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Coding on a Chromebook - part 2

No internet dinosaurs coding visual

I purchased a Chromebook for my little coding projects. In the first part I wrote about the basic development setup. In this post, we’re taking a bit of a deeper dive: installing git, node, filezilla, some browsers, Docker and updating the terminal on ChromeOS.

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Coding on a Chromebook - part 1

Chromedino with heart

A few months ago, I purchased a Chromebook for my little side projects. I’m used to working on a Macbook, but I wanted to work with something that has a different feel, to make my little creations on the side feel more relaxing, and less like work. I have gained a lot of love for ChromeOS.

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Introducing a Mini Static Thingy Wingy

A Mini Static Thingy Wingy

The world is full of frameworks and content management systems, we’re very spoiled when we want to create an application, but sometimes, you just need something static, simple and fast, so I created a Mini Static Thingy Wingy.

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CSS Day 2022: A small recap

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After a long break because of Covid-19, CSS Day is back. In a new location at the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam. Once again trying to create the perfect line-up for everything design and CSS, and boy, they delivered just that.

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The details element, collapsing content without the hassle

The details element styled example

Some HTML5 elements seem to have the tendency of not being picked up by developers. Although widely supported, we still seem to use collapses with the use of a JS library instead of using a native element. In this little post, I want to highlight the details element a bit.

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A lot of power with little JavaScript, the HTML dialog element is here

Two people having a <dialog>

With Safari (15.4) being one of the last to implement the dialog element, a lot of browsers have great support for this element.. Goodbye to huge JavaScript libraries and welcome to the native HTML5 <dialog> element. This is beauty and simplicity on the web in its purest form. It’s accessible, customisable and most of all: easy to use.

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Using best practices to create CSS scroll snapping tabs

Accessible scroll snapping tabs visual

Scroll snapping is hip and while we all have styled numerous sorts of tab panes and scroll boxes, I had an idea of combining them. What started out as a simple “scroll snapping experiment” turned out to be an accessibility study.

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A love letter to the CSS-developer

A love letter to the CSS developer visual

It’s valentine's day and so the perfect time to write a love letter. This one is to all the CSS-developers out there. For those who love the cascade, pseudo elements and all the new nifty things entering the language.

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