The new big ball of mud

Vibe coded systems work surprisingly well, until they break.

“We started editing ourselves so we wouldn’t sound like a machine, while the machine was edited so it wouldn’t sound like itself.”

The brain sandwich

Think first, let AI build, then think again.

“You won’t be replaced by AI, but you might be replaced by someone who knows when not to use it.”

No Sloptober

“Think of this as a fast for your mind!“

FFConf.ai

The web conference, now with 100% less of you.

Don’t paste the AI, please

“When someone asks you something, they want your answer.”

Thinking orbs for AI interfaces

Animated AI status indicators for JavaScript/React.

Craft as care

”Craft is a way of looking at the world.”

Just let me in, please

“‘Ease of use’ can actually mean more friction.”

Why don’t more of us “use the platform”?

Because building it ourselves can feel so right.

The four horsemen of agentic coding

”However beneficial AI is, we pay dearly for it.”

Your website needs a brain

AI-built pages are not a publishing system.

The economics of attention in the age of AI

When design becomes deciding what to leave out.

Amazing Glass

Liquid glass web components for HTML, React, and Vue.

Data is the application

AI made your mistakes cheap, but never for your data.

Customize Claude Code with mods

Change how Claude Code behaves and looks.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026

Only 22% of developers say they are happy at work.

Why icon consistency is harder than it looks

The unseen rules holding every icon set together.

This is the modern web

“The initial cartoon load was super fast.”

Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it

Inside the proposal that lets pages assemble themselves.

Better images for less money

Google has released Nano Banana 2.1.

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Chrome 155 brings a Rust-based JPEG XL decoder.

Six attributes describe any experience

Understand, access, control, monitor, relevant, adaptable.

ArtCraft Apps

AI-created open-source apps that feel like Adobe tools.

Aiming at Adobe with open-source clones

The solo developer who says, “Software is over.”

cssEarth

Explore the universe in 3D HTML and CSS.

12 things I miss since coding died

Joys of coding that AI quietly took away.

The people holding up the internet

The maintainers nobody pays and everyone needs.

Many agents, many views

How to steer a swarm of AI agents.

Let’s Encrypt 64-day certificate lifetimes coming

Certificates default to 64 days on February 10, 2027.

The web needs interactive lists

A UI pattern native platforms already provide.

Creative Intelligence 2026

“Creatives adopting AI are earning more than ever.”

Windows and Mac keyboard differences

The keyboard gotchas no web app escapes.

Deno is joining Cloudflare

The story behind merging celld and workerd.

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

Rank which web platform features need most progress.

The convergence of design

Why does everything end up looking the same?

How to turn off AI in Visual Studio Code

It takes a single switch and it stays off.

How to turn off AI Overviews in Google

A guide for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi.

DuckDuckGo No-AI as default search engine

A guide for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

Gradient Visualizer

A visual tool to debug multi-layer CSS gradients.

BIGWORDS

Full screen signs, timers and messages.

The DNS Museum

Clever, weird, and wonderfully pointless uses of DNS.

This hue shall pass

Check and fix your color palette’s WCAG contrast.

Phosphor

Smarter color ramps for data visualizations.

HTML standards in progress

Making video posters responsive and accessible.

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.