It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks…
Repository bez by burrito.space on Tangled.
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)
I've been using Brave for a couple months now after using Firefox for around 25 years. I think Brave will be a permanent change.
How can it generate 3D worlds, videos, images and entire web pages, but still suck at front-end?
Discover the new way to request user location data.
You might have heard recently that Safari Technology Preview 234 landed the final plan for supporting masonry-style layouts in CSS.
Learn about the HTML-in-Canvas origin trial in Chrome, and how it can help bring the DOM to your Canvas-driven applications.
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your…
Chrome 158 stops running XSLT on 17 November 2026. What it does to your XML sitemap, your feeds and your crawling, with a before and after capture.
We have been sold a lie that icons are the universal language of the modern interface.
Learning to search was a key skill growing up as a teen in the 2000s. How to use accurate keywords, quotes, the entire lot of search operators. Google-fu was a hard earned skill (yes, I read a book) and helped me figure out a surprising amount of life.
Every AI-generated landing page, all at once, labelling itself as it goes.
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub.
If you have Chrome Canary installed with the 'Experimental Web Platform features' flag enabled, you can now try out a new HTML meta tag:
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
What comes to mind when you think of Firefox? Is it our best-in-class privacy features and ad blocking capabilities? Our partnerships with Wrexham, NVIDIA
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
Learn why most websites don't need cookie consent banners and how privacy-first design can improve user experience while simplifying compliance with GDPR…
Chrome introduced a new API, window.showDirectoryPicker() that allows the user to grant access to a directory on their computer and allow a website to read/write everything inside.
I'm happy to announce the general availability of watgo - the W eb A ssembly T oolkit for G o. This project is similar to wabt (C++) or wasm-tools (Rust), but in pure, zero-dependency Go.
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…
Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.
Hold on to your data by keeping it in your own database
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the…
We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a…
How we built a reverse-CAPTCHA for agents, and what we learned.
