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 ...

I just shot a ton of pictures on vacation and was amazed to see just how much extra data our mobile phones store in images. This is a ton of information to play with. The classic is using the GPS data ...

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 ...

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it ...

I just delivered a talk on JavaScript and ES6 at All things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is just a quick post to give you all the content and links I talked about.

This was part of my presentation at the Open Hack Day in India and I just got the time to write it up. Here you’ll learn how to get Flickr photos into your JavaScript solutions without having to ...

I was very happy this morning to see that YouTube now features the option to jump to a certain time in the video directly by adding a timestamp hash to the URL. For ...

When you take photos with your smartphone or camera it adds much more to the image than meets the eye. This EXIF data contains all kind of interesting information: type of device, flash on or off, ...

In this presentation I was listing some of the issues that – to me – keep web development from being professional and innovative. I get the discouraging feeling following the web and several mailing ...