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Node.js: The Documentary | An origin story
February 6, 2025
Back in 2008, most people thought of JavaScript as just a client-side language. But when Google’s V8 appeared, young developer Ryan Dahl made the connection between non-blocking servers, V8, and...
Read MoreIs 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’?
February 5, 2025
The slow percolation of this new title is something I’ve monitored for a long time. In a bygone era, some might have used the name “Rockstar Web Designer” or “Unicorn”, but thankfully, we’...
Read MoreSo, you want to push a web platform feature?
February 5, 2025
Over the years, I’ve helped a few folks get into browser development, and tried to encourage many others. In that process, I found myself giving similar advice, again and again. This is my attempt t...
Read MoreConsiderations for making a tree view component accessible
February 4, 2025
Tree views are notoriously difficult to implement in an accessible way. This post is a deep dive into some of the major considerations that went into how we made GitHub’s tree view component accessi...
Read MoreCSS nesting: use with caution
February 4, 2025
There are features that fill me with dread though and right at the top of that list is native CSS nesting. I know that opinion will be rather unpopular, but the whole deal of the site is front-end edu...
Read MoreRevisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout | CSS-Tricks
February 4, 2025
Perhaps because, before the web, I’d worked in print, I was over-excited at the prospect of dividing content into columns without needing extra markup purely there for presentation. I’ve used Mult...
Read MoreTransitioning Top-Layer Entries And The Display Property In CSS
February 4, 2025
We are getting spoiled with so many new features involving animations with CSS, from scroll-driven animations to view transitions, and plenty of things in between. But it’s not always the big featur...
Read MoreLife Is More Than an Engineering Problem
February 3, 2025
Lately, Chiang has trained his eye on artificial intelligence. And Chiang’s takes haven’t gone unnoticed. In a conversation I had earlier this year with computer scientist Melanie Mitchell and psy...
Read MoreRunning Inference In Web Extensions
February 3, 2025
We’ve recently shipped a new component inside of Firefox that leverages Transformers.js (a JavaScript equivalent of Hugging Face’s Transformers Python library) and the underlying ONNX runtime engi...
Read MoreThings people get wrong about Electron
February 3, 2025
Electron’s choices, especially the very idea of building interfaces with web tech and shipping large parts of Chromium to render them, are not uncontroversial. Reasonable people wonder why we ma...
Read MoreBuild for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant
January 29, 2025
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.In the last year ...
Read MoreRupert’s world – Thought partnership with language models
January 29, 2025
This is a new sort of interaction with computers, one that’s far more personal and flexible than anything in the history of human-computer interaction. It’s something I’ve been calli...
Read MoreMoving on from React, a Year Later
January 29, 2025
Maybe it’s the changing interest rates or political winds, but I think the “fat client” era JS-heavy frontends is on its way out. The hype around edge applications is misplaced and unnecessary f...
Read MoreGet Started with Chrome Built-in AI : Access Gemini Nano Model locally
January 28, 2025
An AI model within your browser. Yes that’s exactly what Chrome Built-AI is all about. The team has been at work to infuse AI APIs and models inside of Chrome via Chrome’s built-in AI APIs and mod...
Read MoreOn the Origin of Cross
January 27, 2025
A browser decides to download a web font after: Content is ready CSS is readyIt appears that some content will indeed need the web font It’s often late enough in the page rendering that the cont...
Read MoreSome Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles | CSS-Tricks
January 27, 2025
You’ve more than likely dabbled with custom counters using counter-reset and counter-increment. Or maybe your way of doing things is to wipe out the list-style (careful when doing that!) and hand-ro...
Read MoreInitial load performance for React developers: investigative deep dive
January 24, 2025
Exploring Core Web Vitals, performance dev tools, what initial load performance is, which metrics measure it, and how cache control and different networking conditions influence it. … Spoiler alert:...
Read MoreJustified Text: Better Than Expected?
January 24, 2025
When it comes to Western languages, most long-form text you’ll encounter is either left-aligned (with an uneven, “ragged” right edge) or justified (with words spaced evenly across a line). But I...
Read MoreCSS JOY Webring
January 24, 2025
A CSS Webring! This is the home of a new webring that I’ve decided to set up for those of us who take joy in messing around with CSS 🙂 Why a webring?I am enjoying the resurgence of old-web no...
Read MoreWhat I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far
January 24, 2025
I started writing a post called “how to write AI apps” but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here’s what I’ll be ap...
Read More6 CSS Snippets Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2025
January 23, 2025
I think every front-end developer should know how to enable page transitions, transition a <dialog>, popover, and <details>, animate light n’ dark gradient text, type safe their CSS ...
Read MoreCSS text-box-trim
January 23, 2025
This property lets you control the space above and below text, for example , and . Every font produces a different amount of this block directional space which contributes to the element’s size....
Read MoreThe :empty pseudo-class in CSS | Go Make Things
January 22, 2025
You can use this to target elements that have no children—either child elements or whitespace and text nodes—and style them differently than they would be otherwise. Source: The :empty pseudo-clas...
Read MoreCSS light-dark()
January 22, 2025
light-dark() makes it easy to build websites that respect the user’s preferred color scheme while also providing the ability to override the color scheme without code duplication. Be sure to che...
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