Hi, I’m Robert, a web developer & photographer.

I see this in myself. While being deeply worried, I'm also petrified. I don't know what to do. My commitment to change hasn't gone far enough yet. I'm part of the problem. I see my kids and want a healthy world for them. I want them to grow old without worrying. But I'm also stuck in my privileged way of living. Just one more steak, one more trip with the car, one more cheap purchase online. How bad can my impact be? After all, the system around me has to change. But that's just another excuse. I'm aware of that…

Visualizing large datasets on a map is not easy, you say? In this article I’ll show how to do just that in 160 lines of JavaScript using deck.gl on a Google Map, loading data from a Google Sheet.

We are going to use a large open dataset with information on power plants from all over the world, which should be interesting to visualize.

Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is stifling the very platform it once saved from the clutches of Microsoft. And no one, beside Google, needs that.

I'm really sad to see Microsoft switch to Chromium as the basis for their new Edge browser. The web is getting very homogen and that didn’t turn out to be a good idea in the past. Try Firefox for a free web. I use it since a few years and it got…

Carter Sande writes about the current trend to use client-side navigation via JavaScript instead of relying on good old server rendered HTML pages linked via a classic <a> hyperlink.

It’s actually really hard to get it right—loading the new page is simple enough, but you also have to write code to display a loading bar, make the Back and Forward buttons work, show an error page if the connection drops, and so on.