Front-end & user experience developer
Something I knew is that in browser that support CSS nesting you can nest @media queries inside of other CSS declarations. What I only fully grasped a few days ago is how well this works for progressive enhancement. I ve happily used (and wrote about) CSS and @media nesting for about six years now. Primarily through [ ] The post Progressive enhancement as a benefit of CSS Nesting first appeared on…
Like many front-end developers, I don’t have a formal computer science background. I rolled into this discipline as a designer wanting more control over the end product. Because of that, a lot of computer science things are lost on me. All I know about capital-s Software Development, I learned as I went from various sources. [ ] The post Programming principles for front-end developers first…
The State of CSS survey results are always fun to read through, and the pick of the year by everyone in particular. Whenever Sacha asks me if I have one I blank, and then a few days later there s an obvious answer. My 2025 Pick: text-wrap: balance; I can’t remember the last time a new [ ] The post My pick of the year for the State of CSS Survey first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
Last night (!) I recorded an episode of the Show me the magic podcast with Frederick Tubiermont. Frederick saw Polypane listed as one of the Paddle Launchpad Finalists (Hooray!) and reached out to ask if I wanted to record an episode with him. Thanks Frederick for having me on, and for the great conversation (on [ ] The post Show Me The Magic podcast first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
Recently, wholesome human from the internet Josh Goldberg interviewed me for the Software Engineering Daily podcast. We talked about Polypane, the web development landscape, and how I got into web development. Listen to the Podcast: Visit Software Engineering Daily for the show notes and transcript. Thanks Joel for asking me to be on the podcast, [ ] The post Software Engineering Daily podcast…
I got tagged by Hidde to blog some answers to questions about blogging, and since I definitely don t use this blog enough, I m taking him up on it roughly a month later. Why did you start blogging in the first place? # This is what I wrote back in December of 2006 (19 years 💀) [ ] The post Tag, you’re it first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
I recorded a podcast with the folks from Nordcraft on their new Pixels with Purpose podcast channel. We chatted about accessibility, education around that and of course about Polypane. Check it out: Or watch the video: Thanks Salma and and Andreas for having me on, I had a lot of fun! The post Pixel with purpose podcast first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
Happy new year! In December I was lucky enough to write articles for three different advent calendars: HTMHell, 12 days of web and the Fronteers Advent calendar. Starting off right: Where autofocus shines on HTMHell the autofocus attribute is one of my favorite ways to improve very specific interactions on HTML pages, and in the [ ] The post Advent Calendars first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
CSS got a new logo! After well over a decade of using the CSS3 badge, there s now a new CSS logo that fits nicely next to the JS, TS and friends logo s. CSS Logo A purple square with rounded corners and the letters CSS inside in white And here it is among friends: Looks pretty [ ] The post An outline version of the new CSS logo first appeared on Kilian Valkhof .
For the past 6 or so years I ve been maintaining the electron-to-chromium package and I realise I never wrote a blog post about it. Electron-to-chromium is an NPM package that maps Electron versions to Chromium versions so you can input e.g. Electron 32 and get back Chrome 128. This is useful because a lot of [ ] The post How I automate electron-to-chromium updates first appeared on Kilian Valkhof…