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 ...

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 ...

In a few hours Web Directions East in Tokyo will kick off with a Pecha Kucha presentation night. This means that every speaker gets to show 20 slides in 20 seconds each (I first thought the whole ...

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it ...

For years I have been advocating the benefits of progressive enhancement as a safeguard to deliver working code to the world. In this – my final public talk as a full-time Yahoo employee – I talk ...

I just delivered a talk on JavaScript and ES6 at All things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is just a quick post to give you all the content and links I talked about.

One of the differences I keep seeing in functions and methods lately is that people seem to go away from the strict pattern of expecting parameters in a certain form. If you look back some years you ...

In this session Chris Heilmann will show how some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing. Instead of picking and choosing from already amazing products ...

This was part of my presentation at the Open Hack Day in India and I just got the time to write it up. Here you’ll learn how to get Flickr photos into your JavaScript solutions without having to ...

I’ll still be in Paris, but were I here I’d be very interested to go. Sussex Folk who want to spend a Saturday developing some prototypes and bounce ideas of other developers can come to Brighton on ...

I was very happy this morning to see that YouTube now features the option to jump to a certain time in the video directly by adding a timestamp hash to the URL. For ...