Every browser these days comes with built-in developer tools that help people create, test and fix products for the web. You can right-click any website and select `Inspect` to get to them, press `F12` or `CMD + Shift + I on Mac` or `Ctrl + Shift + I` on Windows/Linux. These tools are for developers, […]

Device Emulation in developer tools is great, but it doesn’t deliver to all users of it and could be much better. Please help us improve it. When developer tools of browsers came out with Device Emulation and reponsive design tooling , everything changed. As a developer, you didn’t need to resize the browser window any […]

When debugging or analysing JavaScript, you often see people trying to find out how often a certain function is called. The common way to do that is to use a global counter variable to increment and log in the function. var i = 0; function test(){ // other functionality i++; console.log(i); // other functionality }var […]

When you write markdown files, headings automatically also get an ID generated so they become in-page targets to link to. This is also used to create a table of contents in various publishing systems. Today I learned that VS Code also offers these generated IDs as an autocomplete when you type links. If you wrap […]

I’m currently putting things together for a new flat and I realised that there are a lot of similarities between assembling IKEA furniture and doing web development. You get a huge bag of seemingly random parts and you should sort them before you start Everything is standardised and uses building blocks The manual is meant […]