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Another article about centering in CSS – Piccalilli
August 27, 2025
The tired old meme that centering in CSS is “impossible” has never been so irrelevant. In fact, I’d argue there’s almost too many options now.Let’s have a look at some common contexts, what ...
Read MoreWhy is GitHub UI getting slower?
August 27, 2025
Githubs performance has been rapidly degrading ever since they started rewriting everything in React.It’s basically impossible to view diffs now because they often fail to load, render correctly...
Read MoreWhat If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? | The New Yorker
August 27, 2025
Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to January, 2020, when a team of researchers at OpenAI published a thirty-page report t...
Read MoreA Gentle Introduction to Context Engineering in LLMs – KDnuggets
August 26, 2025
If I received a request that said, ‘Hey Kanwal, can you write an article about how LLMs work?’, that’s an instruction. I would write what I find suitable and would probably aim it at an ...
Read MoreOn Dashes, A.I., and Screen Readers – TPGi
August 26, 2025
Source: On Dashes, A.I., and Screen Readers – TPGi...
Read MoreHow To Use The Safari Developer Tools
August 25, 2025
Browser developer tools are essential for debugging problems with your website. And if you’re facing Safari-specific issues, whether on your Mac or on iOS, you’ll need to use the Safari de...
Read MoreA gentle introduction to anchor positioning
August 25, 2025
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how ...
Read MoreBetter CSS layouts: Time.com Hero Section
August 25, 2025
In this article series, I plan to choose layouts from popular websites and see how I can rebuild them better in CSS. This time, it’s the top news section in Time.com’s layout. Source: Better CSS l...
Read MoreAdactio: Journal—Style your underlines
August 25, 2025
We shouldn’t rely on colour alone to indicate that something is interactive. Take links, for example. Sure, you can give them a different colour to the surrounding text, but you shouldn’t stop the...
Read MoreCan components conform to WCAG?
August 25, 2025
We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. We can also document accessibility specifics alongside them. Both are helpful and recommended. What about claiming conformance? In this post, I&#...
Read MoreAn Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Part 2: Positioning in SVG – HTML + CSS + JavaScript
August 22, 2025
An Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Source: An Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Part 2: Positioning in SVG – HTML + CSS + JavaScript...
Read MoreUn-Sass’ing my CSS
August 22, 2025
Un-Sass’ing? With this in mind, I thought I’d start another little series of articles. This time, I’ll be showcasing how aspects of modern CSS can replace your favourite CSS preprocessor, what I...
Read MoreAGENT.md: Why your README matters more than AI configuration files
August 22, 2025
The AGENT.md specification emerged in July 2025 as an attempt to solve a real problem: developers maintaining separate configuration files for each AI coding tool (.cursorrules, .windsurfrules, CLAUDE...
Read MoreAI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You – Last Week in AWS Podcast
August 22, 2025
On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and creator of LLM CLI about AI’s realities versus the hype. They dive into Simon’s “lethal...
Read MoreIs AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are?
August 22, 2025
Most code is crap, most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem for them and the industry.Like many people, I’ve been of the belief that AI would not replace de...
Read MoreWhat Is Design Debt Really Costing Your Team?
August 21, 2025
In the growing world of digital products, everyone talks or knows about “Technical debt”, these shortcuts in code that eventually demand payment with interest. But there’s a lesser-known cousin ...
Read MoreConformance vs compliance, accessibility standards edition
August 21, 2025
Two words that are often confused: conformance and compliance. What do they mean? Source: Conformance vs compliance, accessibility standards edition | hidde.blog...
Read MoreCSS Questions
August 21, 2025
Test your CSS knowledge with 100+ questions on CSS from basic selectors to advanced topics like pseudo-classes, cascade layers, and container queries. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced...
Read MoreClaude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant
August 20, 2025
Use Claude code to explore, develop, test, refactor, and debug codebases.Extend the capabilities of Claude Code with MCP servers such as Playwright and Figma MCP servers.Apply Claude Code best practic...
Read MoreA Progressive Complexity Manifesto
August 20, 2025
THE GREAT DECEPTION: STATIC VS. SPA The industry sold us a lie. They said our choices were: Static HTML: “Dead” pages with no interaction Full SPA: “Modern” apps with endless complexity This i...
Read MoreBeyond Tool Calling: Understanding MCP’s Three Core Interaction Types – Upsun Developer Center
August 20, 2025
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes how AI applications connect to external data and services. While most developers have experience with tool calling, MCP offers three distinct interaction types...
Read MoreHow to build an AI design system
August 20, 2025
For over a decade, design systems have shaped how digital teams collaborate. They provide the scaffolding behind every scalable interface, unify branding, ensure accessibility, and bridge the gap betw...
Read MoreThe Fastest Site in the Tour de France – CSS Wizardry
August 20, 2025
Bold claims, but how do they stack up in the browser? For an industry utterly obsessed with speed, how does that translate to its online presence? Every individual in the peloton wants to be the faste...
Read MoreIn the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
August 19, 2025
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be ab...
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