Gijs Nijholt

Solo Developer & UI Engineer

👋🏻 Good day! I’m Gijs, a 40-something year old software developer from the Netherlands. I love to build enjoyable software, and I’m always looking for new challenges.

Building interesting software using boring technology

UI Engineer at Nelen & Schuurmans

Master of Arts in Interaction Design

2021/10/19

3 min read

Currently

Side projects that I’m currently working on. HelemaalGroen HelemaalGroen is a web application founded by Jaap de Boer, a retired veterinarian, who came up with the concept after being forced to walk instead of cycle after a cycling accident. While walking, he noticed the large amounts of litter in the streets and decided to make a website to help people find and clean up litter. The concept is to allow people to use a smartphone while they clean up litter.

2021/10/02

1 min read

Recently

Interesting things I’ve stumbled upon recently. Web dev & User interface https://htmx.org/ - I’ve seen a bit too many hours get wasted fixing webpack configurations, so I’m looking forward to using something like HTMX or Elixir LiveView to simplify some of my upcoming web UI work. Smartcrop.js: Node & browser smart cropping library Stitches: CSS-in-JS library with near-zero runtime, SSR, multi-variant support Theatre.

2021/10/01

1 min read

Hello, World!

After writing on a regular basis between 2005 and 2018, I found myself spending more time on Twitter. But more so as a consumer than as a writer. Perhaps I didn’t write much because of the character limit, but the real reason is probably that everything is directly pushed to followers. A blog feels more calm to me. I don’t have to worry about the content being too long, I can just write it and let the audience decide what to read.