Container Timing

A new API to measure web component performance.

Why most design principles fail

“The problem is that most design principles don’t work.”

Do you need a CMS?

“The answer is increasingly: no.”

Death of the IDE?

“The center of developer work is moving.”

The color system I wish I knew earlier

A practical way to name colors in CSS.

Designing for emergence

When your product starts designing its own future.

Top ten Figma betrayals

”Figma is not exactly conducive to responsive web design.”

Announcing TypeScript 6.0

“The last release based on the current JavaScript codebase.”

Why aren’t AI productivity gains higher?

Developers explain why they are less than expected.

WebKit features for Safari 26.4

CSS Grid Lanes, WebTransport, Keyboard Lock API, and more.

VPN now built into Firefox

It includes 50 GB of free VPN-browsing per month.

Claude Code can now take over your computer

But Anthropic urges caution as safeguards are limited.

What is your site’s AI chatbot for?

Why users have little reason to use it.

Elena

A tiny library for building progressive web components.

“There are no code moats anymore. Your code today is a few prompts away from being someone else’s code tomorrow.”

Stuff everybody knows

“A guide to the rest of your web development career.”

Design patterns for building trust

“The goal isn’t maximum trust, it’s calibrated trust.”

Mozilla’s open standard cq

“Agents now need their own Stack Overflow.”

Onboarding is a transaction

It’s your peak moment to learn from users.

Lessons learned after breaking production

What software engineers never want to experience again.

Who can actually afford AI tools now?

How today’s pricing models shape access to AI.

Vibe design is real

What Google Stitch’s update means for designers.

Generative UI notes

How far can we go with UIs generated on demand?

Update on GitHub Copilot’s data usage

Your interactions may train AI unless you opt out.

Accessibility law of headlines

“Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong.”

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content

Only two limited uses are still acceptable.

Don’t design for average users

”The era of the ‘average user’ must end.”

New to the web platform (March 2026)

CSS grid lanes, JavaScript iterator sequencing, and more.

Software got weird

“At least there’s something to being human that will survive it.”

Is this product ’human-made’?

The race to establish an AI-free logo.

The end of the Open Web

“We’re once again in the process of fucking things up.”

Endgame for the Open Web

A call to reclaim web sovereignty.

The artisanal web

”Make something weird and wonderful of your own.”

“AI sounds like an incredible genius synthesizing the world’s knowledge right up until you ask it about the thing you know about, then it’s an idiot.”

Two bots walk into a bar

ELIZA (1966) meets Gemini (2026).

Mockdown

Sketch a UI and export it as Markdown.

BorderLab

Design social media image borders with live preview.

Cascade Icons

Hand-crafted icons for CSS properties and their values.

The screen reader stutter

Why your content repeats itself and how to fix it.

The great CSS expansion

How modern CSS reduces the need for JavaScript.

How to use CSS containment

An underused technique to improve UI interactivity.

The big box vs. site search paradox

Let’s win users back from global to local search.

Human in the loop

Where 10x productivity dies by a thousand approvals.

CSS is DOOMed

“Can CSS run DOOM? Yes, it can.“

When the wrong demos go viral

Pretext reframes how we think about text rendering.

axios compromised on npm

Popular JavaScript HTTP client hit by supply chain attack.

Package managers need to cool down

The state of dependency update delay mechanisms.

I built a design team out of AI agents

A workflow for orchestrating 10 specialized agents.

The code agent orchestra

What makes multi-agent coding work.

CSS ‘position: sticky’ per axis

Get ready for sticky headers and columns in data tables.

Browse with your own AI

Opera Neon lets your agents operate in the browser.

Inside Googlebot

How Google’s crawl system decides which content gets indexed.

Design debt is now like technical debt

Rapid AI adoption risks systemic UX failures.

The WebAIM Million Report 2026

Accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages.

Dark mode creation

How dark mode saw the light of day.

CSS refactoring with an AI safety net

AI visual diffing ensured regression-free changes.

Zen of AI coding

Code became cheap, and everything changed.

CSS or BS

Can you tell real and fake CSS properties apart?

View Transitions Toolkit

Ready-to-use utility functions to simplify View Transitions.

Kolr

A complete color toolkit for designers and developers.

Obs.js

Context-aware delivery for faster web experiences.

What to know in JavaScript 2026

ECMAScript, frameworks, runtimes, build tools, testing, npm.

EmDash, a CMS built for 2026

What to expect from the WordPress alternative?

The five AI moats

Which ideas actually stay safe from AI copying?

The creative infinite

“The barriers to creation have fully eroded.”

Craft is untouchable

“AI doesn’t threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.”

“What I think the world and the people need right now is to slow down a bit. We don’t need to work even more and even faster. We don’t need AI for things that are creative and fun and human.”

Package manager easter eggs

The whimsical side of dependency management.

HueGrid

Create and explore vivid patterns and gradients.

DNS Lookup

Query DNS records securely via DNS-over-HTTPS.

Ziptable

Just share small datasets inside a link.

Syntaqlite Playground

Parse, format, validate, and tokenize SQLite queries.

Why OKLCH

“Define colors perceptually, derive everything else.”

A practical guide to design principles

Choosing principles that shape design decisions.

Preloading images with JavaScript

Strengths and weaknesses of different techniques.

Uptime of GitHub Pages alternatives

Comparing Codeberg Pages, GitLab Pages, and Bitbucket Cloud.

Signals, the push-pull based algorithm

How push-pull powers modern reactive frameworks.

Why every UI problem is an IA problem

“You’re already doing information architecture.”

The agentic web

How AI systems will change websites.

Get more done in Chrome

Meet vertical tabs and immersive reading mode.

Screen readers are not testing tools

They only show the symptoms of bad code.

Under the hood of MDN’s new frontend

How web components overhauled the web docs platform.

The invisible layer of UX

Why designers must hear what they build.

The Intl API

“The best browser API you’re not using.”

You can’t cancel a JavaScript promise

But you can return a promise that never resolves.

Train your judgement on animations

“Settling for good enough is not good enough.”

CSS name-only containers

The scoping we needed and the one we have.

Base64 is fast now, actually

The surprising speed of native base64 encoding.

We’re all doing the same job now

What now, product managers, designers, and engineers?

Accessibility fixes with stealth

Tactics for accessibility upgrades in unsupportive organizations.

The 3 C’s of informational microcopy

Clarity and Concision set the stage for Character.

CSS ‘font-family’ fallbacks can trick you

Prevent visual glitches with complete font stacks.

Fully local code embeds

A web component for rendering code sandboxes.

RSS dependent websites in 2026

Growing an audience without an email newsletter.

Handmade designs

AI-fatigued users prefer websites with a human touch.

Delphi Tools

A wonderful set of handmade utilities for web creators.

ColoRosetta

A utility for translating colors across color spaces.

Making complex CSS shapes with shape()

Wavy, wiggly, blob, squiggly, ragged, and torn ones.

A new Wakamai Fondue

Relaunch of the beloved font explorer.

Why AI sucks at front end

The many moving targets it can’t hit.