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Why engineers can’t be rational about programming languages
November 5, 2025
A programming language is the single most expensive choice a company makes, yet we treat it like a technical debate. After watching this mistake bankrupt dozens of companies and hurt hundreds more, Iâ...
Read MoreHow I Use Every Claude Code Feature
November 4, 2025
Having stuck to Claude Code for the last few months, this post is my set of reflections on Claude Code’s entire ecosystem. We’ll cover nearly every feature I use (and, just as importantly, the one...
Read MoreAgents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security
November 4, 2025
At a high level, the Agents Rule of Two states that until robustness research allows us to reliably detect and refuse prompt injection, agents must satisfy no more than two of the following ...
Read MoreAgentic AI and Security
October 31, 2025
Agentic AI systems present unique security challenges. The fundamental security weakness of LLMs is that there is no rigorous way to separate instructions from data, so anything they read is potential...
Read MoreOptimizing Images For Web Performance: All You Need To Know
October 31, 2025
Source: Optimizing Images For Web Performance: All You Need To Know | DebugBear...
Read MoreWill AI Agents Kill the Web as We Know It?
October 30, 2025
The way we interact with the web today is surprisingly manual. Want to book a flight? You’ll probably head to a familiar airline’s website or open Google and type in your dates. If that site also ...
Read MoreInlining Critical CSS: Does It Make Your Website Faster?
October 30, 2025
Inlining critical CSS can make your website super fast. But it’s not always easy to implement, and there are some downsides. In this article we take a look at how you can optimize stylesheets on...
Read MoreV7: Video Killed the Web Browser Star
October 30, 2025
So I thought I knew as much as I needed to know about the HTML element, and as usual, I was wrong Source: V7: Video Killed the Web Browser Star | Rob Weychert...
Read MoreStart implementing view transitions on your websites today – Piccalilli
October 30, 2025
The View Transition API allows us to animate between two states with relative ease. I say relative ease, but view transitions can get quite complicated fast.A view transition can be called in two ways...
Read MoreStart using Scroll-driven animations today!
October 30, 2025
To celebrate scroll-driven animations finally landing in Safari 26, here are some things you probably want to know before using them. Source: Start using Scroll-driven animations today! | Blog Cyd Stu...
Read MorePerformance Debugging With The Chrome DevTools MCP Server
October 29, 2025
A few weeks ago, Google launched the Chrome DevTools MCP server. It allows you to integrate AI models with a Chrome browser instance. In this article we’ll explore what the MCP server can do and...
Read MoreLots to shout about in Quiet UI – daverupert.com
October 29, 2025
As President of Web Components, it’s my duty to publicly comment on every Web Component library and framework that exists. Today I’m taking a look at Quiet UI, a new source-available web component...
Read MoreThe present and potential future of progressive image rendering – JakeArchibald.com
October 29, 2025
Progressive image formats allow the decoder to create a partial rendering when only part of the image resource is available. Sometimes it’s part of the image, and sometimes it’s a low qual...
Read MoreMeasured AI | Note to Self
October 29, 2025
As a former full-time engineer, I really enjoy coding with AI tools and the tradeoffs are worthwhile for me. AI assistance shortens my time from idea to working code, and using it has strengthened my ...
Read More3 practical ways LLMs can support design systems teams today
October 28, 2025
When AI and LLMs started creeping into the design systems discourse, the loudest use cases were about generating components and docs. But the truth is that for many teams, those aren’t actually the ...
Read MoreReact and Remix Choose Different Futures
October 27, 2025
I attended Remix Jam two weeks ago, then spent this past week watching React Conf 2025 videos. I have spent the last decade shipping production code on React and the last two years on Remix.Now both e...
Read MoreFounders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors. – Anil Dash
October 27, 2025
I’ve been following tech news for decades, and one of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology — one that’s markedly accelerated over the last decade — is...
Read MoreSolved By Modern CSS: Section Layout
October 27, 2025
The following design might be simple to create in a tool like Figma, but getting them to work fluidly in the browser is a different story. It’s not complicated, but there are a few things that we ne...
Read MoreCode like a surgeon
October 27, 2025
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!Personally, I’m trying to code like a surgeon.A surgeon isn’t a manager,...
Read MoreWrite Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs
October 27, 2025
I’ve been thinking about a note from Alex Russell where he says:any time you’re running JS on the main thread, you’re at risk of being left behind by progress.The zen of web development ...
Read MoreGlimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms
October 24, 2025
Last month, I embarked on an AI-assisted code safari. I tried different applications (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Amp, etc.) and different models (Opus, GPT-5, Qwen Coder, Kimi K2, etc.), tryin...
Read MoreThe Majority AI View – Anil Dash
October 23, 2025
Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever ment...
Read MoreMy first months in cyberspace
October 23, 2025
In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work...
Read MoreImproving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web
October 22, 2025
It would be nice if we could get these properties for our end-to-end encrypted web application, and the web as a whole, without requiring a single central authority like an app store. Further, such a ...
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