The SERP Pursuit SEO Quiz 2023

Test your knowledge of the latest updates to Google’s SERP features.

ui.land

Interviews with designers and engineers about how they approach their craft.

ChatGPT for SEO

Ways to leverage the popular chat bot in your SEO activities.

The state of mobile user experience

The lines between the mobile web and native apps are becoming blurrier.

Resend

Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.

The Content Marketing Salary Report 2023

The good, bad, and ugly of content marketing income.

What does it look like for the web to lose?

It would suck, so let’s not have that happen.

Standalone Elements

Individual open source web components with zero or few dependencies.

Email marketing trends 2023

12th edition of The Future of Email Marketing & Marketing Automation.

HTTPie AI

A new way to interact with APIs: create requests using human language.

What is a design system?

Types of things that can be described as design systems.

2022 JavaScript Rising Stars

Trending projects in the JavaScript ecosystem over the last 12 months.

Will ChatGPT threaten the future of the digital accessibility field?

A conversation with the popular AI chatbot.

Future of Storybook in 2023

Many improvements, enhanced performance, and stability.

Web Activity Time Tracker

A Chrome extension that lets you track and limit the time you spend on websites.

OGimage.gallery

A collection of carefully selected open graph images.

“Product, brand, marketing, and even content design teams are often so siloed, it's a shame. True magic happens when these teams work closely together.”

Micro Frontend dev

Breaking down complex applications into smaller, deployable components.

Chart.Guide

Choose and design the perfect chart for your report, presentation, or website.

Best CMS platforms in 2023

An in-depth comparison of popular Content Management Systems.

All Things AI

A comprehensive collection of AI-powered tools and services.

Introducing Web Components Guide

A new way to learn how to create reusable custom HTML elements.

Data binding in React

How to wire up all of the different form controls in React.

Conditional CSS

Why it’s worth to think of CSS as a conditional design language.

Clever code considered harmful

“The hard thing is solving complex problems with simple code.”

Rethinking authentication UX

User authentication without complicated rules and restrictions.

The State of JavaScript 2022

JavaScript and TypeScript are more vibrant than ever.

Why not document.write()?

How script injection using document.write() hurts web performance.

Design Events Guide 2023

Find the best UX/UI, motion, and graphic design events worldwide.

Igalia brings MathML back to Chromium

MathML Core is now supported and enabled by default in Chrome 109.

Our top Core Web Vitals recommendations for 2023

Things you can do to improve your website performance effectively.

“How many web developers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, they insist everything has to be in Dark Mode.”

SQLite Wasm in the browser

Now you can use SQLite Wasm with the Origin Private File System persistence backend.

:is() :where() :has()

The powerful new CSS pseudo-classes explained.

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.

“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.