Hello, my name is Kevin

Web craftsman.

I am a front-end focused software engineer and writer. This is my digital playground & corner of the internet.

  • Combining :placeholder-shown and :has 🤯 NEW!

    Yesterday my wife told me about this :placeholder-shown selector. I had visual question marks above my head because I never heard of it before. But it sparked curiosity about what it could give me.

  • Interdependencies and code stability updated!

    As engineers, we have the tendency to over-engineer our solutions, make our code as reusable as possible. We make our code DRY. But in this quest, we often create unstable code.

  • I was wrong about service workers

    I was wrong about service workers. I wrongly assumed certain use cases for them. But I was missing out on them.

  • Going back to CSS-only after years of SCSS

    When migrating my website to Eleventy, it ditched SCSS and went old school. I went removed a complexity layer to see if CSS-only is a viable option these days.

  • Old man yelling at a cloud

    Front-end development really became a pop culture around big company frameworks. It has become an investor-focused industry.
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