No reason for a Flash upgrade to shut down your entire browser, even if it claims so.
The Case for the Ubiquitous Mobile Web
As we use more and more mobile devices in our lives, an open platform is becoming more, not less important.
[^predict]: He is, of course, not the first to predict such a thing, but with "smart watches" and such being released left and right, we're certainly closer than ever to this reality. [^browser]: Or the platform is the browser engine, as is the case with Firefox OS.
An Easter Egg for mozilla.org
There was a time when I worked on the website mozilla.org full time. This time has passed, but the website is in the capable hands of my friends at Mozilla's Web Productions team.
My "smart keyword" searches in Firefox
Woah it's been a long time since I last blogged. Busy times. So here you go with a casual Firefox tip:
Add-on Notifications Are Hard
Over the years, I have written a handful of Firefox add-ons, and I need notifications quite frequently. Why? Most of my add-ons do something in the background at the user's request, and when it's done, the user wants to know. Alternatively, if my add-on attempts to do something and fails, the user would see nothing happen at all, unless I somehow tell them.
imagetwist 1.1 now twists even harder
I just released a new version of imagetwist!
imagetwist, an add-on rotating images according to their EXIF data
Ever so often, friends send me emails with pictures they took on their phones. When looking at the photo, it frequently appears turned on its side, like this:
Not Every Problem is a "First-World Problem", or Chilling Effects of Social Pressure
There's a semi-funny Internet meme called "first world problems", here is an example:
6 Rules for Hiring Great People
By now, I have helped hire a few dozen people (web developers, mostly, but also database admins, recruiters, QA engineers, and such) and I really enjoy when my assessments were right and they turn out to be great employees.
Recruiters from Hell
I am grateful that my skill set is apparently a scarce commodity -- so much so that I routinely get emails from recruiters trying to get me interested into their respective employers / clients. So far so good. That's nice, even flattering at times.