Only one week left until Christmas, and people already start freaking out again. No gifts purchased yet, work isn’t finished either, and suddenly some budget has to be spent until the end of the year. All of this **puts us under pressure**. To avoid the stress…

Happy new year! I hope you had a good start and can **feel positive about what 2017 might bring**. As mentioned in the last edition of the past year, I don’t like New Year’s resolutions too much, but I’d like to point you to something that [Marc Thiele wishes…

When working in a team, we focus so much on the work, that we often forget that we all have something in common. Something that is so obvious that we underestimate it: we all are human beings. And well, if we want to **grow as a team** and get better at what…

**With great power comes great responsibility**. This week I found some resources that got me thinking: Service Workers that download 16MB of data on the user’s first visit? A Bluetooth API in the browser? Private browser windows that aren’t so private at…

**Everyone here can have a big impact on a project**, on someone else. I get very excited about this when I read stories like the one about an intern at Google who did an experiment that saves tons of traffic, or when I get an email from one of my readers…

As web developers, we need to rely on our knowledge, and choosing solutions we’re already familiar with is often the most convenient approach to solving a problem. However, **not only technology is evolving but also our knowledge of how to use it**.

For…

Phew, what a week! Due to an HTML-parsing bug, Cloudflare experienced a major **data leak**, and the first practical collision for SHA-1 was revealed as well.
We should take these events as an occasion to reconsider if a centralized front-end load balancer…

As web developers, we all approach our work very differently. And even when you take a look at yourself, you’ll notice that **the way you do your work does vary all the time**. I, for example, have not reported a single bug to a browser vendor in the past…

This week was a big week in terms of web development news. We got much **broader support for CSS Grids** and Web Assembly, for example, but I also stumbled across some great resources that teach us a lot of valuable things.

With this Web Development Reading…

We’re all designers. Whether we do a layout, a product design or write code to design a product technically doesn’t matter here. What does matter though, is that we always take the context of a project into consideration. Because as someone shaping a project…

With GraphQL, FQL, and IndexedDB2, we have new tools at our fingertips that allow us to build products that are not only **more flexible** but also faster. With this week’s Web Development Reading List, we’ll dive a bit deeper into these promising technologies…

From time to time, we need to take some time off, and actually, I’m glad that this reading list is a bit shorter as the ones you’re used to. Because one thing that really stuck with me this week was Eric Karjaluoto’s article.

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Bots and Artificial Intelligence are probably the most hyped concepts right now. And while some people praise the existing technologies, others claim they don’t fear AI at all, citing examples where it fails horribly. Examples of Facebook or Amazon advertising…

We all have fears and doubts. It’s not different for you than for me. Over the last weeks, “well-known” people on Twitter started to share mistakes they made in life or their careers. I think it’s very helpful to read that **we all make mistakes**.

We all…

In a world between building accessible interfaces, optimizing the experiences for users, and big businesses profiting from this, we need to find a way to **use our knowledge meaningfully**. When we read that even the engineers who built it don’t know how…

When did you take your last **vacation**? For many of us, it was probably a long time ago. However, since quite a while, I stumble across more and more stories about companies that take unusual steps vacation-wise. Companies giving their employees a day off…

When was the last time you took some time to reflect? Constantly surrounded by news and notifications to keep up with and in a rush to get things done more efficiently, it’s important that we take a step back from time to time to **reflect our actions and…