GitHub Copilot is already the dog’s bollocks, but I just installed the GitHub Labs extension and my jaw is still open. Code explanation This one allows you to highlight a piece of code and get explanations of what it does: For example: async function downloadZipFile(downloadUrl) { await fs.remove(’out/edge’);   const file = fs.createWriteStream(’edge.zip’); https.get(downloadUrl, function(response) […]

Last week I was at build Europe and talked to a lot of people about the developer market. The general consensus was that there is a huge lack of developers to hire. That there is not enough talent. When I poked further and asked about how people assess talent, it boiled down to people having […]

What people think web developers do: Code, deploy and use, with coding being the main task What web developers really do: Coding Require random 3rd party framework code Updating Node/NPM Try the last command again with `sudo` Checking on mobile Shaking fist towards Cupertino Looking things up on the web Pasting Stack Overflow solutions Resize […]

Currently I am recording a lot of videos and I found the fastest way to do them is to write the script and read it out to my camera and then record screencasts and edit them to fit the narration. In order to make sure I read from the top of the screen and reading […]

You never create one product on the web – you create a product that people can change to their needs. At least you should. I’ve been working on the web since 1997 and one thing I realised early on is a big basic idea of the web: You do not control how your web product […]