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Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please?
At almost every developer conference right now there will be a talk that features the following “funny GIF”: Peter Griffin aka Family Guy trying to make some blinds close and making a total mess of...
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We need JavaScript to fix the web
TL;DR: JavaScript is too great an opportunity to build accessible, easy-to-use and flexible solutions for the web to not use it. It fills the gaps years of backwards-compatibility focus created. It...
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crossfit.js
Also on Medium, in case you want to comment. When I first heard about Crossfit, I thought it to be an excellent idea. I still do, to be fair: Short, very focused and intense workouts instead of time...
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Decoded Chats – first edition live on the Decoded Blog
Over the last few weeks I was busy recording interviews with different exciting people of the web. Now I am happy to announce that the first edition of Decoded Chats is live on the new Decoded Blog....
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Decoded Chats – second edition featuring Monica Dinculescu on Web Components
At SmashingConf Freiburg this year I was lucky enough to find some time to sit down with Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf) and chat with her about Web Components, extending the web, JavaScript...
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Decoded Chats – third edition featuring Chris Wilson on JavaScript and Web...
At the Microsoft/Mozilla Progressive Web Apps workshop in Seattle I ran into Chris Wilson and took the opportunity to interview him on Web Standards, JavaScript dependency and development complexity....
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My GotoCon Copenhagen talk videos: PWAs and Machine learning for images
The lovely folks at Goto Conference just released the high quality recordings of my talks at their Copenhagen edition earlier this month. Fixing the image problem of the web using Machine Learning was...
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Future Decoded 2016 – My talk on Machine Learning, Terminators and Star Trek
Yesterday I went to the Excel in London for Future Decoded to learn a lot about the future of technology, finally see the DeLorian from Back to the Future and give a talk. I covered Machine Learning,...
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Decoded Chats – fourth edition featuring Sarah Drasner on SVG
At SmashingConf Freiburg I took some time to interview Sarah Drasner on SVG. In this interview we covered what SVG can bring, how to use it sensibly and what pitfalls to avoid. You can see the video...
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Hacking Øredev’s after hours: Sharing our Coder Privilege (video, slides,...
The original plan at the first evening of this year’s Øredev was for me to interview Peter Sunde about the history of Pirate Bay as covered in his SmashingConf Barcelona “Technology Is Neither Good...
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Decoded chats the fifth: Ada Rose Edwards on Progressive Web Apps
A few weeks after I pestered Ada Rose Edwards to write her first Smashing Magazine article on Progressive Web Apps I did a Skype call with her to talk about the same topic. You can see the video and...
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Interviewing a depressed internet at The Internet Days
This morning I gave one of two keynotes at the Internet Days in Stockholm, Sweden. Suffice to say, I felt well chuffed to be presenting at such a prestigious event and opening up for a day that will...
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Pixels, Politics and P2P – Internet Days Stockholm 2016
I just got back from the Internet Days conference in Stockholm, Sweden. I was flattered when I was asked to speak at this prestigious event, but I had no idea until I arrived just how much fun it...
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Taking a look behind the scenes before publicly dismissing something
Lately I started a new thing: watching “behind the scenes” features of movies I didn’t like. At first this happened by chance (YouTube autoplay, to be precise), but now I do it deliberately and it is...
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Enjoying the silence…
It is a strange love I have for the web. Ever since I used the web for the first time it felt like taking a ride with a best friend. I knew I had to start working on it to never let it down again....
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Web bloat isn’t a knowledge problem
There is a consensus among all browser makers and lovers of the web: the current state of the web is a mess. The average web page is 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests. We spend more time...
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First Decoded Chat of the year: Paul Bakaus on AMP
Today on the Decoded Blog I published the first ever Decoded Chat I recorded, where I grilled Paul Baukaus in detail about AMP. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height:...
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Taking my G-Ro for a spin…
Almost two years ago the G-Ro travel bag kickstarter did the rounds and all of us travelers pricked up our ears. It sounded revolutionary and a really cool bag that is a mix of carry-on and laptop...
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7 tricks to have very successful conference calls
I work remotely and with a team eight hours away from me. Many will be in the same boat, and often the problem with this is that your meetings are late at night your time, but early for the others....
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My visit to the medical Holodeck – cancer research at Weill Cornell using...
I just spent a few days in New York setting up a workshop to help minority students to get into development (soon more on that). I was lucky to be in Microsoft’s Reactor when Alex Sigaras, a research...
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