Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different ...

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you ...

In this session Chris Heilmann will show how some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing. Instead of picking and choosing from already amazing products ...

The Sunday Times this weekend had an ad that made my eyes pop (click the detail to see the whole page): It really looks like one of those overlay ads you have in web sites, and must have cost quite a ...

The other day I logged into Paypal and was confronted with the following sight: That was the end of breakfast for me but I was also excited – I like the idea of winning a year’s salary and I had to ...

This exif data in JPG and TIFF files can be a privacy issue, which I pointed out in my TEDx talk some time ago and even ...

I just finished my slides for the upcoming Paris Web Conference entitled “Working in the now”. Originally I planned to have a cool presentation showing things we will be able to use in HTML5 like ...

Yesterday I gave a talk at the Stackoverflow Devdays conference in London and as one example of the powers of YQL, I wrote a GreaseMonkey script that enhances the Stackoverflow question form to ...

I am about to leave for the London Stackoverflow DevDay, and speakers were asked to keep their slides to a minimum of two pages and then show code instead. Now, here are the “slides” of my talk at the ...

TL;DR: The Trondheim Development Conference 2014 was incredible. Well worth my time and a fresh breath of great organisation. I am right now on the plane back from Oslo to London – a good chance to ...

Things that made me happy this morning: ...