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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →