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Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size ( nuejs.org )

This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

CSS finally gets support for if() function ( www.techzine.eu )

After years of developer frustration and questions on online forums, it’s finally happening: CSS is getting an if() function to apply styling when a condition is met. For the first time, developers can make logical decisions directly in stylesheets, without separate code blocks. This opens up whole new possibilities for web ...

Google no longer developing Material Web Components ( 9to5google.com )

Look Ma, No CDN! ( jade.ellis.link )

New CSS that can actually be used in 2024 (no hype) ( thomasorus.com )

The amount of CSS novelty in the last two to four years has been staggering. Multiple innovations have been released and are now supported in all modern browsers, and some of them fundamentally change how to make websites.

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA ( www.jonoalderson.com )

In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over ( www.businessinsider.com )

Matt Garman sees a shift in software development as AI automates coding, telling staff to enhance product-management skills to stay competitive.

You no longer need JavaScript ( lyra.horse )

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

Don't Guess My Language ( vitonsky.net )

IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user speaks. It looks like Google thinks otherwise, and many programmers are blindly repeating it for Google with no idea how do it properly.

Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible ( letter.open-web-advocacy.org )

We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this archive.today/…/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6…

Man I love hosting towards the open internet

This is just the 1000 last lines of my nginx log

Oat - Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library ( oat.ink )

cross-posted from: ...

Apple attempting killing PWAs in EU: Action Needed ( open-web-advocacy.org )

Apple has decided to remove Progressive web apps from iOS in EU. If you have a business in the EU or serve EU users via Web App/PWA, we must hear from you in the next 48 hours!

As a backend developer, where do I even start with frontend? Feeling major choice paralysis

I'm an experienced backend developer. To me, the backend world seems super simple compared to the frontend world. ...

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access ( blog.cloudflare.com )

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ...

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 ( infrequently.org )

Meanwhile, sites are ballooning. The median mobile page is now 2.6 MiB, blowing past the size of DOOM (2.48 MiB) in April. The 75th percentile site is now larger than two copies of DOOM, and P90+ sites are more than 4.5x larger, and sizes at each point have doubled over the past decade. Put another way, the median mobile page is ...

Developers Rail Against JavaScript ‘Merchants of Complexity’ ( thenewstack.io )

The rebelling against JavaScript frameworks continues. In the latest Lex Fridman interview, AI app developer Pieter Levels explained that he builds all his apps with vanilla HTML, PHP, a bit of JavaScript via jQuery, and SQLite. No fancy JavaScript frameworks, no modern programming languages, no Wasm. ...