Setting up a decentralised website (ENS + IPFS = dWeb)

A nothing but ordinary way to launch your next web site.

Introducing: Custom Elements Manifest

A file that describes the web components in your project.

How the next layer of the internet is going to be standardised

The way the internet is standardized is going to change a lot.

TablesNG resolves 72 Chromium bugs for better interoperability

Many bugs have been a part of the web platform for years.

Towards a better responsiveness metric

Let’s measure how quickly web pages respond to user input.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available

Say hello to the first 64-bit release of the popular code editor.

Browserflow

Automate your work on any website.

Custom scrollbars in CSS

How to style a scrollbar, with both the old and new syntax.

“Would love a browser designed for deep work that only lets you have one tab open at a time.”

GitHub Issues

New ways for developers to plan, track, and manage projects.

A first look at Qwik: the HTML first framework

Let’s serve fast static pages to the user, full of interaction and life.

The State of WebAssembly 2021

What developers think about the technology and its future.

Introducing the brand new PWA builder

A better builder to bring your Progressive Web App to the app stores.

Use href wisely

HTML links are much more powerful nowadays than years ago.

Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit

Now Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore.

RunJS

A playground for JavaScript and TypeScript.

ES2021 Features!

New JavaScript features, recently approved by the Ecma General Assembly.

Windows 11 is deleting Internet Explorer

It’s the first version of Windows without IE for more than 20 years.

How HTTP status codes, and network and DNS errors affect Google Search

Googlebot’s handling of the top 20 status codes.

Take control over your data with Rally

A novel privacy-first data sharing platform.

The ReScript Programming Language

A typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.

Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API

The ECMAScript proposal “Temporal”, explained with examples.

Creating custom Emmet snippets in VS Code

Automate repetitive tasks and improve your front-end workflow.

GitHub Copilot

Your AI pair programmer.

New Progressive Web App training now available

How to build reliable, installable and capable PWAs for all devices.

Calmcode

Learn to code with short video lessons that start from scratch.

Solid

A fast and lightweight JavaScript library for building UIs.

The state of web workers In 2021

Why multithreading on the web matters and how to master it.

Detecting hover-capable devices

Say hello to the CSS media query features “hover” and “pointer”.

The unseen benefits of accessibility

What happens when accessibility is viewed as hard-core usability.

Machine learning for beginners

A 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum with exercises and quizzes.

Towards richer colors on the Web

The long road to increase the expressivity of the web platform.

Find your way with field data in the Web Vitals extension update

New features of the Web Vitals extension for Chrome.

Sorting colors in JavaScript

A solution for a non-trivial problem, illustrated with interactive examples.

Petite Vue

A 5kb subset of Vue, the popular JavaScript UI framework.

What the heck is “web a11y”?

If you’re not sure what "a11y" means or how to say it, you are not alone.

Parcel

The code editor built for email development.

Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming

Visual programming doesn’t suck. Or maybe it does?

Zero-Width Space

Trick a system into thinking an URL isn’t a link or a single word is two words.

Using Pipedream to proxy other APIs

A simple way to hide an API key from client-side JavaScript.

Tabs in HTML?

Ideas about how we could get native browser support for tabs.

Using HSL colors in CSS

They are very powerful when we use them the right way.

The Web Monetization meta tag and API

How the Coil system works at the technical level.

Stately

Making application logic more visual, robust, and accessible.

Inert in HTML

Let’s come back to the fascinating but forgotten standard ‘inert’ attribute.

Git Worktrees step-by-step

A short recipe for setting up worktrees for a blog repository.

What’s new in ES2021

Five new features you can use to improve your JavaScript code.

Open 3D Engine

A real-time engine to build games, 3D worlds, and simulations.

GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright

Why Microsoft’s AI pair programmer bugs the open-source community.

ARIA in HTML

The ARIA in HTML specification became a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot.

npm audit: broken by design

How npm audit works, why it’s broken, and what needs to change.

“I miss the days of RSS, where each website could plant its own little flag on the internet, rather than a massive, blunt algorithm deciding what people are allowed to see.”

Comments first

Why not writing code and comments in reverse order?

Visual Studio Code v1.58 release

Terminals in the editor, scrollbar customizations, and more.

“The C in CSS stands for Cascading. Few understand this. The wise leverage it.”

“I’m not a CSS developer, I’m a code stylist.”

Core Web Vitals check

Find slow pages on your site or compare your site with those of your competitors.

A look at building with Astro

A JavaScript framework that outputs zero-JavaScript static sites.

The ethical dilemma at the heart of GitHub’s Copilot

GitHub’s AI-powered auto-complete raises some questions.

Firefox 90 supports Fetch Metadata Request Headers

The new headers allow sites to protect themselves from cross-site attacks.

Using the Specificity of :where() as a CSS Reset

The power of the functional pseudo selectors :is() and :where().

The new CSS Reset

Today a CSS Reset can be composed in a lot easier way.

How to eliminate render-blocking resources

Why it’s important, and what to do in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

“‘Is it a site or is it an app?’ has the same energy as ‘is a hot dog a sandwich?’”

Build wicked fast sites with Astro

An introduction to one of the hot new frameworks on the scene.

Increasing HTTPS adoption

Beginning in M94, Chrome will offer HTTPS-First Mode.

The performance effects of too much lazy-loading

Why lazy-loading of images above the fold is a bad idea.

What is Dinero.js?

A library to manipulate monetary values in JavaScript and TypeScript.

Hobson’s Browser

How Apple, Facebook, and Google broke the mobile browser market.

PHP 8.1: before and after

Get ready for enums, array unpacking with string keys, and more.

Explore the JavaScript universe

An interactive course on mental models for JavaScript.

The 3-second frontend developer test

What if you have to hire a frontend developer and only one question?

Assistiv Labs

Online service to make sure your website works with assistive technology.

The road to Ember 4.0

What’s in the next major version of the well-known JavaScript framework.

The ultimate guide to browser-side storage

11 client-side options to store data in the browser using JavaScript.

How to learn stuff quickly

Learning to learn matters, especially for web developers.

Practical use cases for Scroll-linked Animations

The potential of the coming CSS Scroll-linked Animations specification.

Accessibility of the section element

The HTML section element and its practical use for accessibility.

WordPress 5.8 Tatum

Template editor, manage widgets with blocks, and many other improvements.

Easier browser debugging with Developer Tools integration in Visual Studio Code

If you debug with Edge, you also get DevTools in your editor.

Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?

What to expect from GitHub’s AI pair programmer.

URLPattern brings routing to the web platform

An approach to standardizing common pattern matching use cases.

Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

Mozilla completely removes the non-secure FTP protocol in its browser.

accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative

Do quick-fix solutions for accessibility like accessiBe really work?

Compat 2021 mid-year update: Flex gap everywhere

Firefox, Safari, and Chrome have improved their browser compatibility score.

Back to the Future with RSS

What RSS is, how it works, and how you get started.

HTML Recipes

A collection of HTML snippets for a variety of common scenarios.

Open Source Alternatives

A collection of open source alternatives to popular business tools.

A11y audit bookmarklets

Small helpers to check for accessibility issues on a web page.

The state of developer ecosystem 2021

The latest trends on tools, technologies, and programming languages.

Self-hosted analytics with Umami + Traefik

Google Analytics vs Umami (with a reverse proxy).

Thinking about the cut-out effect: CSS or SVG?

The challenge and the pros and cons of different solutions.

CSS Nesting Module

The W3C moved the spec from a proposal to a work-in-progress module.

Astro 0.18 release

Responsive partial hydration has landed in the modern static site builder.

For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated

Why the annoyance with Safari gets deeper and more nuanced.

One-offs and low-expectations with Safari

Why it’s hard to support Safari in every web project.

Detecting media query support in CSS and JavaScript

How to detect support for media queries regardless of if they are turned on.

AccessiBe and data protection?

How the accessibility overlay tracks your browser activity.

Using absolute value, sign, rounding and modulo in CSS today

Browsers aren’t ready, but there are workarounds.

Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it

Does Apple’s browser approach make the web worse for everybody?