Announcing TypeScript 4.5

Promise improvements with the Awaited Type, --module es2022, and more.

“The wild thing about digital product development today is that it’s actually really easy to make something decent, but it’s incredibly and exponentially more difficult to create something truly excellent.”

Time is on your side

Why the HTML ‘time’ tag is an excellent addition to your site.

Launching Fig

The “app ecosystem for the terminal” is now available to everyone.

tldraw

A drawing tool with a hand-drawn style and convenient features.

Yes, PHP is worth learning/using in $CURRENT_YEAR

What modern PHP code looks like today.

Bun

A JavaScript/CSS bundler, “like PostCSS, Babel, Node, and webpack but 100x faster.”

Tilt

An amazing type family inspired by the 3D lettering found in storefront signage.

“There are two types of designers. Those who mystify the craft and those who demystify the craft. Be the latter.”

“The only way to find out if it will work out, is to do it.”

Designing a reorderable list component

Let’s create a reorderable list with a great user experience.

SVGcode

Convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, or AVIF to SVG vector graphics.

SVGcode

How the PWA that converts raster images to SVG vector graphics works.

“Writing the text inside an HTML tag is when I’m really in my element.”

Runno

Make runnable code examples and embed them in web pages.

ECMAScript Proposals

A website for keeping up-to-date with ECMAScript proposals.

Astro 0.21

The web framework introduces a new compiler, a new build engine, and more.

Accessibility Myths

Common accessibility myths debunked.

Migrating from Puppeteer to Playwright

It can be worth it to change your browser automation tool.

The new life of PHP

The PHP Foundation supports, promotes, and advances the PHP language.

Why getting indexed by Google is so difficult

Best practices that should help your web pages get indexed.

Render

Modern cloud application and website hosting for developers.

Icônes

Icon explorer to quickly search through icon sets and generate a font pack.

Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022

Amazon’s new general purpose Linux for AWS.

It’s a Web3 world now

How the hype compares to Web 2.0.

GoDaddy breached

What to do if you are one of the 1.2 million impacted WordPress customers.

My custom CSS reset

What it does and why you might want to use it.

Debugging HTML: Linting

Edge DevTools can highlight potential issues in your HTML.

A look at WordPress 5.9

New ways to change the entire look and feel of your website.

“If you’re making it hard to opt out, you don’t believe in your own product. If you don’t believe in your own product, why should anyone else?”

There is no digital world

Everything digital costs something physical.

GoDaddy breach widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe

More and more WordPress operators are affected.

2022 color trends

The colors that are on the way to climb the charts in the coming year.

Is using Google Analytics a search ranking factor?

How SEO experts have covered this topic.

Priority Hints lower LCP

Improve your Web Vitals performance metrics with minimal effort.

Creating generative patterns with the CSS Paint API

More character for your website with delicious patterns.

An Engineer’s hype-free observations on Web3 (and its possibilities)

The current state of the Web3 ecosystem.

Google November 2021 Core Update

Winners and losers of the latest search algorithm update.

The 19 ways of writing HTML

What’s your HMTL writing style?

Modern PHP cheat sheet

A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features.

Overengineering can kill your product

Every minute “that doesn’t solve an actual customer problem is a minute wasted.”

PHP 8.1 released

Enums, readonly properties, first-class callable syntax, fibers, and more.

Responsive layouts, fewer media queries

How to replace multiple media queries with simpler CSS declarations.

Front Matter

The headless CMS running in Visual Studio Code.

“Accessibility and aesthetic design are not at odds with each other. It is possible to make something beautiful and accessible.”

Container Query Polyfill

A tiny CSS Container Query polyfill for all major browsers.

What’s new in DevTools (Chrome 97)

Preview of the Recorder panel, autocomplete with Edit as HTML, and more.

A 2021 update on mobile-indexing

Google has moved your site to mobile-first indexing unless you’re not quite ready yet.

“The best designers listen, observe and learn from others.”

Dear HTML element

Love letters that are devoted to a single HTML element.

“Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating ‘at scale’ because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power.”

Shuffle

Generate a website’s structure and finish it in a visual editor.

Marketing Tools

A curated directory of top marketing tools.

Speetals

An automated web performance monitoring and benchmark tool.

Tackling UX theatre

Ways to stop the practice of user-centered design without including users.

Toxicity in digital design: A status report

We still have many barriers to progress in digital design.

Fetch & Render Simulator

A tool designed to simulate the Googlebot Fetch & Render.

Welcome to Fleet

JetBrains is building a Visual Studio Code competitor from scratch.

“Some folks are so concerned with looking smart that they lose all curiosity and miss opportunities to learn.”

Advent of JavaScript

24 JavaScript challenges for the season.

Adaptive, accessible and automated color for design systems

Let’s make contextual colors more readable and recognisable anywhere.

Firefox is the only alternative

What Firefox sets apart from all other web browsers today.

2021 Design Tools Survey

Keep up with the industry’s trends and discover new tools.

Browserflow

A Chrome extension that lets you automate tasks on websites without coding.

Image Optimizer

An open source tool for optimizing images and vector graphics.

The Vite ecosystem

The ecosystem around Vite’s build tool for the web is rapidly growing.

PHP has survived for 26 years because it keeps evolving

It was always meant to be a convenient, easy-to-use framework.

HTMHell Advent Calendar

An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML behind each door.

Designcember

One UI development treat each day all month long.

Webrise

Let’s see the web ecosystem from a different perspective.

Storybook 6.4

The tool for building UI components is now interactive, faster, and smaller.

Open Props: sub-atomic styles

A comprehensive set of design tokens using CSS variables.

Floating UI

A tiny JavaScript library for tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and menus.

Lorem Faces

AI generated portrait photos for your designs, themes, and avatars.

WebGPU computations performance in comparison to WebGL

Results of a benchmark.

Online CSS Analyzer

Get advanced insights and keep track of your CSS over time.

The surprising behavior of “important CSS custom properties”

Caution, don’t mix ‘!important’ into custom property values.

Introducing Sandpack

A toolkit to power live running code on your website.

Modern CSS in a nutshell

Nowadays, you can go a long way with vanilla CSS.

The most frequently used emoji of 2021

Which of the 3,663 emoji are we using today?

Finding the narrative: on storytelling in design

The leading principle is “Story first, then design around that.“

Hive Index

A showcase of the internet’s best communities.

Test your site with real users

How you can gain an external view with user testing.

ffflux

SVG generator for fluid gradient backgrounds.

“Don’t block people who disagree with you, learn from them, but disrespect should never be tolerated.”

12 Days of Web

A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Svija

A no-code website builder to create websites entirely in SVG.

Breaking into developer experience

The 8 most common DX roles.

Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11’s controversial default browser changes

Windows 11 will now make it easier to change default browsers.

DojaCode

“The first-ever codable music video experience.”

Have Core Web Vitals made the web faster?

Changing things at web-scale is hard, even for Google.

Modern fluid typography editor

Responsive typography with CSS made simple.

Core Web Vitals-Tester

A tool to generate websites with specific UX performance metrics.

Accessibility-first design approach

The approach explained in the context of existing design strategies.

New in Sketch

Speed up your workflow with new layer navigation and selection improvements.

Freelance writing rates

How much to charge for freelance writing services.

How many people with disabilities use our site?

The reasons we can’t measure assistive technology usage.

HTTP compression

The history, the current state and the future of web compression.

Fonts Knowledge

A library of original guides to the world of typography.

Payment method UX

Research findings reveal how to design payment selectors.