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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
July 11, 2025
I have run into any number of these incredible beings over the course of my career. I think this is what explains the curious durability of the “10x engineer” meme. It may be based on flimsy, shod...
Read MoreThe lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
July 10, 2025
Source: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication...
Read Moreuna.im | What is popover=hint?
July 10, 2025
If you’ve been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type (hint) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exac...
Read MoreExpert Generalists
July 10, 2025
As computer systems get more sophisticated we’ve seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we’ve found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialtie...
Read MoreTwo approaches to fallback CSS scroll driven animations | Blog Cyd Stumpel
July 9, 2025
Scroll-driven animations are set to land in all major browsers by the end of the year, but I haven’t seen many people using them in production yet. Maybe because it still feels like an all-or-nothin...
Read MoreI’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry – by Alberto Romero
July 8, 2025
I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I write here is at least directionally true, but I could be wrong. My aim isn’t ...
Read MoreWhat’s new in ECMAScript 2025 | pawelgrzybek.com
July 7, 2025
Another version of ECMAScript version has been approved by the TC39, and to keep my annual tradition I’m sharing what’s new in the ES2025 with simple practical examples. If you want to catch up wi...
Read MoreIdentify, solve, verify
July 7, 2025
The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve.Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of...
Read MoreSpending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
July 7, 2025
How to get $1000/mo of value from coding agents Obviously, simply spending $1000 does not guarantee you a positive return! Here are some practices that we’ve found get more value out of large thinki...
Read MoreYou’re Overthinking Web Components
July 4, 2025
Learn how Web Components excel at progressively enhancing server-rendered HTML without worrying about additional dependencies, shadow DOM, or going full SPA. Source: You’re Overthinking Web Comp...
Read MoreCSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
July 4, 2025
CSS has evolved from a purely presentational language into one with growing logical powers — thanks to features like container queries, relational pseudo-classes, and the if() function. Is it still ...
Read MoreHow to Identify Your Unknown Unknowns in Web Development
July 4, 2025
If you’re a web developer, you know what HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are. Although massive topics by themselves, these contain many of your “known knowns.” You’re aware of languages like TypeScr...
Read MoreHacking Layout Before CSS Even Existed
July 3, 2025
Before flex, before grid, even before float, we still had to lay out web pages.Not just basic scaffolding, full designs. Carefully crafted interfaces with precise alignment, overlapping layers, and br...
Read MoreThe New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering
July 3, 2025
Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from “prompt engineering” to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering. Tobi Lutk...
Read MoreSimplicity: Sustainable, Humane, and Effective Software Development
July 2, 2025
Dave Thomas & Sarah Taraporewalla discuss “Simplicity”- why agile failed & how developers can master elegant code through Orient-Step-Learn framework. Source: Simplicity: Sustainab...
Read MoreConferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens – Infrequently Noted
July 2, 2025
Source: Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens – Infrequently Noted...
Read MorePrompts vs. Context | Drew Breunig
July 2, 2025
I’m not the only one thinking about how context management is the key to good LLM applications. Since publishing our post detailing how long contexts fail, a conversation emerged regarding the term ...
Read MoreDesign Leadership in the Age of AI: Seize the Narrative Before It’s Too Late
July 1, 2025
AI is transforming the way we work — automating production, collapsing handoffs, and enabling non-designers to ship work that once required a full design team. Like it or not, we’re heading into a...
Read MoreImitating the future, breaking the present
July 1, 2025
Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose. Technological progress has always come from humanity’s...
Read MoreBuilding the Web in Islands, Not Mountains
June 30, 2025
Not every site needs to be a full-blown app. In fact, most don’t. What they need is to be fast, focused, and respectful of the user’s device. Put another way: if your ‘About Us’ page needs 300...
Read MoreA short history of web bots and bot detection techniques
June 30, 2025
Did you know your favorite website can detect when you’re browsing it in public transport and when you scroll it laying in your bed? Today we’ll learn how they can do it and how this info is used ...
Read MoreA guide to Scroll-driven Animations with just CSS
June 30, 2025
CSS animations have come a long way since Apple first introduced them to the web in 2007. What started as simple effects like animating from one color to another has turned into beautiful, complex ima...
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