Vesa Piittinen

#ActuallyAutistic web dev. Does front of the front-end. Loves perf and minimalism. Prefers HTML, CSS, Web Standards over JS, UX over DX. Hates div disease.

Espoo, Finland Joined on May 7, 2019 https://vesa.piittinen.name

Education

Self-taught programmer

Work

Senior Developer at VR Group (Finnish Rail)

react-lazy

Universal lazy loader components using IntersectionObserver for React

JavaScript • 119 stars

nomjs

[WIP library] DOM is clumsy. NomJS makes it easy.

JavaScript

HTML, CSS, JS, TS, Node, React, PHP, SQL, VB6, C64. I specialize to browser side issues the most as it seems I'm often the one who cares the most.

Astro, Vitest, SolidJS

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Vesa Piittinen

Aug 15 '23

A link to my blog

#webdev #indieweb #rss #javascript

1 min read

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Vesa Piittinen

Jun 30 '23

Floats in 2023

#webdev #css #html #tutorial

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 31 '23

How to update browserless/chrome Docker image

#testing #webdev #docker

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 12 '23

Always experiment first

#html #css #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Apr 23 '23

Animate a hole mask on SVG: can't be hard, right?

#webdev #css #animation #react

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Mar 11 '23

Can we at least modernize visually hidden?

#a11y #webdev #css #tutorial

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 13 '22

Astro SSR is still on the way but I have it in production already

#astro #webdev #html #css

10 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 8 '22

The tiny trick of the day: html[data-local-storage]

#html #javascript #webdev #css

3 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Mar 15 '22

The perfect image lazy loading

#html #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jan 6 '22

Should I ever have a role="button"?

#html #css #javascript #react

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jan 1 '22

Semantic HTML in React with zero new ideas

#react #javascript #html #css

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Oct 31 '21

Icons for React & co, the web standards way thank you

#webdev #react #css #html

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 30 '21

Time of Day, username, and layout shifting

#react #gatsby #javascript #webdev

9 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 16 '21

Personal retro: one year as "senior"

6 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 3 '21

Why not to "Abandon React!!1"

#react #javascript #webdev

6 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 1 '21

React class components in the World of Hooks

#react #javascript #webdev #typescript

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 1 '21

Thoughts for a Major React Refactor

#webdev #javascript #react #gatsby

6 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Apr 16 '21

JavaScript is short-lived

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Dec 11 '20

This is true

#watercooler #javascript

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Dec 7 '20

VoiceOver does not read pseudo elements with all: initial

#webdev #a11y #css

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Nov 21 '20

My Button is better than your Button

#react #css #design #a11y

2 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Oct 12 '20

Hello, :focus-visible!

#webdev #css #a11y

3 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Oct 2 '20

Server Side Includes, the hottest of the web in 1995

#html #css #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Oct 1 '20

Maintenance free unsupported browser notification

#javascript #webdev #tutorial

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Sep 25 '20

How long until CSS variables will replace CSS-in-JS color enums?

#discuss #javascript #css #react

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Sep 11 '20

Cross-platform package.json scripts

#node #npm #javascript

2 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Sep 6 '20

Making those React tests faster and nicer

#testing #react #productivity

7 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Sep 3 '20

How to display/output as template string?

#help #javascript

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Aug 30 '20

Tabbordion v2 first beta finally out

#watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Aug 9 '20

The dilemma of a silent quick learner

#learning #education #personal #mentalhealth

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Aug 5 '20

Experiences on recruitment

#career

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 31 '20

Components not solved by hooks?

#discuss #react #hooks

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 30 '20

React class functionality in function components

#react

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 26 '20

Code Golfing: the shortest localStorage check step-by-step

#javascript #codegolfing #webdev

8 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 23 '20

Quick Tip: Scrollable containers without scrollbars

#css

2 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 22 '20

The Customer Service of Web Development

#webdev #productivity #architecture #performance

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 18 '20

Understanding React SSR, SPA, hydration

#react #gatsby #redux #webdev

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 11 '20

Solving by thinking is not the only way

#productivity

3 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jul 4 '20

The code can look awful

#webdev #productivity

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 27 '20

What would you choose if you'd go against the trends?

#discuss #webdev

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Jun 6 '20

You Should Not SPA

#webdev #webperf #html #a11y

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Dec 28 '19

Deep dive into WAI-ARIA tabs and accordions

#a11y #html #css #javascript

11 min read

Vesa Piittinen for Verkkokauppa.com

Dec 17 '19

Container Queries And Element Resize Detection As We Enter 2020

#react #css #javascript #codequality

11 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Dec 12 '19

Short syntax mediaquery utility?

#help

1 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Dec 7 '19

Tabs in React: Bringing the Past to the Future

#react #css #html #javascript

11 min read

Vesa Piittinen

Oct 14 '19

Implementing hook-like states and effects to DOM-based library

#react #javascript

4 min read

Vesa Piittinen for Verkkokauppa.com

Sep 25 '19

The Five Year Journey to SPA

#spa #react #node #ecommerce

9 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 14 '19

Building a JSX + DOM library Part 4

#javascript #jsx #dom #react

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 12 '19

Building a JSX + DOM library Part 3

#javascript #jsx #dom #react

6 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 11 '19

Building a JSX + DOM library Part 2

#javascript #jsx #dom #react

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 10 '19

Building a JSX + DOM library Part 1

#javascript #react #jsx #dom

5 min read

Vesa Piittinen

May 7 '19

Creating your own "React", but only output DOM elements

#react #jsx #dom #nomjs

8 min read

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