Hello, I'm Marc Friederich 👋
Welcome to my personal website. I share here links, some thoughts, some pictures I made and an archive of my talks. I am co-founder of Antistatique, a human centric web agency and core-team member of the Design conference Interaction 18. Where to start ? Learn what I am up to now, why I 💜 the web, scroll or resize the window.
Sharing 💭
Owning my content, sharing here what I post elsewhere
Experienced bike super friendly city in #oulu 🚲👌
Experienced bike super friendly city in #oulu 🚲👌
Aug 11, 2026
sourcehut - the hacker's forge
Nice GitHub alternative, like the works without JavaScript
Aug 11, 2026
Writing 💾
This is where I collect thoughts, URL and words on my web journey
Clever Technique to Make It Shine with HDR Video in Background
Using HDR's annoying brightness of videos rendering as a feature
Oct 05, 2024
The maintenance race
What leeking abstraction layer law has in common with solitary sailing around the globe
Dec 03, 2023
Here is a new design to my website - variable is the keyword
With new colors reacting responsively and a new variable font
Nov 11, 2022
Reduce the carbon footprint of this website 🌱
How this website was designed and coded with sustainability in mind
Apr 12, 2022
Do we have to work? Book review
Book review on The Big Idea edition about how we came to work and how it might be in the future
Jan 01, 2022
Linking 🌍
URL are extraordinary
This single technology is killing oil demand
While global climate discourse heavily focuses on electric passenger cars and luxury vehicles, the true workhorse of the energy transition is actually the electric two and three wheeler. According to recent modeling, electric vehicles are displacing millions of barrels of oil daily, with e-bikes, mopeds, and scooters driving massive decarbonization across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These lightweight commercial vehicles deliver a superior Return on Invested Battery compared to oversized passenger cars like the Hummer EV, requiring a fraction of the critical minerals, real estate, and capital. Furthermore, by drastically reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for gig workers, commercial electric bikes offer a negative abatement cost that increases household incomes and financial mobility. Despite facing systemic financing hurdles in emerging markets, battery-as-a-service models and asset-backed lending are accelerating this quiet transportation revolution.
🌍 https://climatemoney.substack.com/p/this-single-technology-is-killingFeature Detecting “Undetectable” CSS Features with @supports named-feature()
Traditionally, CSS developers use the `@supports` rule to detect browser support for properties, values, and selectors. However, checking for underlying implementation updates, behavior changes, or properties that suddenly work together has historically been impossible without hacky workarounds. To solve this problem, the CSS Working Group introduced `@supports named-feature()`, a specialized function designed to expose specific capabilities via predefined keywords. This feature addresses tricky edge cases where conventional feature detection fails, such as transform-aware anchor positioning and single-axis scroll containers. By utilizing specific keywords within the function, developers can accurately verify browser behaviors and ensure progressive enhancement across modern engines like Chromium, Firefox, and Safari, ultimately improving the reliability of web layouts.
🌍 https://www.bram.us/2026/08/27/feature-detecting-undetectable-css-features-with- …I didn't set a cookie.
A brief web page displaying a statement about not setting a cookie.
🌍 https://kuber.studio/cookie/“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung
In this article, Marcin Wichary explores the historical significance and enduring value of vintage user interface guidelines and design style guides. Highlighting a comprehensive repository compiled by developer Matt Sephton spanning from 1980 to 2014, the post also references designer Geof Crowl's broad collection of design resources. These archives feature rare and classic documents such as early drafts, the Newton platform manuals, NeXT guidelines, the Playdate design handbook, and the Zen of Palm. Additionally, the author contributes several other historical software documents to the list, including the Amiga User Interface Style Guide, Magic Cap Concepts, the Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines, and the Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design, encouraging modern developers and designers to learn valuable lessons by exploring these foundational industry references.
🌍 https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-think-theres-a-lot-of-value-in-these/AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
🌍 https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-t …Discovery vs Delivery
The integration of Artificial Intelligence into the software development lifecycle has sparked significant debate regarding design quality and product differentiation. While AI has proven remarkably effective at accelerating the delivery phase through automated code generation and rapid implementation, this efficiency often creates a false equivalence that treats all software production as a single uniform task. True product excellence requires balancing this accelerated execution with rigorous discovery, the upstream and deeply human process of determining what problems are actually worth solving. Because Large Language Models inherently tend toward consensus and average outcomes, relying on them independently during the conceptualization stage risks producing generic software. Ultimately, as technical execution becomes increasingly commoditized, human judgment, taste, and strategic intent will serve as the primary differentiators for successful companies.
🌍 https://buzzusborne.com/writing/discovery-delivery/Talking 🎩
Some ask me to go on stage and talk about design and web topics
Enseigner les métiers du web, sans être enseignant·e - table ronde
Webmardi: – Lausanne
Apr 01, 2025 – by Noémie Sandoz, Marc Friederich, Iris Wolfisberg, Kevin Wenger, Pierre Georges & Gilles Demarty
Veille technologique, l’épreuve du temps et comment s’y préparer
Webmardi – Lausanne
Oct 06, 2022 – by Marc Friederich
Comment réaliser un site eco-responsable
SwissTripleImpact Le numérique responsable partage d’expérience et outils concrets – Marly
Apr 08, 2022 – by Noémie Sandoz et Marc Friederich
Making pictures 🏙
Travelling with my eyes open and trying to capture shades, light and mostly clouds.
