I just encountered a sneaky thing I had not seen, although it probably worked in 1999 already. A web site was showing a different title on the tab, depending on it being active or not. The whole trick is to use the blur and focus event handlers on the window to change the title. window.onblur […]

I’m part of a few organisations on GitHub and had one email address for notifications. This annoyed me as I didn’t want company notifications to my personal account as I couldn’t answer these. As it turns out, you can set up several email addresses in your GitHub account. In settings, go to Access > Emails […]

When I start a new project these days I create the following launch.json file and put in in a .vscode folder on the the root of my project. This turns Visual Studio Code into an environment that gives me everything I need to build a web product without ever leaving it. If you want to […]

It’s not pretty. This isn’t a dig at Skoop, he was just first on my timeline with a result when I did some accessibility testing. Screenreaders read out the squares as “black large square”, “green square” and “yellow square”. As a saving grace, they cleverly do group them, so four yellow squares are announces as […]

Yesterday I was a guest on the JavaScript Master Podcast by Dariusz Kalbarczyk and we talked a bit more than an hour about my job as a Developer Tools PM, what annoys me the most about the toolintg situation and how the community can help. You can listen to the podcast on anchor.fm or Spotify […]