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Lots 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 ...
Read MoreIdentifying Accessibility Data Gaps in CodeGen Models
October 21, 2025
Rather than relying on anecdotal evidence or cherry-picked examples, I built a systematic approach to evaluate how well LLMs — starting with GPT-4 — generate accessible HTML. The methodology is st...
Read MoreThe Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays | Master’s Thesis by Daniela Kubesch
October 21, 2025
This thesis investigates the impact of accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience (UX) for individuals with permanent visual impairments, thereby addressing a gap in academic research...
Read MoreFigma Rendering: Powered by WebGPU
October 20, 2025
When Figma Design launched in 2015, most rich design tools were still native desktop apps. Betting on WebGL—a browser graphics API originally designed for 3D applications—was a bold move. WebGL wa...
Read MoreGenerative AI in the Real World: Context Engineering with Drew Breunig – O’Reilly
October 20, 2025
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Drew Breunig, a strategist at the Overture Maps Foundation, talk all things context engineering: what’s working, where things are breaking down, and what comes next. ...
Read MoreThe Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
October 17, 2025
We’re living through the greatest software quality crisis in computing history. A Calculator leaks 32GB of RAM. AI assistants delete production databases. Companies spend $364 billion to avoid f...
Read MoreDev Tools – Your Ultimate Developer Toolkit | Free Online Tools
October 17, 2025
Unlock your productivity with tools designed for developers, by a developer. Source: Dev Tools – Your Ultimate Developer Toolkit | Free Online Tools...
Read MoreThe new progress() function in CSS
October 17, 2025
Imagine a responsive hero image that becomes more transparent as the viewport gets narrower, helping text readability on small screens or a card that scales up slightly as the viewport grows, adding a...
Read MoreThe thing about contrast-color • Stuff & Nonsense
October 16, 2025
Source: The thing about contrast-color • Stuff & Nonsense...
Read MoreDesigning Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna’s Café Culture
October 16, 2025
Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your ai...
Read MoreJust Talk To It – the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering
October 16, 2025
I’ve been more quiet here lately as I’m knee-deep working on my latest project. Agentic engineering has become so good that it now writes pretty much 100% of my code. And yet I see so many folks t...
Read MoreWhere’s the AI design renaissance?
October 15, 2025
Source: Where’s the AI design renaissance?...
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