📝 Modern design loves visual consistency. But a suite where everything matches is a suite where nothing is exceptional. Consistent icons ≠ iconic icons. Give me a consistency of excellence any day over a consistency of visuals. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/a-consi...

Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔 matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf...

Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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The #GAAD promotion is still on and ends at the end of the month. Treat yourself to 25% off ($299 instead of $399) and level up your accessibility skills with me ✨ practical-accessibility.today #a11y

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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Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts. The @polypane.app blog covers env(safe-area-inset-*), viewport-fit=cover, calc() for extra spacing, and safe-area-max-inset-* that stays stable when the address bar hides. #css #layout polypane.app/blog/us...

You can't write a compelling promotion packet about the thing you didn't build. And that's the whole problem. terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

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I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...

📝 A pause is not a lack of work. Building something great and meaningful, I think, necessitates acknowledging and tapping into the autonomic functions we uniquely possess — the work we do when we're not working needs time to take place. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/softwar...

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

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It is probably not the smartest thing to channel your anxiety into the place where you curate your professional representation online, but also here's a future I would really like to avoid. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...

Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

Being open and transparent is a radical strength, not a weakness.

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Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In their AI Engineering Report, Faros detail what they call an “acceleration whiplash” effect caused by AI code gen. It's the same “downstream chaos” that DORA and CircleCI saw in their data. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/s...

Slow. The. F**k. Down.

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” US Navy SEALS training mantra Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In the latest AI Engineering Report from Faros, the so…

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I successfully ignored crypto and NFTs, I'm thinking I might just wait until this AI coding thing just blows over… larsfaye.com/articles/age...

Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

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“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.” The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”, by @wil.to 👏

Google’s Prompt API

No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

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My social media feeds are full of posts from people talking about the sophisticated AI agents and harnesses they're building, but I'm not seeing much in the way of finished software. Are folks too busy building recording studios to make any music? codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/i...

Is It Time To Get Back To Fundamentals?

I have a friend who built a recording studio in his garden. The building – an adapted garden office – cost £15,000. Inside, he installed a pre-owned Neve 24-track mixing console with mo…

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sizes="auto" landed in Firefox 150, making responsive images simpler and more reliable. Here's when you can use it, and how…

@ky.fyi has put into words what many of us have been feeling for a long time in what has been our professional home for so many years. It’s both unsettling and encouraging to read so many comments from people all over the world who feel the same way you do. Thank you for a wonderful article❤️

charli xkcd@ky.fyi · 4mo ago

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

If you want to use "box-shadow" for your focus indicators, don't disable "outline", use the trick suggested by @matuzo.at www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/bo...

box-shadow is no alternative to outline - Manuel Matuzovic

I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

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📝 We're all moving so fast, we're outrunning wisdom. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/speed-n...

📝 The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life... daverupert.com/2026/04/clau...

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

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A highly detailed account of the reality we seem to be ignoring in this mindless race we find ourselves caught up in. From Web Weekly #189 by @stefanjudis.com, thank you! andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cult...

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📝 When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break daverupert.com/2026/04/more...

I've had this discussion hundreds of times, whenever a developer blamed the user for the mistake, rather than asking themselves: "How could I have made it easier to use?" This is pure usability, pure user-centred design, pure accessibility. In other words, pure work well done. Our work.

Jim Nielsen@jim-nielsen.com · 4mo ago

📝 I had more to say and it spilled over into a blog post. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skill-i...

An important point regarding hidden content and ARIA associations

Steve Faulkner@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Hiding Content Has No Effect on Accessible Name or Description Calculation "This information (I wrote) originally appeared in Using ARIA I am re-upping and updating it here as the Using ARIA has now been updated and the content removed." #a11y #HTML #ARIA html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone A few thoughts on the new WebAIM Million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together. matthiasott.com/notes/this-s...

This, Still Not for Everyone · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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I’m looking for a new project, any suggestions, help or shares are welcome 😊 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

After a rewarding stint at Product Hackers, full of learning, professional challenges, and fantastic colleagues, I'm closing this chapter eager to bring my experience and skills to a new… | Carlos...

After a rewarding stint at Product Hackers, full of learning, professional challenges, and fantastic colleagues, I'm closing this chapter eager to bring my experience and skills to a new challenge. W...

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✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott

Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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📝 New post about generative AI, friction, and people. daverupert.com/2026/03/peop...

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

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It's becoming ever clearer that, far from leading to "super-intelligence", scaling LLMs is more likely to end at "super-mediocrity" - producing outputs that are closer to the average of their training data. For software developers, this has implications. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/s...

Super-Mediocrity

March will be the third anniversary of the beginning of my journey with Large Language Models and generative “A.I.” At the time, we were all being dazzled – myself included &#8211…

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@jim-nielsen.com is on fire. Lately, every thought he expresses, no matter how small, seems to perfectly dissect reality and express in precise words what is on my mind 🎩❤️ blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-...

Imagine your car pulling over mid-drive to ask, “How’s your experience so far?” Ridiculous…until you realize that’s exactly how many apps behave now. How we normalized being interrupted by the products we bought to do work. Backseat Software: blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...