Black box AI drift

“AI tools are making design decisions nobody asked for.”

Good designers, bad websites

Using personas to spot accessibility gaps early.

Container query typography systems

Type that adapts to its own space.

What SEOs get wrong about AI search

“SEOs agree on what to do, but not what to call it.”

Mouth coding

Talking websites into existence with AI.

The web is fun again

First experiments with HTML in canvas.

AI and ambition

How AI makes us more ambitious as web builders.

It’s all just trees with Web Origami

”I love it, and I’ve used it on many sites.”

The courage to stop

“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.”

Pica

A mighty font manager built for macOS.

Wiretext

Draw wireframes and export them as Markdown.

ObsoHTML

Scan for obsolete and proprietary HTML code.

Multi-stroke text effect

An iconic retro style recreated by CSS.

CSS recently in all browsers

Highlights from the past few months.

Automate the browser from the terminal

What to expect from Chrome DevTools MCP CLI?

The perfect file upload pattern

When users don’t need to press the upload button.

New to the web platform (April 2026)

Auto sizes for lazy-loaded images, ariaNotify(), and more.

Say goodbye to JavaScript Date

How Temporal makes things much less confusing.

Zero-click search began long before AI

The future of search may look more like the past.

Canvas-ing the web

Potential and limits of the HTML-in-canvas API.

Scroll-driven animations

Exploring the majestic new ‘animation-timeline’ API.

Code I’ll never read

Are humans still qualified to review agent code?

Claude for creative work

Connected to Adobe, Canva, Blender, and other tools.

(One) good AI is here

A glimpse into a future beyond corporate AI.

The basement firm

Running a small team of AI agents for fun.

SQL Tutorial

Learn SQL using the PostgreSQL dialect.

UI patterns that won’t survive

How AI reshapes traditional design patterns.

Zed is 1.0

The fast code editor for humans and AI comes of age.

Wicked websites

A gallery of modern web design villains.

Paradigms for enhancing HTML tags

Practical ways to empower HTML elements.

Four levels of customer understanding

Why feedback never fully reveals customer needs.

Finally, the handoff is dead

Why faster teams still struggle to build together.

Accessibility myths and pushbacks

How to address common accessibility objections.

Moving past bots vs. humans

Web protection must evolve as boundaries blur.

Designing stable UIs for streaming content

How to keep interfaces usable during live updates.

Scalable Vector Graphics from scratch

The concepts that unlock SVG for everyday use.

I finally tried Ghostty

“It’s an impressive terminal application.”

Mistral Medium 3.5 in Vibe

Europe’s take on autonomous coding agents.

Vouching for other people’s websites

Verifying human authorship with human.json.

Actually reading RSS feeds

A time-based method for keeping up with web updates.

Joyful web design

“Joy should be a design goal.”

Adding author context to RSS

A proposal to bring author identity to web feeds.

openDAW

A powerful music studio inside your browser.

Open Design

Use your coding agent as a design engine.

Native randomness in CSS

Why it’s a big deal for the web platform.

Session timeouts

The overlooked accessibility barrier in authentication design.

When the bill comes due

The growing divide in AI tooling.

Media queries range syntax

What problem it solves and how to use it today.

Pairing fonts the easy way

How to create beautiful font pairings in 5 steps.

The Museum of the Human Web

Celebrating the history of the human-built web.

The duality of AI models in the browser

“I’m bullish, but also have concerns.”

Dealing with Claude's reduced usage limits

Practical ways to cut cost under the tighter limits.

WebAccessBench

“AI is locking people out, at scale.”

C.R.E.S.S. principles for context engineering

”Test them for yourself and see what difference they make.”

New in Chrome 148

Lazy loading for video/audio, Prompt API, and more.

Is form design easy?

The illusion of simplicity in form design.

Checking code standards on every PR

How CI can increase confidence in AI-generated code.

Agent experience

Why AX is becoming the new UX.

Google’s Prompt API

Web standards should not become terms of service.

Architecture of local-first development

How to build local-first web apps in 2026.

Agents with taste

Turning design taste into rules agents can follow.

WordPress loses market share

Is Astro eroding their user base?

Building an AI agent that designs like me

A field guide for designers, builders, and operators.

Browser caching with No-Vary-Search

Better HTTP caching by ignoring irrelevant query parameters.

AI design has no soul

The role of typography in the AI age.

The robots are replacing the packages

“The new question is: ‘do I want to own this problem?’”

State of prototyping (Spring 2026)

“The most-used design tool after Figma is now an AI.”

Testing agents on design systems

Can agents effectively use a design system?

The AI mindset shift

“The shift from doer to conductor is coming.”

Google AI search will soon show more links

Connecting you directly with the web sources.

The boring internet

“The internet you grew up on is not gone.”

Netizen

A reminder that the web wasn’t built around profit.

Vulnerability Garden

A living catalog of named vulnerabilities.

Cursed browser

The AI browser that imagines every webpage.

Moop

A desktop app for batch image optimization.

Cognitive Bias Index

A tool for spotting and reducing thinking errors.

When CSS says ‘yes’ but browsers say ‘no’

@supports doesn’t always behave as expected.

Google Search’s AI gets updates

New ways to discover and navigate web content.

RYBitten

A playground for RYB-inspired digital color.

What’s new in Node.js 26

What the changes mean for developers.

I left port 22 open for 54 days

What an open SSH honeypot revealed.

Programming still sucks

“AI didn’t take our jobs. Greed did.”

WebKit features for Safari 26.5

“The biggest May release of WebKit yet.”

“I successfully ignored crypto and NFTs, I’m thinking I might just wait until this AI coding thing just blows over…”

Escape from agentic loop

“Human-in-the-Loop is the new doom scrolling.”

Analysis of 158 design systems

“Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“

Tailwind CSS 4.2 and 4.3

New scrollbar and ‘zoom-*’ utilities, new colors, and more.

Banishing JavaScript to the ShadowRealm

The proposed API introduces a new kind of realm.

Revive your design superpowers

“You are more powerful than you realize.”

New HTML element for installing web apps

Try the native install button with no JavaScript required.

The HTML Sanitizer API

Safer web development with HTML sanitization.

Since You Arrived: taken.

Your browser leaks more about you than you think.

Workroom: Mini Apps

Widgets to refine and polish visuals as you go.

Laws of Software Engineering

What every engineer wishes they knew sooner.

Browsers treat big sites differently

When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change.

Git Skills

Master Git with practical guides and interactive quizzes.

The end of Claude Code automation

Why Anthropic’s pricing shift undermines Claude scripts.

The case for local AI

Why running Claude-level local LLMs is the future.

Pushing local AI models

“Let’s pick one winner and polish the hell out of it.”

State of Web Dev AI 2026

“AI is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.“