The ultimate guide to the meta robots tag

Everything you wanted to know.

GDPR mayhem: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe

The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Keyframes.app

Chrome extension to easily create CSS animations.

A warm welcome to DNS

An introduction to the Domain Name System as of 2018.

Sculpting Software Animation

Designing animation means to consider animation timing.

Animated Pixel Gradients Maker

Make cool pixelated gradient GIFs with words.

Browser Extensions I Actually Use

Chris Coyier’s favorite Chrome extensions.

Text editing techniques every Front-End developer should know

What code editors can do for you.

I’m Not (Overly) Concerned About Smart Speaker Security

You shouldn’t be either.

The Intuitive and the Unlearnable

Why some designs won’t ever stop sucking.

Jam Icons

Icons for web projects, shipped in 3 formats: JavaScript, SVG, and font.

Building a responsive image

How to create a logo that responds to its own aspect ratio.

UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?

“Programming time is pretty weird.”

“Too often people don’t realize how talented they are. When someone dismisses something they did as easy, I like to remind them that it’s only easy because they’ve become an expert.”

Product Strategy: A Guide to Core Concepts and Processes

Reduce the risk of building a product nobody will use.

Announcing SparkToro ‘Trending’

A front page for the web marketing world.

Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report

All the slides, plus analysis.

Are Smart Glasses Ready To Succeed In 2018?

Where we are and where we are going.

A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

What Firefox does to fix the leaking parts of DNS.

The Benefits of HTTPS for DNS

Comperation of DNS over HTTPS vs. DNS over TLS.

Simplify Web Worker code with Comlink

Let’s call worker methods from the main thread.

CSS Is So Overpowered It Can Deanonymize Facebook Users

Browser vulnerabilities through CSS3 features.

The Cult of the Complex

“Toolchains have replaced know-how.”

1Password 7 for Windows: The Best Ever

The popular password manager has landed on Windows.

Announcing TypeScript 2.9

New features like import() types, pretty output by default, and JSON imports.

91% of Content Gets No Traffic From Google

And how to be in the other 9%.

Sketch.systems

Explore how your product should work, before building it.

Removing Trending From Facebook

Facebook removes trending to focus on better news experiences.

Microsoft reportedly in talks to acquire GitHub

Does Microsoft keep an eye on the popular code repository?

How Instagram’s algorithm works

The factors that determine what you see in your feed.

Grab Front End Guide

Introduction to the modern front end stack.

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

The deal could be announced soon.

It's time for variable web typography

Demo of a variable font in action on the web.

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers

Microsoft takes over GitHub, the leading software development platform.

How to create catchy, effective subject lines for link outreach

Write subject lines with a new mindset.

Easing gradient

Sketch plugin that let’s you create prettier gradients.

CSS and Markup in Javascript is an Evolutionary Dead End

“The web platform is starting to become a compilation target.”

Explore the new frontier of CSS animation

Techniques to bring browser experiences to life.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0

Safari’s tracking prevention continues to get better.

Project Aero

Adobe’s augmented reality authoring tool and system.

Whimsical

Collaborative platform to explore concepts and create wireframes.

Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You

How to do a data detox, in a zillion easy steps.

Grid System Library

A library of grid system for Bootstrap, Android, and iOS.

How Much Data Is Missing from Analytics?

And other analytics black holes.

Merit Badge Font

Say hello to a new kind of typeface: the variable color font.

Why is Front-End Development So Unstable?

We do have a problem, don’t we?

2018 Logo Trends

From clean, modern aesthetics towards curvy, retro designs.

WCAG 2.1 is a W3C Recommendation

The Content Accessibility Guidelines move forward.

Designing Web Content for watchOS

How this will work with our already responsive websites.

What’s New in Safari

Tab icons, web pages on watchOS, 3D/AR, and much more.

“Ask a lot of people for feedback, get stuck. Ask a few people for feedback, get moving.”

CodePen on spectrum.chat

A chatroom and a forum for the popular social development environment.

Designing Web Content for watchOS

Responsive web design for the Apple Watch.

Web Watch

Be prepared for whatever crazy device comes along next.

GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source

Find out how to apply.

100+ Google SEO Success Factors, Ranked

Leverage factors that improve your traffic and rankings.

Making the Shift from Designing GUIs to Designing VUIs

“It’s a great time to be a voice user interface designer.”

AI at Google: our principles

Google’s social objectives for AI applications.

Dark Patterns and Aggressive Persuasion: 3 Reasons to Avoid

The hidden cost of dark patterns.

We are all trapped in the ‘Feed’

“Advertising is the only accepted currency of the web.”

Favicons. Finally.

The new favicons in Safari are better than you might think.

AMPstinction

“Any good framework should be to make itself unnecessary.”

JSUI

Visual organization, creation, and management of JavaScript projects.

Illustration Tools

Directory of tools and resources for illustrators.

Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia

How it happens and what it means to us.

Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV

It’s happening faster than expected.

ml5js

Machine learning models and algorithms for web designers and developers.

IF Data Permissions Catalogue

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data.

The web is ready for great graphic design

The power of today’s CSS.

Transitions: The easiest way to improve your tech talk

Great impact with little effort.

Prioritizing the Long-Tail of Performance

More resilient and performant web sites for everyone.

Having a Good Relationship with CSS

Some things you can do to get better at CSS.

Easier scrollytelling with position sticky

You can lean on CSS to simplify the process.

Enough Design Methods

“We’re killing our creativity with design methods.”

The new design tools on the block

Whimsical, Overflow, Maze, and Toybox.

Docz

A simple and powerful tool to document your things.

What's New In Unicode 11.0

New emojis are coming.

Link Building Strategies That Scale in 2018

Options that still exist and will work in the near future.

Vue Native

A framework to build cross platform native mobile apps using JavaScript.

Roller

A Sketch plugin to find and fix design inconsistencies.

Framer X Announcement

A new tool that seamlessly blends design and development.

The new (and old) CSS units you've never heard about

A look back and forward.

3rdParty.io

Check if third-party scripts are secure and performant.

Polly.js

A JavaScript library to record, replay, and stub HTTP interactions.

The Impact of Voice in UX Design

And what to do about it.

Design challenges

Test the creativity and processes of designers.

fit-to-width.js

A library for fitting text into containers in a typographically sensitive way.

Resilient, Declarative, Contextual

What makes CSS different from conventional programming languages.

“The Web is the most hostile environment to developer assumptions imaginable.”

The Problem with Patterns

Can real-world problems be solved with out-of-the-box solutions?

Golden Rules of Typography on the Web

How to design beautiful and effective responsive typography.

HTTPS Anti-Vaxxers

Dispelling common arguments against securing the web.

The Layouts of Tomorrow

There’s room for a lot more creativity in web design today.

First Input Delay shows how quickly your site responds to user interaction

SpeedCurve introduces a new metric.

Image Inconsistencies

How and when browsers download images.

Announcing Gatsby v2 beta launch!

First v2 beta of the static site generator for React.

Using JavaScript modules on the web

JavaScript modules are now supported in all major browsers.

Twemoji

Twitter’s open source emoji for your next web project.

Project Rush: Adobe announces all-new video editing app

Adobe unveils new update to its Creative Cloud service.

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

Where we are and where we are going.