JSON Feed for Anselm Hannemann’s Writings

Negotiating with CSS

Modern Recruiting is failing its purpose

Tools won’t solve it entirely for you

Inside being a freelancer in web development

On seniority and understanding the Web vs. knowing how to use Frameworks

Today I read a LinkedIn post by Dan Neciu about XSS still being a real-world problem . That’s one perfect case to show why you either need to: check what AI generates for you and know how to review code properly yourself (you’re at least senior-level then) have real senior developers in your company who actually know about such problems and detect or directly avoid them have automated checks for…

4 Reasons to stop using CSS Preprocessors

Within CSS you now can do so many things that were the subject for using a pre- and postprocessor like Sass, Less or PostCSS. The latter is still useful in many cases today but the former are less and less important for these reasons: People use some sort of CSS-in-JavaScript anyways and what they write (not produce!) is not CSS anymore 😏 Nesting is natively available in CSS ✅ BEM and similar…

Have your experts as a backup in the new AI world

✈️ I rarely find good analogies but this one I think is spot on : The Autopilot Paradox Most of the time, commercial planes fly themselves. Autopilot can handle take-off, cruising, and even landing. But would you board a plane if told there were no pilots in the cockpit? Probably not. Because a pilot’s job isn’t just to move a joystick or push buttons. Their mission is to take responsibility when…

Code Reviews to uncover team improvements

I do like code reviews. If my customer and teams let me spend time on it, I’m able to see issues in automation workflows, code quality and knowledge gaps in the teams or workflow issues in general. You can quickly see in code reviews if automated checks catched typos, code style or linting issues. You can find out the code quality level in the team and if your team members have equal knowledge or…

Know your HTML (yes, TSX included)

As a freelancer helping larger companies achieve their goals, I’ve gained a lot of insights into how people work. And I know many people — including me — have said this for over a decade but it bears repeating: We have fantastic JavaScript (TypeScript included) developers who can build impressive solutions to complex problems. But there are still very few frontend developers today who truly know…

Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development

There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t understand underlying mechanisms of a language. A usual stack today is React…