You’ve seen the sentence—“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”—but did you know it’s been secretly running the alphabet game since 1885? From typewriters to font previews, this odd little pangram is the unsung hero of design and tech. Turns out, the fox didn’t just jump… it owned the keyboard.
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When you plug in a controller, you mash buttons, move the sticks, pull the triggers… and as a developer, you see none of it. The browser’s picking it up, sure, but unless you’re logging numbers in the console, it’s invisible. That’s the headache with the Gamepad API. It’s been around for years, and it’s actually
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AI’s ability to write for dirt cheap has ruined the internet and made words carry less weight than before. Continue reading Writing is probably the worst use case of AI on SitePoint.
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Track your brand in Google AI Mode and other AI search engines. Compare top AI Mode tracking tools and pricing for 2025. Continue reading 6 Best AI Mode Tracking Tools That Will Transform Search Engine Experience in 2026 on SitePoint.
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The range syntax isn’t a new thing. We‘re already able to use it with media queries to query viewport dimensions and resolutions, as well as container size queries to query container dimensions. Being able to use it with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can
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Every website starts out loving you, then one day, it turns on you. Enshittification by Design exposes how beautiful, user-friendly interfaces quietly become manipulative tools built to trap you. It’s not a glitch in tech — it’s the business model, and designers are the ones making it irresistible.
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I’ve been in front-end development long enough to see a trend over the years: younger developers working with a new paradigm of programming without understanding the historical context of it. It is, of course, perfectly understandable to not know something. The web is a very big place with a diverse set of skills and specialties,
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Misusing HTML headings hurts accessibility and SEO. Discover how proper heading structure improves accessibility, SEO, and user navigation. Continue reading Why Headings Are Important in HTML: Structure, Accessibility, and SEO on SitePoint.
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This article is a sponsored by DebugBear There’s no single way to measure website performance. That said, the Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses as a ranking factor are a great starting point, as they cover different aspects of visitor experience: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures the initial page load time. Cumulative Layout Shift
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A few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat. “Page headings don’t belong in the header” Martin Underhill: I’ll start with where the <h1> should be placed, and you’ll start to see why the <header> isn’t the right location: it’s the header for the page, and the main page content should live within the <main> element. A classic
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