How to write accessible times

Ways to format times for clarity and accessibility.

Designers/developers’ biggest time wasters

Where your hours go and how to reclaim them.

Measuring the impact of AI on design

“AI is changing design work fast.”

The case for spec-driven design

“Faster prototypes miss the point.”

Making destructive actions accessible

How to design and review irreversible flows inclusively.

Design has outgrown the traditional designer

Why design education must imagine a different student.

Rediscovering Sublime Text

“It’s a nice, snappy text editor.”

Creating a great newsletter landing page

A look at well-built examples you can learn from.

RIP My Build

Your side project deserves a proper funeral.

GDPR is good, judging by who hates it

Privacy’s loudest enemies are its best promoters.

The best web page minifier in 2026

”You want HTML Minifier Next or SWC/HTML.”

Evaluating a WCAG success criterion

How to get the W3C’s most current position on any SC.

Agentic skill decay

Mastery comes from repetition, even with agents.

Invisible interfaces

“The best interface of the coming years might be one you never see.”

New things to know about HTML

What might have slipped under your radar.

Should we even have a dark mode toggle?

“The best dark mode toggle is probably none.”

Introducing HTML ‘hic-pageflip’

A pageflip custom element powered by HTML-in-Canvas.

Introducing Noun Studio

Create unique icons or build consistent icon sets.

So Very Bright

Let your logo or text outshine white on HDR screens.

Media in issues, pull requests, and comments

GitHub now lets you attach images and videos from the CLI.

Submit your proposals for Interop 2027

Name what browsers should finally get right.

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

“They are a lousy interface for general understanding.”

’initial-scale=1’ no longer needed

Your meta viewport only needs ‘width=device-width’.

My view on design engineers

"The person who owns whether a product still agrees with itself."

Is npm finally safe?

How npm turned the tide on supply chain attacks.

Don’t be a meat proxy

Don’t forward AI answers you haven’t reviewed.

Most software was already slop

“Customers don’t care about the craft.”

Reading and writing are interfaces

“Let’s not pretend AI invented slop.”

Vibe coding and quality

“High quality is achievable only through vibe coding.”

Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic

”A substantial portion of my traffic is bots.”

Website Spec Checklist

What is required, recommended, and optional for your website.

Mesurer

Inspect, annotate, and give feedback on any live interface.

Pure CSS halftone patterns

A playground where any photo becomes a halftone print.

GitHub was never about the source code

“It’s the only ‘Facebook’ I still visit.”

There’s no limit to how bad code can get

“Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset.”

Resource age and its impact on cacheability

The caching mistake slowing millions of websites.

Maybe we shouldn’t review all this code

What if AI didn’t break code review but exposed it?

The workslop tax

“Thanks to AI, I saved hours on my work!”

Can you use web fonts in email?

“Yes, but you really shouldn’t.”

Grok Bot for designers and product teams

Compared to Claude Cowork, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw.

Animating CSS Grid layouts

Smooth grid reflows with CSS Anchor Positioning.

Grids

When you start to notice they are everywhere.

CodePen: exposed!

What the code editor’s users might not know.

Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts

Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose.

Balancing heading styles using maths

Accessible headings using a modular scale.

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

You can now also create an image from a sketch.

Container style queries and advanced attr()

What if components styled themselves in CSS?

I asked 100 agents to hack me

How far can open-source agents get in 2026?

The death of the button

The web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks.

Color accessibility isn’t just about contrast

The many color choices compliance misses.

Apple’s new iPhone photo authentication

How Apple wants to prove iPhone photos aren’t AI.

Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify

“Nothing changes with Tailwind CSS.”

Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents

”It’s a much better way to predict their behavior.”

Fresher features, faster fixes

Chrome’s two-week release cycle is here.

No AI Fridays

The weekly break your coding skills and joy deserve.

The Device Posture API

How CSS might adapt to a foldable device’s posture.

The State of Ecommerce 2026

How AI is reshaping the shopper journey.

A deep dive into StyleX

“StyleX changes how we write CSS.”

HTML conformance in 2026

“2 of the global top 200 websites use valid HTML.”

CSS curiosities of the past

Hacks and quirks beyond the specification.

Run AI in the browser

A practical guide to Transformers.js.

Creativity is your new moat

“So start giving credence to weird ideas.”

RSS doesn’t have to be boring

“Know that you can pimp it a little bit.”

An ode to links

“We’ve built an entire culture around links.”

Handwritten code

“I love how the path you picked tells me about you.”

Usenet-Rewind

Search newsgroup discussions that predate the modern web.

DialKit

Tune UIs live instead of reloading your page.

Clarity

A private editor and AI skill built on eighteen writing rules.

Limit the number of details

“Removing something gives you time back.”

AI is breaking this thing we call trust

Trust assumes you understand your own work.

The case against JPEG XL

“I don’t see how JPEG XL is even as good a fit as WebP.”

Preferred Sources in Google Search

How to add the button to your website.

Tiny changes

“I see a six-month, multi-departmental war.”

Deceptive patterns

How information drifts to manipulation.

Why CSS-Tricks has been quiet lately

“I literally can’t afford to work free for months.”

The invisible side of design engineering

“A lot of what makes a great experience is invisible.”

Design system conventions in Figma

Naming your architecture when the tool can’t.

Better icon and label alignment

Two methods for aligning icons on wrapped labels.

AI as an accessibility testing partner

“AI can make a strong auditor more effective.”

Comparing values with CSS progress()

Boolean-like conditional styling without JavaScript.

Code Snacks

Engineering concepts animated for visual learners.

Mozilla and Mistral’s open browser partnership

Private AI arrives in Firefox Smart Window beta.

The most important product decision

“Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.”

How I manage my fleet of agents

The agents talk through Git, so they’re replaceable.

Fixing fluid typography

Consistent text sizing with CSS @property.

Pluggable, extensible, and playful devtools

Devframe, foundation of the Universal DevTools Ecosystem.

Structured output is interesting again

Jev unlocks AI speed by dropping the chat.

Designing with AI

Increasing speed without compromising quality.

Responsive iframes in Chrome 154

Scrollbar-free content embeds without JavaScript.

A simple guide to calm UI

A few rules for less annoying interactions.

The Public Suffix List is “just a list”

Where domains rely on volunteers and plain text.

Figma just bought another AI company

Why are they betting on such a niche team?

CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

What if the people who love it decided its future?

Modern web types

Types for every API in any stable browser.

You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

“It all comes down to funding, I’m afraid.”

Modern HTML/CSS guide for artists

Build a lasting portfolio website from scratch.

Building your first side project with AI

A walkthrough for non-technical UX people.

The case for local AI

“Keep your data and your models close.”

“A collection of personal websites and an RSS reader can produce a surprisingly good Internet. It will probably be a smaller one. That’s fine.”

Aphera

”A photo editor that brings delight back to editing.”