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The Art of Continuous Transformation: How Garden Eight Blends Integrity with Play
Garden Eight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · Inside Garden Eight's approach to creating websites that are not only visually striking, but thoughtfully crafted to ...
Jul 24, 2026
The open universe
A working library · In her 1974 essay “Escape Routes,” Le Guin addresses a common criticism of science fiction:
Jul 24, 2026
The Language of the Night
A working library · The Language of the Night by
Jul 24, 2026
First take/next take/last take
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Nailing it in the first take is a sign of preparation and professionalism. No need for two tries if you are clear abo...
Jul 24, 2026
Building Cerebrium: Making Serverless Infrastructure Tangible
Célia Lopez · case study – Codrops · Go behind the scenes of Cerebrium to explore the design, 3D, and WebGL techniques that turned complex AI infrastructu...
Jul 23, 2026
Industrialism and the slippery slope
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for ...
Jul 23, 2026
Coming Up For Air
Brad Frost · My website has been my online home and primary means of expression for my entire adult life. Which is why it's a big ...
Jul 22, 2026
Solve These Common WordPress JavaScript Security Issues
WP Engine · WP Engine® · JavaScript is the undisputed programming language engine of the modern web. It transforms static pages into highly in...
Jul 22, 2026
Introducing Our Color of the Season: Water Lily
Laura Busche · Creative Market Blog · Meet Water Lily (B2A8EB), our new Color of the Season. Water Lily captures the gentle sway of periwinkle petals at ov...
Jul 22, 2026
iyO - Case Study: selling the world's first audio computer
Awwwards - Blog · The briefThe iyO One is the world's first audio computer: voice-first, screen-free, and worn in the ear. It's the pre...
Jul 22, 2026
State champs
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Compared to what?
Jul 22, 2026
Google's Cloud Revenue Converges to NVIDIA's Growth Rate
Tomasz Tunguz · Google Cloud grew 82% year-over-year to $24.8b in Q2 2026, beating the $22.3b consensus. The number alone would headl...
Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
WordPress Cookies
Erin Myers · WP Engine® · You’ve probably noticed that a lot of the websites you visit “remember” things about you. The information they store ...
Jul 21, 2026
Magnetic Commerce: Building the Dash Creative Website
Dash · case study – Codrops · How a simple branding concept shaped the interaction design, animation, and WebGL implementation of the Dash Creative...
Jul 21, 2026
Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · React Server Components don’t send HTML to your browser. They don’t send JSON either. When a server component renders...
Jul 21, 2026
writing-mode
Mojtaba Seyedi · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the direction i...
Jul 21, 2026
The Having/Doing job gap
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market.
Jul 21, 2026
AI Engineering Productivity is Anything But Normal
Tomasz Tunguz · We are now in an era where we should expect 3x more from each other.
Jul 20, 2026
How Moats are Built
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · About two weeks ago, a Commoncog member asked if “all successful businesses really so simple/dull that they all clean...
Jul 20, 2026
The “Pixel Police” are Retired: Why AI Agents are the New Mediators of Web Design
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · The designer-developer handoff is officially dead—and AI just pulled the trigger. Instead of wasting weeks translatin...
Jul 20, 2026
The Craft Behind Memorable Digital Experiences: Inside Unseen Studio
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · We’re Unseen Studio, an independent creative studio specialising in brand, digital and motion.
Jul 20, 2026
The power of positive argument
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Hank Green has an interesting take on the [scientific method](): We advance because scientists work to persuade other...
Jul 20, 2026
Open Models Tack Toward the Frontier
Tomasz Tunguz · Like two sailboats in a marathon race, open & closed AI labs are tacking & jibing in San Francisco Bay.
Jul 19, 2026
Sinistral Hands
Robin Rendle · There’s a line from Rutherford Craze’s [latest note]() that hit me like a piano tumbling out of a six story building:
Jul 19, 2026
Pointless banality and the uncanny valley
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The folks at [TryAI]() put Fable to the test in directing a music [video]().
Jul 19, 2026
Imminent, urgent, trending and important
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The nearest lightning was 1,200 miles away. At least that’s what the weather site reported.
Jul 18, 2026
What AI-Native Brands Actually Want From Designers and Agencies in 2026
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · If you work in design, run a creative agency, or are trying to land clients with real ad budgets, this is the cleares...
Jul 17, 2026
ZERO: The Engineering Behind a Defiant Interactive Narrative
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · You arrive on the site and it’s locked. There’s no enter button, only a prompt to draw a zero. As soon as the circle ...
Jul 17, 2026
Resources and focus
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · There are lots of things you can do, but it’s not clear you should.
Jul 17, 2026
When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · We’ve all heard of the sacred rule in modern web development, the rule never to be broken. The rule of “Never block t...
Jul 17, 2026
Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doome...
Jul 16, 2026
Playful Provenance: Why Paper Play Is Suddenly Important
Creative Market Blog · We are collectively building a very particular kind of image across branding, packaging and social design at the mome...
Jul 16, 2026
Two kinds of word salad
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world.
Jul 16, 2026
The Blank Slate AI Strategy
Tomasz Tunguz · What does a bare-bones pickup truck have in common with a state-of-the-art AI lab?
Jul 15, 2026
Image to text
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · At [The Web You Want]() event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the...
Jul 15, 2026
pointer-events
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover st...
Jul 15, 2026
What’s !important #15: Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · Read all about boundary-aware CSS, accessible grid lanes, time-based web designs, full-bleed, the customizable select...
Jul 15, 2026
The Architecture Behind Trionn: Coordinating GSAP, Three.js, Lenis, and Web Audio
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Trionn was built as an exploration of how far a studio website could be pushed when animation, WebGL, and interaction...
Jul 15, 2026
The Guide to Local Development for WordPress®
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · Modern WordPress®[1]() development requires speed and reliability. Whether you’re an agency pro or a freelancer, you ...
Jul 15, 2026
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Many companies silently assume that everybody wants more AI in their lives. That people are craving new AI features ,...
Jul 15, 2026
Disposable software
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Even though it’s invisible, easily transported and weightless, software used to stick around. It took years to archit...
Jul 15, 2026
La Revoltosa: Rebooting a 70-Year-Old Spanish Soda Brand for the Scroll Generation
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![La Revoltosa: Rebooting a 70-Year-Old Spanish Soda Brand for the Scroll Generation](https://www.awwwards.com/awards...
Jul 15, 2026
Dell is on a roll with the XPS
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at [37signals](), but I was never too impressed with their person...
Jul 14, 2026
Facebook’s Design Didn’t Evolve—It Regressed
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · Facebook didn’t get worse overnight—it optimized itself into confusion. What started as the clearest social experienc...
Jul 14, 2026
“Is it okay if I share my screen?”
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The meeting is now broken.
Jul 14, 2026
The Harness Is the New Battleground
Tomasz Tunguz · [![A friendly cartoon robot wearing a leather horse harness, reins trailing off to the side](https://res.cloudinary.c...
Jul 13, 2026
Where Stories Become Interactive Worlds: How makemepulse Brings Ideas to Life Across Web, XR, and Beyond
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · We are makemepulse, a creative and technology company founded in 2008, based in Paris and operating globally. We crea...
Jul 13, 2026
The hedonic treadmill
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · When we upgrade something in our lives, the thing we used to be satisfied with is no longer satisfying.
Jul 13, 2026
Folded between the pages.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · While I was working on [my latest redesign](), I added a [statement explaining how “artificial intelligence” is used ...
Jul 13, 2026
The AI Colander
Tomasz Tunguz · AI is like a colander. Customers pour in. Many pour out.
Jul 12, 2026
The will to power will return
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · In the 1980s, France started [43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites](). On average, each reactor took just seven years ...
Jul 12, 2026
EP-1320 Medieval
Robin Rendle · Last week I picked up the [EP-1320 Medieval]() and I’ve been tinkering with it all weekend. Besides it’s buck-wild lo...
Jul 12, 2026
Controversial
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · This is a useful term. It helps us understand a topic or theory that can be considered from multiple points of view b...
Jul 12, 2026
But Y
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. As a total package, I could make a fair ...
Jul 11, 2026
Mel’s back
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Last year, the recording session I did with Mel Robbins was going so well that her producers asked me to stick around...
Jul 11, 2026
The Sleepers: Creating an Atmospheric WebGL Experience with Lightweight Techniques
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Building for a challenge like this means working in your own time, for free, and against a tight deadline. That natur...
Jul 10, 2026
From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · When a branding project fails, it usually happens long before the logo stage: in the strategy phase, when words like ...
Jul 10, 2026
Kraken
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Billy Harrow is taking people on a tour at London’s Natural History Museum when he makes an impossible discovery: the...
Jul 10, 2026
Reshaping Telha Clarke’s Digital Home
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Reshaping Telha Clarke’s Digital Home](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/07/6964b60076436116585408.jpg)
Jul 10, 2026
Three Years In
Tomasz Tunguz · Three years ago, we launched Theory Ventures with a simple premise : AI would reshape how software is built, sold, de...
Jul 9, 2026
Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Mental health applications keep facing a continuing, measurable crisis: many people stop using them quickly. The data...
Jul 9, 2026
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · In preparation for [my jaunt to a Greek island](), I figured it would be good to have some Greek-adjacent reading mat...
Jul 9, 2026
Generous collusion
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The professionals you have the most in common with may be your competition. They wrestle with similar problems and ha...
Jul 9, 2026
8.9 Million AI Users
Tomasz Tunguz · It all started when I knocked on a door in Palo Alto.
Jul 8, 2026
Speak at UX London 2027
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · Exactly one year from now, [UX London 2027]() will be wrapping up.
Jul 8, 2026
Gaeilge sa Ghréig
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · “Radharc álainn” I said. Beautiful view.
Jul 8, 2026
Ten Years Away: Designing an Interactive Comic for Studio375’s Tenth Anniversary
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Ten years is a strange thing to hold. You’ve been going, head down, client after client, deadline after deadline, and...
Jul 8, 2026
Designing for an Identity That “ShapeShifts”
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Designing for an Identity That “ShapeShifts”](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/07/69e5f4cf15e99855199696...
Jul 8, 2026
Goal clarity and the Hawking index
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · What’s this idea (book, meme, song, TV show, marketing campaign) for?
Jul 8, 2026
The AI Preflight Check
Tomasz Tunguz · I still remember when my agent would forget what I said mid-sentence.
Jul 7, 2026
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · So, we recently got the new [shape()]() function (now Baseline!) as well as the [corner-shape]() property. What else ...
Jul 7, 2026
5 Tips for Using AI That Designers Can Agree On
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · If you’ve been anywhere near the design internet in the last year, you know the cycle. Someone posts an AI-generated ...
Jul 7, 2026
Hungrier than before
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Near the end of The Tombs of Atuan, the wizard Ged is in the desert with a young woman, Tenar. They have escaped a gr...
Jul 7, 2026
Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · This article is a sponsored by [Kirki]()
Jul 7, 2026
The Builder’s Creed
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · A hundred and fifteen years ago, [Christian Larson]() wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimi...
Jul 7, 2026
The $10B FDE Boom
Tomasz Tunguz · AI companies have committed $9.75b in 12 months to forward-deployed engineering. The FDE model, embedding engineers i...
Jul 6, 2026
Getting Started with Anchor Positioning
Josh Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog · For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another ele...
Jul 6, 2026
The “100x Developer” Paradox: Is AI “Brain Fry” Killing the Craft?
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · AI promised to turn every developer into a 10x machine—but instead, it’s quietly frying our brains. We’re shipping fa...
Jul 6, 2026
Facts and feelings
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The world is like this and therefore I feel like that.
Jul 6, 2026
49.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · It’s been, like, hot -hot for the last week, with Boston seized by the same heat wave affecting…well, everywhere else...
Jul 6, 2026
AI Worldviews
Tomasz Tunguz · The Economist ran 25 frontier AI models through the World Values Survey[1](), the questionnaire that has mapped the m...
Jul 5, 2026
The urgency paradox
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The more often we succumb to the urgency of the moment, the more urgency we create.
Jul 5, 2026
Freedom
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Freedom is responsibility with a sexier name.
Jul 4, 2026
tweet
Derek Sivers · 17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: [sive.rs/met/at-14]()
Jul 3, 2026
Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · We often hear about shiny new tools that change everything (yet again). But in practice, most people don’t need more ...
Jul 3, 2026
Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/07/usi...
Jul 3, 2026
Operator error
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · “I blame myself.”
Jul 3, 2026
Jul 2, 2026
The Eye of the Heron
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · On the planet Victoria, the people of Shantih Town live alongside the people of the City. When a group of townspeople...
Jul 2, 2026
Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · The design community has entered a period of conversational tunnel vision. Because Large Language Models (LLMs) are t...
Jul 2, 2026
Left unsaid
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s...
Jul 2, 2026
Poetic CSS
Brad Frost · [Poetic CSS]()
Jul 1, 2026
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · The Vaster Wilds is a remarkable book. It somehow manages to be both harrowing and uplifting at the same time.
Jul 1, 2026
10 Ways to Build Radical TRUST in the Age of AI Junk
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · Everyone can spin up a website in seconds now—so why does everything feel fake? In a world drowning in AI-generated p...
Jul 1, 2026
Sculpting a Digital Athlete: Capturing Stefanos Tsitsipas Beyond the Court
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · When designing a website around a person rather than a product, the challenge goes beyond visuals. The experience has...
Jul 1, 2026
The New Obys
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![The New Obys](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/07/obys-cs-thumb.jpg)
Jul 1, 2026
Can you believe it?
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia:
Jul 1, 2026
Most AI Work Can Wait
Tomasz Tunguz · Most teams building agents pick the model first & the architecture second. That is backwards. The model choice is the...
Jun 30, 2026
46 thoughts on the near future
bayeslord · curated · This list is based on a thread I posted on June 4th. A few edits and additions here and there. Several people asked m...
Jun 30, 2026
Fancy food update
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · Everybody eats.
Jun 30, 2026
A week in Ireland
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · It started in Dublin. Myself and [Jessica]() got there in the afternoon and I went straight to [The Cobblestone]() in...
Jun 30, 2026
Designed for a Dead Language
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a m...
Jun 30, 2026
Anarchist calisthenics
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Arriving in Germany in the summer of 1990, James C. Scott is surprised to find that Germans seem entirely unwilling t...
Jun 30, 2026
Two Cheers for Anarchism
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · In this series of short explorations of anarchist thought, James C. Scott proposes a “process-oriented” view of anarc...
Jun 30, 2026
What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), <select> field sizing, and More
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important 14 , I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks des...
Jun 30, 2026
Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · This article is a sponsored by [Level Access]()
Jun 30, 2026
Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · The scent of rain after a hot day, watching the moon rise on a summer night’s sky, or going for a swim in a nearby la...
Jun 30, 2026
We are all weird
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · A [simple 7-question test]() helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score i...
Jun 30, 2026
tweet
Derek Sivers · 16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: [sive.rs/met/at-13]()
Jun 29, 2026
The CIO's Choices are Clear in 2026
Tomasz Tunguz · The CIO’s priorities are clear. The public markets reveal them.
Jun 29, 2026
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · CSS is listening to us. [No, not like that](). Rather, CSS is accumulating more and more pseudo-classes to help us re...
Jun 29, 2026
Inside Bisous: Designing an Editorial Experience for Cinematic CGI
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · In collaboration with [Bisous Production](https://bisous-production.com/), we reimagined their digital presence throu...
Jun 29, 2026
Backlist confusion
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · The backlist are the products already in the marketplace. Built earlier, still sold. The frontlist is the new.
Jun 29, 2026
A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/retrospectivegoldrattthi...
Jun 29, 2026
When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Tomasz Tunguz · Anthropic spends 2.3x its payroll on compute.[1]() With ~5,000 employees & roughly $10b in inference & training spend...
Jun 28, 2026
The generic headline and the lazy slogan
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · If you can swap your slogan with a competitor’s without changing the meaning of either brand, then your slogan is mea...
Jun 28, 2026
The Most Impactful Branding Agencies in 2026
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Strong branding today carries far more weight than a single mark or color palette. Modern teams build identity system...
Jun 26, 2026
The Most Impactful Design and Development Agencies in 2026
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Strong digital work now depends on more than clean visuals or functional code. The best agencies integrate product st...
Jun 26, 2026
The Most Impactful Agencies in 2026: Top Picks
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Every year, a handful of studios pull ahead because their work moves the needle for the clients they take on. This li...
Jun 26, 2026
Engineering the Web Experience Behind Shopify’s Spring ’26 Edition: Everywhere
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Every edition has high ambitions for injecting new & impressive techniques into rendering content on the web. Spring ...
Jun 26, 2026
What If There Is No Moat Yet?
Tomasz Tunguz · Every founder receives the question on slide three. What is your moat? They answer with technical differentiation. A ...
Jun 25, 2026
translateZ()
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The CSS translateZ() function adds depth to an element, drawing it closer or farther in space. In other words, it shi...
Jun 25, 2026
translateY()
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The CSS translateY() function shifts an element vertically by the specified amount. Specifically, it shifts an elemen...
Jun 25, 2026
translateX()
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The CSS translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. Specifically, it displaces an e...
Jun 25, 2026
translate()
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The CSS translate() function shifts an element from its default position on a two-dimensional plane. This way, we can...
Jun 25, 2026
The Rift
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. When they meet, she first refu...
Jun 25, 2026
Shaping Stories into Experience: The Work of Kevin Lam
Codrops — Designer Spotlight · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · Hi, I’m Kevin Lam, also known as [urfd](https://urfd.net/) online, short for Ur Friend. I was born in Hong Kong and I...
Jun 25, 2026
Did Quartz Really Kill the Swiss Watch Industry in the 70s?
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Did Quartz Really Kill the Swiss Watch Industry in the 70s?](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/quartzkil...
Jun 25, 2026
The house is valuable because it is the house.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · Two weeks ago, I quietly pushed up a new look for this website. Some redesigns happen over a year or two; others happ...
Jun 25, 2026
Full Sail on Asynchronous Inference
Tomasz Tunguz · Today all inference is real-time. A human types, a model responds, & the clock starts over. The infrastructure is bui...
Jun 24, 2026
Future-Proofing Content: Plugging WordPress® Into the Agentic Web
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · For much of its history, WordPress[®[1]]() has been the definitive open-source CMS for publishers seeking an intuitiv...
Jun 24, 2026
Umyazu
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · Reading is the art of attention. What a mess we’ve made of that word. From the earnest effort of a mind reaching for ...
Jun 24, 2026
Defending Against AI-Powered Attackers
Tomasz Tunguz · [![Screenshot 2026-06-24 at 8.54.22 AM](https://res.cloudinary.com/dzawgnnlr/image/upload/w1512,h802,cfill,gauto,qaut...
Jun 23, 2026
Podium: Building a Website Where Running Becomes Storytelling
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Their work captures what happens around performance: the silence, the effort, the environment, the human presence.
Jun 23, 2026
Cate Hall Q&A on Agency
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Cate Hall Q&A on Agency](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/catehallagencyqa.jpg)
Jun 23, 2026
Work In Progress, Part 17 🚧
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Dribbble exists to help service providers generate and convert leads. The purpose of everything we do – every feature...
Jun 23, 2026
Moving Beyond UX: The Rise of the Agentic Experience (AX) Designer
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · As AI agents quietly take over workflows, a new discipline is emerging: AX (Agentic Experience) Design. The designers...
Jun 23, 2026
The Quietest Part of Startupland isn't so Quiet
Tomasz Tunguz · Crypto is the quietest part of the venture capital market. Funding is at multi-year lows. The narrative says the spac...
Jun 22, 2026
Mystic Grunge: The Right Amount of Noise for a Tired Internet
Creative Market Blog · Two visual worlds that have (understandably) rarely sat together are quietly fusing inside the current design environ...
Jun 22, 2026
Using Scroll-Driven Animations for Opposing Scroll Directions
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept where I had t...
Jun 22, 2026
Designing Beyond the Surface: How DashDigital Turns Complexity into Clarity
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · DashDigital is a Cape Town-based digital design studio. We work across strategy, branding, digital design, and techno...
Jun 22, 2026
So You Want to Sell Inference
Tomasz Tunguz · The fastest-growing companies in AI are either selling inference or reselling it. They’re its [first derivative](). B...
Jun 21, 2026
Several short sentences about writing
Robin Rendle · This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that ...
Jun 21, 2026
A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · Chrome has shipped scroll-triggered animations, and is the first browser to do so. If you update to [Chrome 146](), y...
Jun 19, 2026
Creative Entrepreneurship: Designing the Machine
Codrops — Entrepreneurship · Entrepreneurship – Codrops · Taste gets you started.
Jun 19, 2026
European Delusions & Danish Drones
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism. While the continent is loath to give America credit,...
Jun 19, 2026
The gap between true and known
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · We have more agency and choice than we know.
Jun 19, 2026
Promotion, activation, conversation
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · [A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.]
Jun 18, 2026
Stories Of Ireland by Brian Friel
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights.
Jun 17, 2026
The Siren Song of ariaNotify()
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · I need you all to promise me you’ll be cool about this. I‘m here to tell you about an upcoming web platform feature t...
Jun 17, 2026
The Rape of Britain
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · [Rupert Lowe](), member of the British Parliament and leader of the Restore Britain party, released [The Rape Gang In...
Jun 17, 2026
Always Building, Always Learning: Cyd Stumpel’s Journey Through the Modern Web
Codrops — Developer Spotlight · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · I’m Cyd, a freelance creative developer, tech speaker and part-time teacher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I bu...
Jun 17, 2026
Status symbols
Seth Godin · Seth's Blog · It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status:
Jun 17, 2026
Databricks Widens the Lead on the Yellow Brick Token Path
Tomasz Tunguz · The gap between Databricks and Snowflake was $490m in March. It’s $1.6b today.
Jun 16, 2026
Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy...
Jun 16, 2026
Lean Launch Pad 2026 @ Stanford – Lessons Learned Presentations
Steve Blank · We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford.![](https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/upl...
Jun 16, 2026
Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · [CSS Grid Lanes]() has started to ship in browsers. It’s in Safari and behind a flag in Chrome and Edge.
Jun 16, 2026
Designing A Better Lou: Reducing Cognitive Load Through Design, Content, and Systems
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Healthcare websites often try to solve every question at once. They explain treatments, list services, describe proce...
Jun 16, 2026
5x for Free : The Local Coding Stack
Tomasz Tunguz · Today, a Hacker News thread asked a simple question : “Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily co...
Jun 15, 2026
What’s !important #13: @function, alpha(), CSS Wordle, and More
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · CSS functions, the alpha() function, Grid Lanes, some things about that you might not know, CSS Wordle, and more — th...
Jun 15, 2026
The Digital Renaissance: Why 2026 is the Most Exciting Year to be a Web Creator
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · The industry isn't dying—it’s undergoing a high-speed "Hard Reset" that is promoting developers from manual laborers ...
Jun 15, 2026
Speaking in Dublin
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · I’m giving a talk this week.
Jun 15, 2026
All tomorrow’s parties.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · Let’s review.
Jun 15, 2026
The Golden Age of AI Applications
Tomasz Tunguz · We’re entering the golden age of AI applications. Three recent developments confirm it.
Jun 14, 2026
Make Believe
Robin Rendle · This morning was a total stinker. I woke up with a dull headache, teeth grinding, fists clenched. Sometimes my body b...
Jun 13, 2026
A tale of two browsers
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices.
Jun 13, 2026
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · [Sarah Canary]() is an odd book, in the best possible way.
Jun 13, 2026
Why Isn’t My 3D View Transition Working?
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions between two pages (i...
Jun 12, 2026
Sensemaking as the Heart of Expertise
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Sensemaking as the Heart of Expertise](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/sensemakingheartofexpertise.jpg)
Jun 12, 2026
The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · For decades, science fiction has cushioned us with the idea that the “android revolution” was a distant fantasy. But ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Derek Sivers · India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: [fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026]() Want to...
Jun 11, 2026
Using the Multimodal Feature with Smart Search AI MCP
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · In our previous deep-dives into RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), we solved the problem of fragmented data by con...
Jun 11, 2026
Sketching the Impossible: A 3D Portfolio Built Without a Single 3D Model
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · I can’t model 3D. That pretty much explains this entire project.
Jun 11, 2026
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the styling, the an...
Jun 10, 2026
The “Vibe Coding” Crisis: Is Web Design Becoming a Commodity?
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · We are entering the era of "Vibe Coding," where AI generates the average of everything we’ve ever built, leaving the ...
Jun 10, 2026
Building Horeca: Advanced Motion Design in Webflow Without the Performance Trade-Offs
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Horeca started as a simple landing page, but quickly evolved into something far more ambitious. Text that scales up t...
Jun 10, 2026
Ten times
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · I’ve talked about [one just-so story of AI]()—the notion of its inevitability—and I want to talk about another, that ...
Jun 10, 2026
The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how ...
Jun 10, 2026
A Granite Silence
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · ![](https://aworkinglibrary.com/img/allan-granite-silence.jpg)
Jun 9, 2026
Incorruptible
Steve Blank · [Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great](), by Eric Ries.
Jun 9, 2026
Building an Interactive Digital Stamp Collection with Shaders, Postcards, and Playful Inspection
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Stamps are miniature art pieces that tell stories; they showcase places, people, and moments through the meticulous a...
Jun 9, 2026
Tiny Awards
Brad Frost · Fantastic.
Jun 8, 2026
Amsterdamming
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · I’m heading to Amsterdam for [CSS Day](). It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have ...
Jun 8, 2026
Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with me as I note the high-leve...
Jun 8, 2026
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Steve Blank · We just wrapped up our [Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.]()
Jun 8, 2026
No Two Paths Alike: Inside San Rita’s Approach to Digital Experiences
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · Our work spans brand platforms, e-commerce, and experimental websites. Some projects are expressive and narrative-dri...
Jun 8, 2026
The Making of the New Lesse Studio Website: Clarity, Performance, and Intentionality
Codrops — Case Studies · case study – Codrops · Lesse Studio was founded five years ago in Bali. Back then, we were a small team figuring things out as we went, deli...
Jun 5, 2026
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript!
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · Recently, [Juan Diego Rodríguez published an excellent article]() exploring how far CSS can be pushed to build a sema...
Jun 4, 2026
offset-path
CSS-Tricks — Articles · Articles – CSS-Tricks · The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation.
Jun 3, 2026
Meet the Experts: Brandi Baggerman
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · WP Engine is powered by individuals who bring unique perspectives and dedication to their teams every day, and each t...
Jun 3, 2026
How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Yesterday I stumbled upon a [useful practical guide]() by Hardik Pandya from Atlassian — on how to reduce drifts , mi...
Jun 3, 2026
Forging Her Own Path: Houmahani Kane’s Journey in Creative Development
Codrops — Developer Spotlight · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · I’m Houmahani Kane, a Creative Developer based in Paris.
Jun 3, 2026
GQ & Audemars Piguet: The Extraordinary Lab
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![GQ & Audemars Piguet: The Extraordinary Lab](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/06/gq-cs-thumb.jpg)
Jun 3, 2026
A pond of interesting problems
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The great joy of having built [a successful business]() that employs a broad team of talented people is that I get to...
Jun 3, 2026
Reflections on the Software Dark Factory Q&A
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Reflections on the Software Dark Factory Q&A](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/06/reflectionssoftwaredarkf...
Jun 2, 2026
25 years of The Session
Jeremy Keith (Adactio) · Adactio: Journal · [The Session]() existed in a very basic form since the late 1990s. It was just me posting a different tune every week.
Jun 2, 2026
UX Hierarchy: How Users Actually Scan Pages in 2026
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · The F-pattern is officially dead: in 2026, users don’t just read your page—they "sift" it through AI overlays and int...
Jun 1, 2026
Beaucoup and the Pursuit of Memorable Experiences
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · Beaucoup is a global creative & technology studio founded in 2021 and based in Lyon, France, working internationally ...
Jun 1, 2026
Let the agents democratize open source
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · The open source movement spent decades [fighting for everyone's right]() to change software, through free access to c...
Jun 1, 2026
Digital Agency Growth Guide: Building an Integrated Revenue Generation System
Nicholas Petroski · curated · Last updated: June 2026
May 31, 2026
Indian Street Lettering
Robin Rendle · I have a terrible admission to make and you may never forgive me. It’s taken far too long, so please don’t be mean ab...
May 31, 2026
June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Everyone has a creative spark in them. Some bring their ideas to life with digital tools, others capture the perfect ...
May 31, 2026
The Future of Emotional Technology: Comfort Websites for Growth and Self-Awareness
Codrops — Comfort Websites · Comfort Websites – Codrops · This article introduces the concept of comfort websites: personalized digital spaces designed to support emotional gr...
May 30, 2026
Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · The [HTTP Archive Web Almanac]() has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The numbers have barely moved. ...
May 28, 2026
Whooshes, Snaps and Shaders: Adrien Vanderpotte and the Feeling of the Interface
Codrops — Developer Spotlight · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · Yo! ✌️ I’m Adrien, a Creative Developer originally from the South of France and now based in Montreal, Canada. Since ...
May 27, 2026
Promises and perils
Mandy Brown (A Working Library) · A working library · One of the just-so stories we keep hearing about AI is that it’s inevitable, that the technology is here and will con...
May 26, 2026
Why We Fear AI
A working library · Why We Fear AI by
May 26, 2026
CSS vs. JavaScript
Josh Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog · There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performa...
May 26, 2026
Why Ghost Buttons are the Ultimate Conversion Killer
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · The era of the "ghost button" was a massive mistake that prioritized minimalist purity over actual usability, effecti...
May 26, 2026
Basecamp Five
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · I've been working on [Basecamp]() for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software. The first c...
May 26, 2026
fragcoord.xyz
Robin Rendle · [Huh]():
May 25, 2026
The Wave
Robin Rendle
May 25, 2026
Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · This article is a sponsored by [ProtoPie]()
May 25, 2026
Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
Smashing Magazine · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Many companies think they know fairly well what their users want and need, and how they make their decisions. Yet mos...
May 22, 2026
Software Dark Factory Q&A
Cedric Chin (Commoncog) · Commoncog · ![Software Dark Factory Q&A](https://commoncog.com/content/images/2026/05/softwaredarkfactoryqajaytaylornavanchauhan....
May 22, 2026
Writing for Emotional Impact - by Karl Iglesias
Derek Sivers · About the craft of writing a great film screenplay. A bit tedious (with sloppy repetitive writing) but I always love ...
May 22, 2026
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Derek Sivers · Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Ele...
May 21, 2026
How LLMs Interpret Websites
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · The foundation of digital growth was a predictable cycle for decades. Search engines crawled a page, indexed the cont...
May 21, 2026
Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered ca...
May 21, 2026
What’s New in WordPress® 7.0? A Community Member’s Perspective
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · I’ve been designing and building on WordPress[®[1]]() since 2006. In those two decades, I’ve watched it evolve from a...
May 20, 2026
The Great Replatforming: WordPress Is Training Its Own Replacement
Webdesigner Depot · Web Designer Depot · WordPress didn’t kill web design—it exposed how much of it was never that valuable to begin with. Now that anyone can...
May 20, 2026
There are Many Configurations of Business That Work
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · I’ve had four conversations in the past year where someone said to me, “I have young kids / I have an existing life I...
May 20, 2026
Naïve Doodles: Why Hand Drawing Is Taking Over Branding
Creative Market Blog · Some of the most interesting brands right now look like they were sketched in the margins of a notebook rather than b...
May 19, 2026
House of Day, House of Night
A working library · House of Day, House of Night by
May 19, 2026
Big AI & Design Systems Course updates!
Brad Frost · [Our course]() now has over 16 hours of videos , which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other dem...
May 19, 2026
The Developer’s Guide to Zero-Downtime Website Migrations
WP Engine Blog · WP Engine® · Planning to move a site from one host to another can be a stressful endeavor for developers and technical decision-ma...
May 18, 2026
Merlin: The Code Boutique Turning Motion Into Digital Magic
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · Merlin is a Code Boutique from Amsterdam, founded in 2018 to prove what’s possible. We help ambitious brands and crea...
May 18, 2026
Grief in the AI Age
Brad Frost · I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. [Grief]() is a powerful response to...
May 18, 2026
Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but pote...
May 15, 2026
Freedom from unreal loyalties
A working library · In the work against war, Woolf notes that women—unlike many of their brothers—have four great but perhaps misundersto...
May 14, 2026
Pedro the Vast
A working library · Pedro the Vast by
May 14, 2026
Prepare your “no” and keep it handy
Derek Sivers · Someone asks you to do something, and you feel that pressure to answer immediately.
May 13, 2026
Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In the first part of this series, we talked about the Decision Node Audit. We mapped out the internal workings of our...
May 13, 2026
Introducing Our Color of the Season: Meadow Mist
Creative Market Blog · This season, we’re celebrating slow mornings, open fields, and that gentle, creative flow you experience by simply (a...
May 13, 2026
May 12, 2026
My life was changed by four sentences in four books
Derek Sivers · Last week someone asked why I prefer books.
May 11, 2026
Live Goldratt Thinking Tools Workshop with Roger Williams
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · I'm pleased to announce a live Commoncog members-only workshop on Eliyahu Goldratt's Thinking Tools by Commoncog memb...
May 11, 2026
Le:mma Studio: Building the Feeling Behind the Screen
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · Le:mma Studio is an independent creative studio based between Serbia and a global network of collaborators, working a...
May 11, 2026
The Evolution of the “Buy” Button: 1995–2026
Alex Harper · Web Designer Depot · From a clunky grey box on a 1995 dial-up screen to the invisible, AI-driven "zero-click" purchases of 2026, the "Buy"...
May 11, 2026
May 10, 2026
Into the gap
A working library · It is right that the murder of many people
May 7, 2026
20 Useless Websites to Waste Your Time
Simon Sterne · Web Designer Depot · Stop optimizing your life for five minutes and embrace the glorious chaos of the "useless" web, where high-level codi...
May 6, 2026
Reconsidering Reparations
A working library · Reconsidering Reparations by
May 6, 2026
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Durgesh Pawar) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Last October, I was sitting in a hotel room in Lisbon, the night before I was supposed to demo a project management t...
May 6, 2026
Fluid Glass - Case Study
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Fluid Glass - Case Study](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/05/699c319db1537012218587.jpg)
May 6, 2026
Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Kyrylo Levashov) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · This article is a sponsored by MacPaw
May 5, 2026
Geography is four-dimensional
Derek Sivers · Forty years ago, a family moved from India to Canada, and raised their children with “Indian values”.
May 4, 2026
The Shapeless Unease
A working library · The Shapeless Unease by
May 4, 2026
Akaru: Crafting Precision-Driven Digital Experiences
Codrops — Studio Spotlight · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · We are [Akaru](https://akaru.fr/), a digital studio based in Lyon, and we are part of those who choose intention over...
May 4, 2026
How to Improve at Sensemaking AI?
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · Note: This is Part 3 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 2 here.
May 3, 2026
Netizen
Derek Sivers · I can relate to the original meaning of this old term that means to be good citizen of the internet.
May 2, 2026
Cambridge Language Surveys: Chinese - by Jerry Norman
Derek Sivers · From the Tang dynasty on, a large number of popular simplified characters were created and used widely among the comm...
May 2, 2026
Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Joas Pambou) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as m...
May 1, 2026
Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-th...
May 1, 2026
7 Best Design Tools & Resources for Faster Web Builds in 2026
WDD Staff · Web Designer Depot · Discover the top design tools and resources for 2026. Build faster with AI-powered workflows, flexible WordPress them...
Apr 30, 2026
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · May has a way of sneaking in with longer days, softer light, and that first real hint of summer in the air. It’s the ...
Apr 30, 2026
The “correct” attitude
A working library · In one layoff announcement after another, we hear that AI can now do the work of a great many people, which is why fa...
Apr 30, 2026
The Third Reich of Dreams
A working library · The Third Reich of Dreams by
Apr 29, 2026
Between Human and Machine: Sofia Papadopoulou’s Approach to Augmented Creativity
Codrops — Designer Spotlight · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · I am Sofia, Digital Art & Creative Director with 18 years of experience and a strong foundation in visual design and ...
Apr 29, 2026
Mapping the Uncharted: The San Rita Project
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Mapping the Uncharted: The San Rita Project](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/04/thumbnail.jpg)
Apr 29, 2026
Why Your Design Workflow Is Your Business Bottleneck (And What You Can Do About It)
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · There’s a moment every freelance designer knows well. You post a project you’re proud of, it gains traction, and sudd...
Apr 28, 2026
Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
steve blank · This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief.
Apr 28, 2026
Scroll-Driven Animations
Josh Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog · The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript! It’s honestly a ...
Apr 28, 2026
Rhumb Studio: Small but Mighty, Shaped by Curiosity
Rhumb Studio · Studio/Agency Spotlight – Codrops · A two-person studio working between Bristol and Paris, redefining web design by crafting immersive, spatial experienc...
Apr 27, 2026
The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Through many discussions with industry colleagues, we’ve started hearing a phrase more often when swapping stories ab...
Apr 27, 2026
You Can Just Do Things - by Cate Hall and Sasha Chapin
Derek Sivers · It’s being able to see choices where others only see constraints.
Apr 25, 2026
Apr 25, 2026
Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · I want to discuss [accessibility]() because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other [A List Apart a...
Apr 23, 2026
AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
steve blank · This article previously appeared in the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX)
Apr 22, 2026
Automation conformity
A working library · Rollo May asserts plainly in the opening pages of The Meaning of Anxiety that anxiety in fact has meaning, and that o...
Apr 22, 2026
The Meaning of Anxiety
A working library · The Meaning of Anxiety by
Apr 22, 2026
Not a Portfolio. A Presence.
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Not a Portfolio. A Presence.](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/04/jb-cs-thumb.jpg)
Apr 22, 2026
The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In early 2026, I noticed that the UX designer’s toolkit seemed to shift overnight. The industry standard “Should desi...
Apr 22, 2026
12 Reasons Claude is Outperforming ChatGPT in My Daily Workflow
Simon Sterne · Web Designer Depot · Most AI comparisons miss the point—because the real differences only show up when you use them for actual work. After...
Apr 21, 2026
Celebrating computers at Omacon
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Do you see the same truth? That's how C.S. Lewis defined the essence of friendship. And that's what we gathered 130 p...
Apr 21, 2026
Retour.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · I’m giving a talk at [next week’s Boston WordPress meetup]()! If you’re around on Monday night — that’s 27 April 2026...
Apr 21, 2026
Orbital
A working library · Orbital by
Apr 20, 2026
Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Eleanor Hecks) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · For web professionals, session management is a balancing act between user experience, cybersecurity, and resource usa...
Apr 20, 2026
Travelling While Black - by Nanjala Nyabola
Derek Sivers · Having an influx of people from disparate backgrounds show up at your border.I became such an avid reader and writer ...
Apr 19, 2026
Mouth Coding
Brad Frost · AI should facilitate human creativity, not replace it.
Apr 19, 2026
The Art of Complex Motion: Corentin Bernadou’s World of Shaders and Experimentation
Codrops — Developer Spotlight · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · Bonjour! 👋 My name is [Corentin Bernadou](https://corentinbernadou.com/), a French freelance developer obsessed with...
Apr 16, 2026
How Junior Web Designers Use Google Maps to Generate Cash
Alex Harper · Web Designer Depot · Most local businesses are quietly bleeding customers on Google Maps—and junior designers are turning that into easy c...
Apr 16, 2026
Tribal - by Michael Morris
Derek Sivers · Psychology compared individual traits.
Apr 15, 2026
The malleable computer
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is tha...
Apr 15, 2026
Farm Minerals - Case Study
Awwwards Blog · Awwwards - Blog · ![Farm Minerals - Case Study](https://www.awwwards.com/awards/images/2026/04/fm-cs-thumb.jpg)
Apr 15, 2026
Unlock an Exclusive Deal for Dribbble-Recognized Framer Experts
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · More designers are owning web projects from concept to launch with tools like Framer. And if you’re one of them, this...
Apr 14, 2026
Logo Design Trends for 2026: What I’m Actually Seeing (And What Most Designers Are Missing)
Simon Sterne · Web Designer Depot · Logos in 2026 aren’t designed to look good—they’re designed to survive. In a world of AI-generated sameness, shrinkin...
Apr 14, 2026
Squash and Stretch
Josh Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog · Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the ...
Apr 13, 2026
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Sam Altman · Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Apr 10, 2026
How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system. A system that has been silently working in the background...
Apr 10, 2026
Diffused Glow: The Rise of Soft, Atmospheric Design
Creative Market Blog · Our visuals are currently overwhelmingly defined by an almost uncanny clarity with hyper-defined detail; so what we a...
Apr 9, 2026
Nowhere Is Safe
steve blank · Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discove...
Apr 9, 2026
A Single DM, a First SOTD, and the Start of Chanh M. Ho’s Creative Journey
Chanh M. Ho · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · How one direct message opened the door to my first SOTD and shaped my journey as a creative developer.
Apr 9, 2026
The End of Static Design: Living in the Era of Liquid UI
Alex Harper · Web Designer Depot · Forget prompting—the future of design is a "disappearing act" where your interface melts and morphs based on your int...
Apr 9, 2026
We
A working library · We by
Apr 8, 2026
MaxMara’s Woman: the Untamed Heroine
Awwwards - Blog · A Brand activation that speaks to the soulUntamed Heroine is a poetic tribute to resilience, identity, and the beauty...
Apr 8, 2026
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - by Patrick House
Derek Sivers · When it is liquid goo during its metamorphosis, is it butterfly or caterpillar or what?
Apr 7, 2026
Work In Progress, Part 16 🚧
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Last week, we introduced [Outbound Proposals](https://dribbble.com/proposals), enabling service providers to transact...
Apr 7, 2026
How Experts Sensemake
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This is Part 2 of a short series on sensemaking. You may read Part 1 here.
Apr 7, 2026
Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Victor Yocco) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 se...
Apr 7, 2026
Panther Lake is the real deal
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) · David Heinemeier Hansson · Intel really delivered with Panther Lake. A [2026 Dell XPS 14]() using this chipset with an IPS screen can hit just 1...
Apr 6, 2026
Not Useless: Why Experimental Websites Matter More Than You Think
Alex Harper · Web Designer Depot · The web isn’t dead—it’s just weird, and that’s a good thing. Experimental websites, from playful portfolios to surrea...
Apr 6, 2026
Where Engineering Meets Craft: Edoardo Lunardi’s Obsession with the Details
Edoardo Lunardi · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · How obsessing over craft, code quality, and the details nobody notices shaped a decade of creative frontend work.
Apr 2, 2026
100 Lost Species
Awwwards - Blog · IntroductionWith 100 Lost Species, we set out to create a digital story about extinction that people could actively e...
Apr 1, 2026
A Practical Guide To Design Principles
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredibl...
Apr 1, 2026
Solving Yesterday’s Problems Will Kill You
steve blank · Join us at The 7th Annual Red Queen Conference
Mar 31, 2026
The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Cosima Mielke) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Starting the new month with a little inspiration boost — that’s the idea behind our monthly wallpapers series which h...
Mar 31, 2026
Elephant in the Brain - by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Derek Sivers · We are strangers to ourselves.We act in our self-interest on hidden motives.
Mar 29, 2026
Mar 29, 2026
The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Carrie Webster) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · In the early days of the web, the search bar was a luxury, added to a site once it became “too big” to navigate by cl...
Mar 26, 2026
My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald
Brad Frost · You're on tour, and here are the tour stops:
Mar 25, 2026
Mar 25, 2026
Your Quick-Start Guide to Our New Smart Font Search
Creative Market Blog · You know that feeling: you’re three hours into a project, the layout is coming together, and then you hit the font se...
Mar 25, 2026
Mar 25, 2026
From Web UI to Game UI: How Gaming & Creativity Reshaped María Vargas’ Career
Codrops — Designer Spotlight · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · Heya! I’m María Vargas, an Argentinian UI designer based in Madrid, Spain. Web UI and digital experiences were part o...
Mar 25, 2026
UNESCO - Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects
Awwwards - Blog · IntroductionThe UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects was created to make absence visible. Each stolen art...
Mar 25, 2026
Actually Effective Corporate Leadership Training
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This week we published The Leadership Corridor: How James Kilts Built Leaders at Gillette. The case comes from Kilts’...
Mar 25, 2026
Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Ruben Ferreira Duarte) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Building a true culture of digital accessibility in a company is a mission of resilience and perseverance. It’s not d...
Mar 24, 2026
Mar 23, 2026
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 23, 2026
Mar 21, 2026
The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it.
Jason Fried · A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.
Mar 20, 2026
Mar 20, 2026
Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · You probably have been there before. How do we choose between showing a modal to users, and when do we navigate them ...
Mar 19, 2026
Yeva Tykhonova: Design as a Bridge Between Human Emotion and the Digital World
Codrops — Designer Spotlight · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · Hi, I’m Eva, a multidisciplinary designer with a background in code and a deep interest in the emotional side of digi...
Mar 19, 2026
Reformed
A working library · We are, once again and inexplicably, seeing a conversation unfold about reforming the military force in our streets, ...
Mar 18, 2026
The Art of Getting Noticed: Product Design and Development for an Artist Social Network Startup
Awwwards - Blog · A case study on how we helped a startup develop a professional platform and attract attention to it. A promotional we...
Mar 18, 2026
How to Make Sense of AI
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · This is Part 1 on a short series on sensemaking.
Mar 18, 2026
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
steve blank · Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
Mar 17, 2026
Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Alan Cohen) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Design isn’t only pixels and patterns. It’s pacing and feelings, too. Some products feel cinematic as they guide us t...
Mar 17, 2026
ONCE (Again)
David Heinemeier Hansson
Mar 16, 2026
The golden age of women’s sports branding is here, and designers are leading it.
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Women’s sports are no longer a “growth opportunity.” They’re a movement.
Mar 16, 2026
Fine Specimens by Elliot Jay Stocks
Brad Frost · Elliot is back with a new typography book! [Elliot Jay Stocks]()
Mar 15, 2026
Kind eyes
Robin Rendle
Mar 14, 2026
The Primordial Trend: Shells, Sea & All Things Earthly
Creative Market Blog · In moments of political instability and intense cultural fragmentation, there is often an instinct to return; not to ...
Mar 14, 2026
The Salt Eaters
A working library · The Salt Eaters by
Mar 14, 2026
China in Ten Words - by Yu Hua 余华
Derek Sivers · When in this book I write of China’s pain, I am registering my pain too, because China’s pain is mine.We survive in a...
Mar 13, 2026
Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Joe Attardi) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Almost any kind of application written in JavaScript works with times or dates in some capacity. In the beginning, th...
Mar 13, 2026
What Happens When You Can’t Stop Creating: Huy Nguyen’s Story of Starting His Own Studio
Codrops — Designer Spotlight · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · Hey, I’m Huy and it’s an incredible honor to be featured here on Codrops! I run [MONOLOG](http://bymonolog.com/), a d...
Mar 12, 2026
Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Brecht De Ruyte) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · When I first started building websites, rounded corners required five background images, one for each corner, one for...
Mar 12, 2026
I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere
Derek Sivers · When I was in the music business, there was a record producer who lived in New Jersey, but refused to come into New Y...
Mar 11, 2026
Bruno’s Portfolio Case Study
Awwwards - Blog · In 2019, I launched my first portfolio. It was a simple world built with Three.js, where visitors could drive around ...
Mar 11, 2026
Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Sunil Sandhu) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · This article is a sponsored by SurveyJS
Mar 10, 2026
Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
hello@smashingmagazine.com (Anders Toxboe) · Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Ten years ago, persuasive design was a relatively new frontier in the field of UX. In a 2015 Smashing article, I was ...
Mar 9, 2026
Designing their own paths: Women in the Dribbble community share their stories
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Every designer’s journey looks different.
Mar 6, 2026
About my book notes
Derek Sivers · At sive.rs/book I have a collection of my notes from the 420+ books I’ve read since 2007.
Mar 5, 2026
StringTune: For Core Web Animations
Awwwards - Blog · Our high standards led us to the beginning of a long and enchanting journey of embracing a new philosophy in our appr...
Mar 4, 2026
Propellant.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · Amid everything happening right now, I read with great interest about the technologies used in planning our latest ho...
Mar 3, 2026
How to Find Demand: All the Ideas from The Heart of Innovation, Simply Stated
Cedric Chin · Commoncog · Note: This is Part 8 in a short series of essays on Understanding Customer Demand. Read Part 7 here.
Mar 3, 2026
Offline 23 hours a day
Derek Sivers · Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods.
Mar 2, 2026
Maintenance of Everything, part one - by Stewart Brand
Derek Sivers · Every living thing spends time maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on: bodies, vehicles, ...
Mar 2, 2026
Mar 2, 2026
Become an Awwwards Jury Member in 2026!
Awwwards - Blog · As 2025 comes to a close, we’re embarking on the search for a new generation of Awwwards Jury members!The Awwwards Ju...
Mar 2, 2026
Mar 1, 2026
Feb 28, 2026
Gabriel Norman: From Gaming Culture to High-End Interactive Experiences
Gabriel Norman · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · How gaming culture, typographic discipline, and a passion for motion design converged into a career building immersiv...
Feb 27, 2026
Ribbit - Case Study
Awwwards - Blog · Ribbit is a Copenhagen-based motion design studio founded by five longtime friends and animators who, after years fre...
Feb 25, 2026
You’re Not Listening - by Kate Murphy
Derek Sivers · It’s also paying attention to how they say it and what they do while they are saying it.Listening has to do with how ...
Feb 24, 2026
How Exposure Works on Dribbble (and What You Can Actually Control)
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · There’s no single switch that guarantees visibility on Dribbble.
Feb 24, 2026
Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End
steve blank · What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going
Feb 24, 2026
Sprites on the Web
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Feb 23, 2026
Feb 21, 2026
Designed to be specialists
A working library · All industries and disciplines, over time, direct people into greater and greater specialization. Those who have been...
Feb 19, 2026
How to Share Your Work on Dribbble (While Attracting the Right Clients)
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · When people discover you on Dribbble, the first thing they see is your work.
Feb 18, 2026
Feb 18, 2026
You Only Think They Work For You
steve blank · When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. L...
Feb 18, 2026
Inversa - Case Study
Awwwards - Blog · 1. IntroductionInversa equips wildlife agencies to tackle invasive species where it matters most: out in the field, k...
Feb 18, 2026
The Waves
A working library · The Waves by
Feb 18, 2026
You Will Not Stampede Me - by Bryan Caplan
Derek Sivers · The public gets hysterical: massive overreaction to a statistically tiny evil.
Feb 16, 2026
A new interview
Jason Fried · A few weeks ago I sat down with David Senra (of the outstanding Founders podcast) to record an interview for his new ...
Feb 16, 2026
Designing in Public, Thinking Long-Term, and Growing With Dribbble
Dribbble Courtside · Courtside · Eugene intentionally doesn’t show up on Dribbble as a solo act. As a Design Lead at [Shakuro](https://dribbble.com/sh...
Feb 12, 2026
Pseudo-culture
A working library · Our present-day realm of state terror operates through abductions, murders, and content farms. ICE workers raise thei...
Feb 12, 2026
A Strategy for Labor
A working library · A Strategy for Labor by
Feb 12, 2026
Jordan Gilroy: From Burnout to Building the Work I Always Wanted
Jordan Gilroy · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · How learning to build my own work helped me take back control and fall in love with design again.
Feb 12, 2026
MindMarket Case Study
Awwwards - Blog · IntroductionMost research websites speak the language of data. MindMarket chose to speak the language of people. The ...
Feb 11, 2026
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
steve blank · And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32
Feb 10, 2026
What next?
Derek Sivers · I have so much more to say on this subject, but this book is done now because I believe short books are useful.
Feb 8, 2026
Reframing death
Derek Sivers · For the last three years, my boy and I have had a pet mouse.
Feb 7, 2026
You are what you pretend to be
Derek Sivers · Your outside doesn’t need to match your inside.
Feb 6, 2026
Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · ![Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/46/e1/46e1395c-fd21-481f-88a8-d3179eb9...
Feb 6, 2026
Keep tuning and adjusting
Derek Sivers · When I got my first guitar, the nice man at the shop put on new strings and tuned it.
Feb 5, 2026
Clankers with claws
David Heinemeier Hansson
Feb 5, 2026
Take the first step immediately
Derek Sivers · I spent basically my whole life in America, and had no desire to travel or be anywhere else.
Feb 4, 2026
Making Motion Behave: Inside Vladyslav Penev’s Production-Ready Interaction Systems
Vladislav Penev · Developer Spotlight – Codrops · Vladyslav Penev shares how he builds production-ready motion and layout-driven 3D systems, where CSS, WebGL, and inte...
Feb 4, 2026
Heidelberg CCUS
Awwwards - Blog · Heidelberg Materials, a global leader in sustainable construction, is taking the lead in decarbonising its industry.A...
Feb 4, 2026
Why your choice is wrong
Derek Sivers · No matter what choice you make, someone will tell you it’s wrong.
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War
steve blank · This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop
Feb 3, 2026
Talk with friends to solidify it
Derek Sivers · After you privately internalize a belief, talk about it with friends.
Feb 2, 2026
Introducing Our Color of the Season: Holo Cyan
Creative Market Blog · It’s the glow of early tech optimism, the Mac you couldn’t stop staring at, the print test sheet you secretly collect...
Feb 2, 2026
Private journal to internalize it
Derek Sivers · Once you find a viewpoint you want to adopt, a great tool to internalize it is a private journal.
Feb 1, 2026
Feb 1, 2026
No new instructions for the computer
Derek Sivers · You load the program into the computer, and it begins its calculations.
Jan 31, 2026
From explorer to self-leader
Derek Sivers · Picture the stereotype of an explorer, hundreds of years ago, on an expedition to uncharted lands.
Jan 30, 2026
From Art on the Walls to Motion on the Screen: Daniele Buffa’s Approach to Design
Daniele Buffa · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · From discovering design as a teenager to creating award-winning experiences, Daniele Buffa’s journey has been shaped ...
Jan 30, 2026
How to decide and make the best choice
Derek Sivers · You can do anything.
Jan 29, 2026
Inside Ayya Studio: Cinema, Travel, and a Shared Creative Life
Creative Market Blog · Ayya Studio’s work has that rare authentic feeling you notice right away: hand-drawn, intentionally imperfect, and de...
Jan 28, 2026
An awesome collection of great questions
Derek Sivers · This is where I would share powerful questions that you can answer for big insights and change.
Jan 28, 2026
Obys’ Design Books
Awwwards - Blog · At Obys, we believe that the right book can change the way you see the world. Obys' Design Books is our curated digit...
Jan 28, 2026
Five tiny tales of reframing
Derek Sivers · On the Olympic podium stood the winners of the gold, silver, and bronze medal.
Jan 27, 2026
Traits of useful perspectives
Derek Sivers · To list all the beliefs I’ve found useful would fill a whole book.
Jan 26, 2026
Kingdom of Characters - by Jing Tsu
Derek Sivers · Hundreds of thousands of Chinese coolies worked on the transcontinental railway from 1865 to 1869.
Jan 26, 2026
Expand your repertoire
Derek Sivers · To change, reach past what comes naturally.
Jan 25, 2026
Diamond in the trash
Derek Sivers · When things aren’t going well, you’re in a bad state of mind.
Jan 24, 2026
Answer great questions
Derek Sivers · Pick something that’s holding you back from what you want to do, be, or feel.
Jan 23, 2026
Who chooses your (next) thoughts?
Derek Sivers · You might say, “I can’t help the way I feel”, as if it’s completely out of your control — as if you have no choice an...
Jan 22, 2026
Patient urgency
A working library · “Again and again,” writes Hannah Proctor,
Jan 22, 2026
From Design-First to Motion-Driven: Dylan Brouwer’s Journey into the No-Code Frontier
Dylan Brouwer · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · A look at how Dylan blends visual design, UX, and motion to build expressive, experience-rich websites, powered by to...
Jan 22, 2026
The Cancer Journals
A working library · The Cancer Journals by
Jan 21, 2026
More Nutrition: You deserve More
Awwwards - Blog · Our goal was to make history, to build a project that positions us as a young design studio, sets a new milestone in ...
Jan 21, 2026
Texture, Haptics, and Clutter: Design Trends for 2026 and Beyond
Creative Market Blog · Creative Market shop ownerana.yvy joins us as a guest author, bringing her perspective as a working artist who lives ...
Jan 20, 2026
I find them on the street & shadow.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jan 18, 2026
Design as a Problem-Solving Tool: Inside Victorine Snijders’ Creative Journey
Victorine Snijders · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · From student projects to brands like BMW, Google, and Nike, Victorine Snijders shows how design solves everyday probl...
Jan 16, 2026
A Brutalist Reinterpretation of Digital Excellence: The New Awwwards Trophies
Awwwards - Blog · The new Awwwards trophies translate the values of contemporary digital design into a physical object through material...
Jan 16, 2026
Loss of an ideal
A working library · The word “burnout” has taken on so many meanings, become a kind of casual and generic refrain that seems to apply to ...
Jan 15, 2026
Burnout
A working library · Burnout by
Jan 15, 2026
Sisters of the Yam
A working library · Sisters of the Yam by
Jan 15, 2026
Inside Drop 48: Fonts, Illustrations, Textures & Templates to Explore
Creative Market Blog · This Drop is packed with expressive typography, romantic illustration sets, tactile textures, Procreate tools, and pr...
Jan 14, 2026
Great design was a Cuisinart
Jason Fried · [ ![cuisinart.png](https://world.hey.com/jason/86a83d1f/representations/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjQxNDQ4NzYwNCwicHVyI...
Jan 14, 2026
Messenger
Awwwards - Blog · “It’s a small planet, but someone’s gotta make the deliveries.”Messenger started because we wanted to build something...
Jan 14, 2026
Officecore: When Corporate Aesthetic Turns Underground
Creative Market Blog · For a culture addicted to innovation, it seems we’ve finally hit some format of an aesthetic fatigue. Between a digit...
Jan 12, 2026
Jan 9, 2026
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · ![One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/46/e1/46e1395c-fd21-481f-88a8-d3179eb9f950...
Jan 7, 2026
Promoting AI agents
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jan 7, 2026
The joy of delegating to competence
Jason Fried · AI workflows are technically impressive, but there’s a deeper reason people are really amped about AI agents. This is...
Jan 6, 2026
Tyrannies and servilities
A working library · In an effort to understand the then-present state of women in the workplace, Virginia Woolf goes looking to the newsp...
Jan 6, 2026
v19
Robin Rendle
Jan 5, 2026
The big regression
Jason Fried · My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.
Jan 5, 2026
Annals of the Western Shore
A working library · Annals of the Western Shore by
Jan 5, 2026
At the Existentialist Café - by Sarah Bakewell
Derek Sivers · I create that nature through what I choose to do.
Jan 4, 2026
Our frail thoughts.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · And every flower that sad embroidery wears;
Dec 30, 2025
Leveraging The Super Keyword In Custom Elements
Heydon Pickering · HeydonWorks · Developer documentation is full of misleading absolutes. When I started learning how to code custom elements—using th...
Dec 29, 2025
How To Dynamically Install Custom Elements
Heydon Pickering · HeydonWorks · Today, I want to look into one very specific topic in excruciating technical detail: how to dynamically load custom e...
Dec 28, 2025
Glyphic Biotechnologies
Awwwards - Blog · Glyphic Biotechnologies is developing a groundbreaking scientific method: protein sequencing by expansion. The challe...
Dec 24, 2025
Dec 23, 2025
The gift card accountability sink
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Merry Christmas! There will likely be another Bits about Money after the holiday but before New Year.
Dec 19, 2025
Balmoral Heritage : An Evolution Of Old‑Money Aesthetics
Angela L. Rupprechter · Creative Market Blog · Balmoral Heritage takes its name from the iconic royal estate nestled in the Scottish Highlands. For over a century, ...
Dec 18, 2025
What books are for
A working library · In despair at a critical review, Virginia Woolf turned to her husband and asked,
Dec 18, 2025
Case Study - Orage
Awwwards - Blog · A Modular, System-Driven Digital Identity Rooted in Code and ControlA behind-the-scenes look at how system aesthetics...
Dec 17, 2025
The O'Saasy License
David Heinemeier Hansson
Dec 16, 2025
The Department of War Directory
steve blank · TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here.
Dec 16, 2025
Searoad
A working library · Searoad by
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
Live at enmity with unreality
A working library · “What is meant by ‘reality’?” asks Virginia Woolf:
Dec 11, 2025
Mitz
A working library · Mitz by
Dec 11, 2025
Working Stiff Films - Case Study
Awwwards - Blog · STIFF was one of those rare projects where the brand gave us permission to explore. From our first conversations, it ...
Dec 10, 2025
New Drop Just In: A Curated Selection of Designer Favorites, Free for Members
Olivia Hoskin · Creative Market Blog · Welcome to a special holiday edition highlighting every creator featured in this month’s release. Below, you’ll find ...
Dec 8, 2025
Perpetual futures, explained
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Bits about Money is supported by our readers. I generally forecast about one issue a month, and hav...
Dec 5, 2025
Introducing Fizzy, our newest product
Jason Fried · Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bl...
Dec 3, 2025
Savor: Reimagining the Future of Fat
Awwwards - Blog · Savor is reimagining how we produce functional and versatile fats. With 30% of global emissions stemming from food pr...
Dec 3, 2025
A beta is like inviting guests over
Jason Fried · There are plenty of opportunities to invite people to your product ahead of the formal launch. Alpha, beta, etc.
Nov 29, 2025
Ponpon Mania: A comic that breathes Through web interaction
Awwwards - Blog · “What if we do a comic that could be animated for the web ?”Ponpon Mania began with that question and with our shared...
Nov 26, 2025
Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 25, 2025
Where there is a wall
A working library · In Three Guineas, an essay that expands on her writing in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf responds to a letter as...
Nov 25, 2025
A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
A working library · A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by
Nov 25, 2025
No backup, no cry
David Heinemeier Hansson
Nov 24, 2025
The line and the stream.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Nov 20, 2025
Thingness
A working library · I am thinking again about this notion of “self-sameness” that Byung-Chul Han talks about in The Disappearance of Ritu...
Nov 19, 2025
Quality: The Concept2 RowErg
Jason Fried · The Concept2 RowErg is one of the highest quality products I've ever used.
Nov 18, 2025
The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed
steve blank · Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and...
Nov 11, 2025
Psychology of craft
A working library · One of the imperatives in contemporary, professional work culture is to “grow.” There is often a sense of height or l...
Nov 11, 2025
It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy
steve blank · I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing...
Oct 30, 2025
Oct 29, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
Undersense
A working library · James Hillman does not want you to interpret your dreams:
Oct 28, 2025
The Empusium
A working library · The Empusium by
Oct 28, 2025
Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Oct 28, 2025
Oct 25, 2025
The Human Side of the Interface: Abhishek Jha’s Art of Storytelling Through Design
Abhishek Jha · Designer Spotlight – Codrops · From experimental portfolios to award-winning websites, Abhishek Jha shares how curiosity and emotion shape his creat...
Oct 24, 2025
Beyond the Machine Extras
Frank Chimero · Every talk leaves a lot of scraps, and [Beyond the Machine]() is no exception.
Oct 23, 2025
An imaginative activity
A working library · In The Dream and the Underworld, James Hillman sees dreams as the psyche’s work of soul-making and asks us to respect...
Oct 22, 2025
The Dream and the Underworld
A working library · The Dream and the Underworld by
Oct 22, 2025
Beyond the Machine
Frank Chimero · This talk was given on October 14, 2025 at[Kinference]() in Brooklyn, New York.
Oct 19, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy...
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 13, 2025
No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
steve blank · Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have a...
Oct 13, 2025
A window into modern loan origination
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · The ultimate goal of financial plumbing is to enable commerce in the real economy. Consider the humble window: it is ...
Oct 10, 2025
A right to copy.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Oct 7, 2025
The Drifter
Robin Rendle
Oct 5, 2025
Sora update #1
Sam Altman · We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other...
Oct 3, 2025
Sora 2
Sam Altman · We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that ma...
Sep 30, 2025
Selling Lemons
Frank Chimero · I’ve been researching a new talk the last few weeks and along the way stumbled across a concept that’s been rattling ...
Sep 29, 2025
A carried leaf.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Sep 29, 2025
Eel-evation
Frank Chimero
Sep 28, 2025
Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · "Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system boun...
Sep 26, 2025
Some well-made things.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Sep 25, 2025
Abundant Intelligence
Sam Altman · Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward.
Sep 23, 2025
The Big Gotcha With @starting-style
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 22, 2025
Against the protection of stocking frames.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Sep 18, 2025
When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis
steve blank · Great founders shine in a crisis.
Sep 17, 2025
CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content
Sara Soueidan · Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Changelog
Sep 16, 2025
Sep 13, 2025
🎥 New (Video) Podcast: \"Navigating the World of Web Accessibility with Sara Soueidan\", with Kevin Powell
Sara Soueidan · Sara Soueidan — UI developer · [Kevin]() and I been planning this podcast for months and our schedules finally aligned and we made it happen.
Sep 10, 2025
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory
steve blank · Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here.
Sep 10, 2025
Jakub and Szymon
Sam Altman · AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as i...
Sep 8, 2025
Color Shifting in CSS
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 8, 2025
Sep 7, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
A notional design studio.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Aug 27, 2025
Aug 23, 2025
Aug 18, 2025
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Aug 18, 2025
CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current
Sara Soueidan · Sara Soueidan — UI developer · ✨ This post is sponsored by everyone who has bought my [Practical Accessibility course](). ✨
Aug 17, 2025
Open Banking and payments competition
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Much of the operation of the financial industry is legible to people outside of it. Your credit card works basically ...
Aug 13, 2025
Newslettered.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Aug 12, 2025
An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conve...
Jul 23, 2025
A Friendly Introduction to SVG
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jul 21, 2025
Jul 19, 2025
Book notes
Robin Rendle
Jul 13, 2025
Jul 8, 2025
Link bug.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jun 23, 2025
Unbreaking.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jun 16, 2025
Accessible Rickrolling
Heydon Pickering · HeydonWorks · In my [ Use your words](https://github.com/Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility?tab=readme-ov-fileuse-your-words) p...
Jun 11, 2025
The Gentle Singularity
Sam Altman · We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and ...
Jun 10, 2025
Partial Keyframes
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jun 10, 2025
Hel: A 3-Axis, Obliterated Variable Font
HeydonWorks · Hel is a distorted Swiss variable font with three axes
Jun 9, 2025
Skune: A hand drawn variable font
HeydonWorks · Skune is a variable font designed to have the jagged, frenetic appeal of lo-fi garage punk
Jun 8, 2025
Pride, shame, and accessibility
HeydonWorks · The relationship between shame and motivation in web development, especially regarding accessibility.
Jun 8, 2025
Jun 4, 2025
Advertising? On my blog?
HeydonWorks · Addressing the elephant in the room: adverts appearing on my blog
May 29, 2025
The col element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML col element
May 28, 2025
Responsive web design turns fifteen.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
May 25, 2025
May 21, 2025
The caption element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML caption element
May 19, 2025
May 18, 2025
Hallucinating.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
May 17, 2025
The Height Enigma
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
May 12, 2025
May 8, 2025
Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible?
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Hello
May 5, 2025
The code element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML code element
May 4, 2025
The cite element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML cite element
Apr 29, 2025
Tag, You're It
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · I've really been enjoying reading these posts by other people. So I was happy to be tagged.
Apr 28, 2025
The canvas element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML canvas element
Apr 27, 2025
From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · As a product builder over too many years to mention, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen promising ideas...
Apr 23, 2025
Magick images.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · \( foreground.jpg -gravity center -crop 600x630+0+0 -geometry +0+0 +gravity \) -composite \
Apr 22, 2025
The Post-Developer Era
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Apr 14, 2025
It’s time to organize.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Apr 3, 2025
Poisoning Well
HeydonWorks · An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models
Mar 30, 2025
item-flow
Robin Rendle
Mar 30, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
You deserve a new book design.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · alt="Five bright red copies of “You Deserve a Tech Union” are stacked on a gray wooden surface. The stack is flared s...
Mar 25, 2025
Refresh.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230814-ydatu-stack.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230814-ydatu-stac...
Mar 16, 2025
Humiliation
Robin Rendle
Mar 15, 2025
Mar 12, 2025
Mar 10, 2025
Commencement.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Mar 10, 2025
Parker.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Mar 5, 2025
Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · In the sciences they call it the file drawer problem: studies that fail to achieve significance or reach the "wrong" ...
Mar 5, 2025
A Million Little Secrets
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Moving on from 18F.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Feb 17, 2025
trot
Robin Rendle
Feb 15, 2025
Three Observations
Sam Altman · Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.
Feb 9, 2025
Excellent 10+ Tools & Resources for Designers and Agencies in 2025
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/0c128c6e-webdesignledgerfeatured-970x453.png)
Feb 6, 2025
Feb 1, 2025
Container Queries Unleashed
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jan 27, 2025
A challenge of blog questions.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jan 25, 2025
A very Chicago gamble
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · This column doesn’t offer investment advice, as I am not a registered investment advisor. This is not merely a mandat...
Jan 24, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Ames & Amherst.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · src="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/rally-2025.jpg"
Jan 17, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
10 Best WordPress Plugins to Try Out in 2025
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/9454abfc-webdesignledgerfeatured-970x543.png)
Jan 16, 2025
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Happy New Year! I have a housekeeping message (which you will see immediately below, if you’re reading this via email...
Jan 15, 2025
Top WordPress Themes to Elevate Your Website in 2025
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/1b559748-webdesignledgerfeaturedthemes-970x441.png)
Jan 14, 2025
Jan 11, 2025
Reflections
Sam Altman · The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradig...
Jan 5, 2025
Jan 5, 2025
Jan 4, 2025
Dec 31, 2024
Dec 29, 2024
text-box
Robin Rendle
Dec 27, 2024
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horo...
Dec 9, 2024
Dec 7, 2024
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Dec 2, 2024
Dec 1, 2024
Nov 29, 2024
Nov 26, 2024
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 26, 2024
Two books, no longer apart.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/rwd-unboxing.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/rwd-unboxing@2x.jpg 2x"
Nov 12, 2024
The br element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML br element
Nov 11, 2024
A catalog.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Nov 5, 2024
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 4, 2024
Times to strike.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Nov 3, 2024
The button element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML button element
Nov 3, 2024
The body element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML body element
Oct 30, 2024
The blockquote element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML blockquote element
Oct 13, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
Fiction and Finance
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: Bits about Money has been a bit irregular recently.
Oct 7, 2024
Oct 5, 2024
The bdo element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML bdo element
Oct 1, 2024
The bdi element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML bdi element
Sep 29, 2024
Coming home
Robin Rendle
Sep 28, 2024
The b element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML b element
Sep 27, 2024
How I Built My Blog
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 21, 2024
The audio element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML audio element
Sep 9, 2024
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 9, 2024
Sep 1, 2024
Aug 30, 2024
Aug 30, 2024
Aug 29, 2024
The aside element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML aside element
Aug 27, 2024
The article element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML article element
Aug 18, 2024
Moonbound
Robin Rendle
Aug 14, 2024
The area element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML area element
Aug 14, 2024
Aug 13, 2024
The address element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML address element
Aug 11, 2024
The abbr element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML abbr element
Aug 6, 2024
The anchor element
HeydonWorks · An unofficial guide to the HTML anchor element
Aug 1, 2024
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Programming note: I recently launched a weekly podcast, Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie. About 50% of the conve...
Jul 31, 2024
Reacquired.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jul 21, 2024
This site goes up to Eleventy.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jul 15, 2024
Webdesigners Favorite Comfort Purchases
Web Design Ledger · [Burts bees]()
Jul 8, 2024
Working title (insurance)
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · My family recently bought a duplex in Chicago, after years of living in Japan. This exposed me to Relatable Banking I...
Jun 30, 2024
Promises From The Ground Up
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jun 3, 2024
User Research Is Storytelling
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all t...
May 30, 2024
Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) · Bits about Money · Many beginnings imply a contemporaneous ending. This is often bittersweet. Some personal news implies a tearful goodb...
May 24, 2024
Hello, 18F.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
May 20, 2024
GPT-4o
Sam Altman · There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
May 13, 2024
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
May 13, 2024
Slingshot.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/pilsen-angle.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/pilsen-angle@2x.jpg 2x"
Apr 23, 2024
To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Picture this. You’ve joined a squad at your company that’s designing new product features with an emphasis on automat...
Apr 16, 2024
CSS in React Server Components
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Apr 15, 2024
Blockin’ bots.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · RewriteEngine on
Apr 12, 2024
Testing HTML With Modern CSS
HeydonWorks · CSS can be a great HTML testing tool, especially in 2024
Apr 6, 2024
The negotiation cycle.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Mar 21, 2024
Lowe.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · src="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/ydatu-library-shelf.jpg"
Mar 11, 2024
The Wax and the Wane of the Web
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’v...
Feb 29, 2024
Generative.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · Instead, like their less experienced counterparts, they learn how to operate automated systems that have been modeled...
Feb 28, 2024
What Is A Single-page Application?
HeydonWorks · A quick explainer about single-page applications are what they are good for.
Feb 25, 2024
What is Utility-First CSS?
HeydonWorks · Learn about utility-first CSS and what is meant by “utility“ in this context
Feb 18, 2024
10+ Excellent Web Design Tools & Resources to Use in 2024
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/2446d4b6-wdlfeaturedtoolsresources-970x639.png)
Feb 15, 2024
How To Center a Div
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Feb 13, 2024
Collective.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Feb 7, 2024
Opportunities for AI in Accessibility
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · In reading [Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility](), I absolutely appreciated the sk...
Feb 7, 2024
Offloading JavaScript With Custom Properties
HeydonWorks · Using a custom property to store IntersectionObserver ratio values
Feb 6, 2024
I am a creative.
A List Apart · A List Apart: The Full Feed · I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me.
Jan 29, 2024
5+ Best WordPress Plugins to Try Out [2024 edition]
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/e7c2cbd0-wdlfeatured-970x543.png)
Jan 18, 2024
Reviewed.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jan 16, 2024
Accessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions (Part 1)
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
Jan 14, 2024
Accessible notifications with ARIA Live Regions (Part 2)
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
Jan 14, 2024
10 Excellent WordPress Themes for 2024
Web Design Ledger · ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/webdesignledger.pub.network/WDL/ef96f692-webdesignleadgerfeatured.png)
Jan 4, 2024
The 2023 that was.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Dec 30, 2023
Broadly.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Dec 13, 2023
A new op-ed: on OpenAI and worker power.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Dec 10, 2023
Boston meetup, redux: “You deserve a tech union!”
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Dec 6, 2023
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 21, 2023
Boston meetup: “Why do tech workers deserve a union?”
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Nov 19, 2023
In medias.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Oct 24, 2023
Minetta.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Oct 12, 2023
Transcript: What Are Accessibility Overlays?
HeydonWorks · The transcript for the Webbed Briefs video What Are Accessibility Overlays?
Oct 3, 2023
A little book and its author, out in the world.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/sfor-interview.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/sfor-interview@2x.jpg 2x"
Sep 21, 2023
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 18, 2023
Making Sense of React Server Components
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 6, 2023
Three weeks.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Sep 5, 2023
Labor’s day.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Sep 4, 2023
Mail, run.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230816-ydatu-mail-books.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230816-ydatu...
Aug 16, 2023
You Deserve a Tech Union is here!
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230815-ydatu-social-danritz.jpg, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230815-y...
Aug 15, 2023
Tick TOC.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Aug 9, 2023
Street team.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230621-cover-ydatu.gif, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230621-cover-ydat...
Aug 7, 2023
Post by post.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Aug 3, 2023
Blurbs.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Jun 28, 2023
Humility: An Essential Value
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/justindauer/">Justin Dauer</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential...
Jun 22, 2023
Announcing my new book, You Deserve a Tech Union.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · srcset="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230621-cover-ydatu.gif, https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/20230621-cover-ydat...
Jun 20, 2023
Animated Pride Flags
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jun 6, 2023
Bookin’.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website · src="https://ethanmarcotte.com/media/2023-aba-six.jpg"
Jun 2, 2023
Functional documentation
HeydonWorks · Thoughts on making our documentation as reusable as our code.
Apr 25, 2023
The “const” Deception
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Apr 24, 2023
The End of Front-End Development
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 20, 2023
Tooled.
Ethan Marcotte · My journal — Ethan Marcotte’s website
Mar 16, 2023
Common Beginner Mistakes with React
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 6, 2023
Data Binding in React
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jan 9, 2023
Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/colineagan/">Colin Eagan</a>, <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/jeffmacintyre/">Jeffrey MacIntyre</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a pe...
Dec 8, 2022
Color Formats in CSS
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 28, 2022
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · There are three popular Virtual Machine software for macOS:
Nov 23, 2022
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 22, 2022
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Oct 11, 2022
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Aug 30, 2022
Why React Re-Renders
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Aug 16, 2022
Helion Needs You
Sam Altman · Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q 1 fusion and 2) re...
Jul 13, 2022
Statements Vs. Expressions
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jul 11, 2022
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jun 27, 2022
Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/patrick-clancey/">Patrick Clancey</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and ...
Jun 8, 2022
May 17, 2022
Designers, (Re)define Success First
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/lennartoverkamp/">Lennart Overkamp</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with...
May 12, 2022
You Don’t Need a UI Framework
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
May 3, 2022
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Apr 19, 2022
DALL•E 2
Sam Altman · Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instr...
Apr 6, 2022
Understanding Layout Algorithms
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 28, 2022
Delightful React File/Directory Structure
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 15, 2022
Jan 25, 2022
Make Beautiful Gradients
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jan 11, 2022
Breaking Out of the Box
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/patrick-brosset/">Patrick Brosset</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page....
Dec 9, 2021
A Modern CSS Reset
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 23, 2021
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Nov 16, 2021
Helion
Sam Altman · I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen.
Nov 5, 2021
How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/sophiavoychehovski/">Sophia V. Prater</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things el...
Oct 21, 2021
Oct 2, 2021
A Content Model Is Not a Design System
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/mike-wills/">Mike Wills</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snip...
Sep 23, 2021
In Quest of Search
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · field.
Sep 14, 2021
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Sep 13, 2021
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 30, 2021
Design for Safety, An Excerpt
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/eva-penzeymoog/">Eva PenzeyMoog</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, ass...
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 12, 2021
The World of CSS Transforms
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Aug 9, 2021
Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/tom-greenwood/">Tom Greenwood</a> · A List Apart: The Full Feed · In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than ...
Aug 5, 2021
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jul 19, 2021
Demystifying styled-components
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jun 21, 2021
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The Smashing article summary as it appears in the browser with CSS on.
May 9, 2021
Component-level art direction with CSS Container Queries
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · MWpwvbB by Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan)
May 8, 2021
How I Built My Blog
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Apr 20, 2021
Building a Magical 3D Button
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 30, 2021
Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
Sara Soueidan — UI developer
Mar 24, 2021
Accessible Text Labels For All
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · So, to quickly demonstrate how it is used on the Web, Level Access created a video demoing Dragon Naturally Speaking ...
Mar 16, 2021
The Importance of Learning CSS
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Mar 3, 2021
How I set up Glyphhanger on macOS for optimizing and converting font files for the Web
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · I can't count the number of times I've tried installing a command line tool on my machine, only to find myself going ...
Mar 1, 2021
What The Heck, z-index??
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Feb 22, 2021
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Feb 9, 2021
The styled-components Happy Path
Josh W. Comeau · Josh Comeau's blog
Jan 25, 2021
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
Sam Altman · A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting...
Dec 1, 2020
PG and Jessica
Sam Altman · A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In gener...
Sep 25, 2020
Libertarianism Is Not What You Think
HeydonWorks · You may be a libertarian, but that does not mean you have to be right wing.
Aug 28, 2020
Hands TV
Frank Chimero
Aug 2, 2020
Shit yourself
HeydonWorks · Prove to me why you shouldn’t shit yourself.
Jul 18, 2020
Researchers and Founders
Sam Altman · I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers.
Jun 19, 2020
Project Covalence
Sam Altman · Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials...
Jun 16, 2020
Inclusively Hiding & Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
Jun 16, 2020
Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The faster the user can navigate your UI the better. The faster they can get to the content they need, the better. Th...
Jun 9, 2020
May 31, 2020
Idea Generation
Sam Altman · The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common qu...
May 28, 2020
Easily Use Design Tokens In Eleventy
HeydonWorks · It's really, really easy to use design tokens with Eleventy
May 15, 2020
From Wordpress To Eleventy With Ease
HeydonWorks · A simple script to convert Wordpress data to eleventy data
Apr 19, 2020
The Random Link In The Age Of Static Sites
HeydonWorks · Exploring a random link implementation for a static site.
Apr 9, 2020
Please Fund More Science
Sam Altman · Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to...
Mar 30, 2020
Marxian Alienation And Web Development
HeydonWorks · What we really mean when we're talking about burnout.
Mar 24, 2020
Funding for COVID-19 Projects
Sam Altman · I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do tha...
Mar 15, 2020
The Virus
Sam Altman · Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tra...
Mar 7, 2020
Hard Startups
Sam Altman · The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy...
Feb 26, 2020
Who cares?
Frank Chimero
Feb 3, 2020
How To Invest In Startups
Sam Altman · There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good sta...
Jan 13, 2020
Ambient Burnout
HeydonWorks · Making ambient music as a means to recuperate from burnout of all kinds
Jan 8, 2020
Listen To Me And Not Google
HeydonWorks · Wherein Google commissions research that confirms what I knew already, because it was obvious.
Jan 8, 2020
The Word User Is Fine
HeydonWorks · Some words are irredeemable. I don't think the word user is one of them.
Jan 8, 2020
What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · A few years ago I didn't know what the term "accessibility" meant. I built Web sites that were partially inaccessible...
Dec 24, 2019
Case Study: Implementing Accessible Data Charts for the Khan Academy 2018 Annual Report
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · A few months ago I teamed up with SuperFriendly to create an accessible micro-site for the Khan Academy 2018 Annual R...
Oct 10, 2019
Monkey Trap
Frank Chimero
Sep 18, 2019
Accessible Icon Buttons
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · An icon button is an icon that triggers some sort of action on the page. More accurately, technically speaking, an ic...
May 22, 2019
How To Be Successful
Sam Altman · I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create...
Jan 24, 2019
The SVG Filters Series
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The first article in a series on SVG filters. This guide will help you understand what they are and show you how to u...
Jan 14, 2019
The Refactoring UI Book
Sara Soueidan — UI developer
Jan 2, 2019
Nested Links Without Nesting Links
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
Sep 7, 2018
How do you mark up an accordion?
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · I made a poll on Twitter the other day asking the lazyweb how they would mark up an FAQ section — or a list of questi...
Sep 3, 2018
Just write.
Sara Soueidan — UI developer
Aug 13, 2018
On Switching from HEX & RGB to HSL
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
Aug 12, 2018
SVG Filters: The Crash Course
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · If you run an event and would like me to give this talk at it, please feel free to drop me a line and request it.
Aug 10, 2018
On Designing and Building Toggle Switches
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The Medium app’s theme customizer is a simple popup panel that includes a simple switch for switching from light to d...
Jul 22, 2018
CSS: A New Kind Of JavaScript
HeydonWorks · Array.prototype.forEach.call(nodes, node = {
Jul 11, 2018
Reinforcement Learning Progress
Sam Altman · Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning alg...
Jun 25, 2018
US Digital Currency
Sam Altman · I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use cas...
May 10, 2018
Going Offline
Sara Soueidan — UI developer
Apr 23, 2018
Productivity
Sam Altman · I think I am
Apr 10, 2018
Case Study: Optimizing SVG Text & Image Delivery with Inline SVG
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · I love when I’m pushed to think of creative techniques when tackling design and dev challenges on my client projects....
Jan 10, 2018
Cropping & Scaling Images Using SVG Documents
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · I’m always interested in and thinking about ways to use SVG in my client projects to solve common UI challenges — use...
Jan 1, 2018
Auto-Sizing Columns in CSS Grid: auto-fill vs auto-fit
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · In this article I explain the subtle but important difference between auto-fill and auto-fit for sizing columns in CS...
Dec 28, 2017
A Clarification
Sam Altman · I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was
Dec 16, 2017
E Pur Si Muove
Sam Altman · Earlier
Dec 14, 2017
The Merge
Sam Altman · A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year hu...
Dec 7, 2017
Migrating from Jekyll+Github Pages to Hugo+Netlify
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · During the last 18 months, working on my Web site became a daunting task—be that for developing, redesigning it, writ...
Jun 5, 2017
HTML Is Broken
HeydonWorks · &lt;td
Mar 27, 2017
Aria-Controls is Poop
HeydonWorks · &lt;button aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="expandable"open / close&lt;/button
Aug 20, 2016
Writing Less Damn Code
HeydonWorks · &lt;div role="heading" aria-level="2"Subheading&lt;/div
Aug 15, 2016
Mimic Relative Positioning Inside an SVG with Nested SVGs
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The box model of an element in CSS—includes the content, padding, border, and margin areas. Image borrowed from the b...
Jun 26, 2016
Making the Switch Away from Icon Fonts to SVG: Converting Font Icons to SVG
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · If you’re reading this article, then I can probably assume you’ve already decided to switch from using fonts for icon...
Apr 24, 2016
SVG Style Inheritance and the ‘Flash Of Unstyled SVG’
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The ‘Responsive’ option in the new Illustrator SVG Export Options panel.
Feb 29, 2016
Developer Fallacies
HeydonWorks · “Hey, I’ve got these three adjacent ‘calls to action’. They each have a picture, some text and a button (well, a link...
Jan 11, 2016
Animated SVG vs GIF [CAGEMATCH]
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Not only should the image be a good candidate for SVG, but SVG should also be a good candidate for the image.
Nov 23, 2015
Tips for Creating and Exporting Better SVGs for the Web
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · That this article is based on my talk “SVG For Web Designers (and Developers)”—a talk I gave at CSSDevConf 2015 last ...
Nov 15, 2015
CSS vs. SVG: The Final Round(up)
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · This is the last article in the series of article comparing common CSS techniques to their SVG counterparts. This art...
Sep 15, 2015
CSS vs. SVG: Shapes and Arbitrarily-Shaped UI Components
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · This post is the third in the series of posts exploring techniques and examples that can be achieved using both CSS a...
Aug 31, 2015
CSS vs SVG: Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · This post is the second in the series of posts exploring techniques and examples that can be achieved using both CSS ...
Aug 25, 2015
Building A Circular Navigation with CSS Clip Paths
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The CSS clip-path property is one of the most underused and yet most interesting properties in CSS. It can be used in...
Aug 16, 2015
CSS vs. SVG: Graphical Text Effects
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · This post is the first in a series of posts exploring techniques and examples that can be achieved using both CSS and...
Jul 30, 2015
Styling the Contents of SVG<use> with CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · An in-depth article on how to style the contents of the SVG &lt;use&gt; element and overcome some challenges it bring...
Jul 15, 2015
Art-Directing an SVG Embedded Using the HTML object element
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Disclaimer: I am writing this case study and sharing this image after having gotten a written approval from my client...
Jul 7, 2015
Jun 10, 2015
The State of SVG Animation
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The state of SVG animation is changing. CSS, SMIL and JavaScript can be used to animate SVGs. However, SMIL is soon t...
Jun 4, 2015
Art-Directing SVG Images With The viewBox Attribute: How-To, Notes, Tips and Why We Need A viewBox Property in CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · The SVG viewBox attribute is easily one of SVG's most powerful features. Mastering this attribute can take your SVG s...
May 20, 2015
An Introduction To Graphical Effects in CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · In this article, we will take a deep introduction into CSS’s graphical effects—specifically, CSS Filters and Composit...
Apr 28, 2015
Brunello Cucinelli
Om Malik · curated · Dubbed the "king of cashmere" by The New Yorker, Brunello Cucinelli is the founder of the eponymously named fashion h...
Apr 26, 2015
A Primer To Background Positioning In CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · An article in which we take a deep dive into CSS’s background positioning properties with visual explanations and exa...
Mar 23, 2015
Building a Circular Navigation with SVG
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · Last week, I released CIRCULUS.SVG—the SVG circular menu generator. In this article I want to go over why SVG is bett...
Mar 8, 2015
Extending the Color Cascade with the CSS currentColor Variable
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · If you use Sass or LESS, then you probably already use variables in your style sheets and know how useful they are. I...
Feb 23, 2015
Better SVG Fallback and Art Direction With The picture Element
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · This article is also available in Russian.
Feb 14, 2015
Compositing And Blending In CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · In HTML5 Canvas context, these oprations are specified using the globalCompositeOperation property, and can be used t...
Jan 26, 2015
Useful SVGO[ptimization] Tools
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · For example, a default SVGO optimization will remove the viewBox attribute from your SVG. This is something you shoul...
Jan 25, 2015
Tips For Optimizing SVG Delivery For The Web
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · SVGs are a great asset in our responsive web design toolkit. But just like any other image format, there are certain ...
Dec 18, 2014
An Overview Of SVG Sprite Creation Techniques
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · SVG can be used as an icon system to replace icon fonts, and there are several ways to create SVG sprites. This artic...
Dec 15, 2014
Styling and Animating SVGs with CSS
Sara Soueidan — UI developer · CSS can be used to style and animate scalable vector graphics, much like it is used to style and animate HTML element...
Nov 2, 2014
Aug 24, 2014
Reinventing The Hyperlink
HeydonWorks · &lt;a href="http://www.yahoo.com"Yahoo master domain portal&lt;/a&gt;
Jul 31, 2014
Confessions Of A CSS Expert
HeydonWorks · &lt;input class="formelem input input--email" /&gt;
Mar 27, 2014
Feb 13, 2014
Tetris And The Power Of CSS
HeydonWorks · The four stages of CSS:
Nov 6, 2013
Font Hacking
HeydonWorks · body {
Mar 29, 2013
Being Digital (Selected Excerpts)
Nicholas Negroponte · curated · Most of our information is delivered to us in the form of atoms: newspapers, books. We measure trade and we write our...
Dec 31, 1994
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Stop Using Story Hooks
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Building a Story Live
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