Parsel

A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser.

Google Says It Is Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become The Primary Ranking Factor

This should come as no surprise to most of you.

AVIF has landed

How to use the new image format, and how it compares to others.

Inspect

A new developer tool to debug your websites on iOS devices.

Visualising SEO

Illustrations explaining SEO terminology and concepts.

Arcade

A fun way to manage design tokens for enterprise teams.

How to Use Animations in Mobile Apps

Ways to add usability and elegance to interactions.

Email Platform Status

What email developers use: HTML, CSS, At-rules, and more.

How CSS Perspective Works

Master the basics of the perspective property in CSS.

“The less you’ve built, the more you’re inclined to critique what’s been built by others.”

devcert

Running a local HTTPS server made easy.

“Every story of yourself in the future is a form of fiction. But if it aligns with where you want to go, it’s called a vision.”

Beautiful CSS box-shadow examples

A collection of ready-to-use recipes for CSS box-shadow.

Three Myths About Calculating the ROI of UX

Don’t overthink UX return-on-investment calculations.

CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

A map through the terrain of cloud native technologies.

Relativty, ‍an open-source VR headset

Make your own virtual reality headset for $200.

Introducing the Colorblind Generator

Stark introduces a sibling to its Colorblind Simulator.

“The modern web dev is an extreme overreaction to not liking some php.”

How Often Google Ignores Our Meta Descriptions

The relationship between search volume and rewrite rate.

How to preload responsive images with imagesizes and imagesrcset

Performance tuning for responsive images.

How to tell browsers that your site supports color-schemes

A new CSS property simplifies to build color-schemed UIs.

Flying debugger

When the Senior Developer arrives to fix the bug.

The Sound of Colleagues

Feel like you’re working at the office, not from remote.

Managing several displays with the Multi-Screen Window Placement API

A new API is ready to be tried out in Chrome.

Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...

Date and time operations are more complex than you think.

It’s not a bug, it’s a beetle

When full-stack developers maintain the CSS framework.

Introducing Web APIs for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices

Microsoft prepares the browser for a new form factor.

Centering in CSS

A visual guide to everything you need to know.

Interaction Media Features and Their Potential

Beware of false assumptions about these media features.

Color within Constraints

A scalable color system for digital products.

3 best practices of competitor SEO you should know

Inspirations to develop your own competitor SEO strategy.

Moment.js

The popular date/time library is now a legacy project.

Chandeliers work

When you copy some working code from StackOverflow.

The tangled webs we weave

You start with three tools, but then you grapple with twenty.

Nova

Say hello to a powerful and stylish new code editor for Mac.

Catchpoint to Acquire Webpagetest.org

The popular performance tool will be enhanced but remains free.

Safari on iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 for PWA and Web Developers

What’s new, what’s missing, new challenges and new abilities.

GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available

Now you can run your entire GitHub workflow from the terminal.

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

However, it won’t affect the crawling budget and indexing of your site.

Embracing the tension between code and design

Figma’s new features bring design and code closer together.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention In iOS 14, iPadOS 14, And Safari 14

The impact of the changes on analytics and digital marketing.

Make Firefox your default browser on iOS (finally!)

Now you can choose any default browser on iPhones and iPads.

Form design

Best practice, research insights and examples.

“Designers obsess over colors, shapes, grids, typography. But getting better at writing is the fastest way to become a better designer.”

Folding the Web

Enabling real responsive design on foldable devices.

BGJar

SVG background generator for your website..

Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web

The CDN starts to use the Wayback Machine.

Visualize Data Structures in VSCode

The power of the VSCode Debug Visualizer extension.

“Are you working on side projects or do you have kids?”

v3.0.0 One Piece

The next level of the popular JavaScript UI framework.

Buttons that Spark Joy

Delight users and create memorable experiences with buttons.

How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020

What has changed and what you can do about it.

False Simplicity in UI Design: Simple is not always better

What can go wrong and how you can fix it.

GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next month

An effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery.

Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

Both services will no longer be part of Mozilla’s product family.

Introducing Mono Icons

An own open-source, grid-based and extendable SVG icon set.

217 New Emojis In Final List For 2021

Additions include a heart on fire and a woman with a beard.

Long Term Shared Hosting Experiment

The impact of shared hosting on Google rankings.

An Introduction to Multi-Platform Design Systems

Let’s expand our design systems thinking.

Blacklight

A real-time privacy inspector to check your favorite websites.

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Improve the SEO of your website and get more traffic.

“Being an expert isn’t about knowing the answers. It is about knowing a process to find the answers.”

a11yresources

A growing list of accessibility tools and resources.

New Gradient Component

Components AI makes gradients a more malleable web material.

Make tracking your work easier than ever with Tables

Google introduces Tables, an easy-to-use project tracker.

The High Privacy Cost of a ‘Free’ Website

Why website operators should not blindly embed third parties.

Content delivery networks (CDNs)

Improve performance by using a content delivery network.

Thinking About Power Usage and Websites

Does good performance map to lower energy usage?

Finding The Root Cause of a CSS Bug

Types of CSS bugs and how to solve them.

Google Web Creators

A community for web creators to grow and get inspired.

The Era of Visual Studio Code

Why it might be a great text editor to invest in learning.

MDN Browser Compatibility Report 2020

Pain points for web developers and how to improve the situation.

Russia wants to ban the use of secure protocols

The ban is part of a proposed law update.

Web browsers on iOS

What it means that Safari is the only iOS rendering engine.

Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years.

Many changes are coming to Wikipedia’s desktop interface.

‘What's new in Tailwind CSS?’ on YouTube

New features of the popular CSS framework since v1.2.

Twitter to start testing voice DMs

Facebook and Instagram already allow such audio recordings.

Speed Comparison

Turn a Google Search into a site speed comparison test.

Jazz Musician Lettering

A colorful lettering collection for your design inspiraton.

The failed promise of Web Components

Let’s rethink our way of authoring and distributing web components.

Really Good Stores

Curated web design inspiration from the best online shops.

A fresh perspective and new visual identity for Adobe XD

The roadmap for Adobe’s UX/UI design tool.

SignalFire’s Creator Economy Market Map

Niche creators are gaining independence from tech giants.

Twitter plans to bring prompts to ‘read before you retweet’ to all users

The prompts worked in experiments, says Twitter.

Image Decode & Visual Timings

The state of animated GIFs, WebP, AVIF or MP4 in your browser.

“It’s so easy to criticize and tear down someone else’s work. Are you tearing down or are you lifting up? Which side are you on?”

“Great ideas come from two places: solitude and conversation.”

Can you Spot the Troll?

Examine images of real social media content.

“The next evolution of designers will need to have the ability to build and foster communities.”

The Psychology Behind TikTok’s Addictive Feed

A case study.

iPad Illustrator

The iPad version of Adobe Illustrator launches soon.

HSLuv

A human-friendly alternative to the HSL color model.

“JavaScript could be so nice if everyone wasn’t always trying to impress the internet with new clever ways of doing simple things.”

3 things about CSS variables you might not know

Undefined variables, fallback values, tips and tricks.

Background Image Opacity

Did you know this way to add opacity to a background image?

The QR Code Comeback

There are no bad QR codes, just bad use cases.

State of Gen Z Report

The latest Generation Z cultural trends and shifts.

“Your best marketing copy is sitting in the customer’s mind.”

A New Homepage

CodePen’s new homepage is more like three new homepages.

A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites

Alternative analytics tools for bloggers and freelancers.