Lieke B 👩‍💻

Hey network! I'm currently looking for a new opportunity in front-end / full stack development. I am an expert in accessibility and design systems, know how to make a great performant website, and always eager to learn more! Working from The Netherlands but open to remote. leekeh.com/hire-me

Job hunting stats btw

Suddenly there are only two weeks left in my unemployment, almost wish I had more time just to mess around with projects (｡ᵕ ◞ _◟)

Working with slow internet is really making me wish more sites would just send HTML over the wire

maybe in this era of hyper-capitalism, where new technology is making us even more rushed and dividing our attention constantly, having patience itself is a radical thing

sometimes I think about what would've become of me if I wouldn't have listened to those that told me to stop drawing

Why do so many accessibility-focused resources not use the focus-visible selector? Showing the focus outline on clicks feels so clunky.

TIL aria-keyshortcuts

My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed

How are people managing the tension between wanting to share & open-source their code, and avoiding AI just scraping and stealing it?

i write code manually cause it’s fun and i don’t want AI to take that skill away from me

For whatever godforsaken reason I still _care_. The web started as a craft, and still can be. And when it is built as such, it shines. That said, it is increasingly more difficult to live in hope. I don’t blame or fault the people who exit. Unfortunately, this is the only game I know.

I redesigned my personal site to look like an old operating system, but made it accessible, responsive, fully interactive, and progressively enhanced. Wrote a lil’ blog post about it. More coming soon ✌️ leekeh.com/blog/hello-world

Want to test your accessibility knowledge? @davedavies.dev built this free accessibility quiz to help you. You get 128 hand written questions across WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML and contrast. And for each, an explanation for each answer a11y.quest/

Some difficult things are actually just poorly designed

Is it just me or is the word "whimsical" starting to be (over)used for everything

So do I go for Codeberg or Tangled or both?

leaked software industry training manual (2026)

I think the greatest benefit AI has given me is getting me out of the brainstorming phase when I start overthinking projects. I'd rather start building something sloppy and spend a bunch of time fixing issues later, than get stuck in my head on all the different things to consider before building.

Love seeing an alternative style on a webshop 🫶

i know it seems bleak. but people are making and sharing cool, fun, and free things on the web in 2026. you just gotta get outside the walled gardens

When you think about it, well-written AI SKILL.md files can be a great resource for condensed information on a specific topic. We're basically just forcing ourselves to write great documentation 🤠

every now and then i log back into tumblr and find a different world

People treating LinkedIn like Facebook make me feel like they need to incorporate work into everything they do.

patterns.dev is such a well-written source.

why trouble thyself with CSS-in-JS when you could have a little walk-in-the-wilderness. a little peace-in-your-heart. why waste thy hours comparing runtime environments when you could be spending time running in the environment

I'm deleting my Telegram account. Too much spam, and having to pay to block incoming messages from non-contacts is hostile UI and frankly against what I thought the app stood for.

When browsing public domain, I somehow always run into this picture from the Amundsen south pole expedition.

Playing Sims 2 music while cooking gives an elite feeling I didn't know I needed

There are so many cool characters in Unicode

I love exploring public.work for some aesthetic public domain images or just for the vibes tbh

Another day of trying to convince people to not use xstate

My side project keeps getting bigger in scope, but I'm trying to enjoy the ride. If it ends up going nowhere at least I learned something.

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!