How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article.

The decline of Stack Overflow

How trolls have taken over your favorite programming Q&A site

10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world

This post is about performance techniques, so I hope you won’t mind that the site in question is not quite finished.

Edit: it’s finished!

PSA: If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it now.

This is what Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Turin, Italy and made a boo boo. I forgot my phone in our rental car for a two hour visit to a local outdoors spa (Acquajoy, great fun especially for the kids!). The end result was…

Why you should never use Upwork, ever.

Note. I never wanted to write something like this, or expose the people involved. However, I…

The Age of Apple is Over

It’s become the new Microsoft.

A guide to giving your cats their annual performance review

So you think you know C?

A lot of programmers claim they know C. Well, it has the most famous syntax, it has been there for 44 years, and it’s not cluttered with obscure features. It’s easy!

I mean, it’s easy to claim that you know C. You probably learned it in college or on the go…

Why you shouldn’t share links on Facebook

Update: Facebook decided to fix this issue after all. This blog post received way more (media) attention than I’d have expected. I am glad people responded and Facebook listened, but if I had known this article would gain this much attention I’d have spent…