DevelopmentOpinions
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The feeds weren’t the point, the people were.
BusinessTools
HyperTexting
Your social timeline powered by the open web.
DevelopmentTools
Button State Builder
A visual editor for designing multi-state buttons.
BusinessFun
All the futures
You don’t want to be left behind.
DevelopmentTools
Quay
An app to manage your local development services.
DevelopmentSamples
SVG filters on type
From ink bleed to woodtype shadows and metal forms.
DesignOpinions
An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
“So long, Photoshop, you are well past your prime.”
DevelopmentOpinions
Own the outer loop
“Agents have leverage, and leverage creates obligations.”
DevelopmentSamples
Different hydration and rendering strategies
Benefits and tradeoffs of modern rendering approaches.
DevelopmentOpinions
Grok is back
“Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss Grok.”
DevelopmentSamples
Setting type like a printed page
Most of a typesetter’s craft is now built into CSS.
BusinessTools
Introducing Precursor
Cloudflare strengthens bot detection with behavioral signals.
DevelopmentOpinions
In defense of polyfills
“A web platform without polyfills would be a stagnant platform.”
DesignOpinions
The terminal became my canvas
“It’s great… but horrible at the same time.”
BusinessTools
The State of Open Source AI
Where open AI is winning and where it is exposed.
DevelopmentSamples
I thought AVIF would make images smaller
Optimization isn’t about using the newest format.
BusinessTools
25 years of visual search innovation
Google revamps its image search with a browsable gallery.
DesignResources
The grammar of color
The vocabulary behind every color choice.
DevelopmentResources
A gentle introduction to Git worktrees
How they simplify parallel development.
DesignOpinions
Taste cannot be delegated
The death of design by committee in the age of AI.
DesignOpinions
Accessibility is resistance!
”Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate.”
DevelopmentSamples
Your “app” could have been a webpage
”A webpage would have been so much better.”
BusinessOpinions
The reverse information paradox
“You essentially pay for intelligence twice.”
DevelopmentResources
Use cases for the ‘aria-expanded’ attribute
How to determine when ‘aria-expanded’ is appropriate.
DevelopmentTools
Is your site ready for AI agents?
How Lighthouse’s new Agentic Browsing audit works.
DesignSamples
Why design teams struggle with AI
“AI is nowhere near as good at design as it is at coding.”
BusinessOpinions
Is your browser up to date?
Why keeping browsers updated remains a challenge.
DevelopmentResources
Can we use SVG images in emails?
Why scalable images still fail inside modern email.
DevelopmentSamples
Card patterns with anchor positioning
A refined approach to accessible clickable cards.
DevelopmentOpinions
Do we still need build tools?
Which frontend build tools still matter in 2026.
DevelopmentTools
Data tools landscape for developers
A guide to making sense of data tooling for developers.
DesignResources
Does your form really need a dropdown list?
“Misuse can cause more harm than alternatives.”
BusinessTools
What the Floccus?!?
Another look at cross-browser bookmark synchronization.
DesignOpinions
Naive design is better than AI design
“I promise it will look better than anything AI can produce.”
DevelopmentTools
Gram
An opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.
BusinessResources
Decoy Font
A font that fools AI when reading images.
DesignTools
Resistenza Type Tools
A collection of creative tools for working with type.
DesignFun
Lorem Ipsum
Even cartoonists use it for their strips.
DesignOpinions
Why is AI bad at design?
“Code can be verified, but design can’t.”
DevelopmentSamples
Rewriting a sticky detector
How modern CSS simplifies the solution.
DevelopmentResources
How I stopped running out of tokens
Cutting Claude Code costs without losing quality or speed.
DesignOpinions
Why I don’t use interruption pages
The best interruption is often no interruption at all.
DevelopmentResources
Kernel
A component library built on semantic HTML, not div soup.
BusinessOpinions
Why I stopped ‘creating content’
When business language misses the human side.
DevelopmentOpinions
Software factories, light and dark
Why autonomous software still needs engineers.
DevelopmentSamples
CSS-DOS
An entire ‘80s PC implemented in pure CSS.
DesignResources
Not tokens
What to ask before creating any design token.
BusinessOpinions
The future of the website
“Not dead. Not even close. But different.”
DesignSamples
/loop
What AI loop engineering means for designers.
DevelopmentOpinions
The year of the loop
Loop engineering proved progress isn’t in the AI model.
DesignSamples
UX is dead, what’s next?
Enshittification manipulates AI agents as it does humans.
DevelopmentSamples
New Core Web Vitals research
“Good” for Google may not be good enough for your site.
DesignOpinions
Components are dead
Consistency moved from the component to the token.
DevelopmentOpinions
Progressive Web Apps (mostly) rock
Where PWAs shine and where they still fall short.
DevelopmentSamples
I stopped destructuring everything
“I was optimizing for writing the code, not reading it.”
DevelopmentSamples
Which AI actually reads your site?
Two months of LLM traffic, measured.
DevelopmentResources
WebMCP in Chrome
An overview of what it is and why it matters.
DesignResources
Colors your screen can’t show you
“You’ll feel crazy once you see it.”
DesignOpinions
The favicon survived the web
“It never tried to become more than it was.”
BusinessOpinions
Why I don’t care if content is AI-generated
“Scepticism about all online information is justified.”
BusinessOpinions
This could be the golden age of the internet
“We have all the ingredients for a renaissance of little apps.”
DevelopmentConferences
HTML Day 2026
Let’s celebrate and write HTML around the world!
DesignResources
UI SFX
Interface sound effects in twelve sonic feels.
DesignResources
Cuelume
Tiny sounds that make interfaces feel alive.
DevelopmentResources
Jelly UI
Dependency-free web components that feel alive.
DevelopmentTools
LLMs.txt Generator
Make your website understandable for AI models.
DevelopmentSamples
CSS infinity use cases
Some elegant solutions and a lot of joy.
DevelopmentSamples
200ms in the life of an HTTP request
Scroll down and the clock advances.
DevelopmentResources
Measuring component performance
How the Container Timing API goes beyond Element Timing.
DevelopmentSamples
Kimi K3 nears Claude on coding task
”K3 belongs in the serious coding-agent comparison set now.”
DevelopmentSamples
How Kimi K3 topped design leaderboards
“Kimi K3’s design secret may be in its thinking traces.”
DevelopmentSkills
AraOwl
Test your web platform skills with MDN-powered quizzes.
BusinessSamples
Kill the Cookie Banner
How you can help and take action.
BusinessOpinions
How to get the most out of AI
Be a student, a scientist, a detective, and a surgeon.
DevelopmentTrends
The State of CSS 2026
“CSS seems to remain a stronghold of manual coding.”
DevelopmentOpinions
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0
How the popular code editor has matured.
DevelopmentResources
MCP goes stateless
The protocol got simpler, but the hard part stayed.
DevelopmentResources
TanStack has a new look
“You’re in good hands, we care about the details.”
DevelopmentOpinions
Nothing works and everyone is euphoric
Why does software keep getting worse?
DesignOpinions
The bull and bear case for digital design
AI forces designers into power or irrelevance.
DevelopmentSamples
Stop downloading twice
What to expect from the Cross-Origin Storage API?
DesignOpinions
The accessibility paradox
“The blind web, quite literally, helped teach AI how to see.”
DesignTrends
The AI aesthetic
Design idioms shaped by the AI zeitgeist.
DevelopmentSamples
Styling the navigation
A proposal for route-aware styling in plain CSS.
DevelopmentTools
Chrome may get faster updates
Google aims to install fixes without a Chrome restart.
DesignOpinions
Rethinking friction in an AI world
Why the best UX often disappears, and when it shouldn’t.
DesignOpinions
A prototype is not a product
“Some of the most valuable prototypes don’t become products.”
DevelopmentSamples
Top 1 Million Analysis 2026: Web Security
“There is still a lot of value left on the table.”
DevelopmentSamples
Top 1 Million Analysis 2026: Cryptography
“The TLS and certificate ecosystem feels like it’s finally in good shape.”
DevelopmentSamples
HTML in canvas
Rendering interactive DOM elements inside a canvas.
DevelopmentResources
New to the web platform (July 2026)
Stable browser releases, Intl.Locale info API, and more.
DevelopmentResources
The CSS lh unit
How the line height unit works and where it shines.
DevelopmentTools
Global TCP Traceroute
Run TCP traceroutes from around the world.
DevelopmentTools
Undo
A safety net for the shell, on any Linux.
DevelopmentTools
Buzz
A workspace where humans and agents build together.
DesignOpinions
No new name has replaced “UX”
Despite the debate, “UX” still serves the field well.
DevelopmentOpinions
GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
Could a boring company fill the gap?
BusinessFun
Google AI Overviews changing the game
Climbing the same old ladder won’t yield the same results.
DevelopmentSamples
Baking physics in CSS
Abusing linear() to create natural motion from numbers.
BusinessSamples
Should you use AI for a task?
Ask if the doing is the whole point.