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Third-party component libraries come with restrictions, the :has() CSS pseudo-selector unlocks flexible style options without needing JavaScript.

It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.

I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.

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Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.

When implementing Dark Mode and ways to toggle it, developers currently need to duplicate code and roll their own toggle implementation. What if, instead, browsers would take care of all that?

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

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This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

A pair who helped launch the agentic-AI craze worry about what their creations are pumping out.

With the AI bubble finally deflating, what can we learn from the gender gap in genAI enthusiasm?

How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.

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Journey of a very old rock.

A case for verbosity in CSS properties.

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

A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.

An opinionated defence of hand-crafted CSS in a utility-class world There. I said it. Call me a...

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies...

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.

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

We’re experimenting with two new CSS functions to clean up our logo marquee code.

My wife, recovering from an eating disorder, faces relentless weight-loss ads on YouTube despite blocking them repeatedly. Platforms ignore her choices, prioritizing profit over her mental health. …

Communication technologies have been reshaping the human body in a slow migration down the arm. The next cost isn't to the body.

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

If you use the Google Suite, you’re no doubt familiar with the daily creep of Gemini and other Google-based AI tools into your documents. In Google Slides, you’re constantly prompted to “beautify” …

Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

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“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.

The 'name' attribute of the HTML details element is gaining more support across browsers. Learn how this feature allows creating exclusive accordions without scripting widgets from scratch.