Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Adding a “share to mastodon” link to any web site – and here
I just added a “share to mastodon” link to this bloh. Ages ago I added a “share to Twitter” link, as there is a URL you can send Tweet content to that works: http://twitter.com/share?url={URL}&text={TEXT}?&via={TWITTER_HANDLE} With Mastodon, it wasn’t as easy as it is a federated service and there is not one URL. So I had […]
What’s my job in my new role as Director of DevRel at WeAreDevelopers?
Now, with the World Congress out of the way, it is time to focus on my new role as Director of Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers. It feels great that what I do anyways because of personal interest is part of my role. This was the case when I worked for Yahoo and Mozilla and the […]
The Verge’s new way to display news item links is a terrible idea
Sometimes it is baffling to me why people publish on the web and don’t follow the simplest ideas that made the web what it is. Take a link for example. You can link anything in HTML so that when users interact with it they go to another URL, or a target inside the current document. […]
Hey du da, im Radio… Interview mit Christian Heilmann im Deutschlandfunk über KI und Softwareentwicklung
Letzte Woche hatte ich ein Interview mit einem Redakteur vom Deutschlandfunk zum Thema “KI und Softwareentwicklung” und am letzten Samstag lief der Beitrag im Radio. Hier gibt es die online version . Ich bin zufrieden mit dem Ergebnis, ausser das der O-Ton das 90% der Software bald von Software geschrieben wird nicht von mir stammt […]
Assistive technology shouldn’t be a mystery box
Web developers nowadays have full insight into how browsers work. The engines are open source, and you have programmatic access to almost anything they do. You even have in-built developer tools allowing you to see the effects your code has. You can see what the render engine does and how much memory gets allocated. With […]