A billion new developers thanks to AI?This is a translation of my German article for the AI mag.Sep 12, 202444210Sep 12, 202444210
A sentence for eternity from Elon Musk Smiling Face with Sunglasses.Over the last few years something magical has happened without much fanfare: social media platforms and operating systems automatically…Jul 7, 20241Jul 7, 20241
Witnessing the death of the web as a news mediumAs some of you may know, I started out as a radio journalist. And when I discovered the web in around 1996, I knew that, to me, radio and…Jun 3, 2024411Jun 3, 2024411
About yesterday’s European Song Contest 2024Yesterday was the final of Eurovision. Lots of people use this as an opportunity to post pictures of dead babies. I get it, we live in…May 12, 2024201May 12, 2024201
How does a changed market affect Developer Relations?Today, 21/02/2024, I will be opening a live event called Developer Program Leaders: Main Challenges in Developer Relations. Here’s the…Feb 21, 202468Feb 21, 202468
Lines of code — how to not measure code quality and developer efficiencyLines of code delivered are often seen as productivity or even quality of a developer. And that’s nonsense.Feb 6, 20241214Feb 6, 20241214
New feature in VideoTap: Clips — create short excerpt videos from bigger ones by highlighting text…VideoTap keeps getting better and better. The latest version now has a new feature called Clips which allows you to create short excerpt…Aug 26, 20233Aug 26, 20233
Turning the screw with AI — ways for developer advocates to debunk the “AI can replace developers”…We are in times of turmoil in the tech world right now. On the one side, we have the AI hype in full swing. On the other, companies are…Jun 21, 202338Jun 21, 202338
This is the time to be unpredictable and humanI was just about to write a blog post on my current experiences in trying to find a new job. I wanted to write about the frustrations and…Mar 28, 202310Mar 28, 202310
Releasing code in large corporations is slow — and there is a good reason for itOne of the things I always loved about the web is its immediacy. You write a piece of code, publish it somewhere and people can access it…Jan 31, 202317Jan 31, 202317
Things to do and not to do during a wave of tech layoffsCurrently we are in a huge round of tech layoffs that are reminiscent of the first .com crash in the beginning of the century. Meta…Jan 24, 202315Jan 24, 202315
ChatGPT will not replace programmers, but Search Engines should be worriedUnless you’ve lived under a rock, you probably heard of ChatGPT, OpenAI wunderkind chat bot that seemingly gives answers to any problem you…Dec 23, 2022Dec 23, 2022
Microdosing burnout — on working remote and in a different time zoneI’ve been working remotely in the EU for US companies for the last 15 years. On paper, this sounds like an excellent gig. You get the…Dec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
Celebrating 1M installs of Edge DevTools for VS CodeThe Edge DevTools for Visual Studio Code extension has over 1M downloads, time to recap a bit how it came to beSep 15, 2022Sep 15, 2022
The sum of all knowledgeLast week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and…Aug 29, 20224Aug 29, 20224
You haven’t been hacked, these aren’t devices spying on you and these errors aren’t your faultIt is possible to accidentally open the developer tools in browsers. Either by pressing F12, selecting the “Inspect” option of the context…Aug 18, 20222Aug 18, 20222
One million broken web sites — and a way to prevent thatWebaim.org releases an annual report called the WebAIM Million. This is a deep analysis of the one million most visited web sites how…Apr 12, 2022Apr 12, 2022
Noise cancellation for developersAre you feeling overwhelmed with the information you get as a developer and do you feel you’re falling behind? It isn’t you, it is noise.Mar 14, 20222Mar 14, 20222
The web starts on page 4After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secretsThis is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these…Nov 1, 20212Nov 1, 20212