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Quick tip: embedding YouTube Videos in GitHub pages
GitHub Pages is a great way to host some of your content online. All you need to do is to write some markdown files and tell GitHub to create it as a page. The problem is that you can’t just add some HTML into your markdown to – for example – embed a YouTube video. […]
New Developer Advocacy Handbook chapter – How to create short and concise technical videos
This weekend I released a new video on the VS Code TikTok and YouTube channel which got some good interaction (53k visits on TikTok, 6k on YouTube). Here is the VS Code portrait version: And here’s my original landscape one. People keep asking how I did those, so I added a new chapter to the […]
Automatic issue fixing and filtering in Visual Studio Code
Using the Microsoft Edge DevTools for VS Code extension you get live analysis of your code and information about problems with accessibility, compatibiliity, security and performance. One highly requested feature was to automatically fix issues or allow users to never report a certain issue again. This is now part of the extension since version 2.1.1. […]
The sum of all knowledge
Last week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and dividing up their belongings amongst us three children. One thing I immediately called dibs on were my father’s two books. Both were printed in 1955 and […]
You haven’t been hacked, these aren’t devices spying on you and these errors aren’t your fault
It is possible to accidentally open the developer tools in browsers. Either by pressing F12, selecting the “Inspect” option of the context menu or hitting one of the many keyboard shortcuts that open different tools. These tools can look intimidating and as if someone is hacking your computer. Especially when you see the Console tool […]