Max Böck

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

My toddler's current thing is counting things without knowing any numbers. He'll put his toys in a chest one by one and go "zop, sasa, haik..." and he's really proud when he's finished counting. I feel like there's an AI metaphor in there somewhere 😅

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

“The frontier of 2026, the stuff the sharpest people are most excited about, is render the HTML on the server, ship almost no JavaScript, and use the web platform instead of fighting it.” davidpoblador.com/deep-dives/t...

I’ll be available for freelance work from August onwards. I can help you with: - Accessibility workshops, either in person or online - CSS workshops - Consultancy on HTML, CSS and accessibility - Front-end development EN or DE. Get in touch if that sounds interesting ❤️ matuzo.at/about-me

I was a massive fan of star fox on N64 when I was a kid. I can play every level blindfolded. Spent so much time on it I actually learned English through the radio comms! So yeah I'm *quite* excited for the remake. youtu.be/ip0KL2RQQMU?...

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com reposts appreciated <3

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process... If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out. My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/ I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

MooTools www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

On day 3 @tunetheweb.com introduces us to Speculation Rules and recent improvements to the API that help us speed up our websites. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

I' m fairly sceptical about most courses. But this @piccalil.li stuff - especially "JavaScript for Everyone" by @wil.to - is the real deal. It will improve your entire understanding of JS, not just framework-specifics. That kind of stuff pays off for years! Get. It. Now. piccalil.li/courses/

Short Answer: Fuck no. Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.

Inside you there are two woffs. Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.

I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI

Is that what they mean by "Disrupting the Industry"

Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance. Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES. Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

"built our own auth"

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm... Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Last week I wrote my first post for @piccalil.li 💛 In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties. piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...

Watching this is like eating styrofoam. It's just a big bowl of nothing (and will slowly kill you)

I guess I'm team antichrist now?

Dev trick: imagine page weight as *actual weight* on a plane. "Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?" "Well you know how eagles are really cool?"

The fax machine is a bit too much, other than that I pretty much grew up here

I'm also "sabotaging" my toddler's "strategy" of eating dirt, AMA

Did he read the em dashes out loud though

This mufugga still haunts my dreams

Now if only there was a gov agency of IT professionals actually capable of building stable software for people, let alone the website for it. Something like 17E or

What GIF pops up when you type your name?

Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights. pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...

The order of science: 1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem 2.) Work for years to solve it 3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won 4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed 5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax 6.) The deadly problem returns

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

Haven't checked these in a while but I think #32 is great considering the competition. Really anything thats > 100 places above @matuzo.at is fine with me 😜

Practical Accessibility Test: holding my 8-month-old son with one hand and trying to fill out a web form on my phone with the other.

I'm fixing up an old mountain bike that's been in the shed for 15 years. Some parts need replacing, but all in all pretty straightforward. I wish software worked like that. If I try to fix a 15yo website, I'd spend days fighting deprecated dependencies.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Working on a Shopify/Sanity/Eleventy project (a headless e-commerce thing) and boy that's a nice stack. Feels very close to the metal, 100% control of the data structures and markup. 🚀

I spent hours and hours trawling through the sites of some of the world's best web developers, and despite the horrors I regularly experience in my daily work in Big JavaScript Territory, what I saw left me hopeful: infrequently.org/2025/07/links/