My two-part desk setup

Living and working between an analog and a digital space.

Mediabunny

A JavaScript library for handling video and audio files.

SVG Converter

Turn your images into vector graphics with color control.

Freesound

A huge library of community-contributed audio clips.

Oops, my UUIDs collided!

How Universally Unique Identifiers can collide.

Why clients come, stay, and leave

“Confusing one phase for another gets us in trouble.”

Why is CSS so tough for AI?

The reason Tailwind CSS is more AI-friendly.

Creating UI assets with ChatGPT

Icons, illustrations, and background patterns.

Agent design is still hard

“My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere.”

The hidden cost of shipping too fast

Moving quickly doesn’t mean fast progress.

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026

“What we’re doing now isn’t working. Not by a long shot.”

Google revisits JPEG XL in Chromium

Why Google is now back on JPEG XL after withdrawal.

Web monetization is still inching along

Why micropayments over the web remain complicated.

The Web Install API is ready for testing

The API enables site‑initiated web app installations.

Brand new layouts with CSS subgrid

“Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities.”

WebGPU now runs in major browsers

”The future of high-performance web apps is now!”

CSS light-dark() vs. prefers-color-scheme

“light-dark() isn’t just a shorter ‘prefers-color-scheme’ query.”

Introducing the design stroll

An actionable way to capture great ideas.

Scroll prevention while ‘dialog’ is open

Chrome 144 addresses a long-standing developer issue.

Treat AI-generated code as a draft

“Use AI to move faster, but keep your hands on the wheel.”

A new navigation paradigm

How will AI reshape navigation in digital products?

Performance monitoring for web components

No worries, there is an API for that.

A first look at the Web Install API

“I hope it comes to the web platform and all browsers.”

Why engineers struggle to build AI agents

The challenge of trusting unpredictable AI behavior.

The internet needs an AI off switch

“People want the human internet back.”

Chasing the social media algorithm

“What about our actual audience?”

Baseline layered UI patterns

What you can do with HTML ‘dialog’ and ‘popover’ today.

New to the web platform (November 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Good enough is a strategy

“Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.”

AI frontend generator comparison

Base44, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, Replit, v0.

Company mission, vision, purpose

Are they useful, or academic nonsense?

Exposure as a designer

“Designers spend too much time with other designers.”

Designing effective contextual menus

Do’s and don’ts for secondary menu actions.

Using your own cursor icons

“Let’s encourage creativity and sound accessibility practices!”

Google Search hallucinates preview text

Does it replace meta descriptions with AI now?

My website is approaching Google Zero

”Should I just opt out of Google Search altogether?”

Disruption, or theft?

”AI might be the grandest heist of them all.”

Hallucinations using web components

How to make your self-written posts look machine‑written.

AI SVG generation benchmark

AI models’ SVG creativity put to the test.

Advent of Code 2025

This year’s challenge with 12 programming puzzles.

Phone numbers everywhere

A HTML fix for unwanted Safari/iOS phone links.

Serifs are back in fashion

Why is this font suddenly everywhere?

HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025

It’s back again with twenty-four more posts!

Top layer troubles, popover vs. dialog

How to avoid possible conflict points.

Web advent calendars for 2025

Selected calendars on web design/development.

Web Performance Calendar 2025

“The speed geek’s favorite time of year.”

The Rosetta Stone of design engineering

Why design and engineering need a shared language.

The great betrayal of frontend sanity

“I’d call CSS-in-JS over-engineering disguised as progress.”

Website task flowchart

“Throw phone and laptop into the sea.”

Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion

Improve dark mode’s font weight without layout shift.

A pragmatic guide to CSS colors (part 2)

The many color options modern CSS opens up.

Bun has been acquired by Anthropic

The JavaScript runtime will accelerate Claude Code.

Decreasing certificate lifetimes

Let’s Encrypt will halve certificate validity by 2028.

Accessibility is about people

“You can’t make something accessible to everyone.”

Speculation rules improvements

What’s new and next with the Speculation Rules API.

The only winning move is not to play

“Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers.”

What Figma’s updates mean for design systems

A shift towards token-first and AI-assisted systems.

Decades of marketing

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

“The world’s greenest AI is here”

Ecosia rolls out new AI-powered search features.

The barcode as a design object

The visual language of barcodes and QR codes.

What if you don’t need MCP at all?

”Agents can run Bash and write code well.”

JavaScript turns 30

On December 4, 1995, Netscape and Sun announced JavaScript.

Accessibility tools alone won’t solve it

Testing Lighthouse, ARC Toolkit, axe DevTools, and AI models.

Five AI browsers, same problem

“You’ve got to be fairly adept at prompting.”

The nuances of JavaScript typing

“JavaScript + JSDoc + tsc should be the industry default.”

Silicon clay

How AI is reshaping UX design.

The 2025 State of Digital Agencies

It’s still rough out there, but slowly improving.

New in web performance 2025

What changed this year and what to expect next.

The role of the HTML ‘lang’ attribute

A tiny detail can make it or break it for millions.

From GitHub to Codeberg

“All in all, I’m very happy with this migration!”

Your perfectionism is lying to you

”Chasing perfectionism leads to imperfection.”

Searching the IndieWeb

Find real people, real projects, and real writing.

Neapolitan

The ice-cream web stack.

Re-imagine the web

What you can do with Scoped View Transitions.

CSS selectors for the HTML element

A fun exercise to explore CSS selectors.

Contrast Plus

A practical APCA and WCAG contrast checker.

Adaptive SVG favicons

Favicons using the ‘prefers-color-scheme’ media query.

Controlling dialogs and popovers

The power of the Invoker Commands API.

Web performance 2025

“We can finally get as close as possible to instant loading pages.”

The f*** off contact page

When they say contact us but really mean don’t.

SVG clickjacking attacks

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

CSS Wrapped 2025

The powerful CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.

“It’s not about using ‘AI’, it’s about being seen to use ‘AI’. Look at us! We’re cutting edge!”

Fit text responsibly

”Be careful of the shiny new things.”

Common misconceptions about disability

Understanding disability means understanding real people.

Safe environment variables in JavaScript

Registering variables is a small effort with big returns.

Opting out of search engines

“Your actions count. Act consciously.”

The myth of “no design process”

Why meaningful design starts where ease ends.

10 years of Let's Encrypt certificates

A decade ago, the first publicly-trusted certificate went live.

MCP joins the Linux Foundation

What it means for the next wave of AI development.

“The promise AI companies make to investors is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.”

Designing decisions

How behavioral psychology moves users.

Simplicity is mastery

Why clear messages win minds, hearts, and markets.

Design Systems Awards 2025

Zeroheight celebrates this year’s winners.

Latest LLMs in the test

GPT 5.1 Codex Max, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5.

Web 2.0 strikes back

Using MCP to make your life easier.

Laptop stickers

Each laptop tells a story through its stickers.

Measuring the impact of features

Meet a simple, repeatable, meaningful UX metric.

When square pixels aren’t square

Why a video’s stored resolution can fool web sizing.

Thoughts on native CSS mixins

What they might mean for front-end developers.