The Most Hearted Pens of 2025

100 impressive web and front-end designs.

The 80% problem in agentic coding

Handling the challenges of a Slopacolypse.

1 human + 1 agent = 1 browser

Why not build a basic browser with AI?

Styling highlight-y pseudo-elements

Which texts they target and how to customize them.

CSS layout fundamentals

Master the core concepts behind CSS layouts.

New to the web platform (January 2026)

CSS Anchor Positioning, Temporal API, Navigation API, and more.

Improving LCP for hero videos

Let users see something while the video loads.

Stop using MySQL in 2026

“MySQL is open source only by license, but not as a project.”

AI content disclosure for HTML

A proposal to declare your AI use in webpage sections.

Snapshot testing to keep URLs cool

An automated way to prevent broken links.

Front-load key words

Ease skimming of lists and links for online readers.

“Designing future AI systems is not just a technical challenge. It’s a moral, social, and political one: about who gets agency, who bears responsibility, and who ultimately benefits.”

Morphing icons

Any icon can morph into any other.

CSS optical illusions

A showcase of visual puzzles in pure CSS.

Fifteen clocks

Perspectives on time shaped by clocks as interfaces.

The lost art of XML

”Sometimes the old way was the right way.”

Anti-frameworkism

When to choose native web APIs over frameworks.

“I ship code I don’t read”

The creator of the personal AI assistant OpenClaw.

Typographic scales and technical pens

Consistent stroke widths for type and icons.

Firefox introduces AI controls

You can also disable all AI features at once.

Lost for words

Why text in AI images still goes wrong.

State of JavaScript 2025

What last year had in store for us all.

The browser’s little white lies

When browsers lie to keep you safe.

5 stages of AI adoption

How will our work change with AI?

Some CSS only contrast options

What works until contrast-color() is widely supported.

“Stop prompting, start compounding”

Let your agent learn and ship while you sleep.

“Vibe-coding is fun. You describe what you want, code appears, and building feels like progress. That satisfaction is a trap. You’re accumulating artifacts that may have nothing to do with what anyone needs.”

Nice Select

Pushing customizable HTML ‘select’ to an extreme.

AI ecosystem security debt

When hyped AI agents turn into a security nightmare.

Why accessibility changes everything

The many ways content can be experienced.

Explicit resource management in JavaScript

How it will make cleanup safer and simpler.

Product discovery changes with AI

From “Can we build it?” to “Should we build it?”

Performance-optimized video embeds

Lazy-loading videos on interaction using only HTML/CSS.

Sweetfont

A fun way to discover Google Fonts.

Practical guide to AI slash commands

Tired copy/pasting prompts again and again?

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

Can a small team now outcompete a big company?

How to improve your HTML game

Why writing style, validation, and spec matter.

AI Overviews reduce clicks by 58%

“Google Search is becoming zero-click.”

Better loading and progress UX

Guidelines for designing the waiting experience.

AI’s speed trap in UX copy

Where AI for UX writing shines and stumbles.

The CSS Selection 2026

The state of real-world CSS usage.

Interop 2025, a year of convergence

How vendors improved cross-browser support last year.

Agentic engineering

The professional approach to vibe coding.

Is blogging in the AI era still a thing?

Authentic and efficient blogging via ghostwriting interviews.

Phantom obligation

Why must RSS readers look like email clients?

“AI code may make garbage, mass-produced software more ubiquitous, but it may also free up a space for engineers seeking to restore a genuine sense of craft and creative expression. As craft becomes more scarce, it also becomes more valuable.”

The Punch

A curated directory of independent type foundries.

Bug Chase

Can you spot more bugs than AI in 60 seconds?

Agentation

Point at UI issues and let AI fix them.

Understandable data visualization

When data visualization becomes a puzzle.

Honoring mobile OS text size

The current and upcoming state in major browsers.

HTML-only conditional image lazy loading

Adaptive image loading above/below the fold.

Why your brain rebels against redesigns

Redesigns tested well, yet users still hate them.

Comparison of 36 CLI coding agents

“Now there’s a CLI agent for every workflow.”

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?