Ingo Steinke, web developer articles - 118 total
Website Builders vs. Web Designers and Developers
Would you recommend page builders like Wix, Webflow, SquareSpace, Framer, Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg...
An erratic Xfce4 Black Screen (WIP)
Although I remain skeptical about AI, it often helps when you're quite clueless and have nothing to...
I built a Mint Green Light Theme for IDEAs
Let's kick off the new year with a fresh new green theme designed to please your eyes and lift your...
Creative Web Developer: Updating my Profile/Portfolio as a Senior Web Developer
As a senior frontend web developer with over 25 years of professional experience, I constantly keep...
Practical Privacy and Sustainability Hacks
Why do developers, admins and managers love the cloud? Because it scales, and you don't need to pay...
Hand-Crafted Creative Counter-Culture against Toxic Digitization
Let me assure you, I am no luddite. I use electricity, computers, the internet, and I develop...
Reflecting 2025 and Predicting 2026 Quoting DEV Post Titles
Looking back, 2025 was full of hype — and disappointment. But let's stay optimistic and have some...
Eating Low-Hanging Frogs
The early bird catches the worm, which must appeal to the fish, not to the fisher, and eating a frog...
2027 Web, Design, and Tech Predictions - and a Review of Last Year's Forecast
We don't know the future, but we can try to predict it. As pointless as it may seem, reviewing past...
Debugging a Hexagonal CSS Masonry Layout
Before CSS will eventually get an official masonry layout with or without grid, we can achieve...
Microphone Choice and Cancelling Noise
Don't you love Canva, Capcut, Insta, and TikTok? So-called social media giving ordinary people a...
React Recap, years later, thanks to Astro
While others are over React, like I was about five years ago, I decided to give React another chance...
Configuring Storybook for TypeScript and Tailwind, with Astro 🚀😡
I have worked with Storybook in the past and I loved its pragmatic, standalone, and interactive...
Infer Astro Zod Content Schema in TSX React Components avoiding Code Duplication
Astro, the meta-framework JAMStack and Next alternative thanks to its "islands architecture",...
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...