Alvaro Montoro

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Mobile Developer, Web technologies enthusiast. CSS aficionado. Active moderator in Stack Overflow en Español. Husband, Father, Longhorn 🤘

Austin, TX Joined on Apr 27, 2019

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UX Engineer

Alvaro Montoro

Oct 28

Drawing a cartoon character in CSS

#showdev #css #html #codepen

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Drawing a snowy scene in CSS

#showdev #css #art #codepen

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 24

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (71-80)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 15

CSS Silhouette

#showdev #codepen #css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 14

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (61-70)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 12

Drawing Frankenstein's Monster with CSS

#showdev #codepen #html #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 12

Making tables more accessible with CSS

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Oct 3

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (51-60)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Sep 23

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (41-50)

#showdev #css #art #html

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3 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Sep 21

ATX Diversity Hackathon 2020

#watercooler #conference #hackathon

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Alvaro Montoro

Sep 20

Creating an animated Pacman pattern

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Sep 18

CSS Woman

#codepen #html #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Sep 13

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (31-40)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Sep 3

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (21-30)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 29

Drawing a cartoon character with CSS

#showdev #css #video #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 28

The many ways to write a color in CSS

#css #html #color

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 24

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (11-20)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 16

Hiding content for accessibility

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 14

100 Days of CSS Illustrations (1-10)

#showdev #css #art #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 13

My journey to CodeLand

#watercooler #codeland #conference

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 6

CSS game: Plankman

#css #html #webdev #codepen

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Alvaro Montoro

Aug 3

Drawing a CSS cartoon

#css #drawing

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Alvaro Montoro

Jul 30

CSS Mastermind

#showdev #html #css #codepen

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Alvaro Montoro

Jul 26

Virtual Gamepad in JavaScript

#showdev #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Jul 25

Desarrollando un mini-Rock Band con HTML y JavaScript

#javascript #html #espanol #spanish

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Alvaro Montoro

Jul 24

Develop a Rock Band game with HTML and JavaScript

#javascript #html #webdev #tutorial

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9 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Jul 10

One month with a 3D printer

#watercooler

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Alvaro Montoro

Jul 6

Limit pointer-events to graphic elements

#a11y #css

2 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Jul 4

I'm hosting a workshop at CodeLand:Distributed

#watercooler #codeland #conference

1 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Jul 2

Do not just use color to convey information

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jul 1

What not-so-popular newsletters would you recommend?

#watercooler

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 22

Color contrast: beyond text

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 17

Color contrast: text

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 16

Accessible text

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 15

Use font-relative units for font sizes

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 13

Using !important in CSS

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Jun 12

Allow end-user styling overrides

#a11y #css

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Alvaro Montoro

May 31

Web Accessibility with CSS

#a11y #css

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1 min read

Alvaro Montoro

May 22

Building a toast component... that looks like a piece of toast

#showdev #html #css #javascript

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Alvaro Montoro

May 17

CSS Combinators and Specificity

#css

2 min read

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May 9

Building an interactive form: Additional changes

#html #css #webdev #tutorial

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May 4

Changing CSS's appearance

#css

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Alvaro Montoro

Apr 27

One year writing on DEV

#writing #dev #meta

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Alvaro Montoro

Apr 24

Drawing a single-element dollar bill with CSS and JavaScript

#showdev #webdev #css #javascript

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5 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Apr 16

The CSS Box Model... built only with CSS

#codepen #css

1 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Apr 13

How do you work with kids at home?

#watercooler #healthydiscussion

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Alvaro Montoro

Apr 9

What if CSS was imperative?

#healthydebate #css

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Alvaro Montoro

Apr 3

The WebAIM Million 2020

#a11y #webdev

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 31

The CSS Box Model

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 25

CSS Animation: The King and the Fly

#showdev #codepen

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 21

What hacky dev workarounds have you done before?

#watercooler

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

Conclusion

#css #html

2 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

The color function

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

CMYK

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

LCH

#css #html

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Mar 18

Lab

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

HWB

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

Intermission... and some fun with HTML4

#css #html

2 min read

Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

Named Colors

#css #html

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Alvaro Montoro

Mar 18

HSL

#css #html

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