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Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI — Smashing Magazine
September 5, 2025
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. This second article on AI augmenting design work introduces...
Read MoreThe Basics of Anchor Positioning
September 5, 2025
In this article, I will cover the basics of Anchor Positioning and how I wish I had learned it earlier. Please use Chrome on a desktop or laptop if you want to try the interactive demos. If not, I’v...
Read MoreAI agents and the web – A proposal to keep developers in the loop
September 5, 2025
WebMCP At its heart, WebMCP lets you list the actions (called “tools”) that an AI agent can perform on a page, as JavaScript functions registered via a browser API. For example, if your we...
Read MoreYou no longer need JavaScript
September 5, 2025
I think there’s some beauty in leaving it all behind. Not just the frameworks, but JavaScript altogether. Not every site needs JavaScript. Perhaps your e-commerce site needs it for its complex carts...
Read MoreSafe Is What We Call Things Later
September 4, 2025
Avdi Grimm gave a talk called The Soul of Software about a decade ago and one particular thing in it has stuck with me: you can tell what type of programmer you were taught by based on which part of o...
Read MoreMaking Sense of AI Job Titles
September 3, 2025
Even when you live and breathe AI, the job titles can feel like a moving target. I can only imagine how mystifying they must be to everyone else.Because the field is actively evolving, the language we...
Read MoreBuilding AI Products In The Probabilistic Era
September 3, 2025
Just as physics underwent a conceptual revolution when we moved past Newton’s deterministic universe, and into a strange and counterintuitive place made by wave functions, software too is underg...
Read Morewhat is the point of libraries now that you can just generate them?
September 3, 2025
Instead of relying on a third-party library maintained by a developer in Nebraska, we code-generate the libraries/dependencies ourselves unless the dependency has network effects or is critical infras...
Read MoreYou’re loading fonts wrong (and it’s crippling your performance) – Jono Alderson
September 2, 2025
Fonts are one of the most visible, most powerful parts of the web. They carry our brands, shape our identities, and define how every word feels. They’re the connective tissue between design, content...
Read MoreMy Functional Programming Awakening: Patterns I’d Been Using All Along
September 2, 2025
In June 2023, I took David Beazley’s online course “The Functions” – a one-day, six-hour deep dive into functional programming concepts. While taught in Python, it opened my eyes to patter...
Read MoreThe Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
September 1, 2025
AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key to unlocking sustainable design and development. But do these gains outweigh the environmental cost of u...
Read MoreList of all CSS properties
September 1, 2025
Complete reference of CSS properties with their release dates and documentation links. Explore the evolution of web styles from the beginning to the present day. Source: List of all CSS properties...
Read MoreYellow, Purple, and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”
September 1, 2025
So, let’s address the myth head-on. Accessibility does not limit your color palette choices. What feels limiting is often a lack of knowledge about WCAG color contrast criteria, how to build accessi...
Read MoreEmail is Easy
September 1, 2025
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?Decide if each email address is valid or not. I used the email-addresses library to verify against the relevant RFCs. Enjoy. Source: Email is Easy...
Read MoreSmart Layouts (CSS Day – 06.06.2025) – Video & Slides
September 1, 2025
I spoke at CSS Day 2025 in Amsterdam about Smart Layouts. Source: Smart Layouts (CSS Day – 06.06.2025) – Video & Slides...
Read MoreHow to build an Agent, On-Device Edition
August 29, 2025
This post explores how to build an agent using an on-device model such as Phi-4-mini or Gemini Nano (available in Edge or Chrome browsers respectively), all behind a simple flag. This approach lowers ...
Read MoreThe joy of recursion, immutable data, and pure functions: Generating mazes with JavaScript
August 29, 2025
Let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room. Why the heck am I talking about making mazes?Normally, I try to be practical when I’m writing or speaking. I want to give people tools they can ...
Read MoreMingCute Icon – Carefully Designed Icon Library
August 29, 2025
Carefully Designed Icon LibraryMingCute is a set of simple and exquisite open-source icon library. Whether you’re a designer or a developer, it’s perfect for use in web and mobile. Source:...
Read MoreThe Arialpocalypse: Default thinking ate the world.
August 29, 2025
We need to talk about Arial. Not because fonts matter in some precious design-nerd way, but because Arial is the perfect metaphor for how we ended up in this timeline: exhausted, homogenized, and givi...
Read MoreHow To Fix A Slow Website: 4 Web Performance Tips
August 28, 2025
Nobody I know purposely designs a slow website. I have never found a person yet who said, “I like your website, but I wish it was just a little slower.”Poor website speed can be a major roadblock ...
Read MoreDesigning the Built-in AI Web APIs | Domenic Denicola
August 28, 2025
For the last year, I’ve been working as part of the Chrome built-in AI team on a set of APIs to bring various AI models to the web browser. As with all APIs we ship, our goal is to make these APIs c...
Read MoreThe Psychology Of Color In UX Design And Digital Products — Smashing Magazine
August 28, 2025
Rodolpho Henrique guides you through the essential aspects of color in digital design and user experience, from the practical steps of creating effective and scalable color palettes to the critical ac...
Read MoreNew series of blog posts: learning web development
August 28, 2025
This blog post provides an overview of my new series of blog posts called “Learning web development”.What do I need to learn for web development? In order to create a web app, you need to know ...
Read MoreEpisode 0001: Ethan Marcotte | So Many Questions Podcast Show
August 27, 2025
KG: Our guest today on so many questions is Ethan Marcotte. He is the person who coined the phrase “Responsive Web Design”. He also is a writer, speaker, a designer, and I’m so glad that he came...
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