NOW ON DEMAND | #AskSympraxis webinar: "SharePoint Brand Center, design, and templates" with special UI guest, @stfbauer.bsky.social. Let's push SharePoint "to not look like SharePoint," to make the intranet pleasant and useful. Watch now 📺

SharePoint Brand Center, design, and using templates - Ask Sympraxis

Design principles exist to make things look nice and functional. A well-designed page or site draws people in, makes information pop and helps connect though...

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In one hour... 🎨 #AskSympraxis is all about design. UI artiste, Stefan Bauer @stfbauer.bsky.social, joins in as we showcase how to make #SharePoint look nice and engaging, doubling down on Brand Center and the use of templates. 🗓️ Wed, Aug. 5, 9:30 AM PT www.linkedin.com/events/74857...

REMINDER 🎨 Next week's #AskSympraxis is all about design. UI artiste, Stefan Bauer @stfbauer.bsky.social, joins in as we showcase how to make #SharePoint look nice and engaging, doubling down on Brand Center and the use of templates. 🗓️ Wed, Aug. 5, 9:30 AM PT www.linkedin.com/events/74857...

The SPFx Heft toolchain changed the Sass pipeline in five undocumented ways between 1.22 and 1.23. Not in the release notes. Not in the migration guide. I filed four issues against sp-dev-docs to prove it. Blog Post: n8d.at/gaps-traps-spfx-heft-toolchain/ #SPFx #Sass #SharePoint

SPFx 1.23 ships @types/react from May 2022. A four-year-old type definition blocking valid HTML. One fix: npm install @types/react@17.0.91 --save-dev Zero runtime impact. Full breakdown in the link. n8d.at/one-dependen... #SPFx #TypeScript #HTML #hTWOo

Same model. Same RTX 5090. Switched from Windows to WSL2. 3.3x faster inference. 69% less energy. Built a local AI pipeline that classified 29,000 of my photos and wrote 367,660 tags directly into the RAW files. No cloud. More research soon. #LocalAI #Photography

People claim Claude has secret slash commands. /godmode, /ghost, L99. They don't work. Turns out they're cheats from Unreal, the 1998 shooter. Which says something about where these viral AI tip lists come from. Wrote up what actually happens: n8d.at/claude-godmo...

SharePoint’s Brand Center warns about contrast issues but never shows the ratio, the affected elements, or the WCAG level. You can dismiss it and ship anyway. CSS Overview catches them in 30 seconds. n8d.at/sharepoint-theme-contrast-testing

SharePoint's rich text editor was designed as a formatting tool. I think it should be a content-structure tool. So I built one from scratch. No frameworks. No hacks. Just the web platform. Full case study: n8d.at/semantic-rte-a-hackathon-case-study/ #microsoft365 #sharepoint

Performance-Optimized Video Embeds With Zero JavaScript, by @stfbauer.bsky.social (@frontendmasters.com): https://frontendmasters.com/blog/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript/ #multimedia #performance

Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript

Putting a YouTube video inside a closed details element means it won't load until that details element is opened. We can use that.

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⚡Featured posts this week: ✨ INP is Baseline: @tunetheweb.com & @mmocny.com ✨ Performance Video Embeds: @stfbauer.bsky.social ✨ A better way to update web apps: Dan Murphy & Dibyajyoti Pal ✨ Ecommerce | The Web Almanac: Amandeep Singh & Barry Pollard 🙏 Special thanks to the authors! #webperf

Pretty exited fo my first blog post on Frontend Masters.

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Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript Putting a YouTube video inside a closed details element means it won't load until that details element is opened. We can use that.

SPFx 1.22 feels like a “2.0” release: new build chain, Heft migration, lots of moving parts. I wrote up a reproducible, AI-driven upgrade flow (risk assessment → upgrade branch → acceptance build → full docs) + a copy/paste prompt. n8d.at/ai-driven-sp...

📝 Markshell, a shell viewer for Markdown files, was recently featured on the Shop Talk Show podcast, alongside other notable projects. github.com/stfbauer/mar... For more details, you can listen to the episode here: shoptalkshow.com/695/ #webdevelopment #markdown #shell #sideprojects

695: Happy Project Share Time (2025 Edition)

After a bit of gaming talk, Chris and Dave are sharing a bunch of cool projects that our Discord community members have been sharing over the past year including things like a web component based a…

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Once more for the folks in the back: accessibility is a human right. Your web standards godfather shares thoughts on a small atrocity.

Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong.

Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the Biden Administration chose Calibri for their digital communications: to include more people and make life just a wee bit easier for the disabled. And who in their right mind could object to that? You know who, and they’re not in their right mind—unless you’re talking far-right.

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Fun, informative read | "Mythbusting: Image Accessibility in SharePoint" by @stfbauer.bsky.social. Get a closer look at how modern SharePoint handles images and accessibility, including the importance of ALT text when using the Image web part. Bust that myth! n8d.at/mythbusting-...

SharePoint + AI can build pages fast. It can also amplify bad patterns just as fast. I wrote a guide for site authors on using the Image web part accessibly – image links, lightbox, captions, “open in new window”, all the spicy bits. 🔗 n8d.at/sharepoint-i... #SharePoint #Accessibility #a11y

😳 when you sit in the waitroom of an hospital an the loud speaker calls out: ”Mr Death - Room 3 please’

Prediction for 2026 - tailwind got killed by AI. 😂

🚀 Old Fashioned CSS Sorter v1.0.0 is live! ✨ 90.8% test coverage, smart CSS variables, 3 sorting strategies 🎯 CSS/SCSS/SASS + VS Code integration 📦 VS Code Marketplace + NPM Turn messy CSS into organized code instantly! #CSS #WebDev #VSCode 🔗 marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Fluent UI 9 and SharePoint Brand Center finally speak the same language — typography. 🎨 I mapped the missing link between Fluent UI tokens and SharePoint’s custom font slots. Read it here 👉 n8d.at/mapping-flue... #FluentUI #SPFx #SharePoint

When Copilot agent is in panic mode because it lost a file for the analysis, that was there before :D

GDrive is the Windows 95. You upload a document with a long name and it replaces it with "MyFile~1.docx". The you have to go in and rename the file and everthing works fine. Sure you don't need to write you life's story in the filename, but a behaviour like this in 2025?

🎨 Want to make your #SharePoint & #Teams solutions look as good as they work? At @collabdaysne.org, @stfbauer.bsky.social will help you level up your front-end skills with his session: “Design and Styling 101: SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams” 👉 Secure your spot today:

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🎨 Want to make your #SharePoint & #Teams solutions look as good as they work? At @collabdaysne.org, @stfbauer.bsky.social will help you level up your front-end skills with his session: “Design and Styling 101: SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams” 👉 Secure your spot today:

I wrote a blog post this moring how to query your work items directly in VS Code from Azure DevOp: Soon an MCP Server is coming out but meanwhile this is how it works. n8d.at/how-to-query...

When people say functional components do they mean they wrote something that actually works on top of it is a component? 🤣

🏆 Celebrating a decade as a Microsoft MVP! 🏆 I am thrilled to announce that after 10 years, I have achieved again the Microsoft MVP in M365 Development. This year brought an extra special honor as I also received recognition in Web Development. Thank you Microsoft #mvp #webdevelopment #m365

Input fields of type number in HTML might seem to be a great option at first glance, but the negative side effects outweight the issues they have. In my latest blog post I take a deep dive, what those issues are. n8d.at/inputtypenum... #ux #i18n #html #webdevelopment

Working with @stfbauer.bsky.social to create a style guide can exponentially speed up the development process and bring better outcomes. Watch/listen to the full episode, #004 | Optimizing SharePoint Framework Projects with Reusable Code 👇 📺 youtu.be/qP0SRfI9Rok 🎧 aka.codedeploygo.live/e004

004 | Optimizing SharePoint Framework Projects with Reusable Code

YouTube video by Code. Deploy. Go Live.

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