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Entry (Sources) and TopicsDate#
Introducing Pay per Crawl: Enabling Content Owners to Charge AI Crawlers for Access (clo)16,302
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Custom Select (That Comes Up From the Bottom on Mobile) (chr/fro)16,301
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Fear May Be the Mind-Killer, but Unindexed Database Queries Are the Database-Killer16,300
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The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable (pat/css)16,299
New Google Search Console Insights Report (rus/ser)16,298
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State of Devs 2025 Survey: Maybe Don’t Call Yourself a Frontend Developer? (sac)16,297
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CLS Is the New Page Speed: Why Designers Need to Care More Than Developers (web)16,296
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Step Gradients With a Given Number of Steps (ana/fro)16,295
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Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Went to War Over WordPress (pho+/ver)16,294
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Using CSS Cascade Layers With Tailwind Utilities (zel/css)16,293
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New to the Web Platform in June (rac/dev)16,292
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Accessible Social Media: Alt Text16,291
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MCP Security Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors16,290
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What’s Coming to JavaScript (lca/den)16,289
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No Time to Learn (Web) Framework X (jef)16,288
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Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? (rau)16,287
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Disabling Zsh History for a Given Shell Session (www)16,286
RSS Server Side Reader16,285
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I Don’t Care if My Manager Writes Code16,284
“object-fit” and “object-position” (kev)16,283
Innovative Solutions for Ecommerce—How Shopify Headless Works (ami)16,282
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Micro-Frontend Architecture Pitfalls: Solving Integration and Deployment Challenges at Scale (des)16,281
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Quantity Query Carousel (chr/fro)16,280
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How to Write Compelling Software Release Announcements (mtl)16,279
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The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design (lea)16,278
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Speculative Optimizations for WebAssembly Using Deopts and Inlining (lie)16,277
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A New Era of Code Quality16,276
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The Mythical Magical Button (cri)16,275
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Node.js 24: Your Next Big Frontend Upgrade? (low/the)16,274
Vite 7.0 Is Out (vit)16,273
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Tips for Making Regular Expressions Easier to Use in JavaScript (rau)16,272
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How to Develop a RAG System Using Node.js16,271
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Prefer Gaps to Margins (kyl)16,270
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Generating Playwright Tests With AI: Let’s Try the New Playwright MCP Server (ste)16,269
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The Evolution of UX Design in the Age of AI Platforms—from Creator to Choreographer (uxm)16,268
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AI’s Wedge in Software (hvp)16,267
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A Short History of Web Bots and Bot Detection Techniques (ole)16,266
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Serialization From Node.js16,265
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The AIpocalypse Is Here for Web Sites as Search Referrals Plunge (tho/the)16,264
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Erring on the Side of Caution (tem)16,263
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“calc-size()” (kev)16,262
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Color Everything in CSS (mon/css)16,261
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Angular Signals: A New Mental Model for Reactivity, Not Just a New API16,260
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CSS Cascade Layers vs. BEM vs. Utility Classes: Specificity Control (sma)16,259
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JavaScript Broke the Web (and Called It Progress) (jon)16,258
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Baseline Newly Available: Stay on Top of New Web Features (mar/the)16,257
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CSS Color Functions (css)16,256
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Every Service Should Have a Killswitch16,255
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JSON Module Scripts Are Now Baseline Newly Available (tom/dev)16,254
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Drawing CSS Shapes Using “corner-shape” (css/fro)16,253
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WML, WAP, and Microformats Demo (art)16,252
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How TypeScript Solved Its Global Iterator Name Clash (rau)16,251
AI Browsers: Dia’s Chat-Based UI and the Future of the Web (ric/the)16,250
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Slightly Enhanced Sticky Revealing Footer (cri)16,249
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Animating Zooming Using CSS: Transform Order Is Important… Sometimes (jaf)16,248
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Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web (ern/iee)16,247
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Testing Methods: Meaningful Sequence (dec)16,246
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Biome v2—Codename: Biotype (ema/bio)16,245
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Bridging CommonJS and ESM in Node.js (joy/web)16,244
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How to Define a Distinctive Design Language (uxd)16,243
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Scope in CSS (chr/fro)16,242
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How to Keep Up With New CSS Features (sac/css)16,241
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A11y 101: 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap (nat)16,240
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How to Create an Accessible Color Palette (cfe)16,239
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Compiling JavaScript Ahead of Time (goo/web)16,238
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The Future of Content Design in an AI World (uxd)16,237
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Developers Improve by Learning How to Think Like a Developer16,236
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Selfish Reasons for Building Accessible Uis (nol)16,235
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Using “await” at the Top Level in ES Modules16,234
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Happy Birthday, JavaScript16,233
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Quick Tip: Avoid Event Listeners on the “window” Object (nat)16,232
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Grainy Gradients (ana/fro)16,231
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The Growing Risk of Malicious Browser Extensions (soc)16,230
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The Hamburger-Menu Icon Today: Is It Recognizable?16,229
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Exploring JavaScript (rau)16,228
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Postgres Is Too Good (and Why That’s Actually a Problem)16,227
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Design Systems of the Future (ben)16,226
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Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections (sim)16,225
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Worker Threads in Node.js: A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript (nod)16,224
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Why Visual Website Builders Didn’t Take Off (whi)16,223
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Accessible Rickrolling (hey)16,222
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HTML Spec Change: Escaping “<” and “>” in Attributes (sec/dev)16,221
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Escaping “<” and “>” in Attributes—How It Helps Protect Against Mutation XSS (sec)16,220
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How JavaScript Was Written Back in the Day (tre)16,219
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Creating the “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript and CSS (sma)16,218
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Accessibility Statements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly16,217
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Remembering Mikeal Rogers (isa)16,216
A New Way to Style Gaps in CSS (pat/dev)16,215
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Accessibility in Design Systems (dev)16,214
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What the Internet Was Like in 1997 (ric)16,213
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5 Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries in 2025 (api)16,212
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“1fr 1fr” vs. “auto auto” vs. “50% 50%” (chr/fro)16,211
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Just a Designer Now: Shopify Dropped UX as a Title (uxd)16,210
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AI and Vibe Coding Are Radically Impacting Senior Devs in Code Review (the/the)16,209
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Is HTML Not a Programming Language?16,208
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Node.js Moves Toward Stable TypeScript Support With Amaro 1.0 (sar/soc)16,207
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Getting Started With Manual Testing (pop)16,206
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How PhpStorm Helps Maintain PHP Open-Source Projects: Interviews and Real-World Examples (jet)16,205
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You’re Not a Front-End Developer Until You’ve… (nic)16,204
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Testing Methods: Info and Relationships (dec)16,203
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The Designer’s Hierarchy of Career Needs (chr)16,202
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We Added Chaos to Our CI/CD Pipelines—It Made Everything More Stable16,201
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Accent Color (don)16,200
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Faster Python: Concurrency in “async”/“await” and Threading (che/jet)16,199
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Resumes Are Dying—Here’s What’s Replacing Them16,198
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Grids 10116,197
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Sticky Revealing Footer (bel/pic)16,196
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News From WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 Beta (jen+/web)16,195
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Figma Variables and Design Tokens—Variable Architecture (lur/zer)16,194
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Pride, Shame, and Accessibility (hey)16,193
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Decoding the SVG “path” Element: Line Commands (sma)16,192
Reimagining Design Systems as Evolving Products (uxm)16,191
A11y 101: 2.1.1 Keyboard (nat)16,190
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How to “import()” a JavaScript String (zac)16,189
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Creating an Auto-Closing Notification With an HTML Popover (pre/css)16,188
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5 “Boring” n8n AI Automations That Do the Work for You (kal)16,187
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6 Advanced TypeScript Tricks (ole)16,186
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So, You Screwed Up Your EAA Compliance. What Now? (yat)16,185
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Goodbye Upgrade Fatigue—How Cursor Upgraded Our Storybook in Just 2 Hours!16,184
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Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog (aar)16,183
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Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude16,182
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ARIA/HTML Relationship Severance (ste)16,181
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Accessibility Terms Every Content Creator Should Know16,180
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UX Challenges With MCPs (hvp)16,179
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Beware of End-of-Life Node.js Versions—Upgrade or Seek Post-EOL Support (mco/nod)16,178
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The “<output>” Element (kev)16,177
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Era of Search (sem)16,176
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Printing the Web: Making Webpages Look Good on Paper (pic)16,175
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Celebrate the Code You Didn’t Write (rya)16,174
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Exploring the CSS “contrast-color()” Function… a Second Time (dxn/css)16,173
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The Creator of Hono on Bringing It to Node.js (yus/jsn)16,172
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“aria-selected”: Practical Examples and Use Cases (flo/a11)16,171
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The Politics of Design Systems (jon)16,170
Beyond Code: What “The Pragmatic Programmer” Taught Me in One Chapter16,169
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Quick Tip: WCAG Doesn’t Round (nat)16,168
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“firstChild” Can Be White Space (chr/fro)16,167
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Collaboration: The Most Underrated UX Skill No One Talks About (sma)16,166
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6 Ways to Use Documentation Analytics in Your Next Design System Launch16,165
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Generative AI Runs on Gambling Addiction—Just One More Prompt, Bro (dav)16,164
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How Imports Work in RSC (dan)16,163
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Chrome Achieves Highest Score Ever on Speedometer 3, Saving Users Millions of Hours (dev)16,162
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HTML-Native Accordions (cfe)16,161
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How to Access Local MCP Servers Through a Secure Tunnel (the)16,160
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Performance and Stress Testing in Node.js (app)16,159
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Want to Be a Better Frontend Engineer? Try a Week On-Call16,158
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The UX Butterfly Effect (mar/uxd)16,157
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Translating Accessibility (tpg)16,156
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How to Make Accessibility “Stick”16,155
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State of CSS 2025 (sac/dev)16,154
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I Copy These 10 Code Snippets Into Every Project16,153
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Championing Accessibility: Technical and Non-Technical Tips (equ)16,152
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Inclusive Development Practices in Next.js Projects (web/deq)16,151
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Stop Losing Sleep Over Node.js Config: Here’s How to Get It Right (pla)16,150
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Handling PostgreSQL Migrations in Node.js (har/bit)16,149
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Why Designers Get Stuck in the Details and How to Stop (sma)16,148
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Getting Creative With HTML Dialog (mal/css)16,147
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Functional Capturing (kiz)16,146
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The Recovery OKR: Goals for Healing After Burnout (cwo)16,145
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Colour Alone Can Be Used to Convey Meaning, and I Don’t Like It (tem)16,144
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IE6, AI, and the Future of Browsing the Web (rac)16,143
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TC39 Advances “Array.fromAsync”, “Error.isError”, and Explicit Resource Management to Stage 4 (sar/soc)16,142
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (fly)16,141
“document.currentScript” Is More Useful Than I Thought (mac)16,140
The Death of Web Design: Why Websites Will Soon Auto-Design Themselves (web)16,139
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Is the DOJ Web Accessibility Rule in Danger?16,138
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Write More Reliable JavaScript With Optional Chaining16,137
Is It JavaScript? (jim)16,136
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Google Is Stealing Your International Search Traffic With Automated Translations (ahr)16,135
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A11y 101: 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (nat)16,134
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MCP—the Golden Key for AI Automation16,133
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A JavaScript Developer’s Guide to Go (psu)16,132
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Angular 20 Is Here (ang)16,131
Up and Coming ARIA (web)16,130
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The Template Trap: How Template Culture Is Dumbing Down UX16,129
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Announcing Rolldown-Vite (eva/voi)16,128
It’s Not Your Codebase16,127
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The Accessibility Advantage (moz)16,126
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HTML Only Experiments (ala)16,125
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Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded—Here’s Why That Matters (tim+/ahr)16,124
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AI-Assisted Coding for Teams That Can’t Get Away With Vibes (nil)16,123
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Building an MCP Server With Nx (max/nx.)16,122
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The “col” Element (hey)16,121
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Architecting Components in Design Systems: Why It Feels Overwhelming (and How to Tackle It)16,120
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New to the Web Platform in May (rac/dev)16,119
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Re: Broken Promises (hbu)16,118
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I Tried 100+ MCP Servers and Here’s My Top 1016,117
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The Simplest Way to Deploy Your Own Updatable Portfolio Site (chr/fro)16,116
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When Did UX and Content Get So Hard? (eri/uxd)16,115
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The New “if()” Function in CSS Has Landed in the Latest Chrome (ami)16,114
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AI-Assisted Development Needs Automated Tests (sim)16,113
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Felix Arntz on How Speculative Loading Is Speeding Up Your WordPress Website (fel+)16,112
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The Promise That Wasn’t Kept (whi)16,111
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Best Examples of EAA Compliant Websites in 202516,110
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Exploring the OKLCH Ecosystem and Its Tools (ina+/evi)16,109
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5 Common Mistakes When Creating Design Specs16,108
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Why Are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 Different Days in JavaScript?16,107
The 3 Ways JavaScript Frameworks Render the DOM (rya)16,106
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Announcing Angular v20 (mge/ang)16,105
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Privacy on the Web: Creating a More Trustworthy Web (set/w3c)16,104
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Setting Targets for Developer Productivity Metrics (lau)16,103
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Optimizing Time to First Byte (TTFB): 5 Key Strategies for Faster Load Times (des)16,102
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Will the Model Eat Your Stack? (dbr)16,101
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Letter to Arc Members 202516,100
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Quick Tip: Context Is Key (nat)16,099
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Why Is Quality So Rare?16,098
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Seamlessly Blend PHP With Node.js (mco+/pla)16,097
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Ready or Not, the EAA Is Here (uxd)16,096
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The Magic of the Most Minimal HTML Possible (and Why We Don’t Make Use of It) (j9t)16,095
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Build a Blog With Angular in Under 30 Minutes Using Analog (pmb)16,094
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AI Agents for Designers, Developers, and UX Strategists: What You Need to Know Now (web)16,093
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Data vs. Findings vs. Insights in UX (vit/sma)16,092
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What We Know (So Far) About CSS Reading Order (dxn/css)16,091
New in Chrome 137 (rac/dev)16,090
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Should We Stop Creating Informational Content? (moz)16,089
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Top 10 Open Source Node.js Projects with AI Integration (It’s Crazy)16,088
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What I Learnt About Making Websites by Reading Two Thousand Web Pages (ale)16,087
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CSS Spotlight Effect (ami/fro)16,086
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Wake Up, Remix16,085
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Why WordPress Scalability Starts With Smart Site Structure From Day One16,084
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AI Makes Bad Managers16,083
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Comparing Rust, JavaScript, and Go for Authoring WASM Components16,082
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Decorative Text Within HTML (ede)16,081
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A Thought on JavaScript “Proof of Work” Anti-Scraper Systems (cks)16,080
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Your React Meta-Framework Feels Broken, Here’s Why (red)16,079
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What Svelte Promises (ric/sve)16,078
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The Evolving Art and Science of Prompt Engineering: A Chronological Journey16,077
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Are You Sure That Table Isn’t a List? (tem)16,076
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Stop Saying That AI Is Just a Tool and It Only Matters How It Is Used (fra)16,075
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How the World Is Celebrating Open Source Maintainer Month (the)16,074
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The Role of Captions and Transcripts in Accessibility16,073
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Why Fonts Look Better on macOS Than on Windows (uxd)16,072
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JavaScript’s Upcoming Temporal API and What Problems It Will Solve16,071
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Making Scannable Web Pages for Assistive Technology (jar)16,070
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My Request to Google on Accessibility (aar)16,069
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Tools (ada)16,068
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Multithreading in JavaScript With Web Workers (hon)16,067
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The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn’t) (kei)16,066
Modern CSS for Creative Developers (cyd/btc)16,065
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On “Vibe Coding” (tan)16,064
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Better CSS Shapes Using “shape()” (css/css)16,063
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Anthropic Launches Its Most Powerful Models for Coding Yet (fre/the)16,062
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The Landing Zone (ada)16,061
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Move Modal in on a… “shape()” (chr/fro)16,060
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Make Screen Readers Talk With the ARIA Notify API (ale)16,059
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Performance Debugging in DevTools (pau/dev)16,058
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Deploying Accessibility at Scale: Strategy, Tactics, and Battle Stories (int)16,057
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Announcing TypeScript Native Previews (dan/typ)16,056
Trip Report: Node.js Collaboration Summit (2025 Paris) (joy+/nod)16,055
How to Build Scalable Web Apps With React JS16,054
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What’s New in Angular (dev)16,053
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