Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
No more “Expert, Intermediate, Beginner”: Classifying talks in Call for Papers/Conference agendas
I am currently working on creating the new Call for Papers for the next WeAreDevelopers World Congress and one of the feedback items we got was that levels like “Expert, Intermediate and Beginner” don’t make much sense. First of all, speakers do not choose the right level as they are worried that a beginner or […]
Eine Milliarde neuer Entwickler dank KI? Linkliste
Hier sind die Resourcen meines Artikels im AI Magazin zum selbst nachlesen: The road to one Billion developers keynote by Thomas Dohmke and Demetris Cheatham of GitHub at WeAreDevelopers World Congress Amazon Cloud CEO Predicts a Future Where Most Software Engineers Don’t Code — and AI Does It Instead In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud […]
Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web
I am just on my way back home from presenting at the Typo3 Developer Days in Karlsruhe, Germany. I had a great time and met a lot of interesting people. I also had the opportunity to present my talk on making the web simpler. The talk was well received and there were some requests to […]
Interaction bait is killing social media
OK, I’m going to say it: interaction bait is killing social media. You know what I’m talking about. Those posts that are designed to get you to comment, like, or share. They’re everywhere, and they’re getting more and more annoying. I never cared much about timelines. Almost all my social media interaction is posting things, […]
Hot take: social platforms should disallow special character growth hacking
Over the last few years something magical has happened without much fanfare: social media platforms and operating systems automatically translate text content for us. Having spent a lot of time traveling around conferences, I amassed a lot of people I follow who do not speak or write like me. And whilst it was fun following […]