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 (𝖮𝗇𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾)@serena.nz · 3w 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.

> […] as a program grows, so does its complexity. The skill of programming is the skill of building programs that don’t confuse the programmer. The best programs are those that manage to do something interesting while still being easy to understand. eloquentjavascript.net/00_intro.html

My blog post about Grid Lanes and reading flow sparked interesting discussions. github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

[css-grid] Masonry layout in CSS Grid 3 has potential to cause accessibility problems with reading order. · Issue #5675 · w3c/csswg-drafts

Assuming all authors code their masonry grid in a valid reading order, screen reader user who are non-visual will have no problem with it. But once we introduce visual screen reader users, low visi...

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> I think the way we currently write CSS subtly shapes the way we think about components. By having the visual styles completely decoupled from the semantic meaning, accessibility is easy to forget, because we can’t physically see missing attributes. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/ou...

Our CSS isn't opinionated enough

Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip

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enjoy CSS Day and the other web/tech events for those who are visiting Amsterdam

Train Your Judgement: a small quiz to decide which UI animation “feels” better. The interesting part is the explanation as to why one feels better than the other. I don’t always agree though, and some are really potato potato, and some would both trigger my motion sickness so my answer is “none”.

Train Your Judgement

Settling for good enough is not good enough.

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📝 Rather than judging by some number, I’d say if you can do something with consistency, discipline, and perseverance, I’d say you’re good at it (without even seeing the result). blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/good-at...

If we’re building pro-social, democracy-supporting technology, how can we combine our ideals with being able to earn a living? Should we? werd.io/its-not-enou...

It's not enough to have better ideals.

You also need to build a better product.

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I wish I could be at #CSSday this year. Last year's CSS Day was incredible and I'm so sad to be missing it. Best of luck to all the speakers. And to the first time attendees like I was last year, I found my people there. I hope it does the same for you.

I beat today's CSS Wordle in 3/5 tries. Can you beat the Fairman? css-questions.com/css-wordle #CSSQuestions #CSSWordle

CSS Wordle

A daily CSS property guessing game from CSS-Questions.

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Be as proud of what you *didn’t* do to the codebase, as what you did do to it. notes.jim-nielsen.com/n/2026-06-04...

Exciting news: Dynamic or context-aware headings in HTML may become a thing. matuzo.at/blog/2026/co...

Context-aware headings in HTML - Manuel Matuzovic

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

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Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

Seeing a lot of discouragement in technical writing circles the past week. And I've got some thoughts on what technical writing means in this AI age. I'm rooting for you and for all of us. 🧡 css-tricks.com/technical-wr...

Technical Writing in the AI Age | CSS-Tricks

This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading.

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Today I learned that CSS text decorations propagate to their descendants, they aren’t inherited, via @pawelgrzybek.com’s post on Mastodon, where @css-only.dev pointed it out. I wrote more about it on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

Forgot to mention: this shipped in @sugarcube.sh last week! No more back-and-forth between sugarcube and utopia.fyi. Thanks to @arpit.codes for helping push me to actually implement this. Check out the fluid space & type docs for more:

Fluid Space & Type

Design tokens, generated CSS, and optional components. Build front ends on strong, reusable foundations.

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Mark Tomlinson@marktomlinson.dev · 3mo ago

Utopia.fyi but in your tokens indeed.

What I love about this, that the source is human readable and it's actually an interesting read if you want to catch up with modern web development.

Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💥 Game changer for Web Development announced at GoogleIO- Modern Web Guidance! It’s expert-vetted skills for web development based on best practices of latest specs and APIs. It ensures your agent/coding harness doesn’t default to older and out of date patterns to build sites.

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why: