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Compressive Images
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All of this isn’t to say we should never use compressive images—never is a word that rarely applies in my experience. But it does mean that we should be cautious. Another very good post by Tim and I…
Taking Responsibility for the Things You Build and Run
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It’s easy to blame third-parties and not taking responsibility for incidents of any kinds. The underlying problem is that it’s possible that it’s you yourself who allowed things to happen by design.…
How Fast Is Amp Really?
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Some interesting points and observations on AMP from Tim Kadlec. AMP’s restrictions mean less stuff. It’s a concession publishers are willing to make in exchange for the enhanced distribution Google…
Happy 29th
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Today marks the 29th birthday of what started as “Information Management: A Proposal” and we now know as the Internet. I still remember the feeling when I first saw email and the web in 1998. Since…
This Content is Not for You…
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This is one of the things that I really dislike about Facebook and a good example of how the web was never intended to work. A client sent me a video and I clicked the link. Rather unsurprisingly, it…
Respecting Users
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I always liked the idea of blog-post-replies, hence this post in reply to Vitaly’s article. (We should do these things more often again ;)) I feel the same way as many people do. You do something and…
Local .dev Domains and the Mysterious HTTPS Redirect
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Most of my development projects are set up with MAMP and then can be accessed on a local .dev domain on port 8888. This solution has been working well for me for many years, but this week I was in…
Social Media & Society
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I‘m not really surprised anymore about such things, but these news seem to be coming more frequently these days. I came across these two articles that kind of confirm what I‘ve been thinking and…
A Change is Coming
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Recently I have come across quite a few articles that I found very interesting, in a way that they provide somewhat of an optimistic outlook for our future on the web. I’ve been talking about this to…
Personal Views from Team Colloq
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After we have launched Colloq this week, our new platform for conferences, speakers and attendees, everyone from the team posted their personal thoughts. As you can probably find my post rather easy,…
Tech Reputation
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Especially in light of the previous note, I came across this article. I have to admit that I’m a little surprised about the extent of the change in reputation, but somehow I’m not surprised. I think…
For the Open Web
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I’ ve been speaking to various people and friends quite a bit about how the web is going in a direction that to me doesn’t seem sustainable in the long run. Data Greed and tracking is getting out of…
Launching Colloq
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We started working on Colloq over a year ago, after we had decided to start this project together. Now Colloq is finally live and I am very happy about that. Since our launch, we’ve had a lot of…
Deleting multiple GIT branches
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One thing I always came across, but then never really looked into, was deleting multiple GIT branches at once. Usually this has never been a big necessity, since I never had that many branches to…
Feature Iteration Fatigue
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TL;DR: What was meant to outline the annoyances with the many frequent app updates, turned into a rather lengthy opinion about Netflix’s latest UI changes. Almost every day I see a few app updates…
Improving Your Newsletter's First Impression
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Newsletters are one of the most popular marketing tools and many people and companies send them frequently. While it's fairly easy to set one up and get running, writing good content in general is a…
iCloud Calendar Spam - Part 2
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As I have just seen on Daring Fireball, Apple has now released a first step to prevent any further troubles with iCloud calendar spam that appeared last month. Unfortunately this is currently only…
iPhone & iCloud - Which iFind very annoying sometimes
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The other day I changed my iCloud password. I can't remember the exact reason why I did it, but you know, you can't change your password often enough. I mean, once in a while is not a bad idea at…
The Value of Attending Conferences
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The draft for this post has been sitting with me for over a year now and my experience at the recent conferences I attended reminded me that it is well about time for this post to get finished.…
iCloud Calendar Spam
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Last week I tweeted about receiving some iCloud calendar spam and I was wondering if this is the new thing now. Since it was kind of a one off, I didn't pay too much attention anymore, besides trying…
Oh, Apple or Having Fun Installing a New iPhone
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Last week I finally received my new iPhone 7 Plus. I held off a few days even before unpacking, since I had too much to do and didn’t want to get distracted. Then the day came and I decided to switch…
Shopify Theme Kit
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At first I was a bit reluctant to try the relatively new Shopify Theme Kit that seems to now replace the previous Shopify theme app. So far I have been quite happy with the Shopify Theme app whenever…
Shopify Theme Kit Time Out
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During my first time of using the Shopify Theme Kit, I ran into some problems during setup. One of the issues was that Theme Kit gave me a timeout during synch and it turned out that it doesn't like…
Shopify: Achieving Collections in Collections
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In one of my recent projects I got to work with Shopify again to build an e-commerce site from scratch. This was an exciting project and I liked working on it a lot, but it also posed a few…
Kirby Panel Issues and MAMP Pro
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Sometimes things happen, and they seem to happen for no reason. This was exactly the case when, from one day to the other, on four of my local Kirby installations the panel couldn’t be opened…