JSON WTF

“A totally normal and not hard quiz about JSON.”

Web­space invaders

Let’s level up our anti-AI scraping game!

Reddit search hits 80M weekly users

A new Google Search alternative emerges.

The return of the intuitive designer

“Trying to be more like a machine is a losing battle.”

Google lists Googlebot file limits

Do Google’s crawling limits affect your website?

”Paying for software isn’t paying for a solution. It’s paying for someone else to own a problem.”

WebMCP is available for early preview

A standard way to let AI agents act on your website.

AI performance in Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing introduces search insights for AI answers.

Software engineering is back

“Coding agents have replaced every framework I used.”

The software sovereignty scale

How easy is it to take software away from us?

Designing novelty

“Make most things familiar, do something unexpected.”

Design Tokens Links

Guides, videos, and resources on design tokens.

Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

Products evolve by Darwin’s survival rules.

State of React 2025

“React has become the default output when you prompt for UI.”

Announcing Interop 2026

Here’s to another year of making the web better!

Interop 2026 Dashboard

This year’s effort to align key web platform features.

State of the Designer 2026

How designers balance uncertainty with optimism.

Coding agents as the new compilers

AI agents now abstract away all the code.

Thousand ways to sandbox an agent

Pick one and let your AI agent loose.

Reference Target

Improving accessibility when using shadow DOM.

Introducing Markdown for Agents

Cloudflare offers HTML-to-markdown conversion for AI crawlers.

AI doesn’t reduce work

“The natural tendency of AI-assisted work is intensification.”

Figma’s new AI image editing tool

Vectorize turns raster images into editable vector images.

Underlining links with CSS

Modern ‘text-decoration’ properties at a glance.

Did you want that link to be permanent?

How permalinks became commonplace on the web.

IndieWeb and Small Web

How they differ and what they have in common.

OneLook

The timeless multi-dictionary powerhouse.

npmx

A fast, modern browser for the npm registry.

Monochrome Generator

Monochrome color schemes from a random color.

Design Details

Small details that make a big difference.

Shades of halftone

An interactive journey through halftone shader techniques.

Measuring SVG rendering time

Do large SVGs render slower than small ones?

The AI hater’s guide to LLM coding

Coding with AI without selling your soul.

sho!io

A quiet place to share your daily designs.

Claude Code for designers

“The future of design isn’t about learning to code.”

The final bottleneck

Coding with or without AI, we remain bottlenecks.

Git 2.53 just dropped

“It’s still evolving exactly where it needs to.”

The CSS ‘:heading’ pseudo-class

Styling HTML headings is about to get easier.

Build something silly

"Is there an app for that?” or “What if I just make one?”

“WebMCP is an exciting W3C proposal”

Making agents play with rather than against the web.

Web Rewind

Opera celebrates its 30th with a web time machine.

Building typographic scales in CSS

Get ready for :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow()!

Current

An RSS reader that’s a river, not a to-do list.

Dealing with AI pressure as a designer

“Your job is the same as it’s always been.”

“Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was that we typed out JavaScript syntax with our fingers. But secretly we’ll miss it.”

Markdown’s moment

What if Markdown became the new RSS?

From technical debt to cognitive debt

“Velocity without understanding is not sustainable.”

Search Console AI configuration goes live

Now AI can build the reports you want to see.

Learn AI

A course in AI fundamentals for web developers.

Customizing lists with modern CSS

Push your HTML/CSS lists to the next level.

The consensus of the AI coding debate

“The work moved, it didn’t disappear.”

Minifier benchmarks

Comparisons of HTML minifier capabilities.

DNS-PERSIST-01

A new model for DNS-based challenge validation.

CSS ‘border-shape’

“The future of the non-rectangular web.”

Debugging with AI

Can it replace an experienced developer?

Life after Figma is coming

“We’ll be building our own design tools.”

Proposed for a browser :near() you

Nearby pointer detection via CSS.

Accessible building blocks for the web

Key considerations for common website elements.

Your domain is your “internet handle”

What if your handle worked on any platform?

Regenerative design principles

What if every design made the world thrive?

“Openness is what makes the Internet the Internet. It needs to be actively pursued if we want the Internet to continue providing the value that society has come to depend upon from it.”

Search Bench

Compare search engines blindly and pick the winner.

Find Font

Compare fonts side by side with your own text.

NoLoJS

Common JavaScript patterns done with HTML/CSS.

Glippy

Check if your website is ready for AI search engines.

Flickr’s URLs scheme

”It was a beautiful and predictable scheme.”

Rely on AI and get left behind

Who will fix code no one understands anymore?

The interface is content

“User interfaces need to be improved, not removed.”

“Do what’s hard in Figma”

A manifesto for outstanding designs.

Dictionary Compression is finally here

”It offers absurd real-world traffic reductions.”

CSS Anchor Positioning issues?

Edge cases where it doesn’t work.

Sketching with code

Treating code like a pencil, not a blueprint.

AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design

“AI exposed the technical literacy gap.”

Embrace the chaos

The shape and flow of masonry layouts.

Lazy HTML media

Native lazy-loading of video/audio elements is coming!

Extended overthinking

“You could’ve just… made the button.”

From instanceof to Error.isError()

Safer error checking in JavaScript.

The software development lifecycle is dead

“The entire lifecycle is collapsing in on itself.”

The unique challenge of reading on mobile

How simple should mobile content be?

New in Firefox 148

AI controls, Sanitizer API, CSS Shape(), and more.

A new term to call out AI slop

“AI;DR,” short for “AI, didn’t read.”

Engineer rebuilt Next.js with AI in a week

“The whole thing cost about $1,100 in tokens.”

Modern guide to the ‘image’ element

From the basics to LCP optimization.

Gemini 3.1 Pro for designers

Google’s AI model redefines design workflows.

The factory model

Coding by hand or building a software factory?

Why generative AI is bad for design

“Use the tools, but don’t let them use you.”

Perplexity announces “Computer”

An AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents.

Happy Map

Mapping 100,000 moments of human happiness.

New to the web platform (February 2026)

HTML Sanitizer API, CSS Shape(), Zstandard, and more.

Front-end Debugging Tools Handbook

Practical guidance on a complete suite of tools.

AI makes interfaces disposable

Why monetizing UIs is no longer enough.

A complete guide to bookmarklets

How browser bookmarks become tiny web tools.

Native random values in CSS

A first look at the upcoming capabilities.

Start where you are

A practical guide to building with AI.

Predictable by design

Why LLM-generated passwords are insecure.

Typography in the era of AI

“It might be the last thing AI can’t fake.”

“The brands that win in the next few years won’t be the ones with the slickest images, photos, or videos. They’ll be the ones that feel unmistakably human. And I think typography is one of the few places where humanity is still undeniable.”

DJR Glyph Navigator

David Jonathan Ross’ type design, one letter at a time.

Modern CSS Code Snippets

Old habits rewritten for the modern web.

Dialed Color Game

How good (or bad) can you recall colors?