X isn’t Twitter. X isn’t even driven by human emotions any longer and is run by a management that doesn’t care about people, emotions or the dangers of propaganda. That’s why a lot of people who made Twitter grow in the beginning – real content creators – now meet on BlueSky. I do, too, but […]

In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: XXXXXXX XX   XX X X X X X  X  X X X X X XX   XX XXXXXXX The solution they come up with is a simple console.log() or print command. console.log(`XXXXXXX […]

I write a newsletter every week at https://wearedevelopers.com/newsletter with 150k subscribers. Today I recorded the 3 hours I spent putting the current edition together. Here it is sped up to one minute. I use my browser, lots of copy + paste and VS Code.

The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and lots of them that started as WordPress plugins but now are security concerns. Instead of guessing how […]

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 platforms. Personally I use Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn and the following video shows just how much […]