Reading List

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

Happy Birthday, WWW – 30 years of mining a landfill for valid code

Today the World Wide Web is 30 years old. I’ve worked on it since 1997 or so and I saw a lot of technologies and design trends come and go. I’ve also seen a lot of “this is much better and will replace the web” solutions come and go. What remained is the web with […]

Redirecting GitHub Pages

Today I finished moving the Edge Tools for VS Code extension documentation to its official space in the Microsoft docs. That meant I needed to redirect the documentation I hosted with GitHub pages in a docs folder/branch of the repository. There are plugins available for that, but I didn’t want to install any extra features […]

Using console.log() debugging in Visual Studio Code

Using the new in-built JavaScript debugger in Visual Studio code you can use the browser developer tools Console right inside the editor. I just published a “TikTok” style video on the official Visual Studio Code channel explaining this and – after lots of criticism for the quality of the video (lads, this is on purpose!) […]

Accessibility WTF: Voiceover on Mac announcing a list tree as a table?

I’m currently investigating a strange bug we got reported with the Edge Developer Tools. Voiceover on MacOS announces the DOM tree as a table and tells you how to navigate it – which then doesn’t work. The reason is that the markup isn’t a table. The DOM tree is, well, a tree, built with OL, […]

Debugging JavaScript, DOM, CSS and accessing the browser console without leaving Visual Studio Code

Now that Visual Studio Code has an in-built JavaScript debugger, it has become incredibly convenient to debug your project without leaving the editor. You can debug JavaScript, tweak CSS and the DOM and interact with the browser Console right inside VS Code. And you don’t need to know which extensions to install as the editor […]