In my keynote at HTML5DevConf in San Francisco I talked about a pattern of repetition those of us who’ve been around for a while will have encountered, too: every few years development becomes “too hard” and “too fragmented” and we need “simpler solutions”. In the past, these were software packages, WYSIWYG editors and CMS that […]

On my birthday, 26th of April 2014, I was lucky enough to once again be part of the State of the Browser conference. I gave the closing talk. In it I tried to wrap up what has been said before and remind people about what apps are. I ended with an analysis of how web […]

Last weekend was a milestone for me: I spoke at my first TEDx event. I am a big fan of TED and learned a lot from watching their talks and using them as teaching materials for coaching other speakers. That’s why this was a big thing for me and I want to take this opportunity […]

OMG OMG OMG I am speaking at TEDx! Sorry, just had to get this out of the way… I am currently in the sunny Thessaloniki in Greece at TEDx and waiting for things to kick off. My own talk is in the afternoon and I wanted to share my notes and slides here for those […]

I am currently doing a survey amongst people who speak for Mozilla or want to become speakers. As a result of this, I am recording short videos and write guidelines on how to deal with various parts of presenting. Photo Credit: Carbon Arc via Compfight cc A lot of the questions in the “Presenting tips […]