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.
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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.
bit.ly/3wxquhd
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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!
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Red won!
```#css
color-contrast(black vs blue, red, green)
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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)
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Words are a design medium. Combined with user research, they can convey concepts and complex information better than anything else.
Why is #ContentDesign so often still a nice-to-have add on, instead of being the starting point? See also #UXwriting.
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the thing is every time i write stuff about "write code that's cheap to refactor, rewrite or delete" or how "frameworks should be extracted not written" some smart ass goes "only if you don't get it right the first time, like me"
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i wrote a piece on the career choices managers often don't realize they're making, especially around technical leadership vs organizational leadership. charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engin…
✨get what the fuck you want out of your career in 2019✨
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ICYMI, I did a detailed article explaining the JS timing functions part css-tricks.com/emulating-css… and have a morphing paths one coming soon. 😼
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Als je 'NEE, FEMINISTEN!!' roepen weet je dat je goed zit. Dank @CMDAmsterdam !!! medium.com/@astridwilgraagwa…
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Daring Fireball: Fuck Facebook daringfireball.net/2017/06/f…
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If you've appreciated my work on @ModelViewMedia, the best way to support my future work is to pre-order my new book
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I told someone in our IT I was changing a system sign-in to 2FA and they told me they "don't have a smartphone."
I swear to fucking god.
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Agreed. We shouldn't ignore the INITIAL state of IMBALANCE that creates the need for behavioral change. Overcompensate to restore balance. xitter.gq/drewm/status/809157458…
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I blogged about ideas for modernizing reactivity for better performance, better use of modern browsers: davidwalsh.name/modernizatio…
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Ah im so happy, finally after more than a decade and a half of being stuck in HTML i'm completely free of it. Now for some colorpickers.
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There are only two hard problems in computer science: finishing things, and getting paid.
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Im just going to keep trying to make a UI like 3ds max or a flowgraph editor or an IDE in a browser untill it ffing beats native.