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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Sunday Times this weekend had an ad that made my eyes pop (click the detail to see the whole page): It really looks like one of those overlay ads you have in web sites, and must have cost quite a ...

When you take photos with your smartphone or camera it adds much more to the image than meets the eye. This EXIF data contains all kind of interesting information: type of device, flash on or off, ...

I’m guilty of it myself, and I see it a lot: making fun of Microsoft in a presentation. Sure, it is easy to do, gets a laugh every time but it is also a cheap shot and – maybe – more destructive to ...

Things that made me happy this morning: ...