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I just got back from Toronto, Canada, where I attended Web Unleashed a FITC organised three day conference with fifty talks in four tracks. Despite this size, the event felt cozy and not too spread...
View ArticleTrondheim Developer Conference 2018 – One day, three talks and many happy...
I just got back from Trondheim, Norway where I once again spoke at the Trondheim Developer Conference. The last time I spoke there four years ago and I had a great time and I have to say nothing...
View ArticleLearning about DevRel for the Asian market at DevRelSummit Singapore
I’m in the lounge of the Singapore Airport waiting for my flight. Yesterday I spent the whole day at DevRel Summit in a fancy event space listening to peers and colleagues how they tackle the task of...
View ArticleCodemotion Berlin – AI for good keynote and making people happier JavaScript...
The day before yesterday I was honoured to open the Berlin Edition of Codemotion . Codemotion touts itself the biggest developer event in Europe and is a multi-track event in Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid,...
View ArticleLet’s all go to the pub – to learn about web development – Halfstack 2018 in...
Halfstack is a conference that is close to my heart. Because it is in London, because it is in a pub, because it is run by a person who is lovely, ginger and did so, so much for the JavaScript...
View ArticleFeeling chart – to make you write more goodly with better emotionness
(Or something like that) A few weeks ago I found this incredibly useful chart that describes different emotions you can use when you write about, well, emotions. As you can see it’s been through the...
View ArticleLet’s make Machine Learning on the web and in the client happen. We need your...
Machine learning and deep learning is the hot breakthrough in computing and a well-hyped topic. How “intelligent” your systems are can be a significant factor in sales and many a mobile device is sold...
View Article2018 in events and trips
I just did a quick round-up of my events and trips in 2018, and despite me promising myself to do less, it tallies up to quite a bit. Here is my 2018, and I am not quite sure if I haven’t missed some...
View Article[webfinds] ML and security, Pixel Fire and your best work time
As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now....
View ArticleFour years at Microsoft
LinkedIn this week reminded me that I am now four years at Microsoft. Technically, my first day in a meeting on a company machine was the 5th of February (as Rey Bango reminded me). It’s been quite a...
View ArticleA more complicated web
One of the amazing things about the web used to be its simplicity. It was not too hard to become your own publisher on it. You either used one of the now defunct services like Geocities, Xoom, Apple...
View Article[webfinds] Ethical performance, programming sucks and 101 bash tips
As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now....
View Article[webfinds] Be safe on the internet, contain and specify CSS, history of...
As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now....
View ArticleHTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with that?
Every few weeks the webdevelopment Twitter world gets in a frenzy over terrible HTML. HTML that is only DIVs and SPANs with random classes on them. HTML lacking any sensible interfaces like anchors or...
View Article[webfinds] Shouting at your screen to prefetch some Word Art
As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now....
View Article[webfinds] Accessible apps, key access magic and fails and whistling at your...
As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now....
View ArticleIntroduction to my keynote at Techdays Finland 2019
The Techdays Finland people asked me to record a quick video about my talk at this year’s event. See you 28th of February!
View ArticleLinks that don’t go anywhere should be buttons
This morning I tweeted a blog post about Back to Basics: Non-Navigating Links for JavaScript Handling and rightfully incurred the wrath of the Gunnar pointing out the flaws of the article. In essence,...
View ArticleInteractive Typography cheatsheet
A few weeks ago I stumbled across a great resource, a typography cheat sheet explaining the proper names of all the different parts of letters. I thought it would be fun to turn this into an...
View ArticleCodemotion released the interview I gave about JavaScript and AI topics
Over on the Codemotion magazine, they just released the video interviews shot at the Berlin edition last year. I had quite a lot of questions, spanning from AI and ethics, what machine learning means...
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