What we’re about
Coven of Wisdom
A meetup community for sharing and learning all things technology in the Netherlands.
Born from the ashes of the Eindhoven Front-end and iO Campus Eindhoven meetup group, we want to broaden our horizons. Digital projects aren't merely front-end. They're a collaborative effort between all types of technologies and experts.
With the Coven of Wisdom, we want to encourage digital talents to take a look over the proverbial fence and share insights on other parts of the tech stack. All this in a very accessible, informal way, every first Thursday of each season.
We are always open for speakers and topics who want to share what they're working on, what you discovered, or what perhaps could ungrind some gears. Drop us a DM if you're interested.
This community is proudly sponsored by iO.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Coven of Wisdom - EHV - CSS EditioniO Campus Eindhoven, Eindhoven, AL
Grab your web scuba gear, ’cause none other than Brecht de Ruyte and Hidde de Vries will take us down to the depths of CSS & HTML.
Brecht, who you might know from his articles on Smashing Magazine, CSS-tricks and utilitybend.com, will inspire you to use custom properties more often.
They have been available to us for a while now, but don’t get used as much as they should. Custom properties are more than just a constant; they are flexible and smart. We’ll be styling 4 buttons with less than 20 lines of code, learning to take more control of a grid by using smart variables, and adding some JavaScript trickery as a finishing touch.
After Brecht has taught us how to optimise our design systems using custom properties, Hidde will take our hand and lead us further on our design system journey, on a deep dive into popovers and how to build them.
Hidde is a freelance front-end and accessibility specialist working in the Dutch government’s NL Design System team. He is also involved in the W3C’s Open UI Community Group and CSS Working Group.
Have you already experienced that our design systems commonly feature components that show on top of other content: tooltips, date pickers, menus and teaching UI, to name just a few? There are many ways to build them, and new features in the web platform are about to make this a whole lot easier. You might not even need JavaScript. In this talk, you’ll learn all about dialogs, including the new ‘popover’ attribute, “modality”, and using the top layer.
We couldn’t be more stoked to host a gathering with these 2 Web Wizards!
Join us, won't you?
We’ll provide the drinks ’n bites, and we hope you’ll come and have great conversations.
The Coven of Wisdom is powered by iO.
