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Lucien Immink

Software Architect & Developer Advocate

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CSS Relative colors

Before the relative color syntax you had to rely on CSS variables or even worse: JavaScript to modify the parameters of a color. Using the from keyword the browser can convert the originating color to different color spaces and change the color properties.

Published on: December 1, 2023

Project Fugu

Cross-platform software development is hard. Each platform has its specific implementation of an API and you end up with separate apps for each platform. Multiple frameworks try to fix this issue by creating an abstract between the platform and the application. Browser vendors are doing the same and it's called Project Fugu.

Published on: April 14, 2023

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Server-sent events (SSE)

With Server-sent events, you don't need to ask the server if an event has happened. SSE is sent when the server wants to.

Published on: January 23, 2023

network frontend communication

Discover HTTP/3

What is HTTP/3 and how does it differ from HTTP/2? In order to understand we need to dive deep into how the protocols of the internet work.

Published on: July 5, 2022

Why lit is 🔥

Every day a new JavaScript library is born, every week a new framework arrives and every month a front-end developer needs to rewrite a date picker 😢 LIT is a modern library for creating component libraries, design systems but also sites and apps. LIT components are web components and as such work anywhere you use HTML.

Published on: June 17, 2022

Talks by Lucien Immink

Cloud for front-end

Do you have acces to you live environment? Unsure of what is deployed? Ever ran out of cpu power or memory? In this talk Lucien Immink will help you out by asking another question: "Should you care?"
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One Web Component a day keeps the docter away

Use stuff that you can reuse and build stuff that other people can reuse
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Project Fugu

Cross platform development is hard. Each platform as it's own implementation of an API and you end up with separate apps for each platform. Multiple frameworks try to fix this issue by creating an abstract between the platform and the application. Browser vendors are doing the same and it's called Project Fugu. In this talk I explain what it is and what it isn't.
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frontend
web-capabilities
Why LIT is 🔥

Every day a new JavaScript library is born, every week a new framework arrives and every month a front-end developer needs to rewrite a date picker 😢 LIT is a modern library for creating component libraries, design systems but also sites and apps. LIT components are web components and as such work anywhere you use HTML.
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frontend