ppk 🇪🇺

technical writer - #browser expert - #cssday and #perfnow conference organiser - #history geek - former Later Roman Empire specialist - native of #Amsterdam - recovering Tweeter

Website: https://quirksmode.org/about/
CSS Day, June: https://cssday.nl
performance.now(), October: https://perfnow.nl
Location: Amsterdam

Last Notes

2026-05-08 15:18:11 UTC

Is the email system breaking down?
Just now I went to an art gallery and a board game shop, and both proprietors complained that their mails never arrive any more.
Coming home, I discovered a mail I was expecting for days in my spam box, while there was no reason for doing so.
Is the pressure getting too high or something? It's getting impossible to mail people.

2026-04-22 15:18:18 UTC

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Severely censored until I can get my old schwung back.

2026-04-22 15:15:02 UTC

I bought a new city bike. After a bikeless period of at least 16 months or so, maybe longer.
For the first five minutes I biked like a tourist; all kinds of navigational, Amsterdam bike dance rule-following, and collision avoidance systems had to come online from their long slumber. But it went better during the next 15 minutes of bike ride.
My muscles, unfortunately, are completely atrophied and will need a few week to reset.
... pant ...

2026-03-17 10:07:37 UTC

Writing a CSS Day newsletter about flamethrowers and doom lasers. We must address the legitimate concerns of our audience.

2026-03-02 18:54:49 UTC

Buy tickets for all of these conferences, and buy them now.
Or else @npub1la3…w653 will come after you. And you know what that means.
https://webdayout.com
https://beyondtellerrand.com
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2026
https://cssday.nl
https://pixelpioneers.co
https://www.fronteers.nl/en/conference/
https://webdevconf.com

2026-01-27 10:47:03 UTC

Well, CSS Day is live now (https://cssday.nl) and I've got a bunch of related things to do but unfortunately I'm ill and can hardly concentrate.
So the going will be very slow this time.

2026-01-10 14:51:03 UTC

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Yes, you're right. Added https://mastodon.social/@cssday

2026-01-08 13:36:44 UTC

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @npub1duh…4el7 and @npub1lwx…c8f6 as their 2026 MCs.
https://cssday.nl
Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP!
https://cssday.nl/subscribe

2025-10-31 21:52:06 UTC

Home. Sleep.
No #perfnow day 3. I'm sorry.

2025-08-25 13:15:27 UTC

performance.now(), the web performance conference, 30th and 31st of October, Amsterdam. Single track, the best speakers in the industry, plenty of your performance-mad peers around to have fascinating conversations. What's not to like?
https://perfnow.nl/

2025-06-29 16:07:27 UTC

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SSI is an Apache functionality, so yes, you need Apache to run locally (and then maybe mess with httpd.conf, depending on the defaults - on Mac SSI is turned off by default for God know what sort of silly reason).
This article makes it seem as if installing Apache on Windows 11 is fairly easy, but I have no experience.
https://medium.com/@nothanjack/setting-up-apache-on-windows-11-a-complete-tutorial-4ca5ce9e5055

2025-06-03 07:35:55 UTC

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The Dutch one.

2025-06-03 07:32:04 UTC

Ooohhh, government just fell. That's probably good.

2025-03-21 11:37:01 UTC

I am looking for WEB DEVS to INTERVIEW about WEB MONETIZATION.
We want to understand our developer audience better, and want to know what you expect from Web Monetization, and how you expect it to work.
Want to help us? Please fill in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckZ5MVzAAbQmoRjkwmjL_xlab3_OkxJrHlM8cpIdTmyKGvLA/viewform and we'll be in touch.

2024-10-31 23:48:01 UTC

So now I'm on Bluesky as well. https://bsky.app/profile/ppkoch.bsky.social
Not totally sure why, but we'll see.