New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026 The foundational language of the web is getting plenty of love lately! While HTML moves a bit more slowly than its buddies, CSS and JavaScript, that tends to be a good thing. I'm not gonna do, like, in here. That's too basic for you. Tha

New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026

The foundational language of the web is getting plenty of love lately! While HTML moves a bit more slowly than its buddies, CSS and JavaScript, that tends to be a good thing. I’m not gonna do, like,…

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I was going to do a short post on Modern Web Guidance; it turned into a huge deep dive. Here's what it does, why it raised eyebrows, and on-point information with truth bombs. I tried to be complete and honest. It's not magic, but in time, it might just make the web a little bit better.

Modern Web Guidance as a starting point for my own token skills: getting agents to write better CSS | utilitybend

How Google's Modern Web Guidance feeds Baseline-aware platform best practices into AI coding agents, how to pair it with your own design token skills, and an honest look at its telemetry, Apache-2.0 l...

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Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

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So many career/life skills boil down to seeing things from someone else’s pov and focusing on value for THEM, not YOUR needs. The only variable is who you’re empathizing with (friends, customers, biz partners, etc). Perhaps Empathy is as fundamental as Math and should really be taught at school?

📝 I was listening to this talk from @feross.bsky.social and the thought hit me: sloppy interface design is an attack vector because it makes imitating you low-hanging fruit, _especially_ with AI tools. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/sloppy-...

i’m glad we’re getting some more standardisation and convergence with design tokens but the format module spec not allowing fluid tokens for things like type and spacing is really frustrating. would love to know how folks handle this in practice.

Here is another gotcha: css-tip.com/nesting-sele... less common but tricky as well.

Be careful when using the nesting selector (&)

The "&" selector is not the same in CSS and Sass so use it carefully

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And because no one will remember all the weird values, I made a small generator to get the code in no time. css-tip.com/text-box/

Firefox for Web Developers@webdevs.firefox.com · 2w ago

CSS text-box is newly baseline, and it's solves a common text layout issue. Here's how it works:

Blink: Intent to Ship: Margin-trim

I would really appreciate a job since I have about 30 days left to survive. Nothing has worked out for a while now. Been living in hostels in SE Asia for over a year. Full stack js, Staff Engineer or PM, react, astro. Many senior positions, consulted for Apple Wireless on their data dashboards, etc

I never understood why Safari dropped support for theme-color. Doing something automagic to create a seamless edge-to-edge experience seems fine, but that should be a fallback in case there is no theme-color. That way we can move on from hacks like grooovinger.com/notes/2026-0... to set the color.

Just watched @nerdy.dev's CSS Day talk on Contextualism. Excellent as usual. Adam shared a mega list of things a component could and should respond to. He was so mad that most of our components (including his own) do almost none of it. conffab.com/presentation... css-day-2026.netlify.app

Contextualism

<p>Container queries, scroll queries, and media queries all let CSS respond to<br /> context rather than just viewport size. Adam Argyle shows how combining<br /> them lets you build interfaces that a...

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How am I just learning that CSS container queries have been Baseline Widely Available for almost a year (since 2025-08-14)! web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

Container queries - Web platform features explorer

Container size queries with the @container at-rule apply styles to an element based on the dimensions of its container.

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Today I learned, through Sara Soueidan’s course, Practical Accessibility, that spectacles/eyeglasses are a form of assistive technology. I’ve worn glasses for most of my life, but I’ve never really thought of myself as someone who uses assistive technology. practical-accessibility.today

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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It's been a while since I've done a people looking for work thread. If you're looking for work, put what you do and what you're looking for (full time, freelance etc) as a reply. Companies: get hiring people!

Over 30,000 people have mowed our digital lawn so far, but only 16% found the perfect path. How close will you get to the optimal solution? Go ahead, touch grass. pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ #dataviz #datascience #data

I wrote this after travelling by train (after a long time of not really travelling anywhere): Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript remysharp.com/2026/08/05/p... Nothing new, just nice to see it up close.

Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript

Lately I've had the opportunity to travel by train and coach, during which time I also tend to work. It's really only during these periods that I'm reminded of…

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Niklas Gruhn, on relaying AI output verbatim: > prompt AI. But don’t just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you’ve done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

An extremely good and important read. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online

The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online

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The Best Loading States Are No Loading States

Applications often end up with all sorts of UI whose sole purpose is to occupy the space where data should eventually appear. We're all spending a surprising amount of time solving the same problem, a...

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So good.

serena (𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒)@serena.nz · 2mo ago

banger collection. i would like to humbly submit: serena.nz/writing/the-...

Today I learned, that copying and pasting other people's code in your project is called vendoring. Carson Gross goes on to explain how vendoring can get pretty difficult to deal with and how that is actually its strength. htmx.org/essays/vendo...

Mat explains the ever-useful, but sometimes hard to understand destructuring assignment in JavaScript. css-tricks.com/javascript-f...

JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring | CSS-Tricks

Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all…

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blogged: Fixing full-bleed CSS dbushell.com/2026/07/03/f... (obvs it depends, I already regret using the word "fixing" here!)

Fixing full-bleed CSS

The one where I apply some at-rule property magic.

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Custom Properties. Variables is what people wanted. Custom Properties is how they were implemented in CSS. Because they are properties, they are a core part of the language: they cascade, go through the value processing steps, etc. — so much more powerful than just "variables".

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

If you ask me there's been way too much VAR in this World Cup. They should be using LET and CONST much more often.

I’ve put hours into learning CSS over the years and continue to do so happily. Building with HTML and CSS is the part of the work I enjoy the most.

I feel like all VAR has done has let FIFA bake in an extra layer of corruption.