Bram

Bram

@bram.smulders.social

Freelance front-end UI developer | Accessibility consultant | Music producer bram.is

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+++ 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

Oeh! This will be neat 😍

Stefan Judis@stefanjudis.com

If you're dealing with SVG icons you probably know the pain of overwriting colors. There's a new spec in the making that allows controlling CSS variables from "the outside". And it's shipping in Firefox already! https://drafts.csswg.org...

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❓ Does Fairphone Moments work with /e/OS? A valid question that we come across time and again. In this article, we answer it with a clear YES and show you how to customize it on your Fairphone (Gen.6) with /e/OS. Find the perfect mode for you: 👉 murena.com/how-fairphon...

What if the whole AI industry is a weird flex from the accessibility community to ensure everyone builds semantic and accessible websites? 🤔

Stef Walter@stephaniewalter.bsky.social

The way to make your website “AI ready” is still the same work we’ve been doing for years: robust hierarchy, semantics, and accessible design systems.

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My new CSS course is out 🥳, The Layout Maestro. It's all about teaching you how to think and decide what CSS to use. Here is a peek from inside the content.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune

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Been thinking about the Web platform & it's pretty incredible what #CSS can do now compared to what it did when I started in this field 14 years ago. We went from having too little to having almost too much (if you think how many of the new features you use day to day) Imagine where we'll go next!

This hits home “even if you can ignore the environmental impact, the job losses, the ethics, the theft of intellectual property... how sad that we let AI rob us of the simple human joy of learning, of creating, of growing” — @kestr.al

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my best code is written in a two-step process: 1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality 2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model

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I often see the word 'kerning' used incorrectly by CSS heads when the term they're actually looking for to describe letter spacing is 'tracking'. Let me explain using CSS terminology! Tracking is the same as gap in flex layouts; consistent spacing applied across the entire text. But what if... 🧵

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piccalilli.linkJavaScript for EveryoneA high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

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If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

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Even setting politics aside: I honestly can't name a single reason to use NextJS in 2025, aside from "because everyone else is." It has literally no unique benefit or unbeatable feature. Apparently our moms misjudged us; it turns out a lot of us *would* jump off a cliff if all our friends did.

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CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome. But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

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TFW you build a site with @getkirby.com and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time … Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋