Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Shut up, old man…
Often you will be part of meetings where people show demos of what your product could look like in the future. These are brain-storming, visionary meetings that can have great outcomes. The idea is to not think in boundaries but in benefits for your users and customers. The longer you work in a certain company […]
New class on Skillshare: Tools and Tips to Optimise Your Workflow as a Developer
I have a new class on Skillshare where I am teaching how to be a developer that is easy to work with in a world of home office, geographical and temporal distribution and how to communicate across departments. You can check the introduction video here: Here’s what I am covering in the video: Our world […]
Accessibility issues you can discover and fix using the browser Developer Tools
I’ve been busy lately writing and recording a lot of things concerning accessibility and tooling. One of the practical upshots of my Skillshare Class Product Management: Tools for Improving Product Accessibility was that I had to go through the documentation of the developer tools of Microsoft Edge and bring it up-to-date with new information about […]
The (new) Developer Advocacy Handbook is live!
I just finished the writing part of the new edition of the Developer Advocacy Handbook. I wrote the original almost 15 years ago, and this edition is a heavy re-write. A lot has changed in the world of Developer Advocacy and I tried to add my findings over the last few years to the book. […]
Automated accessibility testing gets you on the way, but doesn’t find all the problems
Testing your products for accessibility issues is a tricky thing. Your users have all kind of different needs and setups. They use computers in ways that appear daunting to you and hard to replicate. Any sighted person that used a screen reader to test their products can verify this. Often we turn off the sound […]