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.
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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.