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Hi, my name is Brecht De Ruyte,
Front-end developer
I'm a self-taught front-end developer and Google
Developer Expert located in Belgium with a passion for
UX and Design. After more than a decade working in tech,
I decided to start a little blog for documenting my
findings about HTML, CSS and JS with an eye on
accessibility and UX.
During the day, you can find me working at iO on a variety of projects. There are a lot of environments
I'm working in, the majority of them being Twig or React.
But my real niche will always be semantics and CSS, especially
now, with the ever fast updates in browser support. It's
a great time to be a front-end developer.
Oklchroma: an OKLCH color pattern generator that generates CSS variables
Sometimes you get inspired by a presentation or an article you’ve read. For me, an inspiration started at CSS Day last year during the opening keynote by Mathias Ott. One of those side projects I kept placing at the bottom of the pile, until I finally had had enough of it. I had to make it. In this article, I’d like to present a little tool, an OKLCH color picker. A tool created by me using CSS, a bit of React and a bit of AI help.
The customizable select - Part two: Potions, anchoring, and radial shenanigans in CSS
In this second part of my customizable select series, I’d like to highlight one feature from Interop 2025 that works beautifully with this feature: anchor positioning. This article contains one of my first demos ever created when styling the select and has evolved with every new syntax and iteration across the months / years. We'll also be taking a glimpse at a few experimental features, but the basis of this can be used today. Let’s take a look at my potion selector with CSS.
Photography is something I enjoyed for a long time.
It all began with capturing landscapes in Belgium. It truly opened my eyes to the beauty of nature that often lies right on our doorstep.
There's a calming effect to using a camera and experimenting with shutter speed and aperture. It's a form of personal therapy for me.
Most of the images are near my hometown Deinze.
A small city famous for its cycling near the Lys
river. I added some photos on this website as
sort of a "hobby corner". I will update them
from time to time here, as I kinda gave up on the "instagram thing" for photography.
