Sibling scopes in CSS, thanks to :has()

Leverage :has() to select all siblings between two boundaries.

Medium embraces Mastodon

The popular publishing platform is launching a Mastodon instance.

Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project

Google is bringing the Rust language into Chromium.

Past informs the present: Our approach to CSS

The evolution of CSS and its methodologies.

Introducing Docker support in CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox now lets you create sandboxes for any programming language.

Models of interaction

An inspiring selection of tools that blur the line between designing and engineering.

Minimalism vs Maximalism

The two varieties of web design involve polar opposite techniques.

Chrome 110 beta

CSS initial letters, web app launch handler, IFrame credentialless, and more.

“My biggest piece of advice for designers is to work on a CMS. Nothing has been more foundational for my career than forming a deep understanding of how data gets flexibly but predictably created and moves through a system.”

The triumph of Safari

“Let’s celebrate 2022 as the year that Safari turned a corner and triumphed.”

21 small thoughts (and counting?) about Information Architecture

The UX discipline of Information Architecture (IA) in a nutshell.

“Under-engineer. That’s almost always better for usability and accessibility. Simple solutions are almost always more robust.”

Pixelicious

Quickly and easily convert your photo or image into pixel art.

SSSVG: An interactive SVG reference

Shapes, transforms, masks, patterns, gradients, text, and more.

Building an accessible theme picker with HTML, CSS and JavaScript

When a light and a dark mode are not enough.

Identity crisis

Unique Ids for modern applications: UUIDs/GUIDs vs. Cuid2.

Line heights in CSS work better with ratios

Ratio-based line height will always be proportionate.

Servo to advance in 2023

The independent, Rust-based browser engine will begin to take shape.

“The hardest part of being a designer isn’t the design, it’s dealing with people who don’t understand it. Taking time to learn how to communicate with those people and say ‘no’ when you need to is a critical part of your skillset as a designer.”

PHP in 2023

The current state of the scripting language: a look back and forward.

Using CSS :is() in complex selectors selects more than you might initially think

A demo and an explanation.

Ways you can use ChatGPT to write code

From improving code to tracking bugs, writing test cases, and documentation.

Ways to trim the fat in your newsletter

Many newsletters are bloated, but there is a remedy for that.

Making the most of buttons in UI design

Button anatomy, usability, accessibility, theming, and use cases.

Emoji directionality on the 2023 emoji candidate list

This year’s candidates focus on the direction emojis are facing.

(Almost) everything about storing data on the web

Options to store data locally on a user’s device for client-side or offline access.

Discovering the capable web

Project Fugu aims to make web apps as powerful as native apps.

The end of UX design: the birth of product leadership?

“We made a mistake: we called UX design UX ‘design.’”

Status of the new SVG engine in WebKit

Igalias motivation behind the work and the current status of the project.

Comparing manual and free automated WCAG reviews

“Automated accessibility checkers lack the context of a page and user.”

The truth about CSS selector performance

The impact of CSS selectors on page speed and how you can measure it.

Twitter Header Gallery

A hand-picked collection of the finest Twitter headers for your inspiration.

“The irony of ChatGPT having a CAPTCHA to prove I’m ‘not a robot’ when I log in is pretty great.”

“It’s funny how everyone wants to use AI to write content but at the same time no one wants to read content written by AI.”

Indentation for accessibility

It matters if you use tabs or spaces for indentation in code editors.

Common sign-up patterns

The sign-up flow: how it works and how you can improve it.

Level up your CSS skills with the :has() selector

How you can create advanced CSS selectors with :has().

“Most of our users are on Desktop”

What to consider when you analyze low mobile usage on your website.

The State of Technical SEO 2023

The collective insights of over 500 technical search engine optimizers.

Logggos

A filterable collection of well-designed logos for your inspiration.

The one thing missing from UX today? Hope

UX design is more than the execution of methodologies.

RSS-to-email

Buttondown can now send newsletters from RSS feeds.

Complete guide to make you a RegEx guru

What you need to know about Regular Expressions for daily usage.

Astro 2.0

Content collections, hybrid rendering static/dynamic, and more.

Arc browser for iPhone is bringing skeuomorphism back

The current state of Arc’s innovative browser for mobile.

Visual design techniques

A phenomenal collection of visual design patterns and techniques.

Degrees of open source

What to consider when you’re planning a new open source project.

Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects

How you can use light and its properties to recreate amazing 3D effects.

“It’s absolutely wild that being good at interviewing for the developer job and being good at the actual job are two completely separate skills.”

100 million developers and counting

GitHub is celebrating 100 million users around the world on its platform.

Golden Kitty Awards 2022

Product Hunt winners in the categories Design Tools, Developer Tools, and more.

Navigating UX Content in 2023 and beyond

Where are content strategy and content design going in the year ahead?

What’s new in WCAG 2.2 Draft

The proposed new success criteria for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.

Scrollend, a new JavaScript event

The reliable way to detect if a user scroll is complete.

Release notes for Safari Technology Preview 162

CSS Nesting, declarative Shadow DOM, ARIA for custom elements, and more.

Announcing TypeScript 5.0 Beta

Smaller, simpler, faster, and many new features such as ECMAScript decorators.

Use the dialog element (reasonably)

An HTML spec change to the dialog element resolves a multi-year discussion.

Versioning design systems

Best practices to track, document, and communicate design system changes.

Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics

How JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator deal with ‘strong’, ‘em’, and the like.

“The hottest new programming language is English.”

Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

SEOs have already started analyzing Yandex’s search ranking factors

New WCAG 2.2 features rated

What to expect from the new success criteria in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2.

Netcraft Web Server Survey January 2023

Cloudflare becomes the most popular web server, surpassing Apache and nginx.

Vite PWA

Framework-agnostic PWA integrations for Vite and the ecosystem.

How to design a registration form

What to consider when designing a form with email and password input.

“It’s weird that a web page can’t play audio or show multiple alerts without my permission but can easily take 100% of my CPU/memory.”

CSS color-mix()

Mix colors, in any of the supported color spaces, right from your CSS.

Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak

The Yandex leak broadens our perspectives on modern search.

Yandex Search Ranking Factor Explorer

A searchable and filterable list of Yandex’s search ranking factors.

Easy SVG customization and animation

A practical guide to creating delightful SVG refinements on the fly.

“Documentations are critical. What we build is perceived through the lens of our documentation. They should not be an afterthought or uninvested in.”

Merge design and code with Penpot

The design workspace bridges the gap between design and programming.

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

OpenAI is creating a tool to distinguish human-written texts from AI-generated texts.

“HTML has so many cool accessibility features. Too bad it is often left out of education and guides.”

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

The World Wide Web Consortium adopted a new structure.

Pushing Interop forward in 2023

The top browser compatibility issues in this year’s interoperability project.

The guide to responsive design in 2023 and beyond

Responsive design isn’t about media queries anymore.

Hex colors aren’t great at anything except being popular

An overview of color formats and their support in different design tools.

Learn Images

An in-depth course on images for the web.

In 2023, resolve to fix your organization’s Meta Pixel problem

Find out if a website is sending (too much) data to Facebook.

The future of Picture-in-Picture

A new API enables an always-on-top window populated with HTML content.

Google is working on AI search feature

Sundar Pichai confirmed the company’s plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.

High definition CSS color guide

CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.

Google works on Blink-based iOS browser contrary to Apple’s WebKit rule

Why iOS users can hope for actual browser choice.

“ARIA should only be used to supplement HTML. If semantic HTML does a good enough job then ARIA should not be used. The hope is that HTML will eventually develop to sufficiently cover all accessibility needs without the need for ARIA.”

Modern Illustration

An archive showcasing the work of pioneering illustrators from 1950 to 1975.

The market for lemons

Why is the frontend technology market so inefficient?

Poline

Generate stunning color palettes with the magic of polar coordinates.

Two ways to safely break a long word in HTML

What to do if you have a long word that doesn’t fit into a container.

The future of UX: 2023 and beyond

UX designers have the power to shape the future through their choices.

Stable Attribution

A tool to find the human creators behind AI-powered images.

An important next step on our AI journey

Google announces Bard, an AI chatbot that will also improve Google Search.

“Copy-pasting code is not a crime when it’s allowed and you know what you are doing!”

Gen-1

Use words and images to generate new videos out of existing ones.

Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple’s WebKit rule

A Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway.

Encrypting data in the browser using WebAuthn

Data encryption with WebAuthn brings new possibilities to websites.

Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge

Microsoft launches a new search experience, a “copilot for the web.”

“If you’re starting a new long-term project, add support for Dark Mode early. It’s a heck of a lot easier than retrofitting an older project.”

How to write Semantic CSS

Most people know about semantic HTML, but semantic CSS?

Google Search’s guidance about AI-generated content

The search giant rewards high-quality content, however it is produced.