firew0rks

Want a firework or fireplace in your terminal?

Happy New Year!

Who said 2026 is only black and white?

Messenger

Ever dreamt of a job delivering mail on a tiny planet?

PolyTrack

Race your custom car on tracks you design.

VoxCSS

A CSS voxel engine that renders HTML cuboids.

Best new icons of 2025

A look at the top news, trends, and icons.

Revisiting HTML streaming

Why it still matters for modern web performance.

Best data visualization projects 2025

From interactive experiences to thoughtful maps.

CSS custom properties with !important

When you spot the declaration gets !important.

Stack Overflow’s new era

Delivering trusted developer knowledge beyond AI slop.

Installing custom elements dynamically

A reusable pattern for on-the-fly custom element loading.

Two kinds of vibe coding

What if we go beyond understanding the details?

What’s next for AI in 2026

“Content is AI until proven human,” and more.

Why blogging will be huge in 2026

“The era of earned audiences is just beginning.“

A website to destroy all websites

How we can bring the web back to humans.

”A blog alarm clock lives inside me. As time passes, an uncomfortable pressure builds up until the alarm finally goes off, rattling my bones and my soul. Snoozing isn’t an option; the only way to turn the alarm off and release the pressure is to publish a blog post.”

Witr

A CLI tool that explains why a process is running.

World clock slider

A sleek time zone converter for the web.

Library of Time

The countless ways cultures display time.

Diffs

An open source diff and code rendering library.

Keeping CSS Grid simple

What to do when CSS Grid feels complex.

User alerts without overwhelm

Informing is easy, getting attention a challenge.

Web component starter template

The essentials to ship production-ready components.

The courage to reset

“Design suffers from a failure to unlearn.”

The dangers of SSL certificates

What if automated certificate renewal fails?

Code review in the age of AI

AI writes faster but humans must still prove it works.

CSS @scope is now Baseline

How to simplify selectors by defining scope roots.

JavaScript Frameworks 2026

The role of JavaScript frameworks is under pressure.

Google Stitch for UI design

What the AI-powered UI generator delivers.

User research’s most powerful words

“Just say: ‘Tell me more.’ Then shut up and listen.”

Design system accessibility checks

Five key tests to run on every component.

50 problems with web APIs in 2025

When all you wanted was a simple game.

Focus State

A newsletter for digital product designers/builders.

I built an app in every frontend framework

“12 frameworks, 12 apps (and 12 years of pain).”

4 must‑know CSS features in 2026

“Toolbelt worthy, powerful, and game-changing CSS.”

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

“We just couldn’t see it until code was free.”

Date is out, Temporal is in

JavaScript will soon have modern date handling.

Web dependencies are broken

“The time has come for an intervention.”

The formula B = f(P, E)

“It changed how I think about design.”

2025 JavaScript Rising Stars

Top starred GitHub projects in the past year.

AI Design Field Guide

Conversations and practices from the AI design frontier.

Claude Code’s DX is too good

“It feels like working with an engineer.”

Baseline typography

Responsive and fluid typography with Baseline CSS.

Your AI coding agents need a manager

A manager to orchestrate them like a team.

I’ve stopped flattening icon layers

Layered SVG icons with flawless color overrides.

Not all browser APIs are "web" APIs

The APIs you choose come with consequences.

Favorite Chrome DevTools features

Ways to improve your frontend instincts.

AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture

But maybe not in the way you think.

Spot AI hallucinations like a librarian

How source hunts expose AI’s wildest inventions.

How Markdown took over the world

From blog posts to a cornerstone of web technology.

Fonts for a progressive future

Modern-looking, freely available fonts for activists.

EaseMaster

An easing curve generator for natural UI animations.

Worst of Breed Software

Why keep it simple when you can make it genius?

Blogs Are Back

A privacy-first RSS reader with a blog directory.

A software library with no code

What if we build language-agnostic libraries?

Passkeys still have problems

“But it’s not all doom and gloom.”

Design’s 90% problem

Why designers must master explaining what works.

PHP in 2026

Highlights of what’s coming in PHP this year.

Why are designers leaving Figma?

The creative industry is changing rapidly.

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype

“AI is going to change programming forever.”

Claude Cowork

”Claude Code for the rest of your work.”

Cooking with constraints

A designer’s framework for better AI prompts.

Stop turning everything into arrays

Iterator helpers give us a native, lazy alternative.

The 9 levels of JS dependency hell

Developers solved each problem, only to create the next.

Design leadership beliefs I’ve dropped

“What replaced them wasn’t a new framework.”

Apple introduces Creator Studio

A suite with Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, and more.

Introducing the HTML ‘geolocation’ element

What it does and how to use it.

Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol

AI agents will operate across the user’s shopping journey.

Just the browser

Enjoy Chrome, Edge, or Firefox with fewer annoyances.

Live region support

How screen readers expose dynamic messages to users.

Writing good specs for AI agents

Essential principles to guide them effectively.

New in Chrome 144

JS Temporal API, HTML ‘geolocation’, CSS ’::search-text’.

New Safari developer tools

Safari’s Grid Inspector now supports CSS Grid Lanes.

Wikipedia turns 25

Celebrating 25 years of human knowledge at its best!

Drupal turns 25

A passionate global community celebrates its powerful CMS.

Accessible faux-nested interactive controls

How to solve a tricky accessibility problem.

AI-readable design system documentation

When documentation becomes intelligence.

AI search predictions for 2026

AI giants move forward, website owners struggle.

ChatGPT Translate

Translate text, voice, or images into many languages.

Friction by design

Where friction becomes a design choice, not a failure.

Web Almanac 2025

Explore the latest web trends and insights.

Let’s Encrypt’s new certificates

6-day and IP address certificates now generally available.

Hyperlegible Sans

An open-source font for accessible design.

Where I store my MFA recovery codes

A practical system to recover from an emergency.

How I build websites

An approach where “you’re never locked in.”

Sounds on the web

“The web has been mute for too long.”

“The amount of information that’s been shared and compiled as a result of the web is incalculable. It’s one of the greatest achievements of modern history.”

Website Inspo

A curated library of well-crafted UI components.

The one true way

What’s the best architecture for software?

jQuery 4.0.0

jQuery turns 20 this year, bringing a major release.

Practical tips for telling great stories

Creative cues for bringing shape and clarity to ideas.

Container queries in 2026

“Powerful, but not a silver bullet.”

State of UX 2026

On AI fatigue, cheaper UIs, and the UX job market.

Better defaults for popovers

A small anchor-repositioning with a big effect.

Getting started with Claude Code

Learn the basics before asking Claude to write code.

UX as we move into 2026

“Templates and processes won’t cut it anymore.”

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user

“Here’s why I switched to Claude Code 2.0.”

Figma Make prompts, with real examples

Three approaches designers already use today.

JPEG XL is coming back to Chrome

Will re-adding it revive the format, or is it too late?

Design tools are the new deliverables

A fun example of what design deliverables can be today.