On Wednesday 2020-01-29 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...
A well built, performant website can be created with any framework or type of technology in existence. It may be harder with some than others, but it can be done. The issue is the developer and designer mindset in many companies. With said mindset being that web development and design should be ‘fun’. I fully believe a lot of developers and software enginers put their job satisfaction above their users or customers. ...
For a project at work, we needed an autocomplete component, that meets the following criteria: zero dependencies decent WAI-ARIA / accessibility support reasonable license good test coverage remote filtering custom rendering of options separation of presentation from the value selected I am a firm believer in open web standards. Whenever feasible, I prefer to apply lean web principles and leverage the full feature set of the web platform. While there is a <datalist> element in the HTML Living Standard spec, it is not up to par for the requirements listed above. ...
On Wednesday 2020-01-15 at 18.30 there will be another Homebrew Website Club in Berlin. Venue The event will be hosted in the eyeo office. Zimmerstraße 69 10117 Berlin Germany Ring eye/o GmbH doorbell which is located in Zimmerstr. 69, between ishin and Viet bowl. The door on the street is always open, the next one isn’t, and the office is at the first floor on the left ...
The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 30th at 18.30. Venue We will be hosted by my former client, employer Zalando SE, in one of their offices. Zalando SE Mühlenstraße 25 10243 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find and the front desk know we’re coming. Food & drink Zalando are treating us to pizza and drinks 👍 ...
The next Homebrew Website Club in Berlin will be on October 2nd at 18.30. Venue Fy! Hinterhof Rechts - 5’ Glogauer Strasse 5 10999 Berlin There will be a few signs with Homebrew Website Club on them, to make it easy to find. Structure We will try to follow the recommended structure. This means we will have a “Quiet Writing Hour”, which I am very excited about. ...
The Lean Web book is very good and recommended for anyone buidling things for the web. Chris Ferdinandi has managed to capture many of the thoughts and ideas, that many of us of have been thinking about since the “JavaScript revolution” started. There’s a talk too, if you’re more into that. Via adactio
Here’s yet another example of what can happen, when you give control over your content to 3rd parties. They put up a pay wall (or the equivalent thereof, you pay with your identity): Medium has decided that their commercial goals are more important than the author’s need to have their audience able to read their content. This is far from a unique case, nor one that is specific to Medium. But, it beautifully illustrates why we need to be in control of our own content on the web. ...
Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging! Want to blog more but struggling with: ideas momentum confidence writing skills Join a gathering of like-minded people and get friendly support with writing, creating, and anything to do with using and improving your own website! ...
While you’re working on your own computer and accessing webapps running on that computer, response times are going to be fast. Most of the day, this is what we want. Working on your local machine, your webapp should be as fast as you can possibly make it. But, for some situations, we need to examine how our application behaves when network connections are suboptimal. On unix based systems there are a multitude of ways to slow down connection speeds of the entire system. Asking on Twitter, I learned that Apple recently released Network Link Conditioner for OSX Lion. ...