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Questions, answered properly
Each article answers a question people really ask and backs every figure — usually with the product the answer lives in. Plus articles on how we work: data economy, construction, upkeep over years.
Citizenship test in Germany: how many questions, how many right?
33 questions, 60 minutes, a pass from 17 correct answers. What sits behind these three numbers, where the questions come from — and why the whole test can be learned in advance.
Read the articleGerman recreational boat licence (sea): questions and pass marks
30 of 285 questions, 60 minutes, two parts scored separately. Why the spread of your mistakes matters more than their number — and what comes on top of the theory exam.
Read the articleThe English simple present, explained for German speakers
The basic present tense in English has exactly one trap: the third person singular. When the simple present is used, how questions and negatives are built — and why the -s feels so illogical.
Read the articleCalculating rental yield: gross, net and the price-to-rent factor
Gross yield is in every listing and says little. How to get from it to net yield, what the price-to-rent factor means — and which items are forgotten most often. With a worked example.
Read the articleWhy a 50 per cent loss needs a 100 per cent gain
Losses and gains are not symmetric: lose half and you have to double your money to get back to even. The formula behind it, a table — and what follows from it.
Read the articleMaldives, Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion: the difference
Four island destinations in the Indian Ocean, often named in one breath — and fundamentally different: flat coral rings, ancient granite, a reef around a volcanic island and high mountains in the middle of the sea.
Read the articleA privacy statement that does not fall behind the code
Almost every privacy statement is accurate on the day it is written and never again. The reason is not ill will but a missing connection — and that connection can be made.
Read the articleWhen a number means something — and when it is noise
A small website produces small numbers, and small numbers vary on their own. Read like large ones, they turn chance into a trend. How to tell the difference.
Read the articleWhy our websites need no cookie banner
The law does not require a banner — it requires consent. A site that does nothing requiring consent needs neither. How that works technically, and where the line runs.
Read the articleCounting visitors without Google Analytics
How many people read this page? A fair question — the usual answer sells out the visitors to get it. There is another way: counting in totals, on your own server.
Read the articleBuilt statically: why our sites come from a generator
No database, no framework, no site builder: our websites are generated from data files. What sounds old-fashioned is a decision made for the next twenty years.
Read the articleBilingual, without drifting apart
The hard part of a bilingual website is not the translation — it is the third year after. How structure and tooling keep the second language from decay.
Read the articleA security policy without the back door
Almost every website grants itself 'unsafe-inline' — the exception that voids the whole rule. What it costs to do without, and what you get in return.
Read the articleSoftware that stays: building products without an expiry date
Most software is built for the moment — the demo, the funding round, the sale. We build for year three. What that means in concrete decisions.
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