Update: there was a simplification about Custom Attributes being not supporting concatenation, thanks to Sime Vidas, Brian Kardell and Greg Whitworth to set this straight. Over the last few iterations of CSS the boundaries between CSS and JavaScript started to blur. CSS was a static language, meant to define colours, look and feel, but not […]

I realised this week that I’ve been presenting at technology events for about 13 years now. The latter years were more or less dedicated to this and in some cases I covered 30 conferences a year. Painting by Anke Mehlert It is exhausting, but also fun work. And it brings a lot of extra opportunities. […]

Open Source is an excellent idea. It proved itself to create large and complex products with a shared workforce. It also allows products to follow the input and guidance from several players. Products don’t have to follow the demands of one company or their stakeholders. We build for the platform and the community, not for […]

I was once again a guest at devchat.tv’s “My JavaScript story” podcast and Charles Max Wood grilled me on Edge moving to Chromium, how I got into programing, blogging and what products I was happy to have contributed to. We also pivoted into events and online videos, how amazing our current development environment is and […]

The last weekend sucked and made me reconsider a lot of things in my life. Instead of being on stage at the landing festival talking about great web things I had to go see my family for an emergency. On Saturday we put the urn with my father’s ashes in the ground. That was a […]