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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 · 29/09/2026
True. The idea of building something only to "extract value from users" (be it money, data or otherwise) has not shaped the web for the better.
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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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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 03/07/2026
Thank you for this post and all your great work in the last years! this reads like a very good move for you. Wish you all the best in your new offline life - we should all look at fewer screens and more birds.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 01/07/2026
Showcase your unique creative skills by pressing the slopify button!
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 28/06/2026
They have a web-based HTML editor that lets you jump right in without a local IDE or git or anything like that. Just hack away at some markup 😅
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 28/06/2026
Maybe something like NeoCities? neocities.org
neocities.org
Neocities
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
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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 · 20/06/2026
I know the feeling
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 16/06/2026
Haha welcome neighbor! If you're interested, here's the post: devjobs.at/job/9be268ce... Or you can send your CV to hello@codista.com
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 13/06/2026
Doesn't have to be in Vienna, but within driving distance. We have an office there and need to be able to meet, although a lot of the day-to-day is done remotely.
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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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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 12/06/2026
Hey Claude, can you slice this bread? Sure thing! First, let's build a gyroscopically stable platform to hold our bread-cutting laser...
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 10/04/2026
Someone I taught basic HTML once said "it's like having a magic marker that gives words meaning" and honestly that's a pretty good image
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 04/04/2026
Latest wave of AI hasn't helped there. To be fair, both can probably be true at the same time 😅
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 04/04/2026
I switch between "I'm so privileged to work on the web for a living" and "this entire industry is cursed, I need to get out and never touch a keyboard again" a few times a month.
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 28/03/2026
Also "The fat of the land", Prodigy 1997 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (Full Album) - YouTube
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 28/03/2026
Insert obligatory mention of Rage against the Machine here
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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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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 20/02/2026
"creative" needs some massive air quotes in that meta description 😅
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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...
theguardian.com
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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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 30/12/2025
Ha, got that one for christmas this year! Great set. Even the power switch feels right 😅
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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...
htmhell.dev
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 · 21/11/2025
For extra realism, enable it at random every few weeks and give the user 3 "opt-out credits" per year
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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 · 27/10/2025
Omg that just made my day
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 23/10/2025
cc @matuzo.at get that money
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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
Definitely. But sites that provide a service that's interesting to an AI agent (think booking engines and stuff) could see this as incentive to improve a11y. And (accidentally) make it better for humans too. Sad order of priorities though.
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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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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 15/10/2025
Nice post! stuff like this used to be such a headache and now it's essentially 3 lines of css. 😍
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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
I swear the shit that seems to fly these days would have gotten UX designers fired just 5 years ago
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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 · 09/10/2025
Feels like the same founder's mindset that values "the idea" above all else and thinks the implementation is just a detail that any nerd can do. AI lets all these people play pretend until it eventually turns out the way things are built is pretty damn important
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 09/10/2025
Mine is mxv.dev but there are way cooler ones at whimsical.club
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 08/10/2025
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com
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 · 04/10/2025
No worries. Let me know if you need any more information. I just recently moved out of Vienna after living there for 16 years. I miss it a bit 😭
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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 04/10/2025
If you have some more time to spare just follow Ringstraße to see the Opera, Parliament, City Hall, Hofburg... All great. Natural History Museum (or Kunsthistorisches Museum vis-a-vis) are amazing for rainy days.
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