Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

80 years ago

80 years ago today the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Millions of people were killed there. Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, political prisoners… All accounted for. Killed by people “just following orders”. An industrial destruction complex void of any emotion. A dehumanisation machine. Surrounded by villages of people who claim not to […]

Quick tip: Rotating images and videos 90 degrees in MacOS Finder using CMD+R or CMD+L

Whilst trying to reload a document in my browser, I found an interesting shortcut. As I had a Finder window in focus with a video file highlighted, I found out that: You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 degrees clockwise by pressing CMD+R and You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 […]

WAD Live 22/01/2025 – Accessibility, JavaScript Bundlers and Git Basics

OK, yesterday at WeAreDevelopers Live we talked with Stefan Judis about AI and Webdesign, Screenreaders and what JavaScript bundler to use. All the links we talked about are here: DeepSeek Crushes OpenAI o1 with an MIT-Licensed Model—Developers Are Losing It Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web […]

“modern” is rubbish

Some terms irk me whenever I read them and one of them is “modern”. I try to avoid it like the plague, which is counter to all the marketing announcements you read out there: “Product X uses modern JavaScript features” “7 modern CSS tricks you can’t live without” “The modern productivity tool to get your […]

Learning HTML is the best investment I ever did

One of the running jokes and/or discussion I am sick and tired of is people belittling HTML. Yes, HTML is not a programming language. No, HTML should not just be a compilation target. Learning HTML is a solid investment and not hard to do. I am not alone in this, Wired had a piece on […]