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Mark Senff - Dutch Front End Web Developer in Montreal

Pure CSS is not really that pure

It’s a popular thing lately: showcasing “pure CSS” pieces of code. Do a basic search for “pure CSS” on Codepen and you’ll see what I mean: examples of code that make clever use of CSS to give the impression there…  Full article →

Posted April 16, 2013 in Front End, Rant

Senff’s favorite 2012 movies

Every year, all year, I keep track of every movie I see (for the first time) and then give it a generic rating. The final result for 2012 is that I’ve seen and rated 74 movies, and below you’ll find…  Full article →

Posted January 1, 2013 in Generic

New site, responsive and all!

So here’s another new version of Senff.com, though you might not see many differences with the previous version. Looks a lot like it, really…but it is now officially buzzword compatible seeing that it is fully responsive. That’s right, resize that…  Full article →

Posted December 24, 2012 in Coding Tips, Front End, User Experience

Git, here I come…again

After many failed attempts, I am going to give it another go, and I’m going to try to figure out this whole Github thing again. I’ve got a list of tutorials and help videos and all that, and I’ll be…  Full article →

Posted October 1, 2012 in Generic
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When front and back clash

The last time I wrote articles for print publications was about 15 years ago, for a Dutch magazine called WeBBer (“not for girls and parents“). But I’m back and going a little more serious/professional! Issue 232 of leading web development…  Full article →

Posted August 14, 2012 in Front End

What’s wrong with The Dark Knight Rises

Not that I have the illusion that anyone would care about my opinion on The Dark Knight Rises (this usually makes for good bar banter, but hey), but I do have to share my 4 gripes with the movie that…  Full article →

Posted July 30, 2012 in Generic

Montreal Front End Devs unite!

I’ve been a making web sites for more than 15 years, but ever since I started to become more active in the web development online community last year, I’ve been keeping an eye out for any meetups, conferences, workshops, seminars…  Full article →

Posted June 22, 2012 in Front End

Getting started with Sass on Windows, the easy way

“I wanna try that Sass thing. But that Ruby stuff and command line is confusing! Also, I’m on Windows! I’m doomed to fail.” Made up your mind already and you want to get started with Sass on your Windows PC?…  Full article →

Posted May 20, 2012 in Coding Tips, Front End

7 things I’ve learned this week

1) The idea that front-end developers are inferior to back-end developers was not just present at my previous company — it is also at my current job. I actually suspect it’s a standard thing in the entire web development world…  Full article →

Posted May 13, 2012 in Generic

Opera to support -webkit- prefixes

So now it’s official: Opera will support a number of -webkit- prefixes. It’s supposedly “experimental”, but still. The reasoning for this is “[...] we have experienced that many authors of (especially mobile) sites only use -webkit- prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring…  Full article →

Posted April 28, 2012 in Browsers, Front End, Opera