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.“

A few words on DwarfStar 4 (DS4)

The rapid rise of a truly usable local LLM setup.

Google AI search optimization for your website

What Google recommends for AI search visibility.

Chromium’s new CSS gap decorations

Ready for grid, flexbox, and multi-column layouts.

Avoid using CDATA in RSS

The case against CDATA in modern web feeds.

Web feeds in 2026

How web feeds are used online today.

Rethinking design with your hands

The return of human vitality in a synthetic design world.

The Mindful Design Toolkit

Essential tools for responsible product design.

Wonders of Web Weaving

Talks with someone who loves crafting websites.

Grabbit

A lightweight screenshot and annotation tool.

Refero Styles

Real product design systems in DESIGN.md for AI agents.

Moving away from Tailwind

Learnings from rebuilding CSS without a framework.

Are PWAs cooked?

The current state of Progressive Web Apps.

Designing mutualistic interfaces

“There is another face on the other side of the interface.”

AI engineer is a new role

“The agent is the easy part. The loop is the job.”

Fluid sizing with CSS round()

Using round() to make fluid sizing more predictable.

The undo problem in AI products

“Even Notepad from Windows 95 had undo.”

Azure Linux 4.0

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution.

Documentation foundations for humans and AI

How documentation is becoming shared infrastructure.

Reimagining the pointer for the AI era

When the cursor turns into an AI companion.

A new era for AI Search

”Search can now do more for you than ever before.”

Google Search as you know it is over

”Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes.”

Declarative partial updates

Chrome’s new proposals for the web platform.

Agentic Web News

Tracking how AI agents are changing the web.

Prompts are technical debt too

“Prompts are a worse form of technical debt than code.”

The old typography is new again

“Optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design.”

XSS is deadly for passkeys

The hidden flaw in passkey authentication.

Build with modern web guidance

A set of skills to guide your AI coding agents.

WebMCP Demo

How AI agents interact with web pages today and tomorrow.

Ad infini­tum

“Google thinks it no longer needs the web to deliver answers.”

Testing Safari on a budget

Trade-offs for low-cost website testing in Safari.

Accessibility Tools

A practical toolkit for accessible product design.

WordPress 7.0 is out

”This release takes it to a new level.”

Designing Firefox for the future

A new design direction for the browser.

User interfaces and “blandification”

Why does 2026 look like 2016, which looks like 2006?

The race to build a personal AI agent

Comparing OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini.

What’s missing in CSS layout

Developer pain points and feature gaps.

Ecosia’s AI search just got better

Now mostly powered by a European provider.

What’s a visitor in the age of AI?

Web analytics lost the meaning of a core metric.

Making your website Fediverse-ready

How to verify your site and link author identity.

Kagi’s Small Web is wonderful

“They are absolutely on to something here.”

Bubbles

Community-ranked posts from independent personal blogs.

Fontastic Space

Discover optimal font pairings through typography metrics.

wf

Look up web platform features from your terminal.

The state of CSS centering in 2026

Centering in modern CSS is really about alignment.

Surveys will continue until diversity improves

“Some of us grow up, but the industry doesn’t.”

The AI Resist List

How communities resist AI harms and build alternatives.

I’ve banned query strings

“I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs.”

Self hosting passwords

“I haven’t used an online password manager in 5 years.“

“AI makes you a good programmer in the same way cocaine makes you a good runner.”

Framework-agnostic design systems

A practical approach to web components.

The new “Make great content”

Build inimitable products to counter Google’s ambitions.

The case for design disposables

Good design work isn’t always a deliverable.

CSS vs. JavaScript

Animation performance is more nuanced than expected.

You are no longer the user

”The substrate is the new field of design.”

Email Accessibility Report 2026

“The email ecosystem remains in a state of systemic failure.”

Using AI to write better code more slowly

“Try this other, slower style of ‘vibe coding.’”

Component examples as data

What’s possible for designers and machines alike.

Preparing your codebase for AI coders

“If you can’t beat them, join them.”

Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough

What if styles relied on semantic HTML?

CSS is filling the gaps with rules

Native gap styling for grid and flex layouts.

The inversion of purpose

How the agentic web undermines conversion optimization.

AI traffic vs. AI citations

Google’s AI search is more layered than you think.

Don’t put ‘aria-label’ on generic elements

Why we must avoid labeling divs or spans.

First look at Figma Agent

Putting the new AI design companion to the test.

Spam in the age of AI search

How SEO spam evolves into AI search manipulation.

Advanced slop prevention techniques

Independent review layers for shipping reliable code.

AI can replace designers?

“If AI can replace your designers, you never understood design.”

New to the web platform (May 2026)

CSS name-only container queries, :open pseudo-class, and more.

Panic announces Transmit 6

The revival of a beloved file transfer app.

Making RSS more human readable

“Owning a website means owning the little connective pieces too.”

Kagi is good enough to leave Google Search

“I’ve never once felt the need to switch back.”

Websites are not going to die

“The AI web will actually strengthen the IndieWeb.”

Introducing Webstripes

Visualizing the energy efficiency of web pages.

replacements.fyi

Performant, safer npm package alternatives.

La Carte Blanche

A project definition framework to avoid chaos.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Geist Pixel.

Is AI another Frontend’s Lost Decade?

“The industry will realize it’s just one more tool in the toolbox.”

Designing like it’s 1999

“Design for where the puck is going.”

What 846,000 Google searches reveal

Users now stay longer on search results before acting.

Making information hierarchies work

The role of scent in broad and deep information structures.

Stop writing prompts

Here’s an AI assistant that does it for you.

Entry and exit transitions with modern CSS

Techniques for transitions and view transitions.

Glyph Finder

Find Adobe Fonts that support a given Unicode character.

Error hiding is not error prevention

Why the ’accept’ attribute degrades file upload UX.

The best loading states are none at all

Making the case for route transitions.