4 must‑know CSS features in 2026

“Toolbelt worthy, powerful, and game-changing CSS.”

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

“We just couldn’t see it until code was free.”

Date is out, Temporal is in

JavaScript will soon have modern date handling.

Web dependencies are broken

“The time has come for an intervention.”

2025 JavaScript Rising Stars

Top starred GitHub projects in the past year.

Claude Code’s DX is too good

“It feels like working with an engineer.”

Baseline typography

Responsive and fluid typography with Baseline CSS.

Your AI coding agents need a manager

A manager to orchestrate them like a team.

Not all browser APIs are "web" APIs

The APIs you choose come with consequences.

Favorite Chrome DevTools features

Ways to improve your frontend instincts.

AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture

But maybe not in the way you think.

EaseMaster

An easing curve generator for natural UI animations.

Worst of Breed Software

Why keep it simple when you can make it genius?

A software library with no code

What if we build language-agnostic libraries?

Passkeys still have problems

“But it’s not all doom and gloom.”

PHP in 2026

Highlights of what’s coming in PHP this year.

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype

“AI is going to change programming forever.”

Stop turning everything into arrays

Iterator helpers give us a native, lazy alternative.

The 9 levels of JS dependency hell

Developers solved each problem, only to create the next.

Introducing the HTML ‘geolocation’ element

What it does and how to use it.

Just the browser

Enjoy Chrome, Edge, or Firefox with fewer annoyances.

Live region support

How screen readers expose dynamic messages to users.

Writing good specs for AI agents

Essential principles to guide them effectively.

New in Chrome 144

JS Temporal API, HTML ‘geolocation’, CSS ’::search-text’.

New Safari developer tools

Safari’s Grid Inspector now supports CSS Grid Lanes.

Drupal turns 25

A passionate global community celebrates its powerful CMS.

Accessible faux-nested interactive controls

How to solve a tricky accessibility problem.

Web Almanac 2025

Explore the latest web trends and insights.

Let’s Encrypt’s new certificates

6-day and IP address certificates now generally available.

Where I store my MFA recovery codes

A practical system to recover from an emergency.

How I build websites

An approach where “you’re never locked in.”

The one true way

What’s the best architecture for software?

jQuery 4.0.0

jQuery turns 20 this year, bringing a major release.

Agent psychosis

Where are we heading with AI agents?

Container queries in 2026

“Powerful, but not a silver bullet.”

Better defaults for popovers

A small anchor-repositioning with a big effect.

Getting started with Claude Code

Learn the basics before asking Claude to write code.

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user

“Here’s why I switched to Claude Code 2.0.”

JPEG XL is coming back to Chrome

Will re-adding it revive the format, or is it too late?

Software as clay on the wheel

The Ralph Wiggum technique for autonomous coding.

TechConf Directory

A worldwide catalog of tech events with an open API.

The missing link for web components

Where a Custom Elements Manifest shines.

A better way to update web apps

Updates are more predictable in Chrome 144.

The State of WebAssembly 2025/2026

”Wasm is no longer an experiment, it’s ready for production.”

My opinionated CSS reset

Modern base styles for consistent web design.

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

“It’s going to arrive sooner than you think.”

Pencil

Design your products right where you code.

Speculation rules prerender until script

A new origin trial available in Chrome 144.

Initiating navigations with the Navigation API

A look at programmatically triggering navigations.

Using AI as a design engineer

“AI has changed the way I work on a day-to-day basis.”

Anchor interpolated morphing

A powerful new CSS transition technique.

Speculation Rules Generator

An easy way to speed up pages with speculation rules.

A web component super power

Done right, inheritance shines in design systems.

From coder to orchestrator

The future of software engineering with AI.

What has Docker become?

Docker Inc. still struggles to find its place.

The OS that quietly powers all AI

”Future IT jobs will live and die on Linux.”

Dependency layers in design systems

“Be intentional about what you own.”

More reasons not to use JavaScript

The Invoker Commands API is now in Baseline.

New meta tag ‘text-scale’ in Chrome Canary

Supports mobile users’ text size preferences on websites.

Introducing ReliCSS

An online tool for front-end archaeology.

Building GitHuman

An AI-coded tool for reviewing AI code.

The Most Hearted Pens of 2025

100 impressive web and front-end designs.

The 80% problem in agentic coding

Handling the challenges of a Slopacolypse.

1 human + 1 agent = 1 browser

Why not build a basic browser with AI?

Styling highlight-y pseudo-elements

Which texts they target and how to customize them.

CSS layout fundamentals

Master the core concepts behind CSS layouts.

New to the web platform (January 2026)

CSS Anchor Positioning, Temporal API, Navigation API, and more.

Improving LCP for hero videos

Let users see something while the video loads.

Stop using MySQL in 2026

“MySQL is open source only by license, but not as a project.”

AI content disclosure for HTML

A proposal to declare your AI use in webpage sections.

Snapshot testing to keep URLs cool

An automated way to prevent broken links.

CSS optical illusions

A showcase of visual puzzles in pure CSS.

The lost art of XML

”Sometimes the old way was the right way.”

Anti-frameworkism

When to choose native web APIs over frameworks.

“I ship code I don’t read”

The creator of the personal AI assistant OpenClaw.

Typographic scales and technical pens

Consistent stroke widths for type and icons.

State of JavaScript 2025

What last year had in store for us all.

The browser’s little white lies

When browsers lie to keep you safe.

Some CSS only contrast options

What works until contrast-color() is widely supported.

“Stop prompting, start compounding”

Let your agent learn and ship while you sleep.

Nice Select

Pushing customizable HTML ‘select’ to an extreme.

AI ecosystem security debt

When hyped AI agents turn into a security nightmare.

Explicit resource management in JavaScript

How it will make cleanup safer and simpler.

Performance-optimized video embeds

Lazy-loading videos on interaction using only HTML/CSS.

Practical guide to AI slash commands

Tired copy/pasting prompts again and again?

How to improve your HTML game

Why writing style, validation, and spec matter.

The CSS Selection 2026

The state of real-world CSS usage.

Interop 2025, a year of convergence

How vendors improved cross-browser support last year.

Agentic engineering

The professional approach to vibe coding.

“AI code may make garbage, mass-produced software more ubiquitous, but it may also free up a space for engineers seeking to restore a genuine sense of craft and creative expression. As craft becomes more scarce, it also becomes more valuable.”

Bug Chase

Can you spot more bugs than AI in 60 seconds?

Agentation

Point at UI issues and let AI fix them.

Honoring mobile OS text size

The current and upcoming state in major browsers.

HTML-only conditional image lazy loading

Adaptive image loading above/below the fold.

Comparison of 36 CLI coding agents

“Now there’s a CLI agent for every workflow.”

JSON WTF

“A totally normal and not hard quiz about JSON.”

Web­space invaders

Let’s level up our anti-AI scraping game!

Google lists Googlebot file limits

Do Google’s crawling limits affect your website?

WebMCP is available for early preview

A standard way to let AI agents act on your website.

Software engineering is back

“Coding agents have replaced every framework I used.”