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Notes & essays

Short thoughts, links, and the occasional long-form piece on design, front-end, and accessibility.

Bruno Silva1 week ago

A robot project with my daughter, a first soldering kit, and a few things I wish I'd known before shopping.

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Bruno Silva1 month ago

Since 2022 it has been safe to use the dialog element in HTML. Yet many developers are still embrancing javascript libraries to create modal dialogs.

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Bruno Silva10 months ago

In the past few days I've been building a tool to help me overcome my challenges to learn the piano.

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Bruno Silva11 months ago

With the introduction of the European Accessibility Act (EAA), companies are looking for strategies to bring everyone on board. In my experience, empathy goes a long way in helping teams realize this should be part of their mission too.

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Bruno Silva1 year ago

Our dashboard “worked.” It also made new users stare at a spinner for five seconds while seven separate network calls each repeated the same auth and data shaping logic.

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Bruno Silva2 years ago

In this post we'll look into how grid and content length selectors can be used to create interesting layouts.

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Bruno Silva2 years ago

Want to know what is blazingly fast and doesn't require a build step? Dive in and learn how to use an *old dog* to do modern tricks.

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Bruno Silva2 years ago

I've been using Arc for the past few weeks and I'm loving it. It's a modern approach to a web browser that breaks away from the traditional design.

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