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

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.

Facebook fishing for our email passwords, Roomba is hovering up all the data on our homes, Amazon is listening to our conversations for laughs, Tik-Tok spying on our kids. And that we see so much dirt on the surface makes it likely that under the surface it’s even worse. The solution for all of this: “Ethics”.

I really enjoy the articles by iA. This one is about the “ethics” the tech industry applies and the difference to ethics.

The last two days I spent at the excellent Beyond Tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf. It was my second time after being in Berlin in 2017. As always I took notes on my phone, so autosuggest may have introduced some errors. Some videos are already up if you want to see the complete talks.

If you can, go to one of those conferences! The speakers are exceptional and it has a very familiar feeling being there. Thanks to Marc Thiele for running this each year!