I'm an experienced freelance web developer with a focus on open standards, commitment to accessibility, loyalty to maintainability, eye for usability, dedication to details, craving for simplicity and passion for performance. I'm fluent in HTML, CSS & JavaScript, knowledgeable about (mobile) browsers and quirks, and I can easily adapt to various frameworks, tech stacks & teams. I'm mostly interested in user-centered, agile, progressively enhanced, future-friendly projects. I still host and maintain a CMS and a bunch of websites that are 20 years old, because keeping things simple simply scales.
Since 2008, I co-organised conferences on web development related topics. The first few years as a volunteer with Fronteers, and as of 2011 professionally as well, with brands like performance.now(), CSS Day and Mobilism. I've been involved with over 30 successful conferences, with a simple deep-diving, single-track, content-focused, attendees-first, bullshit-less formula, since the beginning. In 2024, I decided to quit this exercise.
I'm currently part-time teaching frontend web development and coaching front-end students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Trying to teach a new generation of web developers how to build good web stuff, and how to cope with the inevitable bullshit they’re about to encounter.
And I like badminton and voluntary work, and combining web development with badminton, so I've also built some hobby projects around that. In fact, everything I do started from a hobby. But don't tell anyone I don't take myself too seriously. It would ruin my career.
Throw all this in a blender, together with having young twins, a smudge of OCD, and a self-proclaimed lack of social skills, and you've got me.
Feel free to get in touch on any of these topics! :)