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Frontend Engineer

Ion Prodan

Frontend engineer writing about Angular, TypeScript, Astro, and the art of building things on the open web.

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Latest posts

  • I asked Gemini for a prototype… and Snipsco happened!

    How asking an AI for a quick prototype led me to build Snipsco - a deeply personal, no-limits code canvas driven by passion (and lots of arrows). Here's how I went from sharing code on X, to building my own free tool for beautiful snippets, and what's next.

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    I asked Gemini for a prototype… and Snipsco happened!

Labs

CSS @layer

CSS

Cascade layers and why they replace !important for controlling style precedence.

CSS interpolate-size

CSS

Smooth transitions to and from intrinsic sizes like height: auto.

Flexbox & Grid: align-content, align-items, justify-content, justify-items

CSS

A super simple guide to the four alignment properties in flexbox and grid.

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Open Source

tailwind-astro-starting-blog

⭐ Popular

A feature-rich Astro + TailwindCSS blog starter used by developers worldwide.

Astro

snipsco.com

Angular

Code snippets made easy. Built entirely with Angular.

Angular

quiky.email

Astro

Free AI-powered email writing tools. No sign-up required. Built with Astro.

Astro

ngb.email

Archived

A fully customizable, open-source drag-and-drop email template editor for Angular, integrated with MJML and TailwindCSS (no longer maintained).

Angular