"I’m More Proud of These 128 Kilobytes Than Anything I’ve Built Since" — Here’s a solid recounting of a project that highlights just how strict constraints (such as bandwidth, processing power, etc) can often result in innovation. It’s also a sound reminder to us all to consider the widest range of users and to design things accordingly.

Mike Hall

Secure Your Frontend Without the Backend Complexity — Add login, registration, SSO and MFA to your app with just a few lines of code. FusionAuth handles the security so you can focus on user experience. Integrates with React, Vue, Angular, and vanilla JavaScript. Start Building for free.

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Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA — Argues that Apple is not effectively complying with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding browser engine choice on iOS: “Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them”.

Open Web Advocacy

WebAssembly: Yes, But for What? — Writing for ACM Queue, a contributor to multiple JavaScript and WASM implementations shares a good roundup of where WebAssembly is being used, both in the browser and server-side, and how it’s ultimately finding its way into seemingly everything.

Andy Wingo / ACM

Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) — Thanks to tools like clamp(), calc(), and others it’s now much easier to set line length than it was just a few years ago. Daniel looks over the options and how to use them, along with a look ahead at what the future may have in store.

Daniel Schwarz

How to Build an AI Coding Rules App with Lovable — Guide AI to generate a secure, full-stack app with minimal prompts—learn how to turn ideas into working software fast.

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Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading — Amit notes that CSS scroll-driven animations are “more than just a cool trick; they’re a game-changer that opens the door to a whole new world of web design”. This post shares one such example of the dynamic, engaging things they make possible (although browser support isn’t universal just yet).

Amit Sheen

Stacked Transforms — Chris takes a look over the animation-composition CSS property, detailing how it affects transforms during animations. An interesting breakdown, and something Chris notes "will come in useful someday [..] You won’t need it until you need it".

Chris Coyier

Please, Can We Have ARIA Notify — “why I’m hoping and praying with every fiber of my being that we will get the ARIA Notify API across all browsers at some point in the future”.

Nic Chan

SveltePlot: A Visualization Framework for Svelte — The API is inspired by a similar plotting library by Observable and is built on top of D3. There are plenty of good examples in the docs, including flow plots, scatterplots, maps, streamgraphs and more.

Gregor Aisch

Eleventy LibDoc: An Eleventy Starter Project to Craft Slick Documentation — The docs site for the project is an example of the attractive and intuitive layout it produces. It’s accessible, includes search, has syntax highlighting, among lots of other features.

IT Automotive Design System

SplitThing: Upload an Image and Split It Into a Custom Grid — A simple tool with a specific use case. You can use sliders to define the number of columns and rows for the grid, then download the sliced up images as a ZIP file.

Florian Reintgen

Chili3D: A Web-Based 3D CAD App for Online Model Design and Editing — Impressively claims to achieve “near-native performance” which it does by compiling OpenCascade to WebAssembly and integrating with Three.js. You can judge for yourself by trying it out.

xiange chen

designtokens.fyi: A Glossary of Terms Related to Design Tokens — A well-presented little info site currently with 33 terms explained including common things like “custom property”, used in CSS, and not-so-common stuff like “smedium”, a problem with maintaining scales.

Design Systems House