Web Development

The industry isn’t dying—it’s undergoing a high-speed “Hard Reset” that is promoting developers from manual laborers to digital architects. While some are exiting the grind, the bold are becoming “Solo-Agency” powerhouses, leveraging AI to build in days what used to take months.

Mark Underhill: And now to the reason I wrote this post: including the word “navigation” in your <nav> labels. There’s no need. If we did, we’d hear something like “Navigation, Primary navigation”. Not the end of the world, but unnecessarily repetitive for screen reader users. One of those nuances to keep in your back pocket when writing

If you have played around with view transition a bunch, you may have noticed that 3D transitions between two pages (i.e., cross-document view transitions) don’t seem to work. That is, at least not without the browsers flattening things first. Image elements are the best example to demonstrate this because, like the snapshots a browser takes

I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the styling, the animation, and the accessibility exactly as it should. Today, native browser capabilities allow us to move the heavy lifting away from the JavaScript main thread and closer to the GPU. By letting the browser’s engine optimize

We are entering the era of “Vibe Coding,” where AI generates the average of everything we’ve ever built, leaving the web beautiful but soulless. To survive, designers must stop being pixel-pushers and start being “Soul Architects,” finding the human friction that a machine would never think to include.