htmx 4.0: Server-Driven Interactivity From Your Markup — htmx lets you drive server requests (now using fetch) and DOM updates from HTML attributes without writing JavaScript. v4 is a major update: attributes no longer inherit unless you opt in, morphing swaps are built in, and a new <hx-partial> tag handles multi-target updates.

Carson Gross

Your Dashboard Was Fine at 10K Rows. Not at 10M — It rendered fine in dev. In production, the data grew and the query behind it didn't keep up. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so dashboards stay fast as data scales. Hypertables, compression, continuous aggregates. Get $1000 credit to start.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

How to Use CSS random() Outside Safari Today — Safari is the only browser shipping random() support in CSS, but this polyfill bridges the gap by keeping random() calls in custom properties that non-supporting browsers leave alone, but which JavaScript can then pick up.

Lee Meyer

Feature Detecting 'Undetectable' CSS Features with @supports named-feature() — @supports lets you detect feature support for selectors, properties and values, and at-rules, but what about broader combinations of features? named-feature() can plug the gap and broad support is close (already in Chrome 150, and beta/preview builds of Firefox and Safari).

Bramus Van Damme

How to Build Tile Patterns with CSS Grid — Six Barcelona-inspired tile motifs built from gradients and border-radius, laid out with techniques you could use elsewhere.

Carmen Ansio

Fine, I’ll Build My Own Text Editor! — Three approaches to building a text editor in the browser, with interactive demos, quickly comparing <canvas>, contenteditable, and a plain <textarea>.

David Bushell

Know React? You're Ready to Ship a Mobile App — Your React skills already ship mobile apps. Expo does the builds, store submission, and updates. No Xcode.

Expo sponsor

Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web — Sites could add their own jargon to the browser's spellchecker using the newly proposed Spell Check Custom Dictionary API. Brian also explains why spellcheck flags different words in different browsers on the same machine.

Brian Kardell (Igalia)

The Browser's New Email Verification API — A look at a WICG proposal to get rid of the 'go and check your inbox' headache with the browser and email provider using a token the server verifies on submit. Chrome origin trial and Gmail only for now.

Phil Nash

Ambient CSS: A Physics-Based Lighting System for CSS — Pitched as "Blender meets CSS" (its look is actually grounded on Blender renders), this lets you declare a light direction and other parameters with shadows, gradients, bevels, and more following automatically. Docs.

Ramakrishnan Veeraragavan

📊 Speedlify2: Continuously Measure Website Performance — From the creator of Eleventy, a free, self-hostable way to continuously measure Lighthouse scores, Core Web Vitals and Axe accessibility across sites, running on GitHub Actions and Pages.

Zach Leatherman

Build Forms That Fit Your Frontend—and Any Backend — Create custom themes for your form UI or use style adapters for Bootstrap, MUI, and Shadcn/UI. Dedicated npm packages for React, Angular, and Vue.

SurveyJS sponsor

Quicklink: Faster Subsequent Page-Loads by Prefetching Visible Links — During browser idle time, this prefetches pages linked in the current viewport, making subsequent navigations faster.

Google Chrome Labs

Particle Charts: Render Charts as Clouds of Particles — I'm not quite sure why this exists, but it's an interesting visual approach that you need to see to believe. It's very easy to get started with, too.

Blake Williford

Cropper.js 2.2: An Image Cropping Control — Now over ten years old but still seeing active development. There's a playground where you can give it a spin. GitHub repo.

Chen Fengyuan