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Derpify.js is now on npm and GitHub – a tool for these trying times…
As the times we live in demand it, I released Derpify.js. It is an npm package (3 line method) that turns strings into strings that are randomly mixed upper and lower case. console.log(derpify(‘All he wanted to say was I love you all.’)) gives you: ALL hE WANTed to SAY WAS I lOVe YoU AlL. Get […]
80 years ago
80 years ago today the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Millions of people were killed there. Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, political prisoners… All accounted for. Killed by people “just following orders”. An industrial destruction complex void of any emotion. A dehumanisation machine. Surrounded by villages of people who claim not to […]
Quick tip: Rotating images and videos 90 degrees in MacOS Finder using CMD+R or CMD+L
Whilst trying to reload a document in my browser, I found an interesting shortcut. As I had a Finder window in focus with a video file highlighted, I found out that: You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 degrees clockwise by pressing CMD+R and You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 […]
WAD Live 22/01/2025 – Accessibility, JavaScript Bundlers and Git Basics
OK, yesterday at WeAreDevelopers Live we talked with Stefan Judis about AI and Webdesign, Screenreaders and what JavaScript bundler to use. All the links we talked about are here: DeepSeek Crushes OpenAI o1 with an MIT-Licensed Model—Developers Are Losing It Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web […]
“modern” is rubbish
Some terms irk me whenever I read them and one of them is “modern”. I try to avoid it like the plague, which is counter to all the marketing announcements you read out there: “Product X uses modern JavaScript features” “7 modern CSS tricks you can’t live without” “The modern productivity tool to get your […]