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Nils Riedemann
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I build interfaces for the web.

Working as a freelance senior consultant web platform engineer with 20 years of experience and happy to go for 20 more.

Now: #elixir, #web-components, #design-systems, #css
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Same!

I started with fusion and moved to FreeCAD. It's way more keyboard-user friendly, more customisable and less of a resource hog than fusion.

Highly recommend installing the OpenPreferences though, which makes the UI actually bearable.

It's has its quirks, but every tool has those anyway :D
Screenshot of FreeCAD showing a model of a Yarn Winder Spool. The Interface is made much cleaner and more modern by an extension called Open Preferences - which is not visible.
March 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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CSS functions make this type of shenanigans SO much easier - and kinda addictive. Love 'em!

All from a single element, no JS.

codepen.io/nocksock/pen...
March 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I feel like I'll use these two a *lot* in coming experiments.
So convenient!

codepen.io/nocksock/pen...
CSS function defintiion for --sibling-factor() and --lerp()
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It’s that time of the year again.
Screenshot of a part of iOS Safari’s context menu that says “Close All 500 Tabs”
March 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Best kind of tsconfig:
{ "compilerOptions": { "target": "esnext", "module": "esnext", "allowJs": true, "checkJs": true, "noEmit": true, "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true, "strict": true, "noImplicitAny": false, } }
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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How my sentiment towards Web-Components changed over the last 2 Years:
A graph that has a similar curve as the Dunning Kruger effect with a couple of events highlighted along the curve. Most notably: going down when starting to write my own and encountering shadow DOM. Then leaving the valley of despair after watching Dave Rupert's course on Frontend Masters, understanding shadow DOM and sharing components between non-JS SSR and client-side-js for the first time. At last "Digging into web-awesome" which made the graph go through the roof of the image.
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Wow. That platform truly is utterly broken.
December 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Bought a 3D printer a while ago when I encountered the gridfinity system.

I’m still in the early phase and have a lot of uncluttering, clearing-out and even more printing to do, but I am already so hooked on this system.
November 29, 2024 at 2:11 PM