Disclaimer: I got no affiliation with Hemingway other than paying for it. I am just genuinely excited about this. Hemingway is an app I use almost daily. It is a text editor that shows you when your language gets too hard to read. It advises you to keep shorter sentences and avoid complex language. It […]

As part of taking over the editorial job of the WeAreDevelopers newsletter, I needed to get all the links from older editions and import them into a spreadsheet. Eventually I will write a scraping script, but there is a much simpler way to get all the links from a web site into a spreadsheet: browser […]

GitHub is where code lives. You make your updates there, and in the case of frontend work, you can even host it in GitHub pages. When I publish something, I write a blog post and often I put some of the code in the post. When feedback comes in about new features I update the […]

I just added a “share to mastodon” link to this bloh. Ages ago I added a “share to Twitter” link, as there is a URL you can send Tweet content to that works: http://twitter.com/share?url={URL}&text={TEXT}?&via={TWITTER_HANDLE} With Mastodon, it wasn’t as easy as it is a federated service and there is not one URL. So I had […]

Now, with the World Congress out of the way, it is time to focus on my new role as Director of Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers. It feels great that what I do anyways because of personal interest is part of my role. This was the case when I worked for Yahoo and Mozilla and the […]