How close can a PWA get to native?

“Much further than most people expect.”

100, 150, or 200?

“There is no hard limit or rule for alt text.”

Perfecting Baseline

What the banner means today and how it can evolve.

Animation that fails safely

Principles for inclusive and resilient motion design.

AI browser security vulnerabilities

“Agentic browsers shift the failure point from code to intent.”

Introducing AI, the Firefox way

Mozilla’s browser gets AI Window, an opt-in browsing assistant.

Rate-limiting requests with Nginx

An alternative approach to counter AI crawlers.

Range syntax for if() and style queries

Chrome 142 has shipped a powerful new CSS feature.

Accessible form validation

How accessible error messages build trust.

Responsive ‘tab-size’

Code indentation meets responsive design.

Accessible external link

How to tell users that a link opens a new tab/window?

The newsletter paradox

Your newsletter grows when you do nothing.

AI World Clocks

Every minute, nine AI models generate a HTML/CSS clock.

Layoutit Terra

A terrain generator powered by HTML/CSS.

Pricing Pages

Curated pricing page designs to spark your creativity.

Myna

A monospace font designed for symbol-heavy code.

Vivaldi, yea or nay?

First impressions of the AI-free browser.

The curse of the custom cursor

A look at some of the worst offenders.

My CSS selector strategy

Think of it as a “progressive narrowing of scope.”

JavaScript engines zoo

Meet the creatures running your JavaScript code.

Guide to the HTML number input

“Today, there are few reasons to avoid number input.”

Custom annotations in Search Console

The new feature lets you add notes to your charts.

Smartify everything

“Why does every product have to be ‘smart’ now?”

AI assistance for web performance

Chrome DevTools will help you analyze performance profiles.

Building a multi-stage timetable

How modern CSS powers a cutting-edge layout.

Easier than expected

Testing HTML light DOM web components.

Introducing Google Antigravity

A new agentic development platform in free public preview.

Quiet UI came and went

Unfortunately, the UI library is no longer publicly available.

In the sea of sameness

Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic!

Big tech for your SSG?

“My entire deploy takes about eight seconds.”

Web components with self-destructing CSS

A safer approach to loading web components.

“Every framework creates its own orbit of tools, patterns, and dependencies. The goal isn’t to find the ‘right’ framework, but to build applications resilient enough to survive migration to any framework, including those that haven’t been invented yet.”

Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

Browsers might replace cookie‑consent pop‑ups.

A guided tour of Copenhagen

Sketch’s latest update features a major redesign.

Service outage

How a major internet outage affects productivity.

Generative UI

Google’s AI-driven UIs for each user come to life.

Creativity meets precision

Figma rolls out Google’s cutting-edge AI image generator.

Rewiring Mozilla

“We’re doing for AI what we did for the web.”

Introducing group chats in ChatGPT

OpenAI’s group chats simplify teamwork with AI.

Responsive letter spacing

How to tighten letter spacing in CSS.

The GDPR proposal officially unveiled

How the European Union aims to simplify regulations.

Weaving a web of agents

”We’re moving from browsing to doing.”

AI sends 1% of website traffic

Most of the AI referrals are from ChatGPT.

Can AI write accessibility specs?

A journey through hallucinations and reflections.

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 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.