Christian Heilmann

Adding a “share to mastodon” link to any web site – and here

August 18th, 2023

I just added a “share to mastodon” link to this bloh. Ages ago I added a “share to Twitter” link, as there is a URL you can send Tweet content to that works: http://twitter.com/share?url={URL}&text={TEXT}?&via={TWITTER_HANDLE} With Mastodon, it wasn’t as easy as it is a federated service and there is not one URL. So I had […]

What’s my job in my new role as Director of DevRel at WeAreDevelopers?

August 16th, 2023

Now, with the World Congress out of the way, it is time to focus on my new role as Director of Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers. It feels great that what I do anyways because of personal interest is part of my role. This was the case when I worked for Yahoo and Mozilla and the […]

The Verge’s new way to display news item links is a terrible idea

August 14th, 2023

Sometimes it is baffling to me why people publish on the web and don’t follow the simplest ideas that made the web what it is. Take a link for example. You can link anything in HTML so that when users interact with it they go to another URL, or a target inside the current document. […]