I just love how far CSS has come in the last few years. With custom properties and media queries you can achieve so much in just a few lines of code. For example, these 15 lines make sure that users of light mode in their operating systems get a black on white document and those […]

The other day I had a friend come to my place with the request to “learn HTML and how web sites work”. We spent a few hours playing with the topic and she got excited and quite far into it. The whole thing reminded me about a real problem when it comes to teaching people […]

There are lots of ways to test your web site for accessibility issues. Services, software packages, even human testing companies. They all have their place and often a test with real people is the best thing to do. However, for a quick, preliminary test you don’t need to install anything or pay for a service. […]

Currently I am publishing the new Developer Advocacy Handbook chapter by chapter and I also started recording audio versions of each chapter. A common request of people is to be able to control the speed of a audio/video recording. Luckily enough, using basic HTML5 and JavaScript, this is not that hard to achieve, so let’s […]

Eleven years ago I wrote the Developer Evangelism Handbook and since then it helped a lot of of people start a career in Developer Relations. Now a publisher approached me if they could do a print version. The negotiations are still underway, but I was sure that it is not a good plan to release […]