Internet & Web
What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine
If you haven’t encountered ARIA before, great! It’s a chance to learn something new and exciting. If you have heard of ARIA before, this might help you better understand it or maybe even teach you something new! These are all things I wish someone had told me when I was getting started on my web…
See What AI Sees: AI Mode Killed the Old SEO Playbook — Here’s the New One
This post was sponsored by MarketBrew. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Is Google using AI to censor thousands of independent websites? Wondering why your traffic has suddenly dropped, even though you’re doing SEO properly? Between letters to the FTC describing a systematic dismantling of the open web by Google to…
Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to center a and you’re on a tight deadline. A lot of accessibility advocates lead with the moral argument: for example, that disabled…
What to look for when buying a TV, as told through this easy TV specs guide
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsLighting explained: LED vs. QLED vs. OLEDResolution explained: FHD vs. 4K vs. 8KHDR explainedRefresh rate explainedFinal thoughts: How to choose a TVFrequently Asked Questions Buying a new television can break your brain more than it breaks your budget. If you’re not a picky cinephile or longtime gamer,…
How Apple Quietly Brought Skeuomorphism Back to Life
By now, everyone’s talking about Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language unveiled at WWDC 2025. At first glance, it looks like another glossy facelift—translucent layers, glowing refractions, and all the visual drama of a perfume ad. But if you’ve been paying attention to Apple’s long love-hate relationship with skeuomorphism, you’ll know this isn’t just an aesthetic refresh. It’s a full-circle moment—a surprisingly…
Breaking Boundaries: Building a Tangram Puzzle With (S)CSS | CSS-Tricks
, simple and effective. For rotation, we added eight radio buttons, each representing a 45-degree increment: 45°, 90°, 135°, all the way to 360°. These simulate rotation controls entirely in CSS. Every potential shadow position got its own radio button too. (Yes, it’s a lot, I know.) And to wrap it all up, I included…
The Developer’s Shortcut To Your Udemy-like Platform — SitePoint
When creating learning platforms like Udemy, it isn’t just about the quality of content. You must also plan carefully about how you deliver that content. This is because modern learning platforms thrive on accessible, fast, and easy-to-absorb media. Behind the scenes, however, developers are repeatedly reengineering the same building blocks. For instance, some still prefer…
Creating The “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript And CSS — Smashing Magazine
In this tutorial, Blake Lundquist walks us through two methods of creating the “moving-highlight” navigation pattern using only plain JavaScript and CSS. The first technique uses the getBoundingClientRect method to explicitly animate the border between navigation bar items when they are clicked. The second approach achieves the same functionality using the new View Transition API….
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Discusses Fate Of The Human-Created Web
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, responded to concerns about the impact of recent changes in Search and was repeatedly asked to clarify his position on the web ecosystem and how it fits into what he calls the next chapter of search. Pichai’s responses were given in the context of a recent interview on the Lex Fridman…
In case of emergency, break glass
A few observations after Apple’s WWDC25 keynote The title of my article obviously refers to the new UI Apple presented on 9 June, which they call Liquid Glass. I won’t beat around the bush: my very first impression is that we’re in UI emergency territory, but we won’t be able to break this particular glass….