A lot of technical people currently spout regressive and harsh messages about race, religion, identity and women’s rights to side with “strong man” politicians and parties. That’s their right, but it also is an abuse of reach and power. Time to focus. A lot of the people whose work I adore and admire are terrible […]

When I moved to the UK at the tail end of the last millennium, I wasn’t in a good place. I was hired by a US company to work in their German office, and they sent me over to the US to work on their product. I lived in a hotel for a few months, […]

Cleaning out some old boxes trying to find an old work contract I came across a sticker sheet I got back when HTML5 became a standard that has all the icons on there the W3C defined as part of the “web reboot”: I posted it around on social media to see who can remember them […]

For our weekly WeAreDevelopers Live Show I wanted to have a way to include a time progress bar into the page we show. The problem there was that these are markdown files using GitHub Pages and whilst I do use some scripting in them, I wanted to make sure that I could have this functionality […]

When I still worked for a US company, I traveled every few weeks to the US, so much so that I had gold status on several airlines. Ever since the Covid pandemic hit and I got laid off by my last employer as part of a 10k employee cut, I stuck to Europe. Other reasons […]