Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

LinkedIn should punish the “comment X to get access” bait spam

I liked social media. I love learning and showing people how things are done there. I’m a LinkedIn and Skillshare trainer and wrote a few books. I also published tons of information on various social media channels. I also like that creators get benefits from publishing information. A social media platform should reward great contributions […]

Quick tip: hosting HTML/CSS/JS demos from source code on GitHub Pages

Did you know that you can host HTML/CSS/JS demos with execution and source code display on GitHub? All you need is a few include commands in a markdown file and your html/css/js files in a folder. Try it out here: https://codepo8.github.io/code-hosting-demo/example/ See the source here: https://codepo8.github.io/code-hosting-demo/example/index.md My Code Demo ## Try it out {% include_relative […]

I fell for a phishing attack and lost access to my X account. Here are five mistakes I did that you need to avoid!

After 20 years of using Twitter, I just lost access to my X account. The reason is that I fell for a phishing attack. As someone who helps a lot of people with their security issues, this is embarassing, but I want to make it a learning experience, so I will share my mistakes with […]

I fell for a phishing mail and lost access to Twitter/X

If you are following me there nothing that might be posted now is from me. DO NOT CLICK ANY links. I keep you posted when and if I got access again and will talk about it on the live show this coming Wednesday … This will be a good opportunity to re-assess my social media […]

WebMCP – a much needed way to make agents play with rather than against the web

WebMCP is an exciting W3C proposal that just landed in Chrome Canary to try out. The idea is that you can use some HTML attributes on a form or register JavaScript tool methods to give agents direct access to content. This gives us as content providers and web developers an active way to point agents […]