A quarter of a century ago this week, A List Apart published A Dao of Web Design, something I wrote about how to think about the web, and design for it. I’m working on a piece or two revisiting this, and have the privilege of speaking on this topic at CSS Day in June, since […]

This week we’ve got another roundup of great articles and more, across CSS, JavaScript, performance, accessibility, design, some history with an ancient website and even more ancient computer, and of course, more than a little about writing software with AI. Last week I had the privilege to record a conversation with Jeremy Howard, now of […]

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the question ‘what is Software Engineering in an age of LLMs’. So much so that I’ve started a Linkedin Group for those similar interested–so if that’s you, please come join. So this week we return to a grab bag of interesting things I came across the last week […]

Keeping up our 2025 posting streak (of now 2, but from little things…), here’s a roundup of some things we found this week we thought you might find valuable. Plenty of CSS and thoughts on architecting the Web, plus some AI for developers related articles as well, and more. Like what you see? Checkout our […]

A new (Gregorian) year has begun (while the Lunar New Year is still a couple of weeks off). I hope it has begin well with you. Since the last newsletter, I’ve posted dozens of ‘elsewheres’ over at Conffab–this newsletter usually rounds up some of the recent highlights, but you can find much more over there, […]

This week’s roundup of articles on web design and development we found interesting. What’s a Single-Page App? Source: What’s a Single-Page App? | jakelazaroff.com Jake Lazaroff goes deep into the question “What is a Single Page App?” The button element The button element is undoubtedly the most misunderstood and least utilized of all HTML. As […]

In the opening piece of this week’s roundup Sacha Greif, the organiser of the “State of” surveys (like the State of CSS, State of JavaScript) observes Let me make a prediction: we’ll look back at 2024 as the turning point between “CSS Classic” and “New CSS”. I think he’s right, but I think it’s more […]

This week in the newsletter with 5 weeks to Web Directions Dev Summit and Next, we’re rounding up a bunch of things we’ve taken notice of this week. Each week we read hundreds of articles, watch videos and listen to podcasts to bring you those we think you should be paying attention to. Hours of […]

Typesetting and page layout had long been a laborious, physical process. ‘Cut and paste’ started life not as a metaphor but actual things type setters did. By the 1980s, the process was increasingly digital, with phototypesetters, but these were typically very expensive devices, and required expert operators. But just a year after the 1984 launch […]

There’s little doubt that every aspect of front end development has become more complex–but perhaps none more so, more quickly, than performance. Less than a decade ago, when developers first started to pay real attention to performance we’d minify, concatenate, then gzip all our assets, to minimise the number of files to download, perhaps play […]

For our first in-person event in what will be 3 years, we decided early it would have to be our biggest and best event ever. Until super early bird finishes! And now the countdown–3 months to go, and 4 weeks to get the best possible price–has begun. So save the date and start planning your […]

Our front end engineering track features performance, PWAs, CSS, accessibility, security, and much more to help you stay up to speed with developing for the Web.

Over the years we’ve had many many teams attend our conferences together–treating it like an offsite, with amazing speakers, coffee, and more. Some come back year after year (well, they did until Covid). And now we’re returning, bigger and better than ever, we’re keen to make it really worth your while to attend together. So […]