All and everything from this site in chronological order.
Old Goodie
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While I was cleaning up some digital stuff, I came across an old article that I have written in 2014 for the StartupsHK blog. I couldn’t even remember I ever did, but there it was. A lot of things…
Loading Web Fonts
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I came across this clear and concise overview by @shortdiv on the various options on loading web fonts. I really liked it for its simplicity in writing and laying out the most important facts and…
Resolving CSS Gridlock
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The following article is a nice write up on the possibilities, difficulties and challenges that we might face with CSS Grid in production today. Discussing how we can possibly make the most out of it…
The Problem With Full Stack
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There has been a lot of talk about HTML & CSS recently. It's easy! Both languages aren't getting the full recognition they deserve. Many times they are belittled, yet so difficult to truly…
Leading Zeros in CSS Values
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Today a question and following a quick conversation about leading zeros in CSS, or rather SASS, popped up, because some pre-processor documentation mentioned that leading zeros are “bad”. Matthew…
Long Live the iPhone 7
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Tonight I had a conversation about the new iPhone X and I mentioned that I have been thinking about getting one, solely for the camera upgrade. I currently still use an iPhone 7 Plus. I’ve had it…
December
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It’s the time of design & development advent calendars again. Hello December. This year went fast again. Since I recently decided to write more again, I was thinking to try to write something…
Breaking Things, Fixing Things…
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Marcus is currently creating a showcase on how to build accessible SPAs in different JS frameworks, aka React and Vue. He is documenting everything he does and tries to find the best ways to solve…
Deep Work & Scheduling Work Time
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Today I had a long conversation with Anselm & Tobias and how to best schedule work time and get the most out of it to be most productive. Tobias has tried the Pomodoro technique for some time and…
All That Data
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On my last night in NYC a few weeks ago, I spoke to a friend of mine who works at a large bank. Somehow we came to talk about data collection and how her analytics team was also collecting lots of…
When Things Go Wrong
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It’s the weekend of FFCPH and yesterday morning I was supposed to leave from Hong Kong to hold a workshop today. As I write this, I’m sitting at the airport in HK, feeling somewhat in between tired,…
Sticky Things
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This week I have been working on a new navigation/header component which is supposed to work as a sticky header—people nowadays seem to want that by default. I started to write some JavaScript to…
Semantic Components
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I wrote a new article on Colloq where I explain how we solved an issue with our component semantics. It has proven as a solid solution for us and allows for a lot of flexibility, without messing up…
CSS-in-JS, Kindness and Evolution
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CSS-in-JS is the new and popular kid on the block. On the flipside, Vanilla CSS is old-school and isn’t so much of the hi-roller anymore. Actually, CSS was never liked too much by many anyway.…
Productivity and Complexity on the Web
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The recent “The Cult of the Complex” by @zeldman kept me thinking, just like this tweet by @dhh did. I also feel like there was a time where our work has been much more productive and efficient a few…
On Tracking
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After I read this article I started thinking about tracking again. I suppose most of the time we don’t actively think about it, since it has gotten so normal. But when you do, you start to realise… I…
#cfpwomen
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Today I came across a tweet by Gerard Sans, in which he announced a public list to help conference organisers find more women speakers. I'm all in for more diversity at conferences and think that…
Make It The Best You Can
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Two anecdotes for today: One Two days ago I got a hair cut. I looked at my hair dresser in the mirror and watched her cut, trim and measure my hair, meticulously, with great precision like she does…
Better CfP Feedback
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I have applied to a few conferences again this year and as usual, there are more rejections than acceptances. For obvious reasons it’s not great to get rejected, but I always try to learn more about…
GDPR is Great. And Sucks.
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Over the last weeks I have learned a lot about the new GDPR regulation and the changes that will come with it. For the most part, I think this is a great and very welcome change and I believe that it…
GDPR and the Deadline Race
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While we’ve been working through and signed quite a few DPA ’s with various services to get Colloq fully GDPR compliant, we’ve also come across some services where I’m a little surprised about their…
Take Your Stance
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The recent interview of Tim Cook with Recode that will air later this week, sounds very interesting and in it, TIm Cook takes a pretty clear stance: Cook made that point again today: “The truth is,…
Instagram & Target Ads
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I don’t use Instagram as much anymore as I used to, but sometimes when I post something and it “takes off” with a few more likes than usual. Once in a while I have look what happened and the other…
Remember Sass?
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When we started to work on Colloq, we agreed to write good, old, plain CSS. I was a little sceptical at first and thought we’re not going to like it much. After a few weeks I had totally gotten used…
A Better Feed
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Last week, while I updated a few things on this site, I somehow broke the feed. As a result of getting it fixed again, I now have a combined and separate feeds for articles and notes. To subscribe,…