Egor Kloos

@dutchcelt
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Design Systems, CSS, Web Components, Photography, Food, HiFi. All the good things in life should be cherished and savoured. Toots are my own - he/him - Gen X - 🇳🇱🇮🇪

Blog: https://dutchcelt.nl

Work stuff: As a Design System Engineer/Architect, I always look at how web stacks implement a design.
Design is never an add-on; it's an integral part of the solution.

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My web guidance to you: use CSS. That’s it.
It's been a bit of a week. So much so that it resulted in a new blog post.
#frontend #DesignEngineering #AI #deskilling

https://dutchcelt.nl/posts/front-end-doesn-t-exist/
Front-end doesn't exist

Deskilling has led to a lack of front-end developers and the awareness of which skills are actually needed to hire for

In light of recent events: Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs. #WebAccessibilityFails

https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/aria-label-generic-elements?u

Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs - Manuel Matuzovic

I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

Manuel Matuzovic

Decoupled stateful styles:

CustomStateSet -> Registered Custom property -> Container Style Query -> Multiple Custom properties -> updated style

This is a nice way to set modes (beyond dark/light) using states and custom properties that can traverse multiple shadow DOMs.

CSS style() queries landed in Firefox 151 making them newly available across engines. Here's how they work:

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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.

when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.

Netherlands is quietly moving away from GitHub. 🇳🇱👩‍💻

https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

#opensource #netherlands #github #forgejo

Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement

The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.

It's FOSS
Is agentic coding the future of software development?
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Table rows and positioning

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