Nils Riedemann
I build interfaces for the web.
Working as a freelance senior consultant web platform engineer with 20 years of experience and happy to go for 20 more.
Now: #elixir, #web-components, #design-systems, #css
- So, we're full circle and back at the Frontpage/Dreamweaver era, right?
- Classic traveling with DB. Train got cancelled. So: major reroute. ~30min after that new train left the station, it stopped between stations: issues with the tracks. Notification: delay 112min. Now thistrain is taking a detour *via the station I came from.* Can’t make that shit up.
- It’s funny how Discord seems to have some kind of heuristics for when to install updates. Opened it this morning: No updates. Opened it just now, on a train: TIME FOR UPDATES!
- Reposted by Nils RiedemannThere it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. First, styling the in-page part of controls + the popover for <select>. (Later we’ll do popovers for more things.)
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- CSS functions make this type of shenanigans SO much easier - and kinda addictive. Love 'em! All from a single element, no JS. codepen.io/nocksock/pen...
- It’s that time of the year again.
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- I think in CSS the BEM approach is very similar to OOP; while Utility First is closer to FP. So when people haven't been exposed to FP much or have a hard time with it, I found they tend to struggle more with Tailwind and how to create useful custom utilities, variants or components.
- Understanding the purpose and usefulness of contexts in Phoenix took me a while, but over time they became a natural way of doing things for me in general - not just in phoenix/elixir. Elixir idioms are leaking into every other language I write, and so far it was *always* for the better.
- Frontend Devs, since forever: “Accessibility is important, it’s not just about blind people - everyone benefits!” Silicon-Valley Bro, pre-ai: “lmao, nah. <div><div onclick=”…”>go to homepage</div></div> lgtm ship it!” Silicon-valley-bro, post-ai: “Make websites accessible for AI agents!!!”
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- How my sentiment towards Web-Components changed over the last 2 Years:
- I really love my curved ultrawide display. However, in the last few months, I often really would like to have more vertical space. Especially with dev-tools open. I guess, now I finally understand those 3:2 aspect-ratio displays that seem to pop up more often.
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