Visual Breaking Change in Design Systems

Why reliable updates of design systems are important.

Crawl budget explained

Improve search engine rankings by fixing crawl budgets.

The Web I Want

Let’s use simple technologies that work everywhere.

Shimport

Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports.

SVG Filters

A tool that makes manipulating SVG Filters more convenient.

speedscope: Interactive Flamegraph Explorer

Online viewer for large web performance profiles.

Google to automatically verify your Google Search Console account

What it means for site owners and webmasters.

CLI: improved

Smarter command line tools for your daily jobs.

Accidentally, intentionally building communities

What community management really means.

Icon Transition Generator

Upload two icons, create the transition, and get the SVG code.

Babel 7 Released

What’s new in the popular open source JavaScript compiler.

How to Learn SEO In 2018 (In Record Time)

What’s possible when you use the right sources.

Search basics: the difference between URL structure and Information Architecture

Why you should focus on IA with higher priority.

Progressive Web-First Apps

Progressive enhancement doesn’t have to stop on the web.

The New Adobe XD Ecosystem

Supercharging design workflows with third-party plugins.

“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”

A Native Lazy Load for the Web

The new Chrome feature dramatically improves web performance.

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 64

A user gesture is now required to send Safari Push Notifications.

The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features

Visualization of CSS font-feature-settings.

Changing Our Approach to Anti-tracking

Firefox puts a new approach into practice.

The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity

Competition is about growing, not ‘winning’.

The Best JavaScript Data Visualization & Charting Libraries

Comparison based on analysis and experience.

Progressive Tooling

A list of third-party tools to improve page performance.

Subtract Guides

Simple rules for designing web and mobile forms.

Conversational Semantics

Let’s start to consider how our content could sound.

Should browsers still allow users to disable JavaScript?

The results might be surprising.

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 70)

Live expressions in the console, and much more.

Accessibility is not a feature

It’s more than making a site navigable by assistive technology.

Discovering your true point of differentiation

Can you finish this sentence: ’Only we …?′

20 Examples Of Truly Engaging Interactive Content (Updated)

Ways to stand out from the crowd.

The rise of Anti-Notifications

The evolution of a well intentioned technology to what it is today.

CSS Shape Editors

Firefox 62 supports the shape-outside property joining Chrome and Safari.

New in Chrome 69

CSS Scroll Snap, Display Notches, and the Web Locks API.

The ‘Capable Web’: A 10 Year Retrospective

The past, the present, and the future of Chrome.

Google Wants to Kill the URL

The Chrome security team is rethinking URLs across the web.

Variable Fonts Arrive in Firefox 62

Variable fonts are now supported in all major browsers.

HTML/CSS to Image

Fast, reliable, and production ready HTTP API.

The Font Loading Checklist

Maximize the experience and raise user expectations.

The new Search Console is graduating out of Beta

What to expect from Google’s new Search Console.

Google Search now uses Service Worker for repeated searches

Results load twice as fast.

Announcing styled-components v4: Better, Faster, Stronger

Visual primitives for the component age.

Facebook and Instagram add dashboards to help you manage your time on social apps

How it works.

Custom Domains service deprecation

What you need to know if you have a custom domain on Medium.

Inside look at modern web browser (part 1)

CPU, GPU, Memory, and multi-process architecture.

Testing HTTP freshness in CDNs

Let’s introduce a common test suite to identify CDN differences.

“You are underestimating the compounding awesomeness of continually fixing small broken things.”

Present web pages to secondary attached displays

Intro to the Presentation Web API in Chrome 66.

What is Mastodon and why should I use it?

Introduction to a microblogging platform similar to Twitter.

Which CMS platforms perform best on Google?

A study of 1-million websites.

Design with Difficult Data

Start with real world content whenever possible.

Chrome's NOSCRIPT Intervention

Pros and cons of disabling JavaScript on slow networks.

Designing With Code

Let’s get started using code as a design tool.

Why Design Needs Version Control

What we would gain if we reimagined our workflow.

Developer Tools support for Web Components in Firefox 63

Shadow DOM and Web Components in DevTools.

Safari, Caching and Third-Party Resources

What Safari’s shared caching means from a performance perspective.

The Simple Twitter Strategy That Helped Us Generate 90% More Clicks

How it works.

“The most underrated algorithm in data science is ‘go talk to people who deal with the problem every day and learn from them.’”

Take A New Look At CSS Shapes

It’s time to consider adding some curves to our designs.

“I’m tired of people saying that CSS is a useless skill to have. Stop minimizing this skill just because you think it’s hard. For some of us, it’s a primary means to make a living.”

“Note to my younger web design self: Stop trying to be cute and just underline the damn hyperlinks you jackass.”

The hidden cost of bootstrapping

If you’re self-funding a business, you are the main investor.

GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code

Review source code inside the editor.

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

A recreation of the original color guidebook by P. Syme.

“A little surprised how culty design sprints are for some people. They’re a handy process or a handy set of tools to use… not a way of life and not the only tool in the toolkit.”

Project Explorer

Create an annotated tree visualization of any repo/project.

Internet Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web

The DWeb: what it is and how it works.

your web app is bloated

Memory usage of popular web apps.

Designing UI with Color Blind Users in Mind

Ways you can improve color accessibility.

The Cascade and Other Essential Unessentials

The importance of learning critical front-end skills.

Rebass

React primitive UI components built with styled-system.

The ‘Developer Experience’ Bait-and-Switch

“We cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now ‘normal’.”

Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default

The rise of simpler and artificially intelligent interfaces.

Batificity

Not the css specificity guide you deserve, but the one you need right now.

GitHub Primer open-source projects

Building user interfaces with GitHub’s design system.

Google’s Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019

Users will have to switch over to Gmail.

EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

But the battle isn’t over yet.

Introducing Trashy.css

Frontend debugging with a small utility library.

Color Leap

Take a leap through time and see the colors of history.

Breaking the Deadlock Between User Experience and Developer Experience

Let’s keep users and developers happy.

Unboxing Chrome

Google’s redesign to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Chrome browser.

Tradeoffs in server side and client side rendering

What to use when.

Chrome 70 beta: shape detection, web authentication, and more

Web fingerprint sensor and other new features.

Next Generation Package Management

Introducing tink, a proof of concept of an install-less installer.

What I Learned Making 5 ARKit Prototypes

“Augmented Reality has an incredible number of use cases.”

A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone

It can be done with just a few lines of code.

Dense Discovery

Links at the intersection of tech, design, and culture.

Firefox’s New Browser Will Keep Brands From Stalking You

Mozilla takes aggressive measures to protect users’ privacy.

Protecting your safety-minded friends on social media

Rules to protect yourself and other people.

Updating a CSS Variable with JavaScript

A short tutorial.

Unveiling a New LinkedIn Groups Experience

A shared space to build your professional communities.

The Rise and Demise of RSS

What we have to do if we want to see a more open web.

Now + GitHub

Push to deploy, master aliasing, instant rollbacks.

Stripe Terminal

The programmable point of sale.

Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down

The last goodbye.

Cache API for Cloudflare Workers is now in Beta!

Run JavaScript from Cloudflare’s data centers.

Explore the immersive web with Firefox Reality

Now available for Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream.

Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds

You can soon craft a timeline that fits your needs.

“Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard.”

Refresh CSS Bookmarklet v2

Utility to refresh all stylesheet on the current web page.

Extended Validation Certificates are Dead

The usefulness of EV certificates has declined.