MCP is dead, long live the CLI

“The best tools work for both humans and machines.“

Claude is an Electron app

How native software lost its edge to web apps.

4,000 developer machines compromised

When your AI tool silently installs another AI tool.

Accessibility testing takes more than a scan

Uncover accessibility issues that automated tools miss.

How I use Claude Code

”The workflow I’ve settled into is radically different.”

Search happens everywhere

41 websites with significant search activity.

Supercharging Figma design systems

Tips from early testers of slots.

Mad CSS

A battle of 16 CSS virtuosos from around the world.

Learning to code is still valuable

Why bother when AI does it all?

Embrace software engineering’s uncertainty

“Inflection points are moments of opportunity.”

“If AI runs on text, and voice is how you naturally create it, then learning to dictate fluently is one of the highest‑leverage skills you can develop right now.”

Motion Folios

Portfolios from top motion designers worldwide.

Ad break

“Should’ve taken the 10.99 ad-free deal.”

WebPerf Snippets

Performance profiling directly in the DevTools console.

Using dashes

How to apply them more mindfully than AI.

You don’t know HTML tables

A deep dive into their anatomy and mechanics.

Menus don’t need the 7±2 rule

“Be suspicious of magical UX laws.”

Git is the new code

Git commands to check AI-written code.

CodePen 2.0 Beta

Real-time collaboration, folders/files, blocks, and more.

When anyone can build anything

What’s worth building when building is free?

The CSS ‘z-index’ value

“Stop racing for the highest number.”

Scoped registries for custom elements

How independent scopes resolve name clashes.

Markdown, llms.txt, and AI crawlers

Do Markdown and llms.txt matter for your website?

Managing icon component sizes

“It’s time to retire that icon wrapper component.”

Your browser can already speak a page

How to activate read-aloud features on web pages.

Introducing CSS ‘view-transitions-mock’

A non-visual polyfill for same-document view transitions.

AI is much bigger than you think

“Usage of AI is now 56% the size of search worldwide.”

What’s My ΔE(OK) JND?

Test your Just Noticeable Difference in color perception.

Your browser becomes your WordPress

“It’s a WordPress that stays with you.”

“When a website is slow, the problem usually isn’t the website. It’s the organisation behind it.”

From pages to apps to agents?

“The web is becoming the COBOL of human networking.”

Temporal

The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript.

When to use WebMCP and MCP?

They work best together to empower AI agents.

“We are no longer designing screens. We are designing the intelligence that designs for us.”

Beyond CSS ‘border-radius’

What the new ‘corner-shape’ delivers to everyday UIs.

Archive of Archives

A curated collection of digital archives.

The HTML ‘geolocation’ element is odd

“The element in its current state is not very useful.”

The CodePen Compiler

The CodePen 2.0 editor has a whole new brain.

Building dynamic toggletips

A prime example for anchored container queries.

Human strategy in AI workflows

“The future of UX is more intentional than ever.”

How fast is fast enough?

Rethinking web performance in pragmagical terms.

My favorite way to code in 2026

Test-driven development using Playwright.

Implementing WebMCP

“It gives power back to website owners.”

Paywalls for minimalists

A creator’s playbook built mainly on open source.

Internet Phone Book, Issue 2

Your chance to be in the next Internet Phone Book.

“My software has been far too stable recently. Gonna do some rebugging.”

Front-end Crossword

The crossword puzzle for front-end developers.

ColorFlow

A powerful mesh gradient generator and editor.

Can We

Websites focused on browser usage and features.

Generative AI vegetarianism

Saying no to AI as a mindful lifestyle choice.

Detect at-rule() support in CSS

A handy feature lands in Chromium 148.

Vite 8.0 is out

It ships Rolldown for up to 10–30x faster builds.

Details that make UIs feel better

Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing.

Cognitive debt

“It’s not technical debt, it’s worse.”

SVGs on the web

When to use which loading technique.

Automated accessible text with CSS

contrast-color() is available soon in all major browsers.

CSS contrast-color() beyond black & white

How to unlock more colorful theming options.

The 49MB web page

“Your frustration is the product.”

Your 404 page has a blind spot

When AI agents crash into blank walls.

Native JSON modules are finally real

From build-time convenience to a runtime primitive.

More reasons to love Firefox

Free VPN, split view, tab notes, new mascot, and more.

Small Web just got bigger

Kagi’s people-first web directory arrives on mobile apps.

There is no “wrong” in CSS

What if someone rejects your CSS choices?

Hire me, hire my AI agents

“I bring my agent team to every client pitch.”

BaseWatch

Get alerts for new ready-to-use web features.

How the inbox spam button works

The impact of reporting a newsletter as spam.

Design Systems Report 2026

“The industry is maturing, but so are its growing pains.”

The Virtual Keyboard API is broken

The mobile web still struggles with keyboards.

Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch

Google brings ideas to life on an AI design canvas.

Easier light‑dark mode switching

light‑dark() is about to support images!

The high cost of low usability

How Balsamiq’s redesign broke rapid wireframing.

Cookie consent management in 2026 (Part 1)

The organizational aspects of a cookie consent solution.

Cookie consent management in 2026 (Part 2)

The technical aspects of a cookie consent solution.

Adobe Firefly can now learn your style

It imitates your artwork through custom training.

Agentic engineering patterns

Practices for getting the most out of coding agents.

Durable patterns in AI product design

UI models that remain relevant as AI evolves.

Agentic UX

7 principles for designing systems with agents.

Look into the web platform’s future

How Baseline predicts web feature readiness.

Search referral traffic down 60%

Small publishers suffered most in the last two years.

Adventures in CSS subgrid

Lining up content across multiple columns.

The old internet is still here

“What’s changed is our expectations.”

The human.json protocol

A decentralized way to vouch for human authors online.

Datatype

A variable font that turns text into charts.

Symbl

Preview your logo under visual stress.

theSVG

A vast library of brand icons in vector format.

Naturalest sort

Ways to order strings in a human-friendly way.

Container Timing

A new API to measure web component performance.

Why most design principles fail

“The problem is that most design principles don’t work.”

Do you need a CMS?

“The answer is increasingly: no.”

Death of the IDE?

“The center of developer work is moving.”

Designing for emergence

When your product starts designing its own future.

Top ten Figma betrayals

”Figma is not exactly conducive to responsive web design.”

Announcing TypeScript 6.0

“The last release based on the current JavaScript codebase.”

Why aren’t AI productivity gains higher?

Developers explain why they are less than expected.

WebKit features for Safari 26.4

CSS Grid Lanes, WebTransport, Keyboard Lock API, and more.

VPN now built into Firefox

It includes 50 GB of free VPN-browsing per month.

Claude Code can now take over your computer

But Anthropic urges caution as safeguards are limited.

What is your site’s AI chatbot for?

Why users have little reason to use it.

Elena

A tiny library for building progressive web components.

“There are no code moats anymore. Your code today is a few prompts away from being someone else’s code tomorrow.”