The new challenges of “open”
These are my notes for my upcoming keynote at he Oscal conference in Tirana, Albania. Today I want to talk about the new challenges of “open”. Open source, Creative Commons, and many other ideas of...
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Start of my very busy May speaking tour and lots of //build videos to watch
I am currently in the Heathrow airport lounge on the first leg of my May presenting tour. Here is what lies ahead for me (with various interchanges in other countries in between to get from one to the...
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– I did it!
Sitting in the lovely conference hotel Estherea in Amsterdam, I am ready to go to Schipol to fly back home to London. This marks the end of the massive conference tour in beggining May. I can’t...
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The Ryanair approach to progressive enhancement
I fly – a lot. I spend more time in airports, in the air, hotel rooms and conferences than at home. As I am a natural recording and analysing device, I take in a lot of things on my travels. People at...
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That one tweet…
One simple tweet made me feel terrible. One simple tweet made me doubt myself. One simple tweet – hopefully not meant to be mean – had a devastating effect on me. Here’s how and why, and a reminder...
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UA Sniffing issue: Outdated PageSpeed sending WebP images to Microsoft Edge
PageSpeed by Google is a great way to add clever performance enhancements to your site without having to do a lot by hand. Not surprisingly, a lot of people used it when it came out. Sadly enough,...
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That stream of tweets at conferences…
A few weeks ago, I wrote the That One Tweet post explaining how one tweet managed to puncture my balloon of happy and question if my work is appreciated. All of this is caused the gremlin of...
View ArticleOver the Edge: Web Components are an endangered species
Last week I ran the panel and the web components/modules breakout session of the excellent Edge Conference in London, England and I think I did quite a terrible job. The reason was that the topic is...
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Slimming down the web: Remove code to fix things, don’t add the “clever” thing
Today we saw a new, interesting service called Does it work on Edge? which allows you to enter a URL, and get that URL rendered in Microsoft Edge. It also gives you a report in case there are issues...
View Article7 Reasons why EdgeConf rocks and why you should be part of it
Having just been there and seeing that the coverage is available today, I wanted to use this post to tell you just how amazing EdgeConf is as a conference, a concept and a learning resource. So here...
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The full stackoverflow developer
In a few talks and interviews I lamented about a phenomenon in our market that’s always been around, but seems to be rampant by now: the one of the full stackoverflow developer. Prompted by Stephen...
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New chapter in the Developer Evangelism handbook: keeping time in presentations
Having analysed a lot of conference talks lately, I found a few things that don’t work when it comes to keeping to the time you have as a speakers. I then analysed what the issues were and what you...
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I don’t want Q&A in conference videos
I present at conferences – a lot. I also moderate conferences and I brought the concept of interviews instead of Q&A to a few of them (originally this concept has to be attributed to Alan White...
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Got something to say? Write a post!
Here’s the thing: Twitter sucks for arguments: It is almost impossible to follow conversation threads People favouriting quite agressive tweets leaves you puzzled as to the reasons People retweeting...
View ArticleErase and Rewind – a talk about open web enthusiasm at Open Web Camp
I just flew from San Francisco to Seattle still suffering from the aftermath of the after party of Open Web Camp 7, a gathering of enthusiasts of the web that lasted for seven years and showed that...
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The ES6 conundrum – new article on SitePoint
I just released an article over on Sitepoint called The ES6 conundrum. In it, I am discussing the current issues we’re facing with using ES6: We can’t use it safely in the wild – as ES6 is a syntax...
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How about we make ES6 the new baseline?
Yesterday night, far too late, I wrote a long article here about making ES6 the new baseline of the web. It wasn’t a good article. It made a lot of assumptions, and it wasn’t thought through. That’s...
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Rock, Meats, JavaScript – BrazilJS 2015
I just got back from a 4 day trip to Brazil and back to attend BrazilJS. I was humbled and very happy to give the opening keynote seeing that the closing was meant to be by Brendan Eich and Andreas...
View ArticleES6 for now: Template strings
ES6 is the future of JavaScript and it is already here. It is a finished specification, and it brings a lot of features a language requires to stay competitive with the needs of the web of now. Not...
View ArticleQuickie: Fading in a newly created element using CSS
Update: I got an email from James at VIDesignz who found another solution to this problem using the :empty selector. I added it at the end of the article. As part of our JSFoo workshop today I was...
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