@andremichelle.bsky.social “OpenDAW is an impressive undertaking from André Michelle, and I hope to see it go from strength to strength.” Whoop whoop! 😉🙌https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/08/22/opendaw-review/
OpenDAW: A FREE browser-based DAW hoping to democratize music production
OpenDAW isn’t the first DAW to claim free, open-source, and browser-based status, but it might be the most ambitious. OpenDAW aims to bring professional music production tools to the masses at no cost...
bedroomproducersblog.com
A friendly reminder that I have a course on CSS layouts! Check it out and use "JUL26" to apply a $20 discount (Valid until July 31). thelayoutmaestro.com
The Layout Maestro by Ahmad Shadeed
Build any web layout with confidence. Learn practical CSS layout through visual lessons, interactive demos, and a proven layout mindset.
thelayoutmaestro.com
🧩 New open-source library: Component Anatomy Interactive anatomy docs for design systems. Get two-way hover sync between the rendered component and its docs. Framework-agnostic core, plus @astro.build & @storybook.js.org integrations. github.com/julien-deram...
the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉
✍️ 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.
matthiasott.com
Forgot to mention: I’m running a 40% launch sale! But only for the first week. ⏰
Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 5mo ago🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄
a real antidote to relentless AI slop and standards decline tools.rmv.fyi
delphitools
A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection.
tools.rmv.fyi
After a year of building, The Layout Maestro is officially live! 🎹🥳 An interactive CSS course that teaches you how to think in CSS layouts. 70+ lessons, 7 layouts, 150+ interactive demos! Ready to level up your layout skills? Enroll now👇: thelayoutmaestro.com
Astro 6 is here! We completely rebuilt the Astro dev server and build pipeline onto a new, more powerful runtime-agnostic architecture. Plus: New Fonts API, CSP support, an experimental new Rust compiler, and more... astro.build/blog/astro-6...
Astro 6.0 | Astro
Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more.
astro.build
🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @likethecolour.red, a Bluesky Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :) this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.
Strangers By Spring
Strangers, By Spring is a blog about escapism, romance, and rebirth.
strangersbyspring.com
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
"Critical thinking in the age of AI": addyo.substack.com/p/critical-t... ~ my latest write-up on the importance of retaining critical thinking skills during these times ✍️
Credit where it's due, I've given @theverge.com grief about failing to engage with the iOS/web/PWA question in obvious places, but this is an outstanding set of questions to @timbl.bsky.social from Nilay Patel, and Tim's support is very much appreciated : www.theverge.com/podcast/8145....
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
The inventor of the World Wide Web still believes in the internet as a force for good.
theverge.com
youtube.com/watch?v=GMWJ... "Why don't you design the perfect programming language for AI?" "AIs ability in writing code in a language is directly proportional to how much of that code it has seen because it is a big regurgitator of stuff that someone else has done."
Anders Hejlsberg (creator of TypeScript) reacts to the 2025 Octoverse report
YouTube video by GitHub
youtube.com
It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...
⏰ It’s the last day to sign up for my new course in Early Access! At 5PM ET (UTC -04:00), registration closes and it won’t reopen until the full release, sometime in 2026 (and at a dramatically higher price!). You can learn more here: whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I thought about things that have happened in CSS in 2025 and what I think you should probably know. Then I blogged it. frontendmasters.com/blog/what-yo... It's not *everything* — it's my own curated list.
What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)
If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.
frontendmasters.com
✍️ "Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" tips & tricks in my latest article: bit.ly/ai-assisted While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.
Between the time we launched the original Learn CSS course on web.dev and today, container queries landed in browsers and became Baseline Widely available! It was high time for an update, and we were lucky enough to have the team at OddBird work with us. Enjoy 9 new modules! web.dev/blog/learn-c...
A refresh of Learn CSS with nine new modules | Blog | web.dev
Our popular Learn CSS course has been updated with new modules covering the latest CSS features.
web.dev
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
We're hiring btw If you want to get paid to work on open source full time and help shape the the future of Ghost, we'd love to hear from you careers.ghost.org
Ghost
We're hiring! Ghost is a proud non-profit organisation building open source technology for fiercely independent, professional publishers.
careers.ghost.org
Just reminded myself of randoma11y.com Now you're reminded of / introduced to it too!
RandomA11y - Accessible Color Combinations
Discover millions of accessible color combinations with RandomA11y, the real-time color playground.
randoma11y.com
Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
robbowen.digital
When I'm fed up with the tech industries latest bullshit, I put on some nice music, scroll through my camera roll and watch photos of my kid. It's the 2025 version of this:
