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Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind. It has a certain look and feel that is hard to shake. A few years ago this "look and feel" was fresh and classy…
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub.
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.
This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
System composition and other interfaces for Biff projects
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
Bear with me, because some of these "lies" are going to feel obvious, or like unimportant trivia. In all honesty, that's not that far from the truth. However, I hope you'll let me try to build a detailed and fun illustration showing how something as mundane as email can break our expectations in surprising ways.
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of Angular v22. We continue to be proud of the work we do with each release. Our goal is to…
The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1 , as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling…
A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser . Preventing access to quite few websites ( previously , but it even went worse lately). Turns out it's because Cloudflare wants to have a fingerprint of your device…
AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?
The semantics you didn’t know you needed.
I don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language. Something like this: : h1 ( s -- ) "<h1>" emit . "</h1>" em…
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
More than thirteen years in, and I am still as excited about building this browser as I was on day one. Maybe more. That excitement comes from a genuine belief that the people who use Vivaldi deserve…
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the…
Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the best of a search engine with the best of AI.
Why building a rich, selectable, streaming Markdown chat UI on macOS still pushes you toward WebKit or Electron.
This second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat.
I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs.
This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.
