Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design

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Jacky Gilbertson writes about the real job of design in Uber for Dogs: How to Stop & Think for Design. It doesn’t have anything to do with pixels and colors at first; it has to do with what problem is trying to be solved, why, and for whom. Perhaps it’s an overloaded term, but design […]

Modern Web Guidance

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Google released an AI “skill” at Google I/O last month called Modern Web Guidance. It’s essentially a folder of nested Markdown files that AI agents know how to read and use as part of their context window when they deem appropriate. This skill has a bunch of HTML/CSS/JavaScript information that guides AI to, hopefully, do […]

Prop For That

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Adam knows better than anyone, CSS knows about the user, device, variables, layout and more. But there is a little bit of information that CSS doesn’t have. Like what’s the current value of a range input exactly? What are the exact coordinates of the mouse? It’s not hard to pass over that information to CSS […]

Implementing Standard.Site

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If you’re on Bluesky (like this site is!), you’re using atproto. Standard.site is, as best I understand it, a userland agreed-upon schema for what certain stuff looks like on the protocol, like a “publication” and a “document”. Mat is cautiously optimistic in trying to understand it: The most obvious use case is allowing users on […]

Reduce the JS Workload with No- or Lo-JS options

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Aaron T. Grogg has a nice page chock full of examples of UI, which used to be the sort of thing that we’d use JavaScript for, but can now be done in HTML & CSS. No hate: I have nothing against JS, but it has better things to do The examples are very modern, like […]

Navigation API Baseline

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If you’ve ever built your own client-side navigation that properly respects updating URLs, you’ve probably used history.pushState() a bunch, and it’s a bunch of work getting it robust and right. I think Jay Rungta does a good job of showcasing the newly-baseline Navigation API and why it’s better. Sorry for the huge blockquote, but it’s […]

What’s missing in CSS layout?

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Personally, I wouldn’t blame you if you were asked what CSS needs these days and you were like uhm, I think it’s good, actually. These days CSS probably has more in it than you even know about or have tried, making it feel not particularly lacking. But if you really dig into the specifics, you’ll […]