Two days ago I did something new: for the first time ever I cycled to the place I was to give a talk. Two reasons: one of them was that the yellow thing that hates gingers was in the sky and the second was that Reasons to be appy took place in the LSO at […]

Discussion. Responsive images. Picture too much? Srcset weird syntax? Brevity argument. Typing hard. People lazy. Let’s go shopping? In other, more human, words: in the wake of the current discussion about responsive images and solutions using a picture element or the srcset attribute I came across an argument that always annoys me. And I fear […]

Summary: Browser War panels have become predictable and non-informative. Instead they are there to entertain the audience but cause much more drama than good. I go to a lot of conferences. I organised events, a conference and a few unconferences and I spoke at a lot of them. Lately I also stepped back a bit […]

When writing documentation or doing examples you constantly run into the same issue: how do you display and demo the code at the same time? You don’t want to have a code display and live code as they will get out of sync (on the other hand I always found that when copying code into […]

Conference organisers: I also made a shorter cheatsheet with all this info for you. Hi, I am Chris, I love public speaking – so much that I spent most of the last five years on the road (with an average of 37 conferences a year in over 30 countries). I am also a very busy […]