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JustHTML 3.0.0 is out, and the biggest change is not a new API.

If you accept HTML from users (comments, profiles, CMS fields), you eventually hit the same problem: You want to keep some markup.

When Simon Willison wrote about JustHTML [1] [2], suddenly everyone was interested in giving their view.

I recently released JustHTML, a python-based HTML5 parser.

What % of the top 10 [features that customers ask for] do you end up implementing typically?

"Roadmapping is anti-agile.

Bitcoin is now accepted as legal tender in El Salvador.

It's a mistake not to think about randomness, for randomness is what you get if you don't make choices.

Update: For a wholesome look at e-mail security this video from the CTO of ProtonMail: https://vimeo.com/216747532 When you send an e-mail today it's sent in plaintext.

Säkerheten varierar stort bland svenska banker.

For about three weeks, I have been a beta tester and then a regular user of Narrative; a wearable camera that is always on, and that takes two pictures a minute.

What text editor you use when coding is a very serious subject.

I just got the fantastic chance to send an e-mail to ~10.000 people.

Christmas, and the weeks thereafter, are times for coding.

We all know how to make an AJAX request, and fetch some data.

To be an effective twitter user you really need a permanent window on your desktop, that shows you what's happening right now.

Microsoft has continuously failed at getting people in the tech crowd to like them.

Image by heiwa4126 via Flickr Google Maps has has geolocation support for a long time, but I still find people surprised of how it all works.

Image via Wikipedia Have you even tried clicking an "Add to cart"-button and not understood what happened?

A journalism student in Toronto, Canada, asked me some questions via e-mail about my old article about newspapers and online reading.

HTML5 is HOT!

Update: This is no longer the best way to load scripts.

About two weeks ago, I got my hands on an iPad.

Have you ever thought about what happens when you surf the web?

In 2006 I wrote an article about simulating Frames and Iframes and from time to time, I get questions of how to make modifications to the templates presented.

Google really produces great software.

I just encountered a quite mindboggling piece of news on the Google Wave blog.

Those of you that care about website performance have probably read about combining images, something that's called "CSS sprites".

I've recently managed to get a hold of a beta invite to Voddler, and thought I should tell you a little about my experience of it.

Everyone except Microsoft themselves are talking about the death of IE6.