The nice folks at Avocode have a series of blog posts where they interview important people of the web and ask them about their history and career. Probably by accident, I ended on their invite list and they just published a long blog post of me explaining some things. The questions we answered were in […]

Update: Moved the code to GitHub, make sure to drag it from there to your toolbars Update: Fixed now for Chrome – there were some issues with whitespace :( I like tweeting about pages I read in the following format: “Headline” https://example.com Most “share this” buttons add a lot of cruft and if there is […]

Often we want to have an interface where we have a container with overflow: scroll with a header and a footer. One problem with that is that when we add new elements to the container, they do get added to the end of it but the element won’t show up before the user scrolls down. […]

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. […]