The future of AI might not be LLMs

“I hope we’ll see more inexpensive, single-purpose AI models.”

Context libraries

How AI power users manage context engineering.

Better, faster, and cheaper user decisions

When judgment gets cheap, interfaces get smart.

Crest

“The browser for life after Arc.”

The best way to use icons in web UIs

Insert and tweak icons in CSS without touching HTML.

What doesn’t get cheaper

Every disposable website has an expensive head.

The disappointing death of Deno

What happened, why, and what’s next.

Grok is killing cursor

”Cursor without choice is a Grok harness.”

Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise

Reclaiming the browser your organization runs on.

The math of CSS typesetting

Recommendations for typography on the web.

Misconceptions about RSS

Debunking the myths that hold RSS back.

Webpage copy protection is impossible

Why it’s a feature, not a bug.

TypeScript won

“Now it’s giving up its superpowers.”

Decision vs. outcome

“We decided based on what we knew.”

Accessible Components Library

Components with code, guidance, and test scenarios.

Experimental soft navigation metrics

CrUX now has experimental SPA UX data.

A different future for accessibility

Why the W3C is rebuilding its successful WCAG standard.

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use cases

Where each modern image format actually wins.

Why WebMCP matters

“WebMCP is web performance for AI agents on the web.”

An intelligent new shopping cart

Google launches universal cart in the U.S.

Modernizing the Visual Studio Code UI

Where coding and agents finally feel alike.

Web accessibility smoke testing

Six quick browser checks before submitting a pull request.

SVG “linked parameters” will reshape icon systems

Styleable, cacheable, accessible icons as images.

Agentic verification

Give your agents a way to verify their work.

More ways to connect with the web

Google puts the web back into AI answers.

What we lost when we lost comments

No blog or newsletter comments, no community.

Anti-patterns in software blogging

How developers sabotage their own blog posts.

“I want to read words written by my fellow humans, from their hearts and minds, through the effort of trying to clearly express what it is they’re trying to communicate, because in that effort, they figure out what it is that they actually think and want to say.”

Melt effect

One tiny SVG filter that melts icons, images, and text.

Tiny Little Office

Where your documents are their own links.

/dev/null

A social network for developers where every post is a commit.

F*cking Good Libraries

Where creative web developers find the right library.

OpenFatigue

The open platform for being tired.

Someone behind the software

“I want to feel the creator behind the software, not the factories.”

Thank you, Deno

“We’re all better off because of its existence.“

The insidious effect of AI

Why AI’s speed is everyone else’s slowdown.

One last line of code

“Make it something that’s really you.”

Agents don’t need memory

They need a brain they keep updated.

Scroll-triggered animation

The missing piece for scrollytelling on the web.

Do web components have a future?

What remains of custom elements in the AI era.

Automated screen reader testing

Running Gherkin with Claude Code and VoiceOver.

Design in the material you ship

“Understand code the way an architect understands stone.”

CodePen AI is here

Meet the AI agent for your Pens.

You should deploy on Friday

Debunking the myth of risky Friday releases.

eMudhra’s CA keys cracked in milliseconds

What happened, who’s exposed, and what to check now.

Accessibility Compatibility Data (ACD)

Bringing accessibility support data to developer tools.

PHP warns of imminent emergency patches

“Website admins, brace yourselves.”

The best private browsers

Which browser deserves to be your new default?

How we’re strengthening PHP security

How two vulnerabilities nearly broke the web.

UX designers are not designing interfaces

“We are designing how people understand the world and themselves.”

The State of AI Security

The threats, the tools, and the gaps.

There is no easy exploit for php2shell

“Nowhere near as easy as Log4Shell/Heartbleed/RoRYaml etc.”

The web is more than enough

Building rich apps in the browser is easier than ever.

A farewell to Arc

The innovative Arc browser sunsets on December 22, 2026.

Introducing Canva Craft

Canva’s first image model, trained to think like a designer.

Lumo creations

Proton’s AI now creates web pages, code, and documents.

Your product is not the center of the universe

It’s time to show up in a person-centric way.

Fingerprints are the new cookies

How fingerprints work and what you can do about it.

Is AI visibility a marketing boondoggle?

“Traffic from AI assistants is nearly non-existent.”

Making websites shouldn’t seem so hard

The case for websites that start with content.

Learn to ship

“Shipping is a true test of your idea.”

“Does AI mean everyone can ship now? No. Shipping was never just writing the code. It was about figuring out the shortest and most pragmatic path to the finish line, solving all the little problems that crop up along the way.”

Long live the web

"The web is one of the finest inventions of humanity.“

“I want the web that I grew up with to remain: direct linking, independent publishing, view-source culture, and the ability to publish and browse without permission from an authority. I want its openness, its diversity, its weirdness. All of it.”

Color Names

Discover thousands of colors, named by people.

sliick

Create still or animated 3D device mockups.

That’s what I call technical debt

15 hits about unpaid maintainers and overconfident AI agents.

New features vs. old fires

“Our top priority should be fixing our technical debt.”

Nobody asked for the sparkle button

“Build features with AI, not AI features.”

How AI is changing UX work

Time savings are real, but enthusiasm remains limited.

The state of typography in design systems

How 94 designers handle their type in practice.

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

“CSS-Tricks is an independent site once again!”

Fast is a design decision

Building is cheap now, but waiting never was.

Easy is taken

Why AI fundamentally can’t make work easy.

The Lethal Trifecta

Protecting agents from a common prompt injection attack.

Best free fonts of 2026

From crowd favorites to hidden gems.

User Experience Salaries & Calculator 2026

Salaries of UX professionals from around the world.

Come back to Firefox

“The Internet you loved is still here.”

The PHP panic has not turned to patching

93.6% of systems remain exposed to PHP2Shell.

The state of AI in design systems

What design teams do to stop AI drifting.

Getting good at AI takes time and practice

“It’s like working with a really weird person.”

Cloaking is dead, long live cloaking

“Unfortunately, cloaking is fashionable again.”

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

Which frameworks are better for agents?

Website migration costs are going to zero

When leaving a CMS is easy, staying must be earned.

Useful @custom-media presets

I can’t wait to use custom media queries.”

Tuning your AI instrument

Why “make this beautiful” works on my machine and not on yours.

The web can’t afford a JS runtime monoculture

What took over browsers is now consolidating the server.

Headless content marketing

A new (old) strategy for search.

Frankenstein‘s pattern

When design system components get stitched together.

“Design isn’t what happens after you understand the problem. Design is how you understand the problem.”

A practical AI search visibility check

Compare your Google and AI Mode visibility.

SEO + AEO = OAO (Organic Answers Optimization)

“It’s time for a new acronym to enter the marketing lexicon.”

Who the f*ck is admin?

Why bylines matter more now AI can fake expertise.

Make your creative process repeatable

Figma Weave turns AI generation into reusable team workflows.

Experience Design

Dropping the “User” from “User Experience”.

“I realized that only now will we begin to see how much vibe-coded technical debt non-programmers have been accumulating over the past two years when their apps start falling apart.”

Vibe Coding

“Maybe I shouldn’t have vibe-coded my costume.”

Bouuuuuh Villain

Lift Type’s spooky Halloween font for 2026.

“The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.”

NameThatUI

A visual dictionary of user interfaces.