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As humans we think in silos. Scrum Masters often don’t know what an Engineering Manager is, Engineering Managers don’t care about Scrum Masters. But both have their own focus, their very own strengths to create a resilient team. See how important it is to stay open minded enough to see the benefits of other roles, no matter the job title. The...

The fun part of being someone with two jobs in completely different areas. Nearly all of the algorithms of these fancy platforms backed with billions of money don’t work. LinkedIn for example is smart enough to realize both of my work categories (web development, agriculture/gardening) but fails to provide a proper feed, a mixture of network...

Today I learned that the CSS readonly attribute for form fields does only work with input modes that allow variable user input that’s not “type-safe”: The attribute is not supported or relevant to or types that are already not mutable, such as checkbox and radio or cannot, by definition, start with a value, such as the file input type. range...

Today I learned that the CSS :empty selector is implemented to look for child content (think of innerText/innerHTML). This means it reports empty for filled form elements which are self-closing elements. Findings :empty reports empty for all form input elements because they have their values as attributes, not as inner content :empty works for ...

I’ve recently wrote about the usage of the universal :where() selector. Now let’s clear up when to use :where() and when :is(). For a quick repetition to what we’re talking about, see these selectors: .text :where(h2, h3, h4) {} /* vs. */ .text :is(h2, h3, h4) {} First of all, :where() and :is() both are forgiving selectors. This means that even...

We all know these endless lines of CSS selectors before the real CSS rules start in the stylesheet. And while it’s not entirely new anymore, I’ve not seen it much in the wild: The usage of the universal :where() selector. So we’re coming from the following example where I want to style elements in an text article different to how the same...

Recently, I see a few articles and people talking about “too much CSS”. Are we at the point where we will have »CSS Engineer« or »CSS Developer« positions on the job market? It would make sense and clarify things compared to »Frontend Engineer«. There are 548 properties in the CSS spec. 🤯 (…) How can we practically learn when and how to use all...

When I started web development I was 12 years old. It was back in 2001, and we used HTML4 and basic CSS. The term cyber was a thing, but I never found it to be the proper term for what we are talking about: The internet, a virtual network platform for human beings. After all these years the term »cyber« is still a thing. It still sounds wrong...

Since my subscriber list grew over two thousand people for WDRL I’m self-hosting my newsletter service instead of using a SaaS solution. But that also means a lot of work, too. Things you need to take care of when self-hosting: Choose the best newsletter software for the project Choose a service provider for actually sending the emails (e.g. AWS...