The first rule of ARIA

Benefits of sticking with built-in HTML controls.

When AI secretly edits your files

Modifying a user’s content without their consent?

The basics of anchor positioning

An interactive guide to an exciting CSS feature.

Hack to the future

What past front-end approaches still teach us.

Product images with Gemini 2.5 Flash

How to create consistent images for a product.

Introducing AI Crawl Control

Cloudflare boosts content creators’ control over AI.

Vivaldi keeps browsing human

Why the browser remains free of AI features.

The history of themeable user interfaces

Let’s learn from the past to inform our future.

Python, the documentary

The story of the beloved programming language.

“Your” vs. “My” in user interfaces

A simple rule of thumb for when to use each.

CSS elevator

A pure CSS state machine with floor navigation.

“I became an AI hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life.”

Alt text button for website images

A way to make alt texts accessible to everyone.

Just building a website

“I tell you! He has lost his ******* mind!”

Web’s end

In the beginning, there were websites.

Nordic Design Gallery

Web design inspirations from Nordic countries.

URL Shadify

Why only shorten a URL when you can sketchify it?

LosslessCut

A versatile tool for lossless video/audio editing.

“A CSS reset, but every value is suffixed with !important.”

oklch.fyi

An OKLCH color picker, generator, and converter.

Do the simplest thing that might work

”It’s surprising how far you can take this advice.”

UX fatigue

When your website asks for too much.

New to the web platform (August 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Inclusive products are green products

How inclusive design principles foster sustainability.

What content works in 2025?

Results of the 12th annual blogger survey.

You no longer need JavaScript

How far you can go with CSS in 2025.

Obnoxious SSL certificate requirements

How to deal with the growing certificate hassles?

Vibe coding vs. AI-assisted engineering

Can you really vibe code to production-ready software?

Designing for ephemerality

The value of building with the product’s end in mind.

“You’re no longer just marketing to people; you’re marketing to the machines that will introduce you to them.”

Why browsers throttle JavaScript timers

“setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0).”

Google can keep Chrome

But exclusive search deals must end.

Human-readable XML without XSLT

“JavaScript is, in my opinion, a better option.”

Passkeys and modern authentication

Let’s consider whether this is really what we want.

CSS corner-shape superellipse() generator

An online tool for shaping custom squircles.

AI bots and robots.txt

How websites use robots.txt to set AI crawling rules.

Untangling nested interactive elements

How CSS subgrid helps solve a common issue.

Next.js is infuriating

“There’s bugs and edge cases around every corner.”

Why confetti celebrations backfire

“It’s not the confetti that makes a celebration work.”

Where’s the AI shovelware?

“Nobody is shipping more than before.”

The Browser Company is being acquired

Atlassian is buying the Arc and Dia browser maker.

Proposals for Interop 2026

Your opportunity to help elevate the web platform.

Adobe’s new free Premiere app

Available soon on iOS, coming to Android later.

Don’t inherit the CSS box model

“It’s time to stop spreading this out-dated practice.”

Functional custom elements

Effortless web components with functional JavaScript.

You don’t need animations

Know when and how to use animations.

The return of tech specs

Tech specs in the age of AI-assisted programming.

The fundamentals of CSS alignment

How alignment properties work in layouts.

The good, the bad, and the iffy

Is there such a thing as an ethical designer?

Editing my website in the browser

How the static site’s in-page editing works.

My take on blog analytics

From Google Analytics to Plausible to Tiny Analytics.

“I will not consume anything that will take me longer to read than it took for someone to write.”

“My utopian vision is a world where humans get content for free, and robots have to pay a ton for it.”

Atlas of Space

An interactive visualization of the solar system.

Classic Mac patterns

The original 8×8-pixel black and white patterns.

LooksSame

A Node.js library for human-like image comparisons.

SMS URLs

There is a URL scheme ‘sms:’ similar to ‘mailto:’.

ARIA-live cheatsheet

Announcing stuff without annoying your users.

Text lengths with ‘Intl.Segmenter’ API

Human-friendly character counting in JavaScript.

The Node.js Handbook, 2025 edition

A full guide to Node.js from basics to advanced.

Google Nano Banana techniques

Advanced image editing with Gemini Flash Image.

Making sense of AI job titles

A cheat sheet for job titles in the AI ecosystem.

Color shifting in CSS

An exploration of color animation techniques.

Angry users say git rid of it

Forced GitHub Copilot features drive users away.

Reciprocate

Make your HTML web components reactive.

Hackers hijack npm packages

Packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads.

Auditing design systems for accessibility

How to fix accessibility issues at the system-level.

Liquid glass in the browser

Apple’s stunning effect recreated with SVG/CSS.

Flags Overflow

Easily compare the best country flag icon libraries.

The Learn CSS course is updated

Fresh modules cover the latest CSS features.

CrUX Dashboard deprecation

Google prioritizes CrUX Vis for performance data.

“We call this design theater: the minimal application of user-centered design processes and principles to cover up a process centered entirely on stakeholder whims.”

The web has a new AI payment system

The RSL Standard sets rules for AI scraping fees.

Integrating CSS Cascade Layers

Cascade Layers without breaking a legacy codebase.

HTML conformance in 2025

“0 of the global top 200 websites use valid HTML.”

Git exclude

A handy feature you might not know about.

“Shout-out to the client who just sent me a mockup titled ‘temporary final’.”

AGENTS.md gains traction

The rise of the open format for guiding coding agents.

Why joy sustains serious work

How design details make hard work feel lighter.

Compiling multiple CSS files into one

Simplify your setup with a custom script or PostCSS.

Accessible writing techniques

How your web content reaches more people.

Preloading fonts for performance?

When preloading helps, and when it hurts.

Not agile, not waterfall, but cascades

A hybrid development approach for the AI era.

Building an AI agent, on-device

All you need is Chrome or Edge to get started.

The design of shallow thinking

How can we design more enlightening digital spaces?

How often should I send newsletters?

What to consider when setting a frequency.

AI’s free web scraping days may be over

Say hello to RSS’s younger, tougher brother.

Open source is one person

Almost all projects have a single maintainer.

SearchSystem

A living collection of references and tools for designers.

Maple Mono

A monospace font crafted for smooth coding.

Path to CSS Shape

Convert SVG path data to CSS shape() function.

How modern browsers work

A web developer guide to browser internals.

‘Copy as cURL’ in DevTools

Easily share and debug HTTP request issues.

Styling siblings has never been easier

What to expect from two emerging CSS additions.

Fixing the fun front-end stuff?

Fix the important front-end stuff too.

AI style guides for product copy

When machines choose not to follow the rules.

WebKit features in Safari 26.0

Apple’s browser takes another leap forward.

AI search drives <1% of referrals

Organic search remains critical for traffic and sales.

Keeping package.json under control

The art of finding the right shoulders to build on.

Do we still need custom components?

“Exciting developments are just around the corner.”