Web Development

Replacing JS with just HTML ( htmhell.dev )

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? ( www.debugbear.com )

The showPicker() method is still unusable ( olliewilliams.xyz )

Server Components vs. Islands Architecture: The performance showdown ( blog.logrocket.com )

The HTML Elements Time Forgot ( htmhell.dev )

Exploring Large HTML Documents On The Web ( calendar.perfplanet.com )

I've made my first full-stack project and I would love to have your feedback.

Hey folks! As the title says I just made an offline first full-stack habit tracker web app. It took me more than six to make and now I would love to have your constructive feedback on it. It's at goalstride (dot) app. I would appreciate any feedback you have. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Thanks!

What would you use to build this project and what would you charge for it?

I'm looking at building a website to host comics, a small blog, and store user credentials and comments. Possibly a store. ...

Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM ( meyerweb.com )

Stroke thickness is allowed to vary by density mode as a non-breaking adjustment, as long as semantics stay intact: Dense UI may need stronger strokes because small targets and reduced whitespace reduce separability. Comfort UI can remain at hairline boundaries in more places because whitespace carries part of the separation...

Help my website is too small ( lukeplant.me.uk )

Apparently, if your HTML is less than 7k, that obviously can’t be a real website, let alone something as ridiculously small as 3k.

Anyone else having issues embedding youtube videos in firefox?

I keep getting this 153 error and I have no idea what's causing it or how to fix it. ...

Initiating navigations with the Navigation API ( olliewilliams.xyz )

GritQL accepted by the Biome organisation ( biomejs.dev )

Autocomplete using PostgreSQL instead of Elasticsearch ( www.peterbe.com )

LCP and INP are now Baseline Newly available ( web.dev )

With the release of Safari 26.2 on December 12th, web performance got a fantastic end of year gift with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) becoming Baseline Newly available as the latest version of all major browsers now include the Largest Contentful Paint API and Event Timing API needed to ...

Better than JSON ( aloisdeniel.com )

And I find it surprising that JSON is so omnipresent when there are far more efficient alternatives, sometimes better suited to a truly modern development experience. Among them: Protocol Buffers, or Protobuf.

New to the web platform in December ( web.dev )

I am looking for a basic web dev framework that is lightweight and focused around modularity. [Spoiler: I have no idea what I'm talking about!]

My background: Long time IT security engineer here that can code when I need. For dev experience, I have worked with various languages over the years like assembly, C/C++, js, typescript, PERL, python, etc. When needed, I can hack out a specialized tool but I am absolutely not a professional developer. ...