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Max Böck

@mxb.dev
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🛠️ builds stuff for the web ✨ co-founder codista.com ✏️ writes at mxb.dev 🎉 curates whimsical.club

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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 12/09/2026
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 😅
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 30/06/2026
“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...
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The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching
The last time you wrote a frontend it was a <button> and an FTP upload. Spare twenty minutes and get up to speed on everything the web did while you looked away. By David Poblador i Garcia.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 26/06/2026
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
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About me - Manuel Matuzovic
I’m a frontend developer, consultant, accessibility auditor, blogger, teacher, and book author from Austria.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 24/06/2026
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?...
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Star Fox – Coming June 25th! (Nintendo Switch 2)
YouTube video by Nintendo UK
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 12/06/2026
🚨 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)
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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 24/02/2026
🎉 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
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Paweł Grzybek @pawelgrzybek.com · 26/01/2026
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.
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CV | pawelgrzybek.com
I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design...
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 19/01/2026
MooTools www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 04/12/2025
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...
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Speculation rules improvements - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 27/11/2025
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/
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Premium Courses
Expansive, high quality education to make you a better developer and designer. Join thousands of others in boosting your career opportunities.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 07/11/2025
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.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 06/11/2025
Inside you there are two woffs. Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 23/10/2025
A11y experts should start selling "Agentic AI Optimization" packages and just bring as many sites up to WCAG standards before the hype dies down 🚀
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 21/10/2025
I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 20/10/2025
Is that what they mean by "Disrupting the Industry"
Screenshot of AWS east health dashboard, showing major service disruption
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Ryan Mulligan @ryanmulligan.dev · 13/10/2025
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...
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 13/10/2025
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.
A Majora's-Mask-style "Dawn of The Final Day. 24 Hours Remain" title card, but using the JavaScript for Everyone Atari-style type and branding. The background is made up of two low-angle perspective views of rectangles on grids that meet at a sharp line, resembling a horizon.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 12/10/2025
You'd think that opting out once is all you need, surely no reasonable person would assume that Microsoft would randomly enable this feature again without consent, right? ... Riiiight?
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 12/10/2025
"built our own auth"
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 07/10/2025
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.
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A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 09/10/2025
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Cartoon duck Alfred J. Kwak and his girlfriend Winnie Wana
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 08/10/2025
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 02/10/2025
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...
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A workaround for using custom properties in media queries
One of the most frustrating aspects of media queries is that we can’t use custom properties with them. This often results in hard-coded values in otherwise, highly configurable codebases. Manuel has a...
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 30/09/2025
Watching this is like eating styrofoam. It's just a big bowl of nothing (and will slowly kill you)
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 24/09/2025
I guess I'm team antichrist now?
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 22/09/2025
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?"
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 20/09/2025
The fax machine is a bit too much, other than that I pretty much grew up here
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 02/09/2025
I'm also "sabotaging" my toddler's "strategy" of eating dirt, AMA
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 02/09/2025
Did he read the em dashes out loud though
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 25/08/2025
This mufugga still haunts my dreams
"Dead Hand" in Zelda: Ocarina of time (N64). A bandaged monster, mouth agape, grabbing you with hands from below
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 25/08/2025
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
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 20/08/2025
Hearing more and more stories about companies reprimanding employees for *not* using AI. Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.
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Irish @nakedirish.com · 17/08/2025
This, actually works. For me at least.
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 15/08/2025
What GIF pops up when you type your name?
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a boxer dog wearing a green beanie is sitting in the back seat of a car ..
Alt: a boxer dog wearing a green beanie is sitting in the back seat of a car ..
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 14/08/2025
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...
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 10/08/2025
Looping Louie looking crazy as ever in his little plane
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 03/08/2025
the ending of this explainer might surprise you
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 03/08/2025
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 😜
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 02/08/2025
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.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 26/07/2025
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.
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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025
Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
A group of handdrawn fish.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 17/07/2025
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. 🚀
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 17/07/2025
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/
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Links? Links! - Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 16/07/2025
*pressing a big red button on fisher price toy, the cow says: Moo* "yeah I'm operating on the edge of what's known here"
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 10/07/2025
I want to hear one (1) product update announcement that's like "we thought about adding AI, but found that it did not fit our usecase, so we focused on [any other feature] instead."
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 06/07/2025
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-...
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The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 27/06/2025
Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 28/06/2025
Fascinating read (in German) by one of Austria's top journalists who tried the legal way to fight hatespeech on X. TL;DR: it doesn't work. www.arminwolf.at/2025/06/28/x...
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X ist ein rechtsfreier Raum › Blog von Armin Wolf
Warum es praktisch unmöglich ist, anonyme Hass-Postings auf X zu bekämpfen: Die Gesetze sind zu schwach, X ignoriert sie, zuständige ...
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