Humans are a weird bunch. One of our great traits is that when someone tells us that a certain thing is a certain way, we question it. We like debating and we revel in it. The more technical you are, the more you enjoy this. As someone once put it: Arguing with an engineer is […]

JavaScript is everywhere and it is the hottest thing to have on your CV. For now. Python is gaining and Deep Learning is to blame, but I digress. With JavaScript’s hype we also talk a lot about JavaScript fatigue. People feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things you can do with it. Or — even more […]

This is part of a series of posts about the life as a DevRel person and how not all is unicorns and roses. You can read the introduction and the other parts of the series here. So, today, let’s talk about traveling. When I worked for the Red Cross with elderly people one thing became […]

Back in March I was at We are Developers in Vienna, Austria, gave a two hour workshop on using AI on the web, a talk about code not being the answer to everything and MCed on the main stage on the third day. Another fun thing to do was this panel discussion on the Pitfalls […]

Over on Jonathan Snook’s blog we have a pretty good debate about a controversial tweet by Tom Dale: Can we agree that, in 2018, human-readable "View Source" is a constraint the web can discard? I benefitted from "View Source" too, but today we have an embarrassment of resources and open source examples I would have […]