Also on Medium, in case you want to comment. When I first heard about Crossfit, I thought it to be an excellent idea. I still do, to be fair: Short, very focused and intense workouts instead of time consuming exercise schedules No need for expensive and complex equipment; it is basically running and lifting heavy […]

TL;DR: JavaScript is too great an opportunity to build accessible, easy-to-use and flexible solutions for the web to not use it. It fills the gaps years of backwards-compatibility focus created. It helps with the problems of the now and the future that HTML and CSS alone can’t cover reliably. We shouldn’t blindly rely on it […]

At almost every developer conference right now there will be a talk that features the following “funny GIF”: Peter Griffin aka Family Guy trying to make some blinds close and making a total mess of it, randomly dragging the cords until he gives up and rips them off the window. With the caption CSS. It […]

A few days ago Jake Archibald posted a JSBin example of five ways to center vertically in CSS to stop the meme of “CSS is too hard and useless”. What I found really interesting in this example is how he animated showing the different examples (this being a CSS demo, I’d probably would’ve done a […]

Vor ein paar Tagen war ich zu Gast bei AOE in Wiesbaden um beim Frontend Rhein-Main meetup über die Gefahren von ueberspitzter Kritik an JavaScript zu sprechen. Dieser Vortrag wird auch bald auf Englisch erhältlich sein. Das Video des Vortrags ist von AOE schon fertig editiert und auf YouTube zu finden: Die (englischen) Slides sind […]