https://www.hownormalami.eu is amazing. Funded by the EU, it asks you to share your camera and then continues to tell you what different “AI” algorithms think of you – age, gender, BMI and so forth. It shows a video at the same time explaining what is being analysed and how these algorithms fail. It does some […]

I’ve had a busy week. Sharing developer tips at Microsoft Create: Serverless Wednesday I hosted an open Mic session at the Microsoft Create: Serveless event together with Marie Hoeger. The topic was “Developer Hacks and Tools we wished we knew sooner” and we had about 30 attendees sharing their best tricks. I put up a […]

Photo by TeroVesalainen I like checkboxes – they give me a simple way in a tool to turn modes on and off without using much space. I especially like it that you can style them with CSS without jumping through hoops like you need to with buttons. I like to use checkboxes as buttons. And […]

About eight years ago Bret Victor tried to change the way developer tools work by providing a faster and simpler way from creation to consumption. He also followed it up with a Learnable Programming Course asking for simpler development teaching courses. The presentation “Inventing on Principle” was a smash hit, despite its deplorable video quality. […]

I just found some old DVDs with lots of small videos I collected on the web of a long ago. They are in most dubious formats and some of them play not very well on my Mac because of it (even in VLC, we’re talking .asf, .3gp and lots of .mpeg here). So I wondered […]