Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2026! Fronteers has a lot in store for you this year.
Welcome to Fronteers
We are a professional association for front-end developers in the Netherlands and Belgium. Since 2007, we have been working to promote the profession of front-end development. We organize meetups to share knowledge and connect people. To help you be the best you can be!
Upcoming activities
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Fronteers Lunchmeeting with Mark Teekman
Mark Teekman will tell us about his Accessible Astro Starter!
Fronteers lunchmeetings are online meetings during lunch that you can follow from behind your desk (but also from your couch or in the park). Fronteers team member Edwin Martin is your host!
This Fronteers lunchmeeting features Mark Teekman! Mark has built an accessible starter theme for the Astro framework (Accessible Astro Starter).
The meeting starts at 12:30. Both the presentation and the discussion will be held in Dutch.
See Lunch Meeting Meetup.
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Workshop: Building accessible websites for web developers
Details to follow
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Fronteers Meetup at Abra
2 presentations on accessibility at Abra
Abra in Utrecht hosts Fronteers for two presentations on accessibility (in Dutch), dinner prior and drinks after.
Programme
- 18:00 walk-in with dinner
- 18:50 introduction Fronteers and Abra
- 19:00 The forever quest for accessibility awareness by Darice de Cuba
- 19:45 break
- 20:00 Bruggen bouwen in de wereld van toegankelijkheid by Jan Jaap de Groot and Mike Slinkman
- 20:45 drinks
- 21:30 end
More information and sign-up
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SmashingConf Amsterdam 2026
Please note: This is an event that is not organised by Fronteers.
A discount to this event is available exclusively for Fronteers members. Please contact the board of Fronteers for more information through bestuur@fronteers.nl.
A conference for designers and UI engineers all around UX and front-end. With UX, design systems, accessibility, CSS and design patterns.
SmashingConf Amsterdam 2026 is a friendly, inclusive conference focused on real problems and solutions. The conference consists of two single-track conference days, with workshop days before and after the conference and various side events. Topics include Modern CSS, Figma, Design Systems, and UX writing, with speakers such as Kevin Powell, Nathan Curtis, Nadieh Bremer, and Vitaly Friedman.
Dates: April 13-16, 2026
Location: Pathé Tuschinski, Amsterdam
Tickets: €599 excl. VAT (€725 incl. 21% NL VAT).Fronteers members receive a 20% discount. Contact the board for the required information!
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The Web You Want, part 1
Please note: This is an event that is not organised by Fronteers.
A free two-day conference about the web, with time to reflect between the two days.
On April 17, 2026 (the day after Smashing Conference Amsterdam), and June 10, 2026 (the day before CSSday).
What would the web be like if it was up to you?
The wonderful core principle of the web is that the web is for everyone. This principle is probably the base of its enormous success. And it makes the web to this peculiar place, where people can publish their own writings, their videos, their ideas. It is a place where people from tiny subcultures can find each other and grow into international, thriving communities. It is a place where the excluded can feel included. It is a place for experiments and play, for sharing and inclusion.
But this idea that the web is for everyone, is also a source of some strange and complicated paradoxes. For instance, if the web is for everyone, you could argue that it is also for huge organisations that want to own it. Or, another interesting paradox is: if everyone is allowed to make things on the web, you cannot expect every website to be usable for everyone: not everybody is an expert in building interfaces. And if it is for everyone, you can expect to get in trouble with regimes that do not like everyone to have a say. Bullies are allowed to use the web as well.
While the wonderful, playful, experimental web is still there, it doesn’t get the attention it should get. Large Silicon Valley corporations seem to dictate what the web should be like. But is their vision of the web really the web you want? This brings the teachers of the CMD program to the question: what kind of web do you actually want? This event is organized around these questions.
Date: April 17, 2026
Location: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Cost: Both events, on both days, are free and accessible to everyone. You do not need a ticket for Smashing Conf or CSS Day.
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Whilst majoring in Computer Science, Derk-Jan worked in Silicon Valley and gained valuable experience at incubators, accelerators, and various star...
Specialties:
accessibilityjavascriptgdprrubysoftwaretypescriptux design
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Front-endHTML/CSSReact/Next.JSVueAngularAccessibility
Edwin is an old hand in the business and has been making websites since 1994. First with Perl and then PHP. After the rise of JavaScript and CSS, h...