One of my favourite parts of CSS is the !important exception. It is a wonderful metaphor of the oft cited problem between CSS and JavaScript developers. As a CSS developer, you know to avoid using it. It makes things too important and hard to overwrite. As a developer that has to write CSS and doesn’t […]

Last weekend I went to Munich to give the opening keynote for the Azure Saturday hosted in the Microsoft office. I was asked to give an overall intro about AI, what we should be worried about and how to embrace this new technology without locking people out or endangering them. The video recording is on […]

I’ve spent the better part of the last seven years presenting at all kind of conferences, meetups and client meetings and I’ve learned a lot along the way. I learned about different needs of different audiences and how to prepare your talk to make it as easy as possible for organisers to work with you. […]

A few weeks ago I was in Paris, France to visit Prismic and they interviewed me about the JavaScript vs. CSS debate. In 10 minutes we covered a lot :). Transcript Here is a verbatim transcript of what we talked about: Hi, Chris. We are here at Prismic, very happy to have you there. Could […]

A few weeks ago I was in Paris, France to visit Prismic and they interviewed me about the JavaScript vs. CSS debate. In 10 minutes we covered a lot :). Transcript Here is a verbatim transcript of what we talked about: So I’m here at Prismic, with Chris Heilmann. Chris, can you introduce a little […]