Self-employed creator of web frameworks. Passion for developing with reactive templates. Tech lead NL Design System. He/him.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joined October 2009
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Next week: the free online event Design Systems Week. With presentations on Web Components, the GOV.UK Prototype Kit, design tokens, and accessibility. See nldesignsystem.nl/events/des… for more information!
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Ok. HTML5 is pointless and divisive. Give up and learn XML.
Wish there was something between space (U+0020) and non-breaking space (U+00A0), like an avoid-breaking space.
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Prioritise quality over speed in your design systems.
A post inspired by @bigmediumjosh whose call to resist “injecting crap into the arteries of your system” at last week’s @zeroheight webinar touched a nerve.
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Today I compensated 94.576km of CO2 of our electrical company car by planting some trees with treesforall.nl/ We already charge the battery using green electricity 90% of the time, but too much CO2 offsetting never hurt anyone.
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"Design systems are a society not a government": a talk I do not want to write but I would love to hear
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7 months in the making
20 external contributors from 11 countries
92 commits
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+ 28 test suites, + 174 tests, + 69 snapshots
🎉 Version 3.0 of Style Dictionary is now out!
github.com/amzn/style-dictio…
Wrote an article in Dutch about how our technical approach for NL Design System facilitates very diverse teams from across government to work together on accessibility and UX. gist.github.com/Robbert/d220…
Nice! Safari and Firefox both fixed my biggest and oldest worry about Web Components performance and memory usage since I started using Polymer in August 2015: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… github.com/WebKit/WebKit/com…
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The amazing CSS & SVG work by @anatudor has inspired so many of us over the last few years. Please join me and express your appreciation via Patreon! patreon.com/anatudor
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Red won!
```#css
color-contrast(black vs blue, red, green)
```
This function returns the color which contrasts the most with the 1st color.
⚠️ LET CSS ENSURE YOU PASS CONTRAST SCORES ⚠️
ALT color: color-contrast(black vs blue, red, green)
I am so lucky to enjoy front-end web development so much still, after falling in love with it at its infancy, 25 years ago.
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I’m very happy JavaScript is now so ubiquitous I can use it for back-end, <canvas> and even IoT these days! Node.js is such an improvement over running SpiderMonkey from PHP 😂
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