Reading List

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

Linkshare – a GitHub Pages template to store links and share them on social media

With Twitter shutting down its APIs my automatic bookmarking of links broke, so I thought I use GitHub and GitHub pages to store links I talked about instead. Enter Linkshare, a GitHub Pages template that makes it simple to copy your links in a shareable format to use on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc… You can […]

Migraining to a new server

As MediaTemple ceases all grid servers, I had to move this to a new shared server. I hope all is OK and I am still on it.

Continuous growth is cancer

I am currently affected by the wave of layoffs in the technology industry and this isn’t my first rodeo. The difference is that it feels worse this time as I am not only annoyed by losing my job, but I am starting to feel that the system is incredibly flawed. Instead of building a sustainable […]

Automatically generating tests for JS/TS functions in VS Code with GitHub Copilot

Want to automatically generate tests for your JS/TS functions? GitHub CoPilot now does that. GitHubNext added a TestPilot experiment that can generate tests for a function by analysing it and scanning the docs and comments.

So, you want to safely authenticate with 2FA? App stores are still not the solution – “why the web is dead” revisiTED

Eight years ago I spoke at a TEDx conference where I vented my frustration at the app and app store model. I specifically called out that Apps are to me the biggest step back in software and content distribution we could do. Instead of an on-demand platform like the web where we could get the […]