Hi, I'm Thomas. Professional web developer. Eater of plants. Crossfit amateur. Passionate about fast websites, standards and the open web.
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Wordpress now federates with the ATProto protocol (Bluesky) via a new plugin by the core team. Combined with the ActivityPub plugin by the same team, Wordpress can now serve both sides of the federated social web. https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/20/atmosphere-1-0-0-liftoff/
The subscription to your AI double agent might be more expensive than you think Read more
A transformative journey Read more
Mass layoffs at big tech companies, fewer contractual work and even in the locker room at the gym people are talking giddily about "not needing a webdeveloper" anymore — "just use AI". Shit's getting real.When the football player Marcel Jansen left the professional sport at the... Read more
Last year, the major browser vendors implemented a feature that was missing for resources referenced by import maps: integrity checks. Earlier these were implemented on the individual script or link tags like this:<script src="https://example.com/example-framework.js" integrity="... Read more
This year I want to own the full stack again. Read more
Can jsDoc provide a similar editor experience while ditching the build step? Read more
When I started out with web development back in the late 90‘s, I did so with a program called Microsoft Frontpage Express. It was a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor, not unlike other authoring solutions like office word processors etc. it let you create your content... Read more
Although the LibreJS project slipped a bit out of public sight, being clear about the licenses of our frontend Javascript code should be common sense. Here is how to easily report your codes license to users. Read more
