Current advancements in ECMAScript are a great opportunity, but also a challenge for the web. Whilst adding new, important features we’re also running the danger of breaking backwards compatibility. These are my notes for a talk I gave at the MunichJS meetup last week. You can see the slides on Slideshare and watch a screencast […]

This blog started as a scratch pad of simple solutions to problems I encountered. So why not go back to basics? Yesterday I was asked by someone if there is a possibility to store the state of a collection of checkboxes in a single value. The simplest way I could think of doing this is […]

Being in a distributed team can be tough. Here are a few tricks I learned over the years to make distributed meetings easier. This is cross-posted on Medium, you can comment there. Photo Credit: Tim Caynes Working as distributed teams is a red flag for a lot of companies. Finding a job that allows you […]

I have been telling people for years that in order to create great web experiences and keep your sanity as a developer you should embrace Progressive Enhancement. A lot of people do the same, others question the principle and advocate for graceful degradation and yet others don’t want anything to do with people who don’t […]

According to the luminaries of the web design world, the “mobile web” doesn’t exist. Stephen Hay said it, Smashing Magazine said so and Jeremy Keith amongst many others. Except, it does. Not as a technical reality, but as a dream of marketing and overly excited managers who believe in magical powers of their engineers. And […]