Brecht De Ruyte
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Google Developer Expert | Front-end Developer at iO | blog owner https://utilitybend.com | guest writer at Smashing Magazine | father | geek | photography enthousiast | oklchroma.utilitybend.com
What do you want us to work on in 2027? Here's a web app where you can rank the Interop proposals you care about, giving us data we can use to prioritise feature development. interop-rank.fxdx.dev
Interop Feature Ranking
Rank the web platform features you care most about
interop-rank.fxdx.dev
Remember Internet Explorer’s “Page Transitions”? Well, they’re back, thanks to the View Transition API! → Blog post: brm.us/page-transit... → Demo site: page-transitions.style The project leverages IE’s meta tags so browser support is not limited to Modern Browsers™ but also includes IE 5.5–8.0 😆
Going to frontmania. Got 45 minutes to do my talk, currently runs at 50mins so time to kill some darlings. Also #inktober 7: panic!
I barely have time today and inktober is an Ogre.... I can't draw an Ogre! 😢 I'll give it a try tho. Still got to prep some slides as well for #frontmania
I'm at our campus in Utrecht and I feel like I'm being watched 👀
Home after a fantastic evening yesterday at #fronteers #darkmode. Seeing many people from the dev community is not just fun and education. At this point in time a bit healing as well. Such a great event. Huge thanks to the speakers, the crew and the attendees. Top notch! @fronteers.bsky.social
It's been far too long since I saw a talk from @heydonworks.com looking forward to this! Let's go! Last talk at #fronteers #darkmode
Time to dive into the Audio API with @anjana.dev showing how sounds work using webaudio.studio #fronteers #darkmode
Mr. @tunetheweb.com starting off the second half of Fronteers, showing us how to use declarative partial updates 💯 #fronteers #darkmode
Lacked a bit of time but since we're in a break of fronteers. Inktober 2: relic #inktober circle is wrong. I'll redo it sometime. But a fun challenge to try things out.
Next up, @cydstumpel.nl on scroll driven animations, view transitions and a quick glimpse to scroll triggered animations. #fronteers #darkmode
We started with @csswizardry.com with a message on embracing the platform and progressive enhancements. Always bet on the web! #fronteers #darkmode
I don't know if the state of devs makes me feel better at the moment, knowing I'm not alone or actually makes me feel more depressed. I'm actually a person that sees the benefits of AI. But the reality is the mentally draining world we're living in...
+++ The Venue +++ Everything happens in one place. Talks, coffee, dinner and conversations - no rushing between locations, just an evening focused on learning and meeting fellow frontend developers. See you at Fronteers Dark Mode? Fronteers Dark Mode Oct 2nd in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 🎟️ fronteersconf.org
Probably one of the most quoted links in my blog (and probably still visiting it from time to time for a quick code steal 🤭) so happy this is close to becoming baseline newly available.
The time to ramp up your scroll-driven animations skills is **NOW** Go check scroll-driven-animations.style for and free 10-part video course created by yours truly, as well as a bunch of tools and demos.
This was one of those articles I wanted to read just for fun but took me a while to get to. A fun blast from the past by @vale.rocks . There were a few in there that I didn't know even if I was coding back then. Fun read 🙂 vale.rocks/posts/css-re...
CSS Curiosities of the Past
Summary of the various CSS syntaxes, parsing bugs, hacks, bespoke features, and implementations used across browsers and the web to achieve specific goals in the days before browser vendors became more adherent to a single solid specification. Particularly focusing on the non-compliant, bespoke implementations of functionality seen in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
vale.rocks
// 🛸 I made a vscode extension: github.com/propjockey/U... It lets you add code folding in a natural, expected, and intuitive way. UFOs abduct cows. // 🐄 Enjoy.
GitHub - propjockey/UFOlding: Custom vscode code folding using 🛸 and 🐄 emote comments
Custom vscode code folding using 🛸 and 🐄 emote comments - propjockey/UFOlding
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I've unfortunately hit the limit on my free hosting tier. The problem is that between free and not free is a 240 dollars in the year difference. Looking for a solution might take a while. 😞