing data

Neat Side Projects No. 5

Side-Project Introduction: Help others accessing the Tor Network using a extension, make your website faster by pre-fetching content while idling and earn money with users solving captchas.

Neat Side Projects No. 4

Introducing: An open source library to map your Google location data out, “Close my Tabs“ - a browser extension to stop drowning in tabs, “Read Shit Faster“ - a website+extension helping you to read faster.

Neat Indie Projects No. 3

Introducing: “Ecosia“ - the search-engine that plants trees, “Wavenet for Chrome“ - a browser extension to generate voice outputs, “Kimai“ - a comprehensive self-hosted open source invoicing application and more

Neat Indie Projects No. 2

Introducing: “TrackThis.Link“ - Mess around with analytics data, “Darkmode.js“ - Darkmode as a JavaScript Library, “FlatGA“ - a simplified dashboard for your Google Analytics data, and more

Neat Indie Projects No. 1

Introducing: “AskBlocker“ - an extension to block permission requests, “FullHelp“ - a self-hosted helpdesk, “Enso OS“ - an alternative Linux to elementary OS, and more

Project #4: SEO Tool Extension

Solving my own pain, I've built a little extension to access common SEO Tools quicker! Deeplinks for the win!

Getting Started on Indiehackers

Being new to a community can be interest yet also time consuming effort. Here is a guide for IndieHackers to get you started.

Side-project Ideas up for Grabs

Side-Project Ideas are great, if you have them. Here are some new one ideas for you to get inspired and maybe even build. For free of course. Check them out.