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 ...
Ok, I am an impatient person. I also love to hack around with things. You may or may not know about an experiment in Chromium Developer Tools called CSS Overview. What it does is give you an excellent ...
Update: As this is blowing up on Hackernews I added information to each of the tips in which environment they are supported in parenthesis after each heading. When I state “Chromium browsers”, this ...
Dogs are excellent, and great people. When I came across the Dog.ceo API of free dog images sorted by breed the other day, I had to do something with it. So I did. I give you the dog browser: You use ...
TL;DR: JavaScript is too great an opportunity to build accessible, easy-to-use and flexible solutions for the web to not use it. It fills the gaps years of backwards-compatibility focus created. It ...
If you use Microsoft Edge, you get a camera icon when you hover your mouse over any image: This is a great tool for users as it allows them to do a visual search in a sidebar for that image. During ...
I am lucky that in my job I manage to come across amazing people all the time. In some cases it takes a while for them to come out of their shell and show what they can do. One of those is my friend ...
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 ...
We wanted to make the game hackable, people playing with HTML could change it. That was more a request by me as Mozilla has the Webmaker project and there will be a lot of game hacking at Mozfest in ...
These are the notes for my talk at the TechKnowFest in Amsterdam. We always see big technology companies as the best place to work and as those who make the world go around. I’ve been pretty ...
This has also been published on Medium and dev.to in case you prefer them. Often you find things in web sites that annoy you. And – as a web developer – you’re even asked to fix some problems in web ...