DesignSamples
Handwritten blog
A blog where every post and comment is written by hand.
DevelopmentResources
Warm Burnout
A color scheme with warm colors and good contrast.
DevelopmentOpinions
Why are we not using service workers?
Pros and cons of an underused web technology.
DevelopmentOpinions
Who pays for the tokens?
Whose interest does AI loop engineering serve?
DevelopmentSamples
CSS states and JavaScript events
CSS pseudo-classes that behave like event listeners.
DevelopmentSamples
Fluid typography with progress()
Viewport-based type sizing without the pitfalls.
DevelopmentSamples
The Goldilocks customizable select height
“There’s a sizing ‘pattern’ that’s almost always the-one-you-want.”
BusinessTools
Introducing Lumo 2.0
“The most powerful private AI.”
DevelopmentResources
Introducing HTML ‘usermedia’
Chrome’s declarative element for camera/microphone access.
DevelopmentSkills
a11y.quest
128 questions to level up your accessibility game.
DesignTools
Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite
The image model balances cost, speed, and quality.
DevelopmentSamples
On the semantic web
“Semantic HTML is interface infrastructure.“
BusinessFun
The AI Compass
Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?
DevelopmentResources
New to the web platform (June 2026)
Sizing form controls with ‘field-sizing’ becomes Baseline, and more.
DevelopmentResources
Introducing the Safari MCP server
Let your AI agent inspect web pages in Safari.
BusinessResources
Cloudflare’s economic layer of the AI web
The shift from ‘pay per crawl’ to ‘pay per use’.
DesignTools
Everything new in Figma at Config 2026
“It feels like Figma is stepping further onto Adobe’s turf than ever.”
DesignTools
Figma is building accessibility into its canvas
“We created a Mirror DOM structure.”
DevelopmentResources
Unicode character class escapes
“A hidden JavaScript superpower.”
DevelopmentOpinions
“Mobile First” vs Mobile First™
What “Mobile First” was and what it became.
DevelopmentSamples
Fixing full-bleed CSS
A novel approach using some at-rule property magic.
DevelopmentOpinions
Svelte feels like the “Native language” of the web
“When code feels natural, it’s more enjoyable.”
DevelopmentSamples
Progressively enhancing CSS Grid Lanes
Can native masonry layouts be used safely today?
DesignResources
Designing finger-friendly interactions
“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you.”
BusinessOpinions
Bring back crappy forums
What if we had stuck with them?
BusinessOpinions
My review of Uruky
Uruky compared to the Kagi search engine.
DesignSamples
This page left intentionally blank
“In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!”
DesignSamples
TOLIS C
A design engineer’s creative web space.
DevelopmentTools
ua-tracer
Inspect what a user agent actually does.
BusinessTools
SmoothCSV
Edit your CSV files intuitively the way you want.
DevelopmentSamples
Cloudflare Turnstile
Stopping form bots without annoying CAPTCHAs.
DevelopmentSamples
Do URLs in prompts change LLM responses?
“It took me weeks of experimentation.”
DesignTrends
Wait, who made this?
The rise of creative provenance.
DevelopmentResources
Getting started with Anchor Positioning
An interactive guide to the Anchor Positioning API.
DevelopmentResources
What’s new in ECMAScript 2026
This year’s additions explained with examples.
DevelopmentResources
Creating PWA icons
Icons that look right on every platform.
DevelopmentOpinions
AI can’t solve it all
What 120+ frontend developers still hate working on.
DesignOpinions
Design engineering
What it is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.
DesignOpinions
Should we drop “Responsive” for design?
Rethinking “Responsive Design” and “Adaptive Design”.
DesignResources
Type consistency in changing conditions
How grade preserves visual balance across contexts.
DesignSamples
I tested 4 top AI design tools
How they solved the same UX design challenge.
DesignOpinions
Let’s fix the web’s text size
Introducing the HTML ‘text-scale’ meta element.
DevelopmentTools
Rewriting Bun in Rust
“One engineer can do a lot more today than a year ago.”
DevelopmentResources
Connection Allowlist
A network firewall, built into the browser.
DevelopmentSamples
How I set up view transitions
A deep dive into the mechanics behind the transitions.
DevelopmentSamples
Invisible but accessible interactive elements
Use cases and implementation techniques.
DevelopmentTrends
PHP version stats (July 2026)
Version adoption across the Packagist ecosystem.
DevelopmentTools
The making of Claude Code
How Anthropic built a new way to work with code.
BusinessTools
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas
But its AI browser ambitions are still growing.
DesignTools
Penpot 2.17
The design tool brings long-awaited features.
BusinessOpinions
The problem is prompt debt
“You can’t be model agnostic if you’re hand-tuning prompts.”
DevelopmentSamples
Link + popover navigation
Using HTML ‘popover’ instead of disclosure widgets.
DevelopmentResources
HTTP QUERY method
“QUERY gives you the best of both GET and POST.”
DevelopmentResources
Get ready for CSS ‘border-shape’
Let’s create crazy shapes with modern CSS!
DevelopmentOpinions
What happened to the frontend
“The industry sprinted in a giant circle.”
DevelopmentOpinions
Google Reader was building the wrong future
The feeds weren’t the point, the people were.
BusinessTools
HyperTexting
Your social timeline powered by the open web.
DevelopmentTools
Button State Builder
A visual editor for designing multi-state buttons.
BusinessFun
All the futures
You don’t want to be left behind.
DevelopmentTools
Quay
An app to manage your local development services.
DevelopmentSamples
SVG filters on type
From ink bleed to woodtype shadows and metal forms.
DesignOpinions
An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
“So long, Photoshop, you are well past your prime.”
DevelopmentOpinions
Own the outer loop
“Agents have leverage, and leverage creates obligations.”
DevelopmentSamples
Different hydration and rendering strategies
Benefits and tradeoffs of modern rendering approaches.
DevelopmentOpinions
Grok is back
“Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss Grok.”
DevelopmentSamples
Setting type like a printed page
Most of a typesetter’s craft is now built into CSS.
BusinessTools
Introducing Precursor
Cloudflare strengthens bot detection with behavioral signals.
DevelopmentOpinions
In defense of polyfills
“A web platform without polyfills would be a stagnant platform.”
DesignOpinions
The terminal became my canvas
“It’s great… but horrible at the same time.”
BusinessTools
The State of Open Source AI
Where open AI is winning and where it is exposed.
DevelopmentSamples
I thought AVIF would make images smaller
Optimization isn’t about using the newest format.
BusinessTools
25 years of visual search innovation
Google revamps its image search with a browsable gallery.
DesignResources
The grammar of color
The vocabulary behind every color choice.
DevelopmentResources
A gentle introduction to Git worktrees
How they simplify parallel development.
DesignOpinions
Taste cannot be delegated
The death of design by committee in the age of AI.
DesignOpinions
Accessibility is resistance!
”Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate.”
DevelopmentSamples
Your “app” could have been a webpage
”A webpage would have been so much better.”
BusinessOpinions
The reverse information paradox
“You essentially pay for intelligence twice.”
DevelopmentResources
Use cases for the ‘aria-expanded’ attribute
How to determine when ‘aria-expanded’ is appropriate.
DevelopmentTools
Is your site ready for AI agents?
How Lighthouse’s new Agentic Browsing audit works.
DesignSamples
Why design teams struggle with AI
“AI is nowhere near as good at design as it is at coding.”
BusinessOpinions
Is your browser up to date?
Why keeping browsers updated remains a challenge.
DevelopmentResources
Can we use SVG images in emails?
Why scalable images still fail inside modern email.
DevelopmentSamples
Card patterns with anchor positioning
A refined approach to accessible clickable cards.
DevelopmentOpinions
Do we still need build tools?
Which frontend build tools still matter in 2026.
DevelopmentTools
Data tools landscape for developers
A guide to making sense of data tooling for developers.
DesignResources
Does your form really need a dropdown list?
“Misuse can cause more harm than alternatives.”
BusinessTools
What the Floccus?!?
Another look at cross-browser bookmark synchronization.
DesignOpinions
Naive design is better than AI design
“I promise it will look better than anything AI can produce.”
DevelopmentTools
Gram
An opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.
BusinessResources
Decoy Font
A font that fools AI when reading images.
DesignTools
Resistenza Type Tools
A collection of creative tools for working with type.
DesignFun
Lorem Ipsum
Even cartoonists use it for their strips.
DesignOpinions
Why is AI bad at design?
“Code can be verified, but design can’t.”
DevelopmentSamples
Rewriting a sticky detector
How modern CSS simplifies the solution.
DevelopmentResources
How I stopped running out of tokens
Cutting Claude Code costs without losing quality or speed.
DesignOpinions
Why I don’t use interruption pages
The best interruption is often no interruption at all.
DevelopmentResources
Kernel
A component library built on semantic HTML, not div soup.
BusinessOpinions
Why I stopped ‘creating content’
When business language misses the human side.
DevelopmentOpinions
Software factories, light and dark
Why autonomous software still needs engineers.