Nils Binder

Hello 🦋-friends! I am Nils, based in the Ruhr-Area in Germany. I occasionally write about CSS over here: 9elements.com/blog/author/... And since I can now use my website as a handle, it is probably time to update it as well. But if you're curious, you find it here: ichimnetz.com

Got back from #CSSday. Apart from the great talks I had a wonderful time. I was being proposed to by @joshtumath.uk with a beer can, had very important discussions about soft hands, numbers of duvets, crochet and cross-stitch and many more. Very happy to be part of this lovely community.

Arrived at #CSSDay. We brought a bunch of stickers … make sure to ask some of the 9elements guys for “Javer Skirpt”

You’re welcome

If you're in/around Amsterdam but can't make it to CSS Day, I also plan to be at the @css.cafe event that takes place the day after if you want to get a chance to hang out a bit 😊

Our favourite conference of the year is back: CSS Day ✨ CSS legends, browser engineers, and web platform experts sharing talks on modern CSS, accessibility, design systems, browser internals, and much more. cssday.nl See you next week in Amsterdam? ☕️

Found the #CSS table with @ichimnetz.com, @utilitybend.com, and @bram.us at #btconf! 🙌

Ever wanted to get rid of “widows” in the last row of your auto-generated grid? I found a solution with modern CSS. We do need to know the child count though. @kevinpowell.co I actually came up with this after you asked about use-cases for child-count. codepen.io/enbee81/pen/...

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...

Thanks for including my little article 🥰

@bell.bz They dressed up. They put on their best little chili hat. It’s almost Christmas — they’re basically festive now — and you’re still pretending they don’t exist. Brutal.

A bit more niche, but next to fancy things like scroll-driven animations, CSS also introduced new math functions like round() and mod(). With them, you can take a time value like 1045 (without the colon) and calculate the minutes passed since midnight. bsky.app/profile/ichi...

There's a new #CSS Working Group poll to get feedback on different names for the infamous 'Pinterest' layout. - Since it uses many of the grid-* properties, `grid` will be in the name somewhere - We don't use metaphors in CSS names, so `masonry` is not listed here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Visiting Seattle… I was NOT prepared for this. 🤣🤣 Breakfast was delicious though! #tailwind

“I don’t like CSS” is coded speech for “I never learned CSS”

Had a wonderful day at @frontendnorth.bsky.social. Thanks a lot for having me. If you're interested in the slides to my talk, you can find them here: ichimnetz.com/slides/unwra... #FrontEndNorth

Some photos for you from this morning (and not from my potato phone)! 🌅 Huge thanks to our first 4 speakers for your fantastic talks @bell.bz @olu.online @ichimnetz.com @amyrogers.design #FrontEndNorth

Boring! Breaking free of a fixed container and the tools which constrain our creativity with @ichimnetz.com #FrontEndNorth

3 tickets off a major milestone for us volunteer organisers! Tell your lovely developer and designer friends, we'd love to see you at Front End North 🙌 £75 - 8 talks - video game social - Sheffield - tomorrow! frontendnorth.com

Looks like I’ve found the one and only Station™ 😄 Just landed in Manchester—next stop: Sheffield! Getting ready for @frontendnorth.bsky.social 🚆✨

There was a time when anyone could be an artist 👨‍🎨 — if they loved the work enough. Then came the professionals. Then came the camera. Today, it’s not paint that’s being replaced. It’s code. 9elements.com/blog/when-sk...

Wow – what a meetup! Huge thanks to everyone who joined our in-person gathering right after #CSSDay. Special shoutout to @miocene.io, Johannes, and Vilde for the fantastic talks. We had such a great time and hope to see you all again next year! 🙌

Closing off by following a presentation @css.cafe meetup. CSS in the News Room. So happy I still got to see a part of this! So creative. #csscafe #CSSDay . Very inspirational

Getting a shoutout from @ishadeed.com for our min-max calculator at #cssday? Made. Our. Day. 🥰 min-max-calculator.9elements.com?16,24,320,1200

Getting ready for CSS Day, part 2! I’ll have some stickers and a few owl shirts with me — if you’re around and want one, come say hi.

So excited to be speaking at Front End North this July! I’ll be talking about “Unwrapping Web Design” Would love to see you there! 📍 10th July, Sheffield 🎟️ Still some tickets left – and they’re just £75! #frontendnorth

Live goal achieved: I (well, mostly my slides) appeared in one of @miriam.codes’s talks—just minutes after I gave that exact talk myself. 🤯

In town for @cssday.nl on June 5–6? Join the Pre-CSS Day Afternoon Event on June 4 at 16:00 — hosted by CMD Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Talks by @ichimnetz.com & @miriam.codes, plus student CSS showcases ✨ 🎟 Free RSVP: gath.io/KwVtysIkOWcU...

If you're going to #CSSDay next week (or not), there is also a free-to-attend afternoon event at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. With @miriam.codes and @ichimnetz.com speaking, the event is looking great. More info + registration: gath.io/KwVtysIkOWcU...

This looks really promising! Recently, I was late to the game in realizing that text inside <details> gets shown when found. Now, this takes it even further by giving you even more control over what can be found and made visible!

I built a little tool to check color contrast across an entire palette. 🎨 • Supports both WCAG 2.0 and APCA 
 • See how all colors compare at a glance • Import/Export CSS or JSON variables
 • Make sure your palette works for everyone Try it: palette-tester.9elements.com

@matuzo.at last year my husband started working in Nürnberg / Bavaria. Somehow that made me think about you a lot…

This is going to happen tomorrow 😍 👇 www.meetup.com/css-cafe/eve...

For the past three years, @9elements.com has worked collaboratively with UK agency Kore (www.kore.uk.com), helping the World Health Organization (WHO) to visualize global public health data on WHO’s data hub: data.who.int Read our blog post: 9elements.com/blog/visuali... #DataViz #PublicHealth

📝 New post! `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` aren't allowed on divs, spans, and other static text elements out of the box, and *most* screenreaders won't announce them. #accessibility #a11y

🚀 Quick and Dirty Colour Palettes Using CSS color-mix() I explored how we can use the CSS color-mix function to create tint, shade, opaque, and neutral colours stacks. There's some specualtive 'future' CSS using a CSS functions and a Sass mixin t'boot. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/qui... 🙏🖤

Good read. Similar to my experience with AI. I often ask myself If AI can help mostly senior devs and make them faster and more efficient, who is going to teach the junior devs of the future? Seems seniors are busy debugging AI code.

Well some years ago I made this. 9elements.github.io/fancy-border...

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