Great talk by @derk-jan.com at the @fronteers.bsky.social meetup in Utrecht about practical solutions for accessible components.

“They do lie to you all the time. In fact, if they were truly a junior developer, which is how sometimes people like to say they should be characterized, I would be having some words with HR.” @martinfowler.com over LLMs on the @pragmaticengineer.com podcast. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI...

What does front-end look like in 2026 and beyond? 🤔 Our panel at tomorrow's meetup digs into design systems, AI assistants, DX vs performance, and what this means for teams. Bring your questions and jump in! 📅 Nov 20, 17:30 📍 Capgemini Utrecht 🔗 Join us: www.meetup.com/fronteers-nl...

The @cloudflare.social outage is so bad that @t3.gg is hanging out on Bluesky today. bsky.app/profile/t3.g...

It's bottleneck dependency day again.

Transparency questions aside, EU foreign ministers deserve some credit for choosing a secure option for encrypted group chats. And good to know that @signal.org's threat to exit the EU over #chatcontrol is quite a leverage when politicians depend on it. www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

📒 If you use PNPM you can use the `minimumReleaseAge` setting to lower the chance of installing compromised NPM packages while they have not yet been detected and removed from the NPM registry. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...

Svelte turns 9 today 😍😍😍

I refactored the Footer component of my SvelteKit website to use a `prerender` remote function to read a commit hash from an env variable. But @kevinmackenzie.bsky.social pointed out that it broke the navigation. This was the fix: github.com/maiertech/we... I have no idea why it broke. #Svelte

📝 Updated post: Do I need a sitemap for my SvelteKit app, and how do I create it? maier.tech/posts/do-i-n...

New trend in my inbox: SPAM emails wrapped in Google Calendar entries. Interesting approach to wrap crap in an email that will breeze through SPAM filtering. And a potential problem for any service that uses customizable transactional emails.

📝 New post: My website now runs on Railway but it was way more work than I thought to move it there. maier.tech/posts/it-ain...

One of the few real world examples of a bookmarked PWA being promoted at a larger scale. This is what you see when you try to install the official emergency app in my area. Kudos to to whoever decided to opt for web standards 👏

Self reviews were a good idea before AI but are now a necessity. Don't put that burden on your co-workers. If you use AI, review it 🤖

If getting hired is broken even for @nerdy.dev, it needs to be fixed! Adam's interview with @kevinpowell.co really resonated with me. I wrote down some insights from the interview. www.maier.tech/notes/job-hu...

Can the distinction of AI-assisted engineering vs. vibe coding save the value proposition of traditional software engineering? Not sure. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t...

New note about a great article that distilled my perception about multi-step AI workflows into words. www.maier.tech/notes/why-mu...

I started adding Content Collections to my SvelteKit website and had to migrate a couple of old plain Svelte posts to Markdown. Here is an evergreen posts I migrated about `:active`, `:focus` and `:focus-visible` pseudo-classes. www.maier.tech/posts/grokin...

Does your browser protect you from fingerprinting? I was surprised to find out that Safari does a much better job than a Chromium-based browser. www.maier.tech/notes/cover-...

While I wait for Apple to fix all the little things broken across devices, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that they had nothing else to do for a year other than focus on transparency gimmicks and rounded corners.

I like Claude Haiku 4.5 so far. It's like putting a cork in that pipe that kept leaking all your included tokens in a week.

Overconfident LLM: "Now I can see the issues clearly." [not sure, better give it a hint] "The issue is clear now." [it still wasn't clear apparently] "Ah, I see the issue now!" [Ok, fine I'll fix it myself]

Fun little interaction challenge: one select changes the options of another, which needs to load data depending on the first. This is how you do it with the new Svelte APIs. Comfortably fits into one screenshot.

I give Vercel credit for transforming frontend dev with immutable deploys. Abstracting away servers was liberating. But as times change, the downsides of this model deserve more attention. I have switched to Railway as stepping stone toward a European hosting solution.

You can and should watch the @vite.dev documentary online. The premiere at #viteconf was a blast and so nice to bump into @willow.sh and @rich-harris.dev. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWQ...

Vite Panel @viteconf.org with many of the amazing @vite.dev contributors and allies. #viteconf

Has anyone building with #SvelteKit and `adapter-node` seen this type of error? Screenshot is a Railway build. Local build works fine. Happens occasionally. This is a Vercel to Railway migration. Never had this issue on Vercel. #Svelte

Let me outsource my rant about macOS 26. It’s one heck of a bug fest. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CYgM...

Using `<enhanced:img />` in Markdown in a mdsvex file in combination with code fences that look like Svelte confuses the Vite plugin. Wrapping `<enhanced:img />` in a Svelte component and import that component into an mdsvex fixes this. But it's not pretty.

Shoutout to all @fronteers.bsky.social organizers for yesterday's #darkmode conference in Dordrecht. Great location, fantastic organization and amazing speakers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #fronteers

Brecht @utilitybend.com talking about built-in component gems hidden in plain sight in all modern browsers, like popovers. So many great browser APIs that are waiting to be used by frontend devs. #fronteers

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I'm in Dordrecht (NL) to MC at @fronteers.bsky.social's "Dark Mode" conference later today and tonight. Even though it's a new location, this feels like coming home, as I've been attending this conference since 2010 (and also spoke at the 2022 edition). fronteersconf.org

It's great to see the Frontend community leave Amsterdam for one evening for tonight's @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode. See you this afternoon/evening in Dordrecht! fronteersconf.org

After trying to move a SvelteKit app from Vercel to Cloudflare, I come to the conclusion that swapping out adapters is more an aspiration than a reality. The two compute models are too different to quickly move anything that is more than a simple web app.

This improves discoverability a lot 👍

If you want to run the same Node version locally that your hosting provider runs, you can install a pinned version of Node with Homebrew. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gBw...

First learnings from @joshwcomeau.com's whimsical animations course on my new landing page maier.social. A little lame compared to what he pulls off but it's a start 😅

And I like this one bsky.app/profile/hips...

I have just deployed to Cloudflare Workers for the first time (SvelteKit app). I find it hard to wrap my head around the subtleties of what happens during deployment on Vercel vs. Cloudflare. Curious to see what issues I will run into with Cloudflare's edge architecture.

Since moving to 🇳🇱, every time I buy via Paddle I want to faint when it's +21% VAT. But I just cannot not buy @joshwcomeau.com's courses. They are the best online courses out there. And the Dutch government will hopefully throw in a new bike path paid for by my VAT 🚲. whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

If you are looking for interesting people to follow in the CSS space, keep an eye on this thread.

Is anyone here employed through an EoR and would be willing to share their experience in a private call?

I have been using Git Worktrees for a while. You can use them to create a new workspace for each issue you work on. They are great for devs who work on multiple issues in parallel. In my first YouTube video, I explain how the new native worktree support in @vscode.dev works. youtu.be/x1mjUh6-azc

What if a frontend conference started at 4PM and kept going until midnight? 🍷 Drinks, vibes, and five great talks 💻 HTML, CSS, sustainability, accessibility & more 📍 Cinema De Witt, Dordrecht 🎟 fronteersconf.org

Heads up, #svelte #sveltekit folks: `form()` remote functions got more powerful in sveltekit 2.42.0: it now accepts a schema, and reports back any validation issues. This is not optional, so if you're using `formData` in your `form` functions, you have to add a schema now. github.com/sveltejs/kit...

SvelteKit async SSR has landed! The future of Svelte is now here. Try it out along with the new remote functions! See the PR for some unfinished rough edges. Work continues on it while it's behind an experimental flag, but you can now play around with it! github.com/sveltejs/kit...

Almost 3 years after I moved from Twitter to Mastodon, most of the folks I followed on Mastodon have moved Bluesky and stopped posting on Mastodon. It's great to see Bluesky thrive but I'm a little sad that Mastodon is still mostly niche despite of all the UX improvements they pulled off.

I have been using Git Worktrees for a while. You can use them to create a new workspace for each issue you work on. They are great for devs who work on multiple issues in parallel. In my first YouTube video, I explain how the new native worktree support in @vscode.dev works. youtu.be/x1mjUh6-azc

If you want a lot of hassle with OG images, auto-generate them like I do on my website. It's a moving target where one week it works with Mastodon but not on Bluesky and the following week it's the other way round. All that while the OG image testing website always manages to render it.