Last Saturday was my 50th birthday and it’s as good a time as any to reminisce a bit. The 80s were shit First of all: don’t believe the Stranger Things image of the 1980s. They were not a time of leg warmers and neon colours. They were a time of social unrest, existential anxiety and […]

In a moment of boredom, I wrote a little app/web page that shows lovely words we should be using more. It is done in plain HTML, JavaScript, and some CSS. The source code is available, and I am also happy to receive pull requests adding more lovely words. This is not what I wanted to […]

As someone curating a newsletter and dabbling in AI, I am feeling both overwhelmed and bored with news about yet another AI model being released by Company XYZ that will be a “game changer” and “leaves the others in the dust”. It feels hard to guess what I should be excited about. The size of […]

On Thursday this week I will be in Vienna to moderate the WeAreDevelopers WebDev & AI Day and I am chuffed to bits that I managed to get such an amazing line-up together! The event is an online event and you can follow on your computer. It starts at 16:00 and ends at 20:30. Tickets […]

As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and I’m worried, bored and annoyed in equal measures. There is not much social about it any longer. Instead it’s become a race to the bottom of lowest common denominator content. And interaction bait. Or rage bait. Or just obvious […]