I build websites. More technically; I take care of Front-end development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript). I am a front-end stack developer. Therefore, I am perpetually online exploring the zest of the Web in all its interactive facets, virtual and tangible.

Facts

• I don’t always share the coolest online content, but when I do, I do it - mostly - on my own social site: Johan‘s Known
• I was active in the GDG Düsseldorf developers community, where I helped organize events and presentations.
• This site was deliberately kept simple to achieve a super high PageSpeed / Mobile Friendly site score.
• I used to DJ on a weekly basis in and around Wetteren where I was once part of the PartyOn DJ Squad.
• I have collected more than 40.000 scrobbles and almost 6000 artists on Last.FM since 26 Dec 2006.
• I walked over 8.000 km wearing a FitBit band and once more than 100km within 24 hours… for fun!
• I’m a big fan of Radio Paradise

My bragging rights

• Married a beautiful American/Italian girl.
• Speaks three languages fluently.
• Rides his bicycle to work whenever he can.
• Flosses at least six times a week.
• Is capable of applying a thesaurus to seem smarter in online profile introductions.
• Has been building websites since 1998 and hasn’t stopped ever since.

Favorite Quotes

Some very smart people wrote down and said some really clever things. Here are a couple of my favorites.

• Basically everything Prof. Stephen Hawking ever said

• “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ~ Henry Ford

• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein

• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein

• “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” ~ Albert Einstein

• “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.“ ~ Robert A. Heinlein

• “l’important, ce n’est pas la chute, mais l’atterissage” ~ Mathieu Kassovitz

• “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a Dog” ~ Peter Steiner

• “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil – the silent; unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” ~ William George Jordan

• “an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs.” ~ Mitch Hedburg

• “The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” ~ Carl Sagan

• Many more quotes by Carl Sagan

• “Relativity is elegant, beautiful, empowering and humbling all at the same time” ~ Jason Padgett