Ingo Steinke, web developer @ingosteinke
About: Ingo has been developing websites for more than 20 years. A creative web developer focused on creating and improving websites to make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Ingo Steinke, web developer articles - 118 total
Fediverse and IndieWeb Alternatives to the Meta-Broligarchy
Originally posted in English and German on open-mind-culture.org, reposted on DEV and SubStack by...
DevUX Reading List 2024-25: AI Slop, Vibe Coding, Accessibility
This is another subjective and incomplete selection of relevant, high-quality posts, a follow-up to...
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 in 2025 🤯💥
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"...
Serenity, feasibility, priority: putting emotion-driven development into practice
I coined the term "emotion-driven development" last year, trying to get a positive impact from...
Why "AI" is the new "sustainable"
"Future workshop with AI," "creativity with AI," "blah blah blah with AI," – "AI" is everywhere:...
Less is more: my updated web development portfolio
A little less, at least: My web development portfolio website used to be a compact one-pager but full...
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...
State of my stacks stats 2024
Several annual surveys gather data about usage and missing features to predict future web trends and...
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...
5 WordPress page builders from a web developer's perspective 👎👎👎👎👎
Here are some thoughts and experiences about page builders in WordPress: my subjective ranking and...
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...
Undetected antipatterns and missing line numbers
This edutaining dev rant is another collection of leftover notes and screenshots from various...
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...
Verifying my video setup
I will probably use this very blog post as a script for my first video (number zero) to test and...
Blocked users' posts featured in "relevant" feed
I have blocked several users, still forem keeps showing me their "x that y MUST do in 2024" posts on...
Optimizing pseudo-random SVG animations
When I relaunched my portfolio website in 2021, I added a colorful background animation possibly...
Legacy-No-Code surcharge?
What's worse than legacy code? Legacy No-Code! "Legacy no-code" That's what I call when...
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...