This is the blog of Lea Rosema, frontend developer with accessibility focus, based in Hamburg
Usually, I'm a web developer with a focus on web standards and accessibility, but from time to time I write C++ or even C code. It's what I grew up with and still enjoy. Yet, going beyond small programs is often where I struggle. How do I build a project with more than one file? How do I manage dependencies? How does cross-platform development work? There are differences between Windows and…
Ever wanted to have more control over how your Eleventy collections are sorted? By default, Eleventy sorts collection items by date. This is a perfect default for blog sites. Right now, I'm building more of a knowledgebase/book kind of thing. And date is not the most important criteria to sort all articles. Though, it's still useful to display the most recent edited articles at some place.…
One very common way to provide a title in Eleventy is by using frontmatter data inside the template. For example, this looks like in the following code snippet: --- title : Hello World --- # {{ title }} Lorem ipsum is a pretty cool dummy text dolor sit amet. Sometimes, I want to provide the title by just adding an h1 to my markdown. It's less verbose: # Hello World! Lorem ipsum is a pretty cool…
a drop-in eleventy configuration to migrate from Jekyll to Eleventy.
Mini-Tutorial about how to abort asynchronous JavaScript
I'm a newbie when it comes to retrocoding in C for DOS, and it's been quite a ride so far.
I still see accessibility as a crucial part for building digital products, but it's not my career path anymore to become an accessibility specialist.
This is an article about underrepresented groups in tech and gatekeeping in communities.
Sprinkle your JavaScript codebase with type annotations in JSDoc, run checks against it and auto-generate documentation.
Dealing with Batch-Files in non-Windows environments
JSX is quite popular. It gained popularity even beyond React, despite not being part of the JavaScript specification. So that made me write an article about how JSX works.
JSX can be used without React, here's how it can be used with the DOM API and TypeScript's built-in JSX transform feature
A write-up on testing web components.
A short tutorial on WebGL and Shaders
This article touches how I embed interactive code demos into my blog articles.
CW negative, german politics, trans hostility. Yesterday, the law draft for the promised gender recognition act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) was leaked. Sadly, the main focus weren't trans people but anti-trans talking points.
Create deterministic series of random numbers for generative arts
In this article, I'm writing about automated workflows I added to this blog.
Hello world, this is my new blog, a place to write for me.