Open Design

Use your coding agent as a design engine.

Native randomness in CSS

Why it’s a big deal for the web platform.

Session timeouts

The overlooked accessibility barrier in authentication design.

When the bill comes due

The growing divide in AI tooling.

Media queries range syntax

What problem it solves and how to use it today.

Pairing fonts the easy way

How to create beautiful font pairings in 5 steps.

The Museum of the Human Web

Celebrating the history of the human-built web.

The duality of AI models in the browser

“I’m bullish, but also have concerns.”

Dealing with Claude's reduced usage limits

Practical ways to cut cost under the tighter limits.

WebAccessBench

“AI is locking people out, at scale.”

C.R.E.S.S. principles for context engineering

”Test them for yourself and see what difference they make.”

New in Chrome 148

Lazy loading for video/audio, Prompt API, and more.

Is form design easy?

The illusion of simplicity in form design.

Checking code standards on every PR

How CI can increase confidence in AI-generated code.

Agent experience

Why AX is becoming the new UX.

Google’s Prompt API

Web standards should not become terms of service.

Architecture of local-first development

How to build local-first web apps in 2026.

Agents with taste

Turning design taste into rules agents can follow.

WordPress loses market share

Is Astro eroding their user base?

Building an AI agent that designs like me

A field guide for designers, builders, and operators.

Browser caching with No-Vary-Search

Better HTTP caching by ignoring irrelevant query parameters.

AI design has no soul

The role of typography in the AI age.

The robots are replacing the packages

“The new question is: ‘do I want to own this problem?’”

State of prototyping (Spring 2026)

“The most-used design tool after Figma is now an AI.”

Testing agents on design systems

Can agents effectively use a design system?

The AI mindset shift

“The shift from doer to conductor is coming.”

Google AI search will soon show more links

Connecting you directly with the web sources.

The boring internet

“The internet you grew up on is not gone.”

Netizen

A reminder that the web wasn’t built around profit.

Vulnerability Garden

A living catalog of named vulnerabilities.

Cursed browser

The AI browser that imagines every webpage.

Moop

A desktop app for batch image optimization.

Cognitive Bias Index

A tool for spotting and reducing thinking errors.

When CSS says ‘yes’ but browsers say ‘no’

@supports doesn’t always behave as expected.

Google Search’s AI gets updates

New ways to discover and navigate web content.

RYBitten

A playground for RYB-inspired digital color.

What’s new in Node.js 26

What the changes mean for developers.

I left port 22 open for 54 days

What an open SSH honeypot revealed.

Programming still sucks

“AI didn’t take our jobs. Greed did.”

WebKit features for Safari 26.5

“The biggest May release of WebKit yet.”

“I successfully ignored crypto and NFTs, I’m thinking I might just wait until this AI coding thing just blows over…”

Escape from agentic loop

“Human-in-the-Loop is the new doom scrolling.”

Analysis of 158 design systems

“Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“

Tailwind CSS 4.2 and 4.3

New scrollbar and ‘zoom-*’ utilities, new colors, and more.

Banishing JavaScript to the ShadowRealm

The proposed API introduces a new kind of realm.

Revive your design superpowers

“You are more powerful than you realize.”

New HTML element for installing web apps

Try the native install button with no JavaScript required.

The HTML Sanitizer API

Safer web development with HTML sanitization.

Since You Arrived: taken.

Your browser leaks more about you than you think.

Workroom: Mini Apps

Widgets to refine and polish visuals as you go.

Laws of Software Engineering

What every engineer wishes they knew sooner.

Browsers treat big sites differently

When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change.

Git Skills

Master Git with practical guides and interactive quizzes.

The end of Claude Code automation

Why Anthropic’s pricing shift undermines Claude scripts.

The case for local AI

Why running Claude-level local LLMs is the future.

Pushing local AI models

“Let’s pick one winner and polish the hell out of it.”

State of Web Dev AI 2026

“AI is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.“

A few words on DwarfStar 4 (DS4)

The rapid rise of a truly usable local LLM setup.

Google AI search optimization for your website

What Google recommends for AI search visibility.

Chromium’s new CSS gap decorations

Ready for grid, flexbox, and multi-column layouts.

Avoid using CDATA in RSS

The case against CDATA in modern web feeds.

Web feeds in 2026

How web feeds are used online today.

Rethinking design with your hands

The return of human vitality in a synthetic design world.

The Mindful Design Toolkit

Essential tools for responsible product design.

Wonders of Web Weaving

Talks with someone who loves crafting websites.

Grabbit

A lightweight screenshot and annotation tool.

Refero Styles

Real product design systems in DESIGN.md for AI agents.

Moving away from Tailwind

Learnings from rebuilding CSS without a framework.

Are PWAs cooked?

The current state of Progressive Web Apps.

Designing mutualistic interfaces

“There is another face on the other side of the interface.”

AI engineer is a new role

“The agent is the easy part. The loop is the job.”

Fluid sizing with CSS round()

Using round() to make fluid sizing more predictable.

The undo problem in AI products

“Even Notepad from Windows 95 had undo.”

Azure Linux 4.0

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution.

Documentation foundations for humans and AI

How documentation is becoming shared infrastructure.

Reimagining the pointer for the AI era

When the cursor turns into an AI companion.

A new era for AI Search

”Search can now do more for you than ever before.”

Google Search as you know it is over

”Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes.”

Declarative partial updates

Chrome’s new proposals for the web platform.

Agentic Web News

Tracking how AI agents are changing the web.

Prompts are technical debt too

“Prompts are a worse form of technical debt than code.”

The old typography is new again

“Optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design.”

XSS is deadly for passkeys

The hidden flaw in passkey authentication.

Build with modern web guidance

A set of skills to guide your AI coding agents.

WebMCP Demo

How AI agents interact with web pages today and tomorrow.

Ad infini­tum

“Google thinks it no longer needs the web to deliver answers.”

Testing Safari on a budget

Trade-offs for low-cost website testing in Safari.

Accessibility Tools

A practical toolkit for accessible product design.

WordPress 7.0 is out

”This release takes it to a new level.”

Designing Firefox for the future

A new design direction for the browser.

User interfaces and “blandification”

Why does 2026 look like 2016, which looks like 2006?

The race to build a personal AI agent

Comparing OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini.

What’s missing in CSS layout

Developer pain points and feature gaps.

Ecosia’s AI search just got better

Now mostly powered by a European provider.

What’s a visitor in the age of AI?

Web analytics lost the meaning of a core metric.

Making your website Fediverse-ready

How to verify your site and link author identity.

Kagi’s Small Web is wonderful

“They are absolutely on to something here.”

Bubbles

Community-ranked posts from independent personal blogs.

Fontastic Space

Discover optimal font pairings through typography metrics.

wf

Look up web platform features from your terminal.