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Although I feel deeply conflicted, I’ve been using AI coding tools more often to speed up particular aspects of development. Recently, I added an AGENTS.md to my setup so I don’t need to repeat my preferences. Judge Dredd. Robot Wars. 2000AD comic. I started using ChatGPT and DeepSeek to help…

This weekend a project called pretext started making waves by Cheng Lou. Here’s a gif that has been blowing up social media: There’s no doubt about how impressive this demo is. The speed in which the text moves out of the way of the dragon is pretty incredible. As expected,…

As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation….

Imagine the following scene: you’re on a website, and there’s a button. When you click the button, it shows some text, but the website’s font size is really small. So, you change the default font size in your browser from 16 to 24 pixels. You go back to the website…

In January, I read Geoff Graham’s article, Changing Roles. It dawned on him that somehow at sometime, he stopped being a web designer. It was not something he necessarily intended to happen. He took advantage of different opportunities and evolved into a new role. Web educator is the best way…

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Say you’re working with a LLM and training it to write good frontend code. Good frontend code is accessible code, so of course you want to instruct the LLM to produce it. However, the bulk of frontend code on the web is inaccessible to some degree. Also know here that…

The latest SEO fad is the idea that websites need a machine-only version. Strip out the layout, remove the “noise”, and hand LLMs a simplified view of your content. The pitch is always framed as pragmatic. Modern websites are bloated. LLMs don’t need the design. They just want the content….

At the end of 2025, Firefox added the CSS @scope rule – making the new feature available across all major browsers! Since Chris Coyier has done a fair amount of writing and speaking on the topic, we wanted to talk with him about what that means. Chris has also been…

This first rule of styling lists is that they should be treated with the same reverence you would show any other text. If a list is inserted within a passage of text, treat it as a continuation and integral part of that text. For bulleted or unordered lists, use padding…