Max Böck

front-end dev · co-founder codista.com · co-organizer Webclerks conference · curates whimsical.club · writes about #Frontend, #CSS, #IndieWeb

Website: https://mxb.dev
Location: Vienna, Austria

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2026-06-12 09:53:31 GMT

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you:
- a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React)
- based in Austria / Vienna
- ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs)
- looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team?
Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

2025-07-11 08:10:13 GMT

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is there a recording of your talk?

2025-07-11 07:39:24 GMT

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While travelling in Asia, I had a few hotels book me as "Mr MacBook". Apparently my name triggers the Autocorrect there 😅
honestly - checks out

2025-05-10 09:39:24 GMT

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Or you know, have some respect for your craft and take pride in doing the actual, boring, manual work. Create something of value for your users. Strive to make things better. Be human.

2025-05-10 09:37:37 GMT

🚀Publish your sites directly from Figma!
✨Let AI write your blog posts!
😎Vibe code your authentication layer!
🍦Eat protein paste instead of food!
💩Stop showering and shit your pants!
🎉 PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE 2025!

2025-03-28 19:44:37 GMT

Any programmer tasked with doing this should set fire to their computer immediately.
It will save them and millions of other people from the worst fucking idea anyone has ever had in software development.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

2025-01-29 07:48:25 GMT

OpenAI now claims that Deepseek used its model to train their competitor. Huge if true
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/910/535/353/948/233/original/8776dc432697a3f1.jpeg

2025-01-28 17:37:42 GMT

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https://tenor.com/bjwim.gif

2025-01-28 15:33:39 GMT

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auto-generated variable names? is that a tailwind thing? Also why

2025-01-24 12:52:43 GMT

Everytime I read a post like this (excellent) one by
@npub1cw7…0mkt, they come down to the same thing:
It pays off to bet on the web platform.
Want to make something that works without a major refactor every 3 years? Build "with the grain of the web". 💯
https://csswizardry.com/2025/01/build-for-the-web-build-on-the-web-build-with-the-web/

2024-12-30 10:19:39 GMT

How come there's no orchids growing on my burning shit heap?
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/741/245/566/302/526/original/c856f80eefdc3fdb.jpeg

2024-11-16 12:32:34 GMT

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thank you! Yeah there's also an Austrian holiday that will come in handy once he starts having birthday parties past bedtime 😅

2024-11-16 08:27:45 GMT

🎉 Our baby son was born last night! He's the best thing I've ever made and I'm incredibly happy (and tired). Welcome, little one! 💕
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/491/624/387/073/142/original/17448e5a9b258a31.jpg

2024-11-06 07:21:47 GMT

This, except they picked diarrhea
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/434/800/617/116/806/original/bfea3d68ff88c52f.jpg

2024-11-05 22:29:29 GMT

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another thing is that this still used the old common js / lambda handler syntax. Netlify functions have switched to ES Modules recently, that could cause problems with import statements.
Function logs might contain clues there...

2024-11-05 20:53:28 GMT

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since it affects both prev/next and random functions, it could be a malformed entry in the members array? Hard to say

2024-11-05 20:24:16 GMT

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apologies for the bad accessibility in that joke, pls don't tell @npub13dm…lj2t
(alt text: GesamtStapelEntwicklerin)

2024-11-05 20:13:39 GMT

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or if you're so inclined, you could be a
𝔊𝔢𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔱𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔩𝔈𝔫𝔱𝔴𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔩𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫

2024-11-05 10:16:31 GMT

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VORDERENDENTWICKLER

2024-11-01 21:27:51 GMT

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I'm a big fan of both 11ty and the IndieWeb, and I think that's no coincidence since they share a lot of the same values

2024-10-09 06:05:26 GMT

The ".io" top level domain might be gone soon. https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

2024-10-07 18:30:48 GMT

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ah I see. Yeah I'm using a tiny render-blocking script in the head to set the theme on my site as well (from localstorage, but could just as well read from session). runs fast enough so there's no flash. [@chriskirknielsen](https://front-end.social/@chriskirknielsen ) has a similar approach: https://chriskirknielsen.com/blog/my-under-engineered-way-to-avoid-a-flash-of-inaccurate-color-theme/

2024-10-07 17:38:18 GMT

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otherwise, <link rel=preload as=style> could help avoid the flash

2024-10-07 17:35:07 GMT

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you could do a reload of the page with the new theme applied and use a view transition to smooth it out maybe?

2024-09-27 20:33:39 GMT

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got lucky, I caught it early so could avoid most of the damage, although it took working 48h straight. Many people in Austria were hit much harder.

2024-09-27 19:08:49 GMT

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oof. This sounds a lot like me 2 weeks ago, massive rainfall flooded my basement. Thankfully just ground water though, poop water is so much worse 😬
Hope you can deal with it!

2024-09-16 15:59:11 GMT

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I know I'm a broken record with this stuff, but I wrote a talk about this exact topic in 2020. Even better ways to do it today
https://mxb.dev/blog/emergency-website-kit/

2024-09-16 15:56:57 GMT

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You can use the exact same APIs but use them to fuel a minimal static HTML/CSS site, and rebuild it every 10 minutes / when new data is published. Can even work offline-first with a Service Worker.

2024-09-16 15:51:17 GMT

The state of Lower Austria offers a public dashboard with up-to-date flood data. That's great, but whyyy is it an Angular SPA? Lots of people have no electricity and/or very poor network conditions. They get a loading spinner instead.
👏 EMERGENCY WEBSITES SHOULD BE STATIC 👏
https://noel.gv.at/wasserstand
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/148/017/643/717/165/original/36ba186c837de7e8.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/148/017/858/373/187/original/a9f163ff979fe71d.jpg

2024-09-12 09:58:41 GMT

is it possible to be physically in love with a blog, asking for a friend
https://modem.io/blog/scrollbars/
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/123/987/340/326/265/original/ee2d2225a3bd3994.mp4

2024-09-10 18:08:18 GMT

This blog post is a work of art
https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

2024-09-08 08:58:20 GMT

✏️ New post: Remember when the code in your editor was exactly the same code delivered to the browser? Now there's usually a build process in between, and that can get ... complicated.
Do we still need that? Can we do modern web development completely #buildless?
https://mxb.dev/blog/buildless/

2024-09-04 18:39:43 GMT

The more client work I do, the less time and energy I have to talk/write about it.
I suspect there's a giant group of people you never hear from in web dev discussions - because they're too busy doing it.

2024-09-03 07:02:08 GMT

Reminder that if you do the CSS centering joke in this year of our lord 2024, I'm gonna assume you stopped writing CSS around the time when people said "whassuuuuuuuup?" 😱

2024-08-15 09:40:51 GMT

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regex. copy that shit from stack overflow.

2024-07-23 19:53:20 GMT

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I mean I'd say Lobster is *debateable* - but then again I've got a dedicated lobster mode on my blog.

2024-07-23 14:38:00 GMT

Oh look @npub13dm…lj2t, Lobster had a kid! 🦞2️⃣
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lobster+Two

2024-06-06 19:31:09 GMT

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infuriating