As someone who has been doing this web development thing for a long time I am amazed how cool our tooling is by now. The best development environments don’t only make it easy for you to develop. They also guide you to do things right. Take this simple example of adding an image to an […]

Animations and transitions are things that can make a product feel much more natural and welcoming. They can also be a great way to make slow processes feel faster. But not everybody is OK with seeing animations and they can overwhelm people or – when done wrongly – even cause nausea and seizures. That’s why […]

Yesterday I presented Images, pixels, canvas, tigers and bears… at an online meetup called Programmed in Pencil run by RVU. I have to admit I misread the title of the event and thought it would be predominantly about creative coding, which is why I wrote this talk and not one about software planning or running […]

Halfstack is a series of events that are very close to my heart. They are predominantly about connections and sharing some nerdy fun. The locations are pubs and cinemas and there is a lot less pressure on presenters and audience. They aren’t a “cool crowd” event where you need to deliver “the killer talk”. Instead […]

Sometimes it is fun to re-visit very basic HTML things and look what we can do with them nowadays. This is what I will do now with a radio button group. I will progressively enhance it to look great and still work with keyboard and screen readers. As part of my Logo-O-Matic upgrade, I added […]