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Entry (Sources) and TopicsDate#
“Sloppy” Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project (not)86
design, accessibility, quality, case-studies
The Evolution of Web Development: From Static Pages to AI-Driven Experiences (web)85
history, web, web-2.0, web-apps, ai
Building Agentic Design Systems: The Future of AI-Enhanced Design84
design-systems, design, ai, processes
The Next Revolution in Design: Emotional Accessibility (fas)83
design, accessibility, outlooks
Prevent a Page From Scrolling While a Dialog Is Open (geo/css)82
scrolling, css
The Practical Guide to LLM Cost Optimization81
guides, ai, token-optimization, economics
Nobody Writes Clean Code—We All Just Pretend80
quality, craft
Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025 (aar)79
link-lists, learning
React Has Changed, Your Hooks Should Too78
react, hooks
Improve TTFB and UX With HTTP Streaming (mb2/per)77
performance, user-experience, http, streaming, optimization
Top Layer Troubles: Popover vs. Dialog (5t3/mat)76
css, positioning, pop-overs, modals
Testing Methods: Pointer Gestures (dec)75
accessibility, wcag, testing
Non-Square Image Blur Extensions (ana/fro)74
images, css, effects
A Link on a Logo in the Header, What Should the Alt-Text Be? (ria/mat)73
accessibility, branding, links, logos, images, alt-text
How to Usability Test Your Product (if You Want Bad UX) (ada)72
how-tos, usability, user-experience, testing
How to Clamp the Lightness of a Relative Color in CSS (ang)71
how-tos, css, colors, functions
Building a 3D Portfolio With Three.js and Next.js70
nextjs, threejs, functionality
Goodhart’s Law in Action: 3 Webperf Examples (nom/per)69
performance, principles, lighthouse, web-vitals, metrics, examples
Development Advent Calendars for 2024 (aar)68
link-lists, learning
CSS Selectors Advent Calendar 202467
css, selectors, examples
Blast From the Past: 2advanced.com (web)66
design, flash, history, case-studies
CSS Advent Calendar65
websites, css, examples
Designed With Care (rac)64
websites, books, accessibility, design, content, compliance
Create Dynamic Web Experiences With Interactive SVG Animations63
svg, images, animations, tooling
Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them (nng)62
user-experience, dark-patterns
Recovering Deleted Files From Your Git Working Tree (sma)61
git, command-line
Debugging BFCache, Make Your Page Load Instantly (jec+)60
videos, performance, bfcache, browsers, chrome, dev-tools, debugging
Web Development Advent Calendars for 2023 (aar)59
link-lists, learning
I Replaced npm, Yarn, and nvm With pnpm (paw)58
dependencies, npm, yarn, pnpm, nvm
How to Use a Color Font (man)57
how-tos, fonts, css
Does Web Design Matter?56
design, web
CSS Relative Colors (luc/iod)55
css, colors
Search vs. Browse54
user-experience, browsing, searching, comparisons
The UX of HTML (vas/mat)53
html, semantics, user-experience
Developing Faster JavaScript Apps: The Ultimate Guide to Web Workers (cra)52
guides, web-apps, performance, web-workers, javascript
7 Website Performance Metrics to Track for Better UX (cal)51
performance, user-experience, metrics
The State of UX in 2023: A Vibe Shift Is Coming50
user-experience, design, outlooks
The Final Google Fonts Knowledge Drop of 2022 (ell)49
google, fonts, typography
Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries (geo/css)48
css, style-queries, container-queries
How to Transfigure Wireframes Into HTML (lar/mat)47
how-tos, html, prototyping, conversion
Design Spacing Tokens Semantically (don)46
websites, design-tokens, spacing, design
Migrating From Vue 2 to Svelte45
migrating, vuejs, svelte
A Conversation With ChatGPT (mat)44
interviews, ai, chatgpt, typography, design
From Type to Logotype43
fonts, typography, design, branding, logos
Apache .htaccess42
servers, apache
Why Color Contrast Is Not as Black and White as It Seems41
accessibility, colors, contrast
The Fundamentals of CSS Layout40
videos, fundamentals, css, layout
Understanding Accessibility39
accessibility, testing, tooling
New Living Standards (dom)38
standards, apis
Accessibility (htt)37
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, accessibility
Page Weight (htt)36
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, performance
Open Props (arg)35
websites, css, custom-properties, props
JavaScript (htt)34
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, javascript
Security (htt)33
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, security
HTTP (htt)32
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, http, protocols
CSS (mey/htt)31
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, css
Why Choose TYPO3 CMS for Your Website30
videos, typo3, content-management
Alt vs. Figcaption (tho)29
html, accessibility, comparisons
Giving Back to the Community (mgi/24a)28
community
CSS Line Spacing: How to Set Line Spacing27
how-tos, css, typography
The 10 Big Web Design Trends of 201526
design, layout, trends, minimalism, scrolling, flat-design, animations, colors, backgrounds, typography
3 Principles for Perfect Typeface Pairing25
typography, fonts, principles
Automating CSS Regression Testing (css)24
css, testing, regressions, automation, tooling
Headless WebKit and PhantomJS (cji)23
webkit, headless, tooling
Creating Custom Font Stacks With unicode-range (dre/24w)22
css, fonts, unicode
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality (tim)21
web, standards, net-neutrality
Google Exec Says It Resists Hiring Some Industry Stars (com)20
google, hiring, career
Stop Calling It Usability Testing19
usability, user-focus, testing, terminology
Pretending to Be the Blind Guy—Does It Work?18
design, accessibility, processes
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) (mdm+/w3c)17
smil, standards
The Greatest Secret in Web Design (j9t)16
maintenance, maintainability, processes, quality
Selling Links That Pass PageRank15
pagerank, seo, monetization
Is RSS a Bad Idea?14
rss, syndication
Web 2.0 = the Web13
web, web-2.0, terminology
10 Places You Must Use AJAX12
ajax, javascript, examples
Rel vs. Rev (mic)11
html, xhtml, semantics, microformats, comparisons
Accessible and Usable Forms: Guidelines, Examples, and JavaScript Tricks10
guidelines, examples, tips-and-tricks, forms, accessibility, usability
World Wide Web Hits 15th Birthday9
web, anniversaries
One-Way Links Were Key to Web (sdt)8
web, links
An Introduction to XHTML7
introductions, xhtml
Unbreaking the Web (mey)6
css, web-platform, internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers
Remote Control CSS (rus)5
css
Flash Access: Unclear on the Concept (ali)4
accessibility, flash
PHP by Example3
php, examples
Application Servers: An Introduction (inf)2
introductions, servers, architecture
Understanding and Using JavaScript Statements (inf)1
javascript