The TermWeb standard

A foundation for terminal-friendly websites.

Stop buttons triggering accidental zooms

One line of CSS fixes double tap zoom issues on mobile.

One SVG, nine posters

Can we already style linked SVGs with CSS?

New in Chrome DevTools

Agent controls, modernized device presets, and more.

Fluid typography

What to know before picking an approach.

Detecting overlapping elements with CSS

”At first, I thought this was not possible.”

Built to last

“Software should be built as if every version could be the last.”

State of Devs 2026

”It is an uncertain time to be a developer.”

Chrome 152 brings connection allowlists

Secure your web application’s network access.

Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning

Margin notes for your content without JavaScript.

32-Bit Cafe

A community cultivating a flourishing personal web.

Kev

Small Jev-like decision models you can train yourself.

Browsers situationship

When browsers agree but the spec doesn’t.

Respecting your users’ preferences

Honor the choices users already made.

Lazy loading images and media

How far ahead each browser fetches lazy images.

Web Workers

A second thread for your JavaScript.

HTML purity is a fetish

No errors, no warnings, no gods, no masters.

The future of software development

“Most predictions I see are still way too conservative.”

The code nobody reads

“Line-by-line reading is going away for a lot of code.”

Announcing Vite+ 1.0

The unified web toolchain is now stable.

Almost nobody gets XML sitemaps right

What Google really expects from your sitemap.

“Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill. There is a point in your career where you begin to understand that a surprising amount of good work comes from refusing to touch things that are already doing their job.”

Agent skills in the browser

What WebSkill delivers and what it doesn’t.

Example.com’s biggest redesign in decades

How the web’s example page reinvented itself.

Goodbye WordPress

“Here’s a WordPress export, rebuild it in Astro, go nuts.”

Screen Reader User Survey #11

What 1,780 users say about their screen reader habits.

EmDash 1.0

Cloudflare’s new open source CMS for humans and agents.

New to the web platform (September 2026)

CSS progress() and alpha() functions, scroll anchoring, and more.

The new big ball of mud

Vibe coded systems work surprisingly well, until they break.

The brain sandwich

Think first, let AI build, then think again.

FFConf.ai

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

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.

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.

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.

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

Chrome 155 brings a Rust-based JPEG XL decoder.

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.

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.

Deno is joining Cloudflare

The story behind merging celld and workerd.

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

Rank which web platform features need most progress.

How to turn off AI in Visual Studio Code

It takes a single switch and it stays off.

Gradient Visualizer

A visual tool to debug multi-layer CSS gradients.

The DNS Museum

Clever, weird, and wonderfully pointless uses of DNS.

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.”

The best way to use icons in web UIs

Insert and tweak icons in CSS without touching HTML.

The disappointing death of Deno

What happened, why, and what’s next.

Grok is killing cursor

”Cursor without choice is a Grok harness.”

The math of CSS typesetting

Recommendations for typography on the web.

Webpage copy protection is impossible

Why it’s a feature, not a bug.

TypeScript won

“Now it’s giving up its superpowers.”

Accessible Components Library

Components with code, guidance, and test scenarios.

Experimental soft navigation metrics

CrUX now has experimental SPA UX data.

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.”

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.

Anti-patterns in software blogging

How developers sabotage their own blog posts.

Melt effect

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

/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.

Thank you, Deno

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

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.

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.”

How we’re strengthening PHP security

How two vulnerabilities nearly broke the web.

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.”

Fingerprints are the new cookies

How fingerprints work and what you can do about it.

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.”

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

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

The Lethal Trifecta

Protecting agents from a common prompt injection attack.

The PHP panic has not turned to patching

93.6% of systems remain exposed to PHP2Shell.

Getting good at AI takes time and practice

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

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.”

The web can’t afford a JS runtime monoculture

What took over browsers is now consolidating the server.

A practical AI search visibility check

Compare your Google and AI Mode visibility.

“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.”

Snitch

An application firewall and real-time network monitor.