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ScriptConf in Linz, Austria – if you want all the good with none of the drama.
Last month I was very lucky to be invited to give the opening keynote of a brand new conference that can utterly go places: ScriptConf in Linz, Austria. What I liked most about the event was an utter...
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My closing keynote of the Tweakers DevSummit – slides and resources
Yesterday I gave the closing keynote of the Tweakers Developer Summit in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The conference topic was “Webdevelopment – Coding the Universe” and the organisers asked me to give a...
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Important talks: Sacha Judd’s “How the tech sector could move in One Direction”
I just watched a very important talk from last year’s Beyond Tellerand conference in Berlin. Sacha Judd (@szechuan) delivered her How the tech sector could move in One Direction at this conference and...
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JavaScript is not the enemy – my talk at Halfstackconf
In November last year I got asked to give a talk about the state of the JavaScript community at Halfstackconf in London. Now you can watch the recording the talk at opbeat. I really enjoyed giving...
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Want to learn more about using the command line? Remy helps!
This is an unashamed plug for Remy Sharp’s terminal training course command line for non–techies. Go over there and have a look at what he’s lined up for a very affordable price. In a series of videos...
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Working with All Star Code in NYC to empower minorities to get into development
Sometimes it is great to work for a large company that gives you opportunities to do some good. I am currently in New York to run a workshop with All Star Code in our offices. Originally Aaron...
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Talking about building the next interfaces with Machine Learning and AI at...
Yesterday I was proud to be an invited speaker at the HackingUI masterclass where I presented about what Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence means for us as developers and designers. I will...
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You don’t owe the world perfection! – keynote at Beyond Tellerrand
Yesterday morning I was lucky enough to give the opening keynote at the excellent Beyond Tellerrand conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. I wrote a talk for the occasion that covered a strange disconnect...
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Breaking out of the Tetris mindset
This is a longer version of this year’s keynote at Beyond Tellerrand conference. I posted earlier about the presentation with the video and slides. Here you get the longer transcript and explanation....
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First impressions of my HoloLens
Also available on Medium. I am now proud owner of a HoloLens. I am not officially trained up on it yet as a Microsoft Employee. But I wanted to share the first impressions of setting it up and using...
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CSS vs. JavaScript: Trust vs. Control
When GotoConf Amsterdam asked me to speak, I thought it’d be another machine learning or Progressive Web Apps talk. Instead the organisers asked me to cover CSS. An under-represented language in their...
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Any web site can become a PWA – but we need to do better
Over on his blog, I just go a ding from Jeremy. Literally any website can—and should—be a progressive web app. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I was at an event last year where I heard Chris...
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Debugging JavaScript – console.loggerheads?
The last two days I ran a poll on Twitter asking people what they use to debug JavaScript. console.log() which means you debug in your editor and add and remove debugging steps there watches which...
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How can we make more people watch conference videos?
It is incredible how far we’ve come in the coverage of events. In the past, I recorded my own talks as audio as not many conferences offered video recordings (and wrote about this as a good idea in...
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DevRelSummit was well worth it
Last week I was in Seattle to attend a few meetings and I was lucky to attend DevRelSummit in the Galvanize space. I was invited to cover an “Ask me anything” slot about Developer Outreach in...
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Taking a break – and so should you
TL;DR: I am going on holiday for a week and don’t take any computer with me. When I’m back I will cut down on my travels, social media and conference participation and focus more on coaching others,...
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Reasons to attend and/or speak at Reasons.to
I am currently on the train back to London after attending the first two days of Reasons.to in Brighton, England. I need to go to pick up my mail that accumulated in my London flat before going back...
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Web truths that cause infinite loops
Every few months there is a drama happening in the blogging and social media scene. We seem to need that to keep ourselves occupied. It allows us to get distracted from the feeling that the people who...
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Web truths: CSS is not real programming
This is part of the web truths series of posts. Every few months there is an article claiming that CSS is not real programming. That CSS is too hard and broken. The language used in these can get...
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Web Truths: JavaScript can’t be trusted
This is part of the web truths series of posts. A series where we look at true sounding statements that we keep using to have endless discussions instead of moving on. Today I want to tackle the issue...
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