Can we have ARIA Notify?

Why we can’t rely only on ARIA live regions.

AI search optimization checklist

How to make your content ready for AI search.

We’ll all be design engineers in a year

“Generalists will own the future.”

Web Awesome is finally here

“Now we have the best CSS framework on the market.”

My blogroll is my feed reader

“It has changed how I keep up with my feeds.”

New study from METR

AI coding may not be helping as much as you think.

new Date("wtf")

How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class?

“The web is so cool. Think about it. You can publish whatever, whenever. And when you do, it is instantly accessible around the globe.”

Glass3D generator

Compose stylish frosted glass effects in CSS.

RapidRAW

An open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

MCP Servers

A large catalog of MCP servers for your AI needs.

Proudest of these 128 kilobytes

Constraint-driven web development to the extreme.

Is Tailwind CSS worth it?

“Tailwind is the worst form of CSS, except for all the others.”

When can I use the Temporal API?

Why JavaScript’s Date API replacement took so long.

Designing scroll behavior

When should browsers remember a user’s scroll position?

A11y Rules

Instructions for AI to generate accessible HTML/CSS.

Is it still worth using jQuery in 2025?

When a modern alternative makes more sense.

UX design for left-handed people

How to include the 10% who are left-handed.

Setting line length in CSS

Ways to juggle line length in text.

A label and a name walk into a bar

When is a label also an accessible name, not a name, or neither?

Context engineering

Bringing engineering discipline to prompts.

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey

Which tools do software engineers use today?

Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5

Stack traces for fatal errors, pipe operator, and much more.

Emojitracker

Real-time emoji usage across countries and worldwide.

Design patterns for AI interfaces

A simple approach to designing AI experiences.

Modern async iteration in JavaScript

“Array.fromAsync() is a fantastic addition to JavaScript.”

Firefox brings WebGPU to Windows

Linux, Mac, and Android are coming later.

Tiny screens, big impact

The forgotten art of developing for feature phones.

Sensory verbs in digital products

How your wording might quietly exclude users.

Improving client-side page routing

“There’s no reason why SPAs can’t be accessible.”

Enhancement of a simple layout

Smarter layout flow using CSS subgrid.

Why MCP matters to UX designers

When the experience goes outside the application.

Getting clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass

Apple’s design language from a front-end perspective.

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

Unveiling the simplicity behind Git’s complexity.

LLMS.txt isn’t robots.txt

What it is, why it matters, and how to use it.

Using Claude Code for information architecture

What if we use the AI tool for content, not code?

Fallbacks for CSS scroll driven animations

Progressive enhancement vs. graceful degradation.

Bulletproof web component loading

How to ensure they work predictably every time.

You’re a user but not your user

“You’re not the user you should design for.”

Why “Women in Tech” isn’t enough

The limits of women-focused tech initiatives.

“Web design today is more polished than ever—but in all that polish, we’ve smoothed out a lot of the personality. We’ve traded quirks for conventions and spontaneity for systems.”

Making Software

A reference for software designers and builders.

Kigen Color Generator

A powerful web tool to create refined color palettes.

My tech stack in LEGO

Who says your stack can’t live beyond the screen?

Public CSS variables in the shadow DOM

How to expose them in web components.

That boolean is probably not right

Where code deserves more than true or false.

Improving design critiques

What most designers struggle with and how to fix it.

Responsive video is (almost) easy now

Ready to support both horizontal and vertical video?

A friendly introduction to SVG

Learn SVG essentials through interactive demos.

Cap

A modern, lightweight open-source CAPTCHA.

Color shopping list

“Do you know where I can find some ‘chartreuse’?”

The era of the AI browser is here

The future of AI-assisted surfing the web.

The hard truth about soft deletion

Fake deletions of database records cause real problems.

CSS hyphens, words, syllables, and languages

Why hyphenation depends on HTML ‘lang’ attributes.

A survival skill for the AI age

Understanding the work before automating it.

Google summaries undermine link clicks

Only 1% of U.S. users follow links from AI overviews.

DuckDuckGo browser’s new look

Fresh style, seamless protection, and still optional AI.

Introducing Lumo

Proton unveils a privacy-first AI assistant.

Is Figma Make ready for handoffs?

Figma Make and Anima as design-to-code tools.

Jujutsu for busy developers

A jump start for the modern version control system.

Designing for user font-size and zoom

Using modern CSS units and math functions.

A first look at the Interest Invoker API

Playing around with hover-triggered popovers.

They want how much for an OG image?

Open Graph images can be risky for small websites.

Top 10 UI annoyances

Common usability flaws of modern interfaces.

The ‘figcaption’ problem

How to best align the caption with the image width?

MDN turns 20

Let’s celebrate its excellent web technology documentation!

It’s time for CSS to kill the SPA

“Modern CSS outperforms SPA behaviour.”

The case for zero-click content

Content marketing in a referral-hostile world.

Remember when we agreed that…

A powerful way to hold clients accountable.

Tailwind Plus adds vanilla JavaScript support

UI blocks no longer require a JavaScript framework.

Exploring the Performance Extensibility API

How Chrome’s performance panel can show your data.

The orders of complexity of websites

Why big web features fail small websites.

Why I’m writing pure HTML/CSS in 2025

“Building pure HTML/CSS pages is a breeze and a joy.”

“Vibe coding seems to live very squarely in the land of prototypes and toys. Promoting software that’s been built entirely using this method would be akin to sending a hacked weekend prototype to production and expecting it to be stable.”

Feed Canary

Monitor your web feed and get notified if it breaks.

SmoothUI

Customizable, smooth animated UI components.

Their accessibility statement was a lie

“I wasn’t going to complain to customer service…”

Keyboard traps impact web accessibility

How to identify and prevent major website issues.

JavaScript’s runtime decade

Running JavaScript beyond the browser and Node.js.

Protect your creativity from idea killers

When you’re tired of hearing “That won’t work.”

Designing a grid-aware website

Where digital design meets energy availability.

Design is moving to the front of the stack

”The era of code-first design is here.”

The State of Code

Real-world insights from 7.9 billion lines of code.

Three HTTP versions but still messy forms

“We’re still submitting forms like it’s 1985.”

Design struggles to be born

“Design is not a delivery process, but a leadership skill.”

New Photoshop innovations for creators

Project collections, image harmonization, upscale, and more.

AI has flipped software development

From “design to build” to “prototype to productize.”

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025

The use of AI tools is rising, but trust is dropping.

Web content best practices

A 22-point checklist and an AI audit prompt.

“Don’t get left behind”

The web yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Assistive technologies and adaptive strategies

How people with disabilities navigate interfaces.

Traits of trustworthy websites in 2025

How websites earn or lose credibility.

PHP’s pipe operator

How it improves code readability and composition.

Age verification is rolling out internet-wide

“Everyone’s privacy is going to be at risk.”

Coding for the future agentic world

The promise and reality of coding agents in 2025.

Design system deviation is a signal

Ways to track if something in the system needs care.

New to the web platform (July 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Landing pages that sell

The anatomy of high-converting landing pages.

HTML Day 2025

Let’s celebrate and write HTML around the world!

Still using CSS properties like ‘margin-top’?

Why logical properties are usually better.