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Models All The Way Down
April 15, 2024
What this training set contains is extremely important. More than any other thing, it will influence what your model can do and how well it does it. Yet few people in the world have spent the time to ...
Read MoreHistorical analogies for large language models
April 15, 2024
How will large language models (LLMs) change the world ?No one knows. With such uncertainty, a good exercise is to look for historical analogies—to think about other technologies and ask what would ...
Read MoreAn intro to CSS Grid
April 12, 2024
What is CSS Grid? #As the name implies, CSS Grid is a way to define a grid-based layout: a set of rows and columns (not unlike a table).To create a grid with CSS Grid, you specify the number of rows a...
Read MoreNotes on how to use LLMs in your product. | Irrational Exuberance
April 11, 2024
I’ve been working fairly directly on meaningful applicability of LLMs to existing products for the last year, and wanted to type up some semi-disorganized notes. These notes are in no particular ord...
Read MoreContinuous Accessibility
April 10, 2024
Continuous Accessibility is defined as the approach to ensuring that code intended to be displayed in browsers can be continuously checked and monitored for digital accessibility requirements through ...
Read MoreDao Day 2024 – a regression in the making | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
April 10, 2024
It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. It must be one of the most vital and cited articles ever to be written about web ...
Read MoreUnderstanding Interaction to Next Paint (INP) – Frontend Masters Boost
April 10, 2024
FID and INP are measuring the same situation in the browser: how clunky does it feel when a user interacts with an element on the page? The good news for the web—and its users—is that INP provides...
Read MoreHow would you build Wordle with just HTML & CSS? | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
April 9, 2024
I’ve been thinking about the questions folks are typically asked in front-end interviews these days, and how well those questions assess a candidate’s depth of understanding of web standard te...
Read MoreLearning from you about AI | Blog | web.dev
April 9, 2024
Over the last few months, we’ve spoken with web practitioners to understand the landscape and how you think about AI. Of course, we can’t talk to everyone about everything. We had just a s...
Read MoreDesign Engineering at Vercel: What we do and how we do it – Vercel
April 8, 2024
Design Engineer is a new role that is gaining popularity—a role that is both confusing and exciting. Expectations for what good software looks and feels like have never been higher. Design Engineers...
Read MoreAI & the Web: Understanding and managing the impact of Machine Learning models on the Web
April 8, 2024
This document proposes an analysis of the systemic impact of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, on the Web, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing...
Read MoreWhat even is a JSON Number?
April 8, 2024
Not a question people generally ponder, and seems fairly straightforward. It’s a number, obviously! But the question turns out to be somewhat hard to answer, and for API designers especially, th...
Read Morexz, Tidelift, and paying the maintainers
April 5, 2024
Late last week, a developer noticed some unusual behavior on their computer, investigated it, and uncovered a hack of epic scope, in an obscure but important library called xz. The attack was technica...
Read MoreRobin Rendle — How to Kill the Cascade
April 5, 2024
I love the tag and I love CSS. I still think the way that styles cascade and can’t error out is ingeniously resilient. But, in this blogger’s opinion, the cascade has always had this glaring, terr...
Read MoreThe View Transitions API – Frontend Masters Boost
April 5, 2024
Transitioning UI between states has been something that developers have been doing for ages, and yes, you can use things like the Web Animation API as well as CSS transitions and animations for that. ...
Read MoreElizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it
April 5, 2024
As templates, tutorials and tools become ubiquitous, technical skills are more accessible than ever. It’s no longer enough to be able to simply draw or design. Now, our US editor-at-large argues, yo...
Read MoreCSS Classes considered harmful – Keith Cirkel
April 5, 2024
If you’ve ever so much as peeked behind the curtain of Web user interfaces before, you’ll know what the class property is for. It’s for connecting HTML to CSS, right? I’m here ...
Read MoreText Effects
April 4, 2024
A collection of fun experiments, effects, examples and tips on how to create text effects using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Source: Text Effects...
Read MoreAn Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries
April 4, 2024
Ah, container queries – a topic I explored three years ago. It’s truly satisfying to revisit it once more, this time with a deeper and more comprehensive approach.In this interactive guide to ...
Read MoreThe Blessing of the Strings
April 4, 2024
Trusted Types have been a proposal by Google for quite some time at this point, but it’s currently getting a lot of attention and work in all browsers (Igalia is working on implementations in We...
Read MoreA TC39 Proposal for Signals. A v0 draft of the signals proposal… | by EisenbergEffect | Apr, 2024 | Medium
April 3, 2024
What are signals?A signal is a data type that enables one-way data flow by modeling cells of state and computations derived from other state/computations. The state and computations form an acyclic gr...
Read MoreThe Power of :has() in CSS | CSS-Tricks – CSS-Tricks
April 3, 2024
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end comm...
Read MoreFrontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers
April 2, 2024
In recent years the frontend has undergone a renaissance. Frontend developers—individuals that have traditionally focused on writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, but increasingly work on everythi...
Read More(5699) Node.js: The Documentary | An origin story – YouTube
April 2, 2024
Back in 2008, most people thought of JavaScript as just a client-side language. But when Google’s V8 appeared, young developer Ryan Dahl made the connection between non-blocking servers, V8, and...
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