Toby Shapshak: You don’t need an app for that
In a 2013 TED talk South African writer Toby Shapshak talks about innovation out of necessity and how entrepreneurs in Africa are solving real-world problems for both their own continent and the world...
View ArticleCameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
In this fast-paced TED talk entrepreneur Cameron Herold talks about why kids should be raised to be entrepreneurs instead of being lawyers or accountants. By and large, society and our educational...
View ArticleStephanie Rieger – The Emerging Global Web
In this presentation Stephanie Rieger talks about how the web is accessed and used in emerging economies in Africa and Asia and why mobile plays a dominant role in developing countries: Stephanie...
View ArticleRachel Nabors: Animating the User Experience
In this talk interaction developer and cartoonist Rachel Nabors explains the six components of motion design and how to apply those in order not to make your UI just flashy (or should I say “gaudy”?)...
View ArticleHow to succeed in business as an introvert
In this article entrepreneur Michael Shreeve provides an interesting “Introvert’s Guide To Success In Business“. The cliché of a typical entrepreneur still is something like an alpha-type salesperson...
View ArticleFonts in use: Typefaces in the wild
I like the simple elegance of type, the multitude of typefaces – from very ancient to very modern – available today and the vast range of intent, identity, tone and voice typefaces allow you to convey....
View ArticlespaCy – A fast natural language processing library
spaCy is a rather new library (written in Python and Cython) for performing various NLP-related tasks such as tokenization, POS-tagging and syntactic parsing. The authors claim it’s faster (in some...
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Web Summit 2015 in Dublin
A few weeks ago I’ve been to beautiful, vibrant Dublin for this year’s Web Summit. Web Summit – self-proclaimed (and from what I’ve seen and experienced quite rightfully so) “world’s greatest tech...
View Article(Deutsch) Arbeitnehmerüberlassung? Nein, danke!
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View ArticlePrimate: Walking the tightrope between mediocrity and bankruptcy
In October I was at this year’s Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. Fronteers is a front-end developers association that organises local events throughout the year but is most well-known for this –...
View ArticleZoltan Kollin: Misused mobile UX patterns
Zoltan Kollin, UX designer, co-organizer of the Amuse UX Conference and co-author of UX Myths (another highly recommendable collection of user experience tips and guidelines) recently wrote a post...
View ArticleRemy Sharp @ Fronteers 2015: The Art of Debugging
At the Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam in October JavaScript specialist Remy Sharp talked about “The Art of Debugging” or rather his debugging workflow and useful best practices and approaches for...
View ArticleChris Heilmann @ Fronteers 2015: Of Gaps, Fillers and Empty Spaces
At the Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam in October 2015 developer / evangelist Chris Heilmann gave a talk about our desire as web developers to innovate ever faster, mostly motivated by our feeling...
View ArticleSurvey for IT freelancers: How do you approach marketing and sales?
As you probably know, I’m an independent IT consultant. Recently, I’ve been researching how to do marketing and sales in the industry in a bit more detail. I tried different approaches and made some...
View ArticleHackers – Between camp and weird classic
Recently, I watched the film Hackers again. It’s a weird, fast-paced jumble of tech paranoia, Camp, techno-babble, a contrived hacker youth sub-culture that – perhaps sadly so – neither existed at that...
View ArticleSurvey for IT freelancers: How do you approach marketing and sales? – The...
Ten days ago I published a survey for IT freelancers asking various questions about how they approach marketing and sales. As promised here are the results of the survey. Thanks a lot to everybody who...
View ArticleAnna Debenham @ Fronteers 2015: Front-end Style Guides
At last year’s Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam freelance front-end developer Anna Debenham talked about front-end style guides. If you’ve ever heard about Pattern Lab and Atomic Design – which...
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Internal, company-specific software frameworks are evil
OK, I’m exaggerating a little here, company-specific software frameworks aren’t exactly evil as in the true definition of the word but who isn’t fond of the occasional hyperbolic headline? What I’m...
View ArticleAdvice On Improving JavaScript Test Speed (by Shyp Engineering)
On their blog engineers of logistics service Shyp talk about how they improved the turn-around times of their JavaScript test suite by an order of magnitude of 3 (i.e. 1000x), which is no small...
View ArticleTracking Down Software Bugs, Automatically!
Last week MIT researchers published an article about an automatic bug-repair system called Prophet. Prophet is a machine-learning system that learns general properties and patterns of successful error...
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