Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces

Cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working.

Warning Over Chinese Mobile Giant Xiaomi

Recording millions of people’s ‘private’ web and phone use.

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)

No sale of the .ORG registry to Ethos Capital.

The Open Web Is Dying

Let‘s create a future where our future selfs don’t hate ourselves.

Publish Something Online

Getting started with online publishing on the World Wide Web.

Scroll Overflows

How to find out what DOM nodes have an unexpected scrollbar.

How to Remove URLs From Google Search (5 Methods)

A flowchart helps you to find the best method for you.

AR Cut & Paste

Cut and paste your surroundings to an image editing software.

Video Call Apps

Mozilla has interrogated video call apps’ privacy features and flaws.

grep.app

Search across countless git repos, with words or regular expressions.

Is it time for a Web Performance rebrand?

What we might gain from a change to our language.

Embroideries

Frontend vs. backend in two images.

A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

All the functions we can and can’t use in CSS.

Mobile First

The legendary guide to mobile web design is free to read.

Startup financial models

A comparison of the top 12 templates for SaaS startups.

“Very rarely does building in private for months result in something people want to use.”

Announcing Our First Public Call for Proposals

It’s time for the business models on the web to evolve.

Web Vitals

Essential metrics to quantify the user experience of your site.

Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout

Let’s hope these features become mainstream soon.

Top 100 Resources for Product Managers

Blog posts to learn the fundamentals and master the craft.

Understanding ‘same-site‘ and ‘same-origin‘

The frequently cited but often misunderstood terms.

Codespaces

The full Visual Studio Code experience within GitHub.

Prototypr

A hand curated design platform with countless resources.

Designer Slack Communities

Slack communities for designers around the world.

Tabler Icons

A large set of high-quality SVG icons for your web projects.

‘lh’ and ‘rlh’ units

New units from the Level 4 spec for CSS values.

GitHub Codespaces mean your computer doesn't matter anymore

A development environment within a browser is a big deal.

Copytesting

Improve your website copy, get feedback from real people.

“My girlfriend asks me to tell her random things about design to help her fall asleep and no this is not a joke.”

Tabs vs spaces?

Fibonacci indentation reduces the number of nested loops.

the Browser Company

It’s time for a web browser that is empowering and a joy to use.

When Network is Faster than Cache

The browser cache is not always as quick as you think.

15 Principles of Good Service Design

Universal principles for designing services that work for users.

Designing for Progressive Disclosure

How we can approach information design in a proactive way.

Empty sets

BBC TV show sets you can use as video chat backgrounds.

PixelMe

Convert your photo into pixel art.

Chromium lands Flexbox gap

Starting in Chromium 85 ‘grid-gap’ is now just ‘gap’.

What design system tools will look like in the future

Let‘s abstract the design system from the design tools.

Analyzing A Recent Google Update Impact

How to spot trend changes in rankings after Google updates.

toast.log

Get console errors right on your page

Benchmarking UX: Tracking Metrics

Quantitative evaluation of a product or service’s user experience.

Second-guessing the modern web

Why frontend trends like React & Co aren’t always the answer.

Pose Animator

A web animation tool that brings SVG illustrations to life.

Scunthorpe Sans

A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically.

ip.dog

The fastest way to get your IP address securely.

Blush

Create, mix, and customize illustrations made by artists around the world.

Next.js 9.4

What‘s new in the latest release of the popular React framework.

Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems

A series examining state of the art CSS technology.

Awesome README

A curated list of great readmes for your inspiration.

Easings

Test common easing curves on a range of interfaces.

Intersection Observer Visualizer

A tool to assist you with using the Intersection Observer API.

Pico

A library to take browser screenshots entirely client side.

Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever

Work from home is the new normal at Twitter.

Bootstrap 4.5.0

New interaction utilities, downloadable examples, and more.

Webrecorder

High-fidelity, interactive recordings of any web site you browse.

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users

Lessons from Netflix, Tinder, Product Hunt, and many more.

Making Cutting-Edge Technology Approachable

A case study of facial-recognition payment in China.

Why does writing matter in remote work?

How you can contribute to better online collaboration.

Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

Tab groups with custom names and colors will be available soon.

Google Lighthouse Budget Generator

A tool to create Google Lighthouse performance budget files.

Best Static Site Generators

Benefits of static site generators and how to choose between them.

Deno

A new runtime for executing JavaScript outside of the web browser.

What's New In DevTools (Chrome 84)

Issues tab, a11y info in the Inspect Mode tooltip, and more.

SVG Path Visualizer

A tool to examine, explore, and understand SVG path data.

Through the roof

Debugging on production server.

Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million

The platform of sharable animated images is integrated with Instagram.

Protecting against resource-heavy ads in Chrome

Users’ batteries and data plans will no longer excessively used up.

In defense of the modern web

The modern web has flaws, but let’s not give up on it.

The best totally free web fonts & typefaces

Top 12 picks, along with a few honorable mentions.

Timelines are not always lines

An evaluation of the readability of different timeline shapes.

“If you do creative work, try to avoid situations where people with less ability than you can tell you what to do, or edit your work.”

“It’s much easier to turn a customer into a repeat customer than a non-customer into a customer. And repeat customers are better at turning non-customers into customers than you are.”

Quicklink

A tiny library to speed next-page navigations by prefetching in-viewport links.

Dark Mode Design

Showcase of beautifully designed websites with dark color schemes.

Ideas aren't cheap

The quality of your idea will set your ceiling for success.

PHP 8 in 8 code blocks

Highlights of the next major version of PHP at a glance.

It’s Time to Get Back Into RSS

Let’s return to what made Really Simple Syndication great.

Web Cards

Figma plugin to turn URLs into beautiful cards.

Preparing for AppCache removal

Chrome 85 removes support for AppCache by default.

The ‘average’ fallacy

Why we cannot design impactful products or services for ‘average’ persons.

Detect inactive users with the Idle Detection API

Find out when the user isn’t actively using their device.

New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

A move towards a more privacy-friendly news environment.

Facebook launches Shops to bring more businesses online during the pandemic

A major new push into e-commerce.

“It might seem from the outside like framework wars are stupid. That’s because they are.”

What's New in Lighthouse 6.0

New metrics, performance score update, new audits, and more.

Notion for everyone

The popular all-in-one workspace is now free for personal use.

Framer Web

The popular prototyping tool is now also available on the web.

Webby Gallery + Index

24th Annual Webby Awards: the best of the Internet.

The Fastest Google Fonts

Let’s find a snippet for loading Google Fonts at lightning speed.

“You will make a lot of wrong decisions at pretty much every job you will ever have, but one thing you’re always in control of is how you treat people. That is what most people will remember you for.”

Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids

The lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.

Want Your Content to Succeed?

Make it resonate with the right audience (no, not that one).

Modern Touch-Friendly Design

Steven Hoober’s guidelines for UI designers in a nutshell.

“Build things you wish people built for you.”

Darkmode

A font for modern user interfaces with variants for darkmode on/off.

World’s fastest internet speed

Downloads 1 million times faster than current broadband.

Gradually, Then Suddenly

The future of work has been arriving quickly.

Textmoji

A quick way to create a text emoji for your Slack workspace.

Why is This Website Port Scanning me?

Some sites are port scanning visitors for dubious reasons.

Using calc to figure out optimal line-height

A CSS formula to perfect your responsive web designs.