Max Böck

About:

Max Böck is a front-end developer and writer from Vienna, passionate about web development and open source.

Website:

mxb.dev

Specializations:

Writer Front-End Developer Speaker

Interests:

Web development Design Open source culture

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2025-03-11 • technology innovation

The text discusses the tech industry's approach to innovation, comparing it to Henry Ford's famous quote about faster horses. It argues that the industry should focus on solving actual user problems rather than forcing new feature...

2025-01-18 •

The year 2024 was challenging yet significant for the author, with a major focus on building a life for the new family, particularly the birth of his son. The post reflects on the stress and rewards of supporting his wife's pregna...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the concept of buildless web development, focusing on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, server-side enhancement, design tokens, and the potential to eliminate build tools. The author explores the tradeoffs and improve...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the challenges of live CMS previews with headless content management systems and static websites. It explores the use of serverless functions to render updates on demand, fetching draft data from Sanity, an...

2024-10-26 •

The author discusses the process of upgrading his site to the newest version of Eleventy, focusing on the changes in v3.0.0, such as the switch to ECMAScript Module Syntax (ESM) and the new Eleventy Image Transform feature. He als...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the slow adoption of new CSS features despite their usefulness, and explores reasons such as feature fatigue, support excuses, invisible improvements, design trends, and breaking old habits. The author sugg...

2024-10-26 •

The author reflects on the year 2023, discussing work, health, travel, music, movies, books, and tech. He talks about the projects he worked on, hiring a new developer, and his struggles with atopic dermatitis. He also shares his ...

2024-10-26 •

The author discusses seven reasons why he doesn't write blog posts, such as not having time, not feeling like he has anything interesting to say, and feeling like nobody will read it. He also provides counterarguments to each reas...

2024-10-26 •

The text discusses the challenges of decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb. It highlights the need to make these platforms more approachable for non-technical users and to lower the barrier for adopti...

2024-10-26 •

The web has changed from a place where people shared content for the sake of sharing to a business platform focused on extracting value from users. The author argues that the web should be a place to deliver content to people with...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the future of media queries with the introduction of container queries. It explores the potential scenarios where media queries will still be necessary, such as for page layout, global tokens, user preferen...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the new feature in CSS called Container Queries and how it can be used in web components. It explains the concept of container queries, how to apply internal styling to web components, and how it pairs well...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the concept of asset pipelines in Eleventy, a static site generator. It explains different approaches to handling assets, such as using NPM scripts, Gulp, or integrating asset pipelines into Eleventy itself...

2024-10-26 •

The author built a plugin for Eleventy that allows users to highlight text and share it. The feature is similar to Medium's top highlight feature. The plugin uses the Web Share API and falls back to sharing on Twitter if the API i...

2024-10-26 •

The iconic 1996 'Space Jam' website was recently relaunched to promote the new movie. The new site is a lot heavier than the original, with 4.673KB vs. 120KB. The average site now weighs around 1.900KB. The original site took 28.1...

2024-10-26 •

The author discusses the challenges of webmentions and introduces a new side project called Webmention Analytics. The project aims to display webmention data in a more meaningful way, providing features such as breakdown of webmen...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the need for persistent build folders in Netlify, and how to achieve this by using build plugins. It explains how to store fetched data locally and reuse it in future builds, and how to define a custom plug...

2024-10-26 •

The author reflects on the year 2020, focusing on the positive aspects of work, writing, side projects, speaking, events, traveling, and the importance of the web. He also shares his goals for 2021.

2024-10-26 •

The web needs to take itself less seriously and be more whimsical. The author showcases a curated list of fun, quirky, and personal websites and invites others to add to the list. The post is inspired by Sarah Drasner's 'In Defens...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the return of 90s web trends in modern web development, including server-side rendering, no-code tools, personal websites, curated feeds and discovery, smaller communities, and web monetization. The author ...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the limitations of technology in solving social and human rights issues, emphasizing the need for human action and change. It highlights the role of technology in amplifying voices and providing tools for a...

2024-10-26 •

The blog post discusses the process of creating a color theme switcher for a website. It explains how to define color schemes, transform them into custom CSS properties, use colors on the website, build the theme switcher, generat...