TL;DR: JavaScript is too great an opportunity to build accessible, easy-to-use and flexible solutions for the web to not use it. It fills the gaps years of backwards-compatibility focus created. It helps with the problems of the now and the future that HTML and CSS alone can’t cover reliably. We shouldn’t blindly rely on it […]

At almost every developer conference right now there will be a talk that features the following “funny GIF”: Peter Griffin aka Family Guy trying to make some blinds close and making a total mess of it, randomly dragging the cords until he gives up and rips them off the window. With the caption CSS. It […]

A few days ago Jake Archibald posted a JSBin example of five ways to center vertically in CSS to stop the meme of “CSS is too hard and useless”. What I found really interesting in this example is how he animated showing the different examples (this being a CSS demo, I’d probably would’ve done a […]

Vor ein paar Tagen war ich zu Gast bei AOE in Wiesbaden um beim Frontend Rhein-Main meetup über die Gefahren von ueberspitzter Kritik an JavaScript zu sprechen. Dieser Vortrag wird auch bald auf Englisch erhältlich sein. Das Video des Vortrags ist von AOE schon fertig editiert und auf YouTube zu finden: Die (englischen) Slides sind […]

Last week I spent in Germany at an event sponsored by the government agency for unemployment covering the issue of digitalisation of the job market and the subsequential loss of jobs. When the agency approached me to give a keynote on the upcoming “fourth industrial revolution” and what machine learning and artificial intelligence means for […]