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Founded in 2007, Fronteers is the non-profit professional association of Dutch-speaking front-end developers. Its goals include the professionalisation of our trade, (improved) recognition of the front-end discipline, and improving the position of front-end developers in their companies and the web design/development world in general.
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The new `color-contrast()` in #css is coming!

Exciting!

https://una.im/contrast-color

#webDev

una.im | Automated accessible text with contrast-color()

Let the browser pick the most readable text color for any background with this new CSS function.

Upcoming at .zip Tuesday night, March 17.
Neocities Coding Night!

Never have time for your personal website? You want to bring back the old web? Build one at .zip ✨
During the coding night, we'll help each other out with HTML and CSS issues and have a great time.

Free entrance.
More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Event tip:

🎨 beyond tellerrand (April 27–28)

Not just code. Talks span design, typography, creativity, engineering culture, product thinking & personal growth — broadening your view beyond day-to-day tech.

Inspiring, human, cross-disciplinary.

🎟️ €3… https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 27–28 Apr 2026

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

beyond tellerrand Events

Event tip:

🎨 beyond tellerrand (April 27–28)

Not just code. Talks span design, typography, creativity, engineering culture, product thinking & personal growth — broadening your view beyond day-to-day tech.

Inspiring, human, cross-disciplinary.

🎟️ €349
👉 https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf - 27–28 Apr 2026

beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and friendly atmosphere.

beyond tellerrand Events

"Being the go-to engineer is a double-edged sword" I had some pause for thought reading this article from LeadDev https://leaddev.com/culture/put-end-being-go-to-engineer #linkTuesday

I recognise myself, but also got some strategies to try.

Put an end to being the “go-to” engineer 

Being the individual people run to in a fire may feel great short-term, but the negative effects can pile up.

LeadDev

I reached for Codepen to quickly throw something together - this is a great editor 💜 Ready to hit the ground with some JS tomorrow.

I might not add GSAP _just_ yet, as I found out about the HTML Drag and Drop API, so want to learn that quick: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Drag_and_Drop_API

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

12 years ago I wrote about the built-in Sass colour functions that were available.

Today we can achieve the same with native CSS using color-mix() and relative colour syntax.

Un-Sass'ing My CSS: Colour Functions Without Sass

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnSassing-my-CSS-colour-functions

#CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign

Un-Sass'ing My CSS: Colour Functions Without Sass Always Twisted

A practical guide to replacing Sass color functions like lighten(), darken(), and tint() with modern CSS using color-mix() and relative color syntax.

Always Twisted
ffconf 2026 - Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton - 13 november 2026 https://www.fronteers.nl/nl/activiteiten/2026/ffconf-2026
ffconf 2026

Een volle dag met acht zorgvuldig geselecteerde sessies voor een publiek dat geeft om de toekomst van het web. UK web- en JavaScript-conferentie sinds 2009.

Fronteers
(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37