Ingo Steinke, web developer articles - 104 total
Constant Refactoring: Refactoring my refactored Website
Constant deprecation and breaking changes in npm packages cause "software rot" even for...
Integrating Astro 5, Storybook 9, Vite 7, and Tailwind 3 🐇🕳️
I wrote this post hoping that someone adds a simpler best-practice configuration solution that I must...
Coding in the Age of Constant Deprecation?
The greatest challenges of modern frontend web development aren't CSS, accessibility, or web...
Adding Optional Subtitles (Closed Captions) to Web Videos
"75% - 85% of people watch videos on mute," several studies suggest. Silent viewing isn't the only...
8 Alternatives to AI for Coding and Creativity
AI isn't the solution to all your problems. AI Alternatives are plenty and specific to your use case....
Where is the Vibe in "Vibe Coding" and what happened to Music Monday?
I'm not "All In on AI" at all. I'm still quite skeptical about the current LLM-based AI assistant...
My 12 most interesting DEV posts so far
When Web 2.0. and social media started in the early millennial years, FlickR had an insights view...
Fediverse and IndieWeb Alternatives
Originally posted in English and German on open-mind-culture.org, reposted on DEV and SubStack by...
Rely less on Third-Party Services
Following up to my in-depth Google Alternatives post and the short Google Alternatives listicle...
25 Google Alternatives every DEV must know
This is a follow-up to my post about Google Alternatives that I wrote in 2022 and kept updating it...
Web Design and Tech Predictions for 2025
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Predicting 2025. This article was...
Accessible, sustainable, and creative web development
Concluding my series about making our work and products more sustainable and breaking out of our...
Should web designers learn JavaScript or CSS?
"Do designers need to learn JavaScript?" is a popular question, but what does "learning JavaScript"...
Why "AI" is the new "sustainable"
"Future workshop with AI," "creativity with AI," "blah blah blah with AI," – "AI" is everywhere:...
WCAG and accessibility beyond naive misconceptions
Ableism often results from ignorance. As an abled and privileged person, I am "blind" to the...
An iPhone workaround broke my parallax scrolling effect 📵💔
All of a sudden, my parallax perspective scroll effect did not work anymore in one of my recent web...
How to stop form spam without using ReCaptcha?
This is more of a rant or a question, not a best practice post, at least not yet: how to stop form...
How to find a good developer?
As solopreneurs or freelancers, we need a network of appropriate cooperation partners. While...
Cost transparency extension for Shopware 6
Sustainable shop owners might want to inform customers where their money goes. For example, 50% goes...
Sending HTML emails using Thunderbird
What happened to email formatting options? Do people either send plain-text business letters with a...
Shopware dev productivity and plugin validation
Finally, let me share some more things that I learned or rediscovered when validating and publishing...
Responsive design and cross-device testing
Best viewed with an open mind... The so-called "browser wars" long before current web...
IDEA themes for emotion-driven development
Cute Pink Light Theme, My first IDE color theme for WebStorm, PhpStorm, and other JetBrains IDEA code...
Upgrading and refactoring a portfolio web project
Having neglected to maintain my personal portfolio website project for a while, it proves that there...
Still no internet? How to prevent premature timeouts in Ubuntu?
I have contributed to open data by hunting "Funklöcher" ("radio holes", as network dead zones are...
Tumbleweed content
Ironically, the most specific and most urgent questions, the ones that can't be answered by...
Optimizing pseudo-random SVG animations
When I relaunched my portfolio website in 2021, I added a colorful background animation possibly...
Shopware 6 changes since the academy training videos
I tried to resume my Shopware side projects only to find out that my current development setup has...
Replacing parts of my laptop
Replacing parts inside my laptop is possible, although modern portable computers are far from the...
Adding a high-contrast theme toggle to a pastel website
How can we make a legacy website more accessible? A common problem is the low color contrast of...