Develops web, front & back,
@happycog
, Toon & Lot’s dad, drums, good food & drinks, cycling, and making up bios. Not the band.
@low
@ohai
.social on Mastodon.
Big step! After almost 15 years of flying solo I felt the need to switch things up. Already feel at home with the team, and I gotta say, “working at Happy Cog” has a certain ring to it. 💫
Drinking game whilst listening to
@LanterneRougeCP
: each time
@BenjiNaesen
says “and so forth”, shot of jaeger. Each time he says “and such”, shot of whiskey. “And stuff like that”, shot of tequila.
You’ll be more sore than
@rogla
after stage 3 of the TDF, I guarantee.
It’s a thing you mostly hear positive things about, but man, parenthood is fucking hard. I mean properly, unequivocally difficult, utterly draining both physically and mentally.
That said, I have never loved a human being more than my newborn son.
Sigh. I shouldn’t need to defend my reasoning of using progressive enhancement to build (public facing) sites. Especially not to other web professionals. No, I won’t be relying on JavaScript to serve content, no matter how tiny the percentage of non-JS users you claim is.
It’s been a crazy last month of the decade, leaving the houseboat for a proper house and having a daughter 2 weeks after moving in… All things considered, it went pretty smoothly. Ready to take it easy the next decade or two.
Part of being a good developer, IMHO, is protecting the client from themselves. Something tells me this is true for every profession, not just web dev.
Thanks everyone. She had pseudo croup on top of a nasty case of influenza which caused pneumonia and low saturation. She needed extra oxygen and to be monitored closely. Spent 4 nights in hospital, but she’s close to full recovery now.
#launch
First built on CodeIgniter over 10 years ago, today the new Leiden University Prospectus launched. Now built on Laravel with a custom Vue.js SPA back-end. 🚀🎉
Counting my blessings. We just moved to a bigger house, with a big garden. Kids aren’t going to school anyways and love ‘em to bits. Working from home is second nature. My fave restaurants are now doing delivery. Zwift. It ain’t all bad.
#stayHome
I really dislike sticky headers on mobile. Screen real estate is already limited—especially with all that cookie consent BS—and I can scroll to the top of the page with one tap. Give me more room for your content and leave your logo & nav on top.
It’s a thing you mostly hear positive things about, but man, parenthood is fucking hard. I mean properly, unequivocally difficult, utterly draining both physically and mentally.
That said, I have never loved a human being more than my newborn son.
Finally got my vax appointment in 2 weeks. One shot of mRNA suffices for me, as I tested positive just under 6 months ago (which, for me, was a surprise, as it came and went like a common cold).
In 2008, I built a large
#eecms
site for a client. After a couple of years, they took over maintenance and ongoing development themselves. Now, a full decade after the first version, I'm back. And oh boy.
The toddler wanted to open the door and dropped the keys in the canal.
Fortunately, I keep a magnet-on-a-rope nearby just for cases like that.
Unfortunately, it was on the other side of said door.
#lifeonahouseboat
The current dependency trend (npm, composer) reminds me of the rise and fall of CMS add-ons/plugins. With the latter, people rejoiced when "there's an add-on for that", but were eventually bitten by abandonware and technical debt.
jQuery is still perfectly fine for progressively enhancing an existing DOM.
Vue (et al) basically *makes* the DOM and therefore isn’t a good option for public websites or any site/app where the conditions aren’t fixed.