What’s new in Svelte: August 2026

The SvelteKit 3 preview lands with new $app modules, zero-config error props and refreshAll

svelte.dev

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web

The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.

w3.org

The AI productivity gap

Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.

bjorg.bjornroche.com

Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler

Forking tsc to support Go's defer.

healeycodes.com

How I Stopped Running out of Tokens

A practical rundown of tools, settings, and habits that reduce token consumption when using Claude Code as your daily AI coding assistant.

danielabaron.me

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact.

github.blog

Your JSON Is Lying to You

JSON looks like a faithful representation of JavaScript data, but JSON.stringify and JSON.parse can silently alter or discard information at system boundaries.

blog.gaborkoos.com

The secure way to release an npm package in 2026—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

How to protect your npm package from being stolen in a supply chain attack and improve its position in security ratings

evilmartians.com

No, We Can't Harden Node.js Against Prototype Pollution

"Prototype pollution isn't a Node or library issue, it's on the app's guard to thwart code vulnerabilities!"

adventures.nodeland.dev

Why Your Favorite Websites Look Like 2005 (And Why You Secretly Love It)

Why are the world's most powerful websites still stuck in the early 2000s? While boutique brands chase "sleek" designs that only end up frustrating users, giants like Amazon and Google have realized that "ugly" is actually a superpower for trust and speed.

webdesignerdepot.com

Does your screen reader content need an editor?  - Intopia

Learn how to improve screen reader content, from accessible names and alt text to ARIA labels, status messages and button labels.

intopia.digital

AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two different and brief presentations, I hoped to share some insights that would be useful to the peo…

berthub.eu

Win32 Profile

An inquiry into the identity a document wears when it wants to be an application — the grammar of a stylesheet that rebuilds the Windows shell.

win32-profile.netlify.app

A11y 101 – 3.3.1 Error Identification

We’ve all been there. You fill out a form. You hit submit. Nothing happens. Maybe the border turns red. Maybe a little icon winks at you. Maybe your computer hums aggressively. But nobody tel…

tarnoff.info

Information Architecture Is the Foundation AI Is Starving For

archive.ph

Thirty-Six Years Later: The ADA at a Crossroads - Dennis Deacon

The ADA turns 36 amid quiet enforcement erosion. A look at the threats facing disability rights today, and why persistence still wins.

dennisdeacon.com

Everyone's still eating: building Notion's design system | Config 2026

Introducing a design system at a design-led company can be like trying to whip a tablecloth off a beautifully set table while people are still eating—and may...

youtube.com

The CSS lh unit

A look at the CSS line height unit and how it works.

ishadeed.com

No New Name Has Replaced “UX”

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

nngroup.com

Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era — Smashing Magazine

Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.

smashingmagazine.com

Building Your Design System Workflow - Rituals and Templates

Practical playbook for implementing design system workflows. Complete with communication rituals, templates, tools guidance, and phased implementation timelines.

alwaystwisted.com

The unexpected things developer metrics can measure

We built metrics to evaluate developer tools. They turned out to explain everything from office design to Daylight Saving Time.

newsletter.getdx.com

The Junior Developer Pipeline Is Broken... And AI Broke It

Everyone agrees AI makes senior engineers more valuable. Almost nobody asks where the next generation...

dev.to

pnpm 11.11-11.14 | pnpm

pnpm 11.11 through 11.14 add native workspace release management (pnpm change, pnpm lane, and a bare pnpm version -r), a pnpm doctor command that diagnoses your installation end to end, the pnpm access and pnpm team commands for managing packages and organizations on the registry, convergence ove…

pnpm.io

How AI helped us make sense of hundreds of components

Auditing your site's components doesn't have to take weeks of manual work, or cut people out of the decisions.

clearleft.com

Giving and taking credit in big tech companies

seangoedecke.com

WebKit Features for Safari 26.6

Safari 26.6 is here.

webkit.org

A Practical Guide to Reducing Token Spend · Adam Jacob

Building a Swamp Workflow reduced real world token usage of an AI Agent by 8x and improved execution time by 2x - here is how to do it yourself.

adamhjk.com

Claude's Steganographic Request Marking: What Developers Need to Know

Anthropic's Claude has been quietly marking API requests steganographically. Here's what that means for developers building on the platform.

sitepoint.com

Image to text

Think global, act local.

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