Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

Semantic HTML and Accessibility

Tech

I've been looking into accessibility in web-design a bit lately and one of the things that keep popping up is to use semantic HTML. As long as you design your web-pages well, accessibility should be fairly good.

Firstly, one thing that is worth remembering about accessibility is that is for everyo...

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Some musings over Webapps

Tech

I have been spending a fair bit of time recently thinking about web-apps, what the difference is to a website, and how one should be designed.

The concept of web applications are not new. When I started in the business in 2000, it said "Application Designer" on my business card. As soon as you cou...

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Programming with HTML5

Tech

For a very long time now I have been planning to update my old list webapp.

I made the original maybe 5 years ago, before I found Wunderlist and other list apps. The original app was a very simple php server/client, no ajax app. And even though I have tried other apps along the years, it has serve...

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Browsers, browsers.

Tech

I've been using Firefox as my main browser for the last 6 months, but I recently decided to try out Chrome again as my desktop Firefox was getting a bit slow and buggy. (I was running the Aurora build, which might have something to do with it.) I just thought it would be a good idea to try out chrom...

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