Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Stupid interview questions will get you limited developers – is that what the market wants?
In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: XXXXXXX XX XX X X X X X X X X X X X XX XX XXXXXXX The solution they come up with is a simple console.log() or print command. console.log(`XXXXXXX […]
A behind the scenes of how I create an edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest – 3 hours in 1 minute speedrun
I write a newsletter every week at https://wearedevelopers.com/newsletter with 150k subscribers. Today I recorded the 3 hours I spent putting the current edition together. Here it is sped up to one minute. I use my browser, lots of copy + paste and VS Code.
What’s your excuse for not using the web share API?
The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and lots of them that started as WordPress plugins but now are security concerns. Instead of guessing how […]
Social media platforms should make it easier to add alternative text using an [Alt: description] syntax
Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different platforms. Personally I use Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn and the following video shows just how much […]
Exif by magic – the forgotten extra information in JPEG and TIFF files
I just shot a ton of pictures on vacation and was amazed to see just how much extra data our mobile phones store in images. This exif data in JPG and TIFF files can be a privacy issue, which I pointed out in my TEDx talk some time ago and even created a tool to […]