Refero Styles

Real product design systems in DESIGN.md for AI agents.

Moving away from Tailwind

Learnings from rebuilding CSS without a framework.

Are PWAs cooked?

The current state of Progressive Web Apps.

Designing mutualistic interfaces

“There is another face on the other side of the interface.”

AI engineer is a new role

“The agent is the easy part. The loop is the job.”

Fluid sizing with CSS round()

Using round() to make fluid sizing more predictable.

The undo problem in AI products

“Even Notepad from Windows 95 had undo.”

Azure Linux 4.0

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution.

Documentation foundations for humans and AI

How documentation is becoming shared infrastructure.

Reimagining the pointer for the AI era

When the cursor turns into an AI companion.

A new era for AI Search

”Search can now do more for you than ever before.”

Google Search as you know it is over

”Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes.”

Declarative partial updates

Chrome’s new proposals for the web platform.

Agentic Web News

Tracking how AI agents are changing the web.

Prompts are technical debt too

“Prompts are a worse form of technical debt than code.”

The old typography is new again

“Optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design.”

XSS is deadly for passkeys

The hidden flaw in passkey authentication.

Build with modern web guidance

A set of skills to guide your AI coding agents.

WebMCP Demo

How AI agents interact with web pages today and tomorrow.

Ad infini­tum

“Google thinks it no longer needs the web to deliver answers.”

Testing Safari on a budget

Trade-offs for low-cost website testing in Safari.

Accessibility Tools

A practical toolkit for accessible product design.

WordPress 7.0 is out

”This release takes it to a new level.”

Designing Firefox for the future

A new design direction for the browser.

User interfaces and “blandification”

Why does 2026 look like 2016, which looks like 2006?

The race to build a personal AI agent

Comparing OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini.

What’s missing in CSS layout

Developer pain points and feature gaps.

Ecosia’s AI search just got better

Now mostly powered by a European provider.

What’s a visitor in the age of AI?

Web analytics lost the meaning of a core metric.

Making your website Fediverse-ready

How to verify your site and link author identity.

Kagi’s Small Web is wonderful

“They are absolutely on to something here.”

Bubbles

Community-ranked posts from independent personal blogs.

Fontastic Space

Discover optimal font pairings through typography metrics.

wf

Look up web platform features from your terminal.

The state of CSS centering in 2026

Centering in modern CSS is really about alignment.

Surveys will continue until diversity improves

“Some of us grow up, but the industry doesn’t.”

The AI Resist List

How communities resist AI harms and build alternatives.

I’ve banned query strings

“I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs.”

Self hosting passwords

“I haven’t used an online password manager in 5 years.“

“AI makes you a good programmer in the same way cocaine makes you a good runner.”

Framework-agnostic design systems

A practical approach to web components.

The new “Make great content”

Build inimitable products to counter Google’s ambitions.

The case for design disposables

Good design work isn’t always a deliverable.

CSS vs. JavaScript

Animation performance is more nuanced than expected.

You are no longer the user

”The substrate is the new field of design.”

Email Accessibility Report 2026

“The email ecosystem remains in a state of systemic failure.”

Using AI to write better code more slowly

“Try this other, slower style of ‘vibe coding.’”

Component examples as data

What’s possible for designers and machines alike.

Preparing your codebase for AI coders

“If you can’t beat them, join them.”

Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough

What if styles relied on semantic HTML?

CSS is filling the gaps with rules

Native gap styling for grid and flex layouts.

The inversion of purpose

How the agentic web undermines conversion optimization.

AI traffic vs. AI citations

Google’s AI search is more layered than you think.

Don’t put ‘aria-label’ on generic elements

Why we must avoid labeling divs or spans.

First look at Figma Agent

Putting the new AI design companion to the test.

Spam in the age of AI search

How SEO spam evolves into AI search manipulation.

Advanced slop prevention techniques

Independent review layers for shipping reliable code.

AI can replace designers?

“If AI can replace your designers, you never understood design.”

New to the web platform (May 2026)

CSS name-only container queries, :open pseudo-class, and more.

Panic announces Transmit 6

The revival of a beloved file transfer app.

Making RSS more human readable

“Owning a website means owning the little connective pieces too.”

Kagi is good enough to leave Google Search

“I’ve never once felt the need to switch back.”

Websites are not going to die

“The AI web will actually strengthen the IndieWeb.”

Introducing Webstripes

Visualizing the energy efficiency of web pages.

replacements.fyi

Performant, safer npm package alternatives.

La Carte Blanche

A project definition framework to avoid chaos.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Geist Pixel.

Is AI another Frontend’s Lost Decade?

“The industry will realize it’s just one more tool in the toolbox.”

Designing like it’s 1999

“Design for where the puck is going.”

What 846,000 Google searches reveal

Users now stay longer on search results before acting.

Making information hierarchies work

The role of scent in broad and deep information structures.

Stop writing prompts

Here’s an AI assistant that does it for you.

Entry and exit transitions with modern CSS

Techniques for transitions and view transitions.

Glyph Finder

Find Adobe Fonts that support a given Unicode character.

Error hiding is not error prevention

Why the ’accept’ attribute degrades file upload UX.

The best loading states are none at all

Making the case for route transitions.

A framework for designing AI systems

Turning use cases into AI-powered products.

XML and JSON in 2026

“Nobody really has to think about them much anymore.”

How declarative partial updates work

From HTML streaming to out-of-order patching.

107 SEO statistics for 2026

Insights and trends that reveal how search is changing.

Passkeys are better than passwords

But they are not a silver bullet.

Does AI find real UI problems?

“False alarms and hallucinations dominate.”

Context-aware headings in HTML

A long-awaited feature arrives in Firefox Nightly.

Seamless PWA origin migration

Change domains without losing Chrome users.

Write-first design

Writing exposes bad design before it gets expensive.

Why great content no longer works

MIT research shows the shift reshaping SEO.

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare

“Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source.”

Lost, forgotten, and unfamiliar HTML

Visiting a few dark corners of the HTML spec.

Being an AI-native designer

What 30 design leaders say it really is.

Reading code with AI, not generating it

Using AI to make sense of an unfamiliar codebase.

The four design jobs AI created so far

“AI design” has forked into different types of work.

Using local LLMs for agentic coding

“AI honeymoon pricing is over, but your work is not.”

Implementing Standard.Site

Syndicating blog posts across the AT Protocol ecosystem.

Fixing the plumbing of the web

”It is the work that gets us the web we want.”

JS Crossword

A crossword where the clue = eval(answer).

PolyCSS

A CSS 3D engine for the DOM.

Griddy Icons

An icon family with a distinctive utilitarian style.

“The developers who’ll be in highest demand in this age of AI will be the ones who don’t need it.”

The future of the web is weirdly human

What if a website wasn’t a document?

Loop Engineering

“You don’t really need to be good at prompting anymore.”