Translating accessibility

What to translate for accessible web pages.

CSS only contrast

Accessible contrast for a given color with pure CSS.

JavaScript with optional chaining

“A game-changer for writing safer, cleaner JavaScript.”

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

A flexible solution that doesn’t require much code.

The ‘Personal Home Page Tools’ turn 30

On June 8, 1995, PHP said hello to the world.

Hosting-Checker

Discover the infrastructure behind any website.

Decorative text within HTML

It’s perfectly valid HTML, but you may not like it.

WebKit in Safari 26 beta

SVG icons, CSS anchor positioning, and much more!

Introducing php-node

How to seamlessly blend PHP with Node.js.

On shaping light

A deep dive into volumetric lighting.

Partial keyframes

CSS keyframe animations might blow your mind.

Struggling with EAA compliance?

What to do before the European Accessibility Act deadline.

Apple just sherlocked Docker

Linux container images now work directly on Macs.

A new way to style gaps

Say hello to consistent separators across CSS layouts.

Decoding the SVG ‘path’ element

It’s not as confusing as it initially looks.

TC39 advances 9 JavaScript proposals

Three features are ready to join ECMAScript.

Modal dialog focus

Where to put focus when opening a modal dialog.

How to use the browser console

An in-depth guide to Chrome DevTools’ console.

PHP version stats (June 2025)

Which PHP versions power today’s projects.

“Ask for facts and ‘AI’ gives you fiction. Apparently everyone is happy with that?”

You’re not a front-end developer…

A quiz not meant to be taken too seriously.

Escaping ‘<‘ and ‘>’ in attributes

What the HTML spec change means for developers.

The future of browsing the web

”AI just broke the web that Google built.”

Creating accessible emails

A guide to building impactful, compliant emails.

Next.js 15.1+ unusable outside Vercel

It potentially devastates your search rankings.

What I wish I knew when learning ARIA

How to approach a vital part of web interfaces.

Exploring JavaScript

A guide to modern JavaScript for programmers.

The "trust, but verify" pattern

“Verification, not generation, is the new development bottleneck.”

Highlights from Git 2.50

A look at the top features and changes.

Keeping up with new CSS features

There are many ways to stay informed.

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs

“You can build accessibly without having a bleeding heart.“

Bluesky likes

Accessible, localizable web components are still a challenge.

The server doesn’t render anything

How servers can effectively deliver HTML.

Cascade Layers vs. BEM vs. utility classes

Approaches to control CSS specificity.

Accessibility in design systems

How accessible features fit into design components.

Charts in CSS

Yet again, but now with new techniques.

Sonda

A visualizer/analyzer for JavaScript and CSS bundles.

Photo³

An animated 3D photo gallery like no other.

The HTML ‘output’ element

A display companion to ‘input’ for form results.

Analytics without cookie banners?

What to expect from cookieless web analytics.

CSS color functions

What they are and how to use them.

Easier to use regexes in JavaScript

“This is how regular expressions are meant to be written.”

Figma MCP

“A leap forward for design-to-code workflows.”

Vite 7.0 is out

The front-end ecosystem makes big moves.

SVG optimization and accessibility basics

Techniques to make SVGs lightweight and accessible.

Bot or not?

Web bot history and detection techniques.

ECMAScript 2025 is now a standard

What it brings to JavaScript developers.

Safe align your content

The CSS ‘safe’ keyword is worth knowing.

Declarative templating API proposal

“The time is right for a DOM templating API.”

We’re using AI wrong

“The question isn’t whether AI will get smarter.”

CSS blob recipes

What’s the easiest way to make fun shapes?

Kelp

A customizable UI library that needs no build step.

State of Devs 2025

The developer survey about everything but code.

Top-level ‘await’ in ES modules

Write cleaner, more direct async code in modules.

New to the web platform (June 2025)

The latest browser features at a glance.

Introducing pay per crawl

Cloudflare lets site owners charge AI crawlers.

Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers

The infrastructure giant now blocks them by default.

Our first IP address certificate

Let’s Encrypt starts rolling out the new option.

New if() function in CSS

You can now try out inline CSS conditionals.

Tabindex

What it is, how it works, and when to use it.

What’s new in ECMAScript 2025

This year’s additions explained with examples.

The UX of number inputs

The many things you didn’t expect to matter.

WCAG rules in infographics

A practical guide to accessible infographics.

Who’s crawling your site in 2025

The most active and blocked bots and crawlers.

The new skill in AI is not prompting

It’s a more powerful approach: context engineering.

Named vs. arrow functions in JavaScript

How to know which one to use and when?

CSS Design Tokens Analyzer

Uncover design tokens from your stylesheet.

URL to Any

Convert any webpage into various formats.

HTML Form Inspector

An online tool to inspect and debug web forms.

Writing comments in front-end code

“Don’t forget that future-you is a teammate.”

The AI-native software engineer

A playbook for using AI in everyday engineering.

Antidatalossconfigurationism

How to handle overflow in a text component?

Influence the State of HTML 2025 survey

Which new HTML features or Web APIs are on your radar?

What is HTML popover=hint?

Its function and relation to interest invokers.

Git security vulnerabilities

The latest Git release eliminates major security flaws.

Animation ranges for scroll-driven animations

A visual breakdown of all ‘animation-range’ values.

Revisit of the Every Layout sidebar

Can modern CSS selectors improve it?

How I build software quickly

Lessons learned as a developer in a small team.

Can we have ARIA Notify?

Why we can’t rely only on ARIA live regions.

Web Awesome is finally here

“Now we have the best CSS framework on the market.”

New study from METR

AI coding may not be helping as much as you think.

new Date("wtf")

How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class?

MCP Servers

A large catalog of MCP servers for your AI needs.

Proudest of these 128 kilobytes

Constraint-driven web development to the extreme.

Is Tailwind CSS worth it?

“Tailwind is the worst form of CSS, except for all the others.”

When can I use the Temporal API?

Why JavaScript’s Date API replacement took so long.

A11y Rules

Instructions for AI to generate accessible HTML/CSS.

Is it still worth using jQuery in 2025?

When a modern alternative makes more sense.

Setting line length in CSS

Ways to juggle line length in text.

A label and a name walk into a bar

When is a label also an accessible name, not a name, or neither?

Context engineering

Bringing engineering discipline to prompts.

The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey

Which tools do software engineers use today?

Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5

Stack traces for fatal errors, pipe operator, and much more.

Modern async iteration in JavaScript

“Array.fromAsync() is a fantastic addition to JavaScript.”

Firefox brings WebGPU to Windows

Linux, Mac, and Android are coming later.

Tiny screens, big impact

The forgotten art of developing for feature phones.

Improving client-side page routing

“There’s no reason why SPAs can’t be accessible.”

Enhancement of a simple layout

Smarter layout flow using CSS subgrid.

Getting clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass

Apple’s design language from a front-end perspective.

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

Unveiling the simplicity behind Git’s complexity.