The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and lots of them that started as WordPress plugins but now are security concerns. Instead of guessing how […]

Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different platforms. Personally I use Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn and the following video shows just how much […]

I just shot a ton of pictures on vacation and was amazed to see just how much extra data our mobile phones store in images. This exif data in JPG and TIFF files can be a privacy issue, which I pointed out in my TEDx talk some time ago and even created a tool to […]

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it would be fun to go back to our ways of early social media, and put them all up on Flickr with […]

When the web started one of the best parts about it was the naming of things. To “surf the web” implied fun and adventure and to “browse” implied serendipity. And we seem to have lost that. Let’s go back. When I discovered the internet it was pretty much just taking off. I didn’t go to […]