Where did the web’s personality go?

The wild west of the internet is over.

Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability

New anti-tracking policy in Safari.

“User research isn’t for finding solutions. It’s for understanding problems.”

Experimenting with Periodic Background Sync

Let’s get even more things done on the web.

Highlights from Git 2.23

Experimental alternatives for Git checkout, and more.

When You Need to Show a Button’s Loading State

Do’s and don’ts.

Minify Your SVGs

When you optimize SVGs you can expect drastic results.

Mighty

Speeding up Chrome by streaming it from the cloud.

Design Language

A collection of symbols made for the designer’s work.

Tilio

Turn your notes and ideas into narratives.

“A community is measured not by its good actors but by the worst actors they tolerate.”

The (Upcoming) WordPress Renaissance

Where Gutenberg, the content editor, is heading to.

Custom elements for the immersive web

Easily share 360 pictures/videos on your website.

The GitHub Student Developer Pack is back

Back for another school year.

[sic]

A tiny library to inject self-executing JavaScript code with only ‘[’ and ‘]’.

Introducing Microsoft Edge Beta

Be one of the first to try it now.

Using Native JavaScript Modules in Production Today

Better load performance than with classic bundling practices.

EXTRA.CSS

A CSS Houdini library for making your site a little more extra.

How Design Companies Build Communities

Comprehensive overview across the web.

Building a more private web

Google’s proposal to protect privacy with new open standards.

Should we still be selling responsive web design?

We’re now building webs in a more flexible way.

Where did CSS named colors come from?

Interesting and entertaining things about colors.

SVG Artista

Create your own SVG drawing animation.

“How most modern meetings end now: ‘Alright we’re getting kicked out of this room…’”

pagemap

Mini map for web pages.

Mobile E-Commerce UX: Deemphasize ‘Install App’ Ads or Avoid Them Entirely

Guidelines based on user research.

Adobe Alternatives

What you can use if you don’t like the subscription model.

Large Devices Preferred for Important Tasks

The current state of device preferences.

Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews

Loading preview images during lazy loading.

The Browser Monopoly

What Google’s dominance in the market means for users.

Why I have a problem with React the library

A personal analysis of the philosophy behind React.

The problem with tooltips and what to do instead

Do’s and don’ts.

How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage

What you can do to make your pages more power efficient.

Optional chaining

More elegant expressions for property access chains are coming to JavaScript.

“Just because I’m not actively designing, doesn’t mean I’m not working. I need time to think. Design is thinking.”

A Developer’s Guide To SEO

How web developers can control viability, visibility, and site flexibility.

Text Scanning Patterns: Eyetracking Evidence

How users look at content and how they choose to skip or read it.

Google: Noindex Robots.txt Directive Won't Work After September 1st

It’s time to use alternatives.

Maskable.app

Preview a variety of icons shapes and masks in the browser.

Product vs. Feature Teams

Why they are dramatically different in how they operate.

We Analyzed 5 Million Google Search Results

Here’s what we learned about organic CTR.

The ABCs of Design Systems

The A-Z guide for operating your design system team.

Moving From Sketch To Figma: A Case Study Of Migrating Design Systems

A cautionary tale.

Today’s Firefox Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptomining by Default

Stronger privacy protections for everyone.

Is this the end of Facebook Like counts?

Facebook is considering hiding Like counts on posts.

Introducing Auto-DNS verification in the new Search Console

What it is and how it works.

Designing web interfaces in position absolute

Let’s solve the problems of current UI design tools.

Android 10

Google’s latest release of its mobile operating system.

‘Impressions’ is an Undervalued SEO KPI

Possibilities and limitations of the metric as a success indicator.

My favorite CSS hack

A smart way to identify inconsistencies in layouts.

Use The Keyboard

Keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps, Windows programs, and websites.

Bottom Navigation Pattern On Mobile Web Pages: A Better Alternative?

Let’s find it out.

Best Content Promotion Strategies: Asking Experts

60+ well-known experts share their favorites.

CSS Can Do This... And It's Terrifying!

CSS keylogger, user tracking with CSS, emoji class names.

An ode to OpenType

Figma now supports all OpenType features in fonts.

Apple Just Shipped Web Components to Production and You Probably Missed It

What’s behind the new Apple Music Web Client.

Regex Cross­word

A fun way to learn and practice regular expressions.

Ackee

Website analytics for those who care about privacy.

Small Wins

Celebrate your progress, no matter how small.

Firefox 69

A tale of Resize Observer, microtasks, CSS, and DevTools.

“Most websites these days are completely over-engineered.”

“Shopify is 15 years old. Basecamp is 20 years old. MailChimp is 18 years old. It takes time to build a sustainable business that matters.”

The Art of Googling

Some tips to improve your googling skills as a software engineer.

“I’d love it if way more monthly services offered a ‘pause subscription’.”

Can I email

Check email client support for HTML and CSS features.

Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration

Two great data sources come together.

Saying goodbye to the old Search Console

Many old Search Console reports are now a thing of the past.

Google Ranking Factors 2019

Opinions from 1,500+ professional SEOs.

The Evolution of the Internet, Identity, Privacy and Tracking

Why we need new standards for consumer privacy.

Evolving 'nofollow': new ways to identify the nature of links

Google introduces two new link attributes.

Stripe launches in eight more European countries

The online payments startup continues to expand.

“The best engineers are not only good at listening but they are good at explaining as well.”

Tweet Jobs

Search Engine on top of Twitter to find jobs in real time.

Settings to emojify and prettify your terminal

A setup for iTerm2 and ZSH on Mac.

WebXR emulator extension

Test your WebXR application without the need for any XR devices.

Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar

Problems and solutions with scrollbar design/behavior.

Moving Your JavaScript Development To Bash On Windows

How to set up a Windows/Linux development box.

Automatically compress images on Pull Requests

Never ship unoptimised graphics again.

5G Will Definitely Make the Web Slower, Maybe

What an average person can expect from 5G.

Dark mode comes to desktop: Here’s how you can access it

Slack now with dark mode on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

WebAssembly Feature Detection

Modernizr for the next-generation web platform.

Google’s robots changes, the web & the law

Should we consider Googlebot malware from now on?

The Whole Code Catalog

Inspiration for creators of tomorrow’s computational interfaces.

“Success is a bad teacher. At best it validates what you already knew. At worst it can make you feel superior.”

WebGPU and WSL in Safari

High-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation.

Integrating Video and Web Content: Lessons in User Interface Design

A case study.

Doka

Quickly edit and crop your images online.

Button Contrast Checker

Check if buttons/links on your page are WCAG 2.1 compliant.

The Ugly Truth about Design Systems

What we really need in our design systems.

The Ultimate Guide to Not F#[email protected] Up Push Notifications

Do’s and don’ts.

Dark Mode: Working with Color Systems

Another area of design needs to be put in place.

“If you’re a young interactive designer, try hanging out more with developers instead of designers. You’ll thank me later.”

Where to put buttons on forms

Do’s and don’ts, based on research and best practice.

A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web

Let’s create an alternative business model for online content.

Unveiling Dark

A new way to code, without thinking about infrastructure.

NoJS Side-by-Side

A bookmarklet to compare an URL with and without JavaScript.

Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript

Gatsby version vs. Sapper version.

Introducing Smart Layout

A new way to design and faster workflows in Sketch.

Web Development Merit Badges

A compilation that makes you smile.

How to Automate Pagespeed Insights For Multiple URLs using Google Sheets

Run page speed performance evaluations en masse.