What Happened to the Webmaster

Why webmasters fade away, but their spirit is here to stay.

Mapping the Growing Ecosystem of Community Tools

New tools and platforms in the exploding world of community.

Safari 14 Beta Release Notes

Support for HTTP/3, Webpage Translation, WebP, and much more.

Grid Cheatsheet

The W3C CSS Grid Specification explained and illustrated with demos.

“Writing good beginner content is hard. Very few people can do it really well, without making assumptions or coming across as as a bit patronizing.”

Flow: A New Browser Engine

What’s different to the downfall of Presto and EdgeHTML.

Always bet on HTML

Why the Hypertext Markup Language is absolutely amazing.

Design updates to repositories and GitHub UI

GitHub improves your experience on repository pages, especially on mobile.

An Overview of Scroll Technologies

State-of-the-art tech and tools for scroll-related animations.

“Instagram: check out my body. Twitter: check out my brain.”

How to fix a slow backend?

A guide to help you speed up the server-side part of your website.

Skeuomorphism is making a comeback

We’re starting to see the trends repeating themselves.

iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will let you set default email and browser apps

Apple is finally giving iPad and iPhone users some choice.

Menus, Metaphors and Materials

Milestones of user interface design.

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 85)

Style editing for CSS-in-JS, support for new JS features, and more.

Storybook Composition

Now you can combine UI Components from multiple Storybooks into one.

The Science Behind Web Vitals

How Google’s performance metrics and thresholds affect users.

Design and Anatomy of a Push Notification 2020

Everything to design and preview push notifications on different platforms.

What's new for web developers

Explore the latest features and improvements for Safari and WebKit.

Introducing Amazon Honeycode

Build web and mobile apps without writing code.

Helping move the web forward, a huge update for PWABuilder

The next level to turn your website into an app.

Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism

What to expect from the next wave in UI design.

Move over MacOS Big Sur

The new Windows 10 update looks amazing.

How to estimate the ROI of design work

The three step method for quantifying design work.

Why designing for delight is no longer enough

Design is getting more complicated and rightfully so.

iOS 14 UI Kit for Figma

Built with color/text styles, light/dark mode, auto layout.

Announcing TypeScript 4.0 Beta

Another milestone in the TypeScript programming language.

HiFiC

Amazing image compression results with AI-based technology.

“Buying a domain is like getting a gym membership you hope the guilt of spending money will make you actually work on the project, but it doesn’t.”

Using the Chrome UX Report API

Real-user experience data across millions of websites.

No, Safari 14 Does Not Block Google Analytics

Google Analytics users don’t need to worry about Safari.

Mobile-App Onboarding

An analysis of components and techniques.

Improving HTTP with structured header fields

What’s wrong with HTTP headers and what‘s coming instead.

The Good Service Scale

15 principles of good service design to score your service.

“border: 1px solid red; is the console.log of CSS.”

Schema.dev

The easy way to implement structured data for Google Search.

“If you want less competition, pick a harder problem.”

Knopf.css

Modern, modular, extensible button system.

Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

No new avenues for user fingerprinting.

Why Software is More Profitable Than Content

Similarities and differences between software and content business.

An Upgrade to Emmet

New features in CodePen, the popular online code editor.

Introducing the Billing customer portal

Stripe’s solution to let your customers manage their subscriptions.

The Whimsical Web

A curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun.

3 Amazing resources to help you design for diversity and inclusion

Designing for diversity and inclusion isn’t that hard.

Tooling.Report

Comparison of the most popular JavaScript bundlers.

Is WebP really better than JPEG?

Maybe the true next-generation codec is another one.

Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting

The social platform updates the way news stories are ranked.

Introducing GitHub Super Linter

One linter to rule them all.

1-Line Layouts

Modern CSS layout and sizing techniques as one liners.

The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design

The problem with minimalism and what‘s up next.

Responsively App

An alternative browser that makes front-end development easier.

Performance: CSS Painting vs. CSS Houdini Paint

Why the Houdini Paint API is a cool new feature.

Bing updates its Webmaster Guidelines

How the search engine crawls, indexes and ranks content.

Unsplash integration in Framer Web

A new direct access to great photos in the prototyping tool.

Announcing Perl 7

A new plan moving forward for the general purpose language.

Uncommon CSS Properties

Use cases, progressively enhanced examples, browser support.

Design Better Buttons

The do’s and don’ts of button design in UI development.

De-Escalating Social Media

Social media needs to figure out how to get back in balance.

Developer tools for designers

Ways to improve your daily design tasks all the time.

“The best way to immediately spot all the typos in something you’ve written is by emailing it to all your newsletter subscribers.”

Our remote work future is going to suck

Is a distributed workforce also a good thing for the worker?

“If someone held a gun to my head and asked me what product managers do… tell my family I love them.”

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 64)

Performance monitor, console sidebar, and more.

CSS News July 2020

Features that are making their way into the platform.

The State of Open Source Security 2020

The security within the open source ecosystem is improving.

Platform Adjacency Theory

The forces behind what’s currently going on in browser-land.

The Guide to Design

A starting point to help you get into digital product design.

A tale of three skeuomorphs

The right skeuomorph can bring you good luck.

Make me think!

The problem with oversimplifications in ‘user centered’ design.

We need more inclusive web performance metrics

It‘s wrong to optimize for visual clues at the expense of others.

Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

Results of an experiment run on a personal website.

Introducing Workspaces

CodeSandbox gets a better dashboard and workspaces for teams.

Perf Track

How popular JavaScript frameworks are performing across the web.

50 lessons learned from writing 50 newsletters

Experiences from countless hours of careful writing.

GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts

Say hello to Google‘s serial cart abandoner John Smith.

Crawl, Walk, Run

The slow and steady approach to building a business.

Capsize

Flipping how we define typography in CSS.

The saddest ‘Just Ship It’ story ever

What can happen when you wait too long to ship a project.

Microsoft and Google team up to make PWAs better in the Play Store

What the collaboration means for web developers.

Shaper

Try out typography, color, and spacing to find a style for your interface.

The Browser Engine That Could

The one engine that started small, but became everything.

Webwaste

If you want to help save the planet, dispose your pointless web images.

Linux team approves new terminology

The team bans terms like ‘blacklist’ and ‘slave’.

The rise of superpower tech

No code is a sub-theme in an even larger movement.

Comparing AVIF vs WebP file sizes at the same DSSIM

Better image compression with AVIF than with JPEG or WebP.

Always bet on HTML: being misunderstood

Why people don’t embrace the obvious benefits of HTML.

The trouble with mailto email links

What to do instead.

Skypack

A new kind of JavaScript delivery network.

Crowdfunding Web Platform Features With Open Prioritization

An interesting new approach from Igalia.

Introducing Tailwind CSS Typography

Official typography plugin for the popular CSS framework.

Introducing Style Check

iA Writer now checks your text for fillers, redundancies, and clichés.

Squircley

Create organic shapes for logos, icons and background images.

Announcing Style Stage: A Community CSS Showcase

Challenge your web design skills while learning in public.

New in Chrome 84

App icon shortcuts, web animations API, and more.

The State Of Pixel Perfection

Is pixel perfection still relevant today?

Scroll to text fragment

How to link and highlight any text on a web page.

Mozilla Puts Its Trusted Stamp on VPN

Mozilla VPN is now available on Windows and Android devices.

Debunking the ‘users always click yes’ myth

We can design warnings to achieve good adherence.

How to turn negative feedback into design gold

How negative feedback can help you grow as a designer.

Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

The emergence of paid communities.