Firefox: The Evolution Of A Brand

The new look of the entire family of products and services.

“A design is not an answer. It’s a hypothesis. Forgetting this leads to arrogance. Failing to communicate it leads to disappointed stakeholders.”

Ejecting Disqus

Let’s try out another commenting system.

Pika

A new kind of CDN for modern JavaScript packages.

The State of CSS 2019

CSS might be going through tumultuous teenage years.

Variable Fonts for Developers

Get started using variable fonts on the web.

Relearn CSS layout

Layout designs without @media breakpoints or hacks.

Chrome 76 Beta

Dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more.

When should you be using Web Workers?

Short answer: always.

The Toolbox Toolbox

Curation of analog and digital toolboxes and methods.

Internet Trends Archive

All internet trend reports of Mary Meeker in one place.

webgems

A curated list of resources for developers and designers.

“If your code isn’t working, try leaving it in rice overnight.”

What To Expect When You're Expecting To Drop IE11

A giant list of features you should use today.

Fontsmith creates the world’s first variable font logo

A logo which changes according to interaction and time.

Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020

Facebook’s blockchain plans.

84 cognitive biases you should exploit to design better products

Systematic errors in our thinking process.

Send Outgoing Webmentions

Automate your outgoing webmentions with
webmention.app.

Bye Bye Preferred Domain setting

It will no longer be available on Search Console.

Prisma 2 Preview

Type-safe database access and declarative migrations.

V8 release v7.6

Filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies.

Web components: the secret ingredient helping power the web

Web components at I/O 2019.

How to Section Your HTML

Proper HTML structure, best practices and testing.

Case Studies

How to write case studies for your online portfolio.

“One thing I’ve learned from technology is that if you implement a temporary solution, it is now your permanent solution.”

Bringing service workers to Google Search

The story of what shipped, the impact and the tradeoffs.

Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links

A simpler alternative for certain use cases.

Design edge cases and where to find them

Strategies to spotlight edge cases.

Six assumptions which could break your website

Common mistakes in responsive web design.

Stubborn

Illustrations generator to design characters using symbols and styles.

Scary Client Feedback

Designed as classic horror movie posters.

A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore

Safari’s fresh approach to optimize memory usage.

Why I don't use web components

10 reasons to be a web component skeptic.

Why I use Web Components: My use cases

Scenarios in which web components might be the right choice.

Introducing the Web Almanac

An annual ‘state of the web’ report.

iOS 13 UI

Assets in vector format including most UI elements and icons.

“Browser tabs are my short-term memory.”

iOS 13 hands-on: dark mode, Apple Maps, Reminders, and more

A first look at the latest software for Apple’s iPhones.

Contrast Swatch

Image microservice for color contrast information.

Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content

A framework using five benchmarks.

The cost of JavaScript in 2019

The dominant costs are now download and CPU execution time.

How to Write a Blog Post: The Definitive Guide (2019)

What people like to read, comment, and share.

In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in

Why it’s time to rehabilitate graceful degradation.

Track This

Fool ad trackers into thinking you’re someone else.

Reinventing Firefox for Android: a Preview

Be among the first to test.

Three Predictions From the State of CSS 2019 Survey

Unexpected trends derived from the survey.

Eyetato

See where your users would most likely look at a design.

5 ES2019 features you can use today

Let’s see how they upgrade the JavaScript language.

Algorithm Visualizer

Interactive visualizations of JavaScript algorithms.

Components AI

Experimental platform for exploring generative design systems.

All Links are Not Created Equal

20 new graphics on Google’s valuation of links.

HTML can do that?

It’s amazing what you can do with just HTML.

SSL Configuration Generator

Create secure configurations for web, database, and mail software.

Google's robots.txt Parser is Now Open Source

The Robots Exclusion Protocol is becoming an internet standard.

Introducing tracking prevention

Now available in Microsoft Edge preview builds.

Startup idea checklist

A framework to think through business ideas.

Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives

What to do and what not to do.

Misuses of 4 Google Analytics Metrics Debunked

Issues and solutions.

How to speak Silicon Valley

53 essential tech-bro terms explained.

Skip Links Design Showcase

Different ways to allow visitors to bypass repetitive content.

8 tips for writing great usability tasks

Ways to make the tasks easy to read and act upon.

User Inyerface

A worst-practice UI experiment.

How Google Pagespeed works

Improve your score and search engine ranking.

“It’s a hundred times easier to criticize than create.”

The Wayback Machine can now highlight changes in copy on websites

A new way to research a website’s past.

700+ Design Tools Later: A Year of Toolbox

New illustration libraries, design systems, and UI kits.

“On projects: Done is better than none. It’s easy to set expectations so high you never finish. Sometimes ‘done’ is enough. Ship then iterate.”

“Side projects die twice. The day you stop working on them, and the day the domain expires.”

RecordScreen.io

Record your screen right from the browser.

“Good product teams are focussed on shipping great software. Great product teams are focussed on driving business growth.”

As the Web matures, search behavior changes

What to do if you want to thrive in the future.

Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces

What’s better for accessibility.

Cowork

Virtual coworking space for modern teams.

It’s time to kill the infinite scroll

Let’s move towards quality over quantity.

Run your own social

How to run a small social network site for your friends.

Dribbble turns 10

Celebrating a decade of design inspiration.

Glitch for VS Code

Code collaboration and instant deployment on Glitch from VSCode.

Modern Script Loading

Serving the right code to the right browsers.

What Content Really Engages?

The inside scoop from 30 marketers.

Firefox 68: BigInts, Contrast Checks, and the QuantumBar

New implementation of the URL bar.

CSS Lists, Markers, And Counters

There is more to styling lists in CSS than you might think.

Is my host fast yet?

A public leaderboard of host performance.

Extending Atomic Design

How new concepts interact with the popular design system.

QuickJS Javascript Engine

A small and embeddable Javascript engine.

Software below the poverty line

The donation model for open source is broken.

1x Engineer

If there’s a 10x engineer, there must be a 1x engineer.

Bringing new CSS techniques to production

The web’s grain continues to change.

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

Why platforms are aggregators’ most effective competition.

Recreating the Fool's Mate chess move with CSS Grid

Let’s play with animated grid rows and columns.

The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern

Why it’s time to leave it behind in most cas­es.

Testing for wide gamut

More about what matters in the future of UI design.

Screenreader-aware Design Tools

What we need to build a great screenreader UX.

Pwned Passwords, Version 5

Millions of new passwords, updated prevalence counts.

Everything You Need To Know About CSS Margins

There is more to a margin than you might think.

Smart Prototyping with Arduino and Framer X

A way to prototype UIs for web-connected hardware.

“’Someday,′ is a no. ‘Maybe,’ is a no. ‘Not sure,’ is a no. ‘Not now,’ is a no. If it’s not a yes, it is a no.”

Color Inputs

A deep dive into cross-browser differences.

MDN’s First Annual Web Developer & Designer Survey

Influence how browser vendors prioritize feature development.

XState Visualizer

Statechart visualizations for JavaScript and TypeScript.

The next version of Microsoft Edge

Enterprise evaluation and roadmap.