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Building a Unified Web: A Fireside Chat with Rachel Andrew
March 3, 2025
We chat with Rachel Andrew of Google — a leading voice in web standards and innovative design and a member of the CSS Working Group of the W3C – about the current and future state of web standards...
Read Morewandler
March 3, 2025
run ai in your browserinspired by the ▲ AI SDK & built on top of 🤗 transformers.js Source: wandler...
Read MoreWhy AI Needs Information Architecture
March 3, 2025
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?”Of course, not everyone puts it like that. Instead, they’ll say things like “w...
Read MoreDear Student: Yes, AI is here, you’re screwed unless you take action…
March 3, 2025
It’s just facts, I’m a straight shooter. I’d rather tell it to you straight and provide actionable advice then placate feelings. The steps that you take now will determine your succe...
Read MoreWhat is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers
March 3, 2025
Read this blog post if you are a JavaScript programmer and want to get a rough idea of what using TypeScript is like (think first step before learning more details): How TypeScript code is different f...
Read MoreWeb-AI Client-Side AI for Developers: Jason Mayes-Google’s Web AI Lead
February 28, 2025
In this episode of ‘Ventures with David,’ host David converses with Jason Mayes, Google’s web AI lead, about the innovations and implications of web AI and product management. They d...
Read MoreAI is Stifling Tech Adoption
February 28, 2025
I propose that the advent and integration of AI models into the workflows of developers has stifled the adoption of new and potentially superior technologies due to training data cutoffs and system pr...
Read MoreComparing local large language models for alt-text generation
February 28, 2025
I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images. Source: Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation Trus...
Read MoreWhy I Like Designing in the Browser
February 28, 2025
It can be surprising for new clients to see just how much of our design process happens in HTML, CSS and (light) JavaScript. While we do plenty of ideation exercises, sketching, wireframes, mockups an...
Read MoreUsing & Styling The Details Element
February 27, 2025
You can find the element all over the web these days. We were excited about it when it first dropped and toyed with using it as a menu back in 2019 (but probably don’t) among many other experiments....
Read MoreYour first WebGPU app
February 27, 2025
Before WebGPU, there was WebGL, which offered a subset of the features of WebGPU. It enabled a new class of rich web content, and developers have built amazing things with it. However, it was based on...
Read MoreThe UX Researcher’s Guide to Getting Started with Accessibility Research
February 27, 2025
Many UX researchers want to conduct more meaningful accessibility testing with their products – and that means including people with disabilities in the process. While organizational commitment to i...
Read MoreReplace JavaScript animations with View Transitions
February 27, 2025
For those rooting for the web, 2025 has now exciting news! Both Chrome and Safari shipped a new and fairly straightforward way to add animations and transitions to your sites — say “Hello” to th...
Read MoreImplementing a Product Model in a non-product enterprise
February 26, 2025
Product-centric companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Canva aren’t merely companies that happen to have a product; the product is virtually the whole company. There is no distinction between t...
Read MoreDigital Sovereignty
February 26, 2025
Digital sovereignty is a real problem that matters to real people and real businesses in the real world, it can be explained in concrete terms, and we can devise pragmatic strategies to improve it. To...
Read MoreEverything you need to know about Invoker Commands | London Web Standards
February 26, 2025
command and commandfor attributes are a brand new web platform feature coming in 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about them, plus some things you really don’t. Source: Everything ...
Read MoreWhat do developers want in a design handoff? We asked them
February 25, 2025
When designers finish designing an app and deliver the design specs to the development team to build, mutual frustration frequently ensues. The design team is worried the development team won’t real...
Read MoreMy LLM codegen workflow atm
February 24, 2025
I have been building so many small products using LLMs. It has been fun, and useful. However, there are pitfalls that can waste so much time. A while back a friend asked me how I was using LLMs to wri...
Read MoreThoughts On A Month With Devin – Answer.AI
February 24, 2025
As a team at Answer.AI that routinely experiments with AI developer tools, something about Devin felt different. If it could deliver even half of what it promised, it could transform how we work. But ...
Read MoreToe Dipping Into View Transitions | CSS-Tricks
February 24, 2025
I’ll be honest and say that the View Transition API intimidates me more than a smidge. There are plenty of tutorials with the most impressive demos showing how we can animate the transition between ...
Read MoreIntroducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi
February 24, 2025
Natural language UIs are touted by many to be the future of user interfaces. But right now, they still look a lot like the past: a text-based prompt, with text-based answers. (If you squint, it could ...
Read MoreGetting Started | Web Components Toolkit
February 21, 2025
The Web Components Toolkit is a collection of tools to help you build web components that teams love to use. This guide will help you get started with the tools used in the Toolkit. Source: Getting St...
Read MoreWhy I’m Woke
February 21, 2025
This is almost certainly the first in a series of Not A Tech Bro posts that could share the same title. Today, I want to talk about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, and why I worked so ...
Read MoreThe web on mobile
February 21, 2025
Ten or fifteen years ago, the gap between the web and native apps on mobile was entirely technical. There were certain things that you just couldn’t do in web browsers. That’s no longer the case n...
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