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Iframes that finally fit their content
Ahmad Elalfy explains Chrome 154's responsive iframes, which let an iframe grow to its content height with one CSS property, as long as the embedded page opts in with a meta tag. He compares it with the old postMessage and ResizeObserver approach and covers fallbacks, layout shift and the privacy risk of allowing any origin.
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Ryan Dahl announces that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare, explaining how the move continues Deno's goal of simpler server software beyond the runtime, what it means for Deno Deploy and the open-source runtime, and why the new celld work focuses on Durable Objects.
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Gavin Anderegg explains why, after 20+ years of serving only JPEG, PNG and SVG, he has finally adopted WebP: browser support became baseline, better tooling after leaving Photoshop for Pixelmator Pro makes it easy, and the file-size savings are real, while he looks ahead to AVIF and JPEG XL.
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Deeper dive: Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
Marcin Wichary compiles the gotchas between Mac and Windows keyboard handling — key names, modifiers, shortcuts, legends and behaviours — as a reference for web-app builders who serve both platforms from one codebase.
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Mark Otto introduces Bootstrap 6 Alpha 1: a ground-up modernization with the Sass module system, ESM-only JavaScript, broader native browser APIs, and new CSS standards, plus a roadmap for a continuing v5.x line.
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State of Drupal presentation (September 2026)
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert recaps his DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 keynote: Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation, and closing that gap is the project's top challenge. He covers multilingual and headless Drupal Canvas, React code components, Drupal AI and Drupal CMS progress since Starshot, plus a new advocacy program.
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64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
Let's Encrypt will move all subscribers to 64-day certificates by default on February 10, 2027 (with 45- and 6-day profiles available), staging first, as part of the industry shift to shorter lifetimes that reduce key-compromise and mis-issuance risk.
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A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
Front-end developer David Bushell gives career advice for web workers in a rough market: don't quit a paying job without a fallback, invest in skills in short supply such as accessibility, CSS in stylesheets and communication, and drop dead weight like React, GitHub dependence and influencer culture, because the web remains a human creation for human needs.
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When localization means more than just EN, DE, IT, ES, FR et al.
DatoCMS explains how a Firefox rendering bug with S'gaw Karen text (dotted circles instead of glyphs) led the team to add on-demand Google Noto font fallbacks covering 43 writing systems in the CMS, and shares lessons and a checklist on locale codes, fallbacks, text direction and fonts for less common scripts.
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The Chrome team announces JPEG XL decoding support starting in Chrome 155. The post explains why they brought the format to Chrome (better compression than JPEG, lossless JPEG transcoding, HDR), how they used jxl-rs, a pure Rust decoder, for memory safety, the SIMD and performance work that keeps it fast, and the Interop Project testing effort.
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Making React Context Cheap with React Compiler
An experiment with a 5,000-radio group asking why React still has no context selector: following React's split-and-memo guidance, then letting React Compiler memoize automatically, and concluding that making each render cheap matters more than counting or avoiding renders.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
David Bushell explains why he is moving back from Deno to Node after a month on a SvelteKit project: modern Node APIs and TypeScript support, using FNM and PNPM with release-age delays to dodge npm malware, and frustrations with Deno and JSR including broken shell integration, rate limits, and concurrency bugs.
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This is a collection of classless css themes to use as starting points in web development. Paste into your website's <head this snippet.
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Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers
Cloudflare introduces Streamline, an open-source developer playground showing how to build custom video pipelines on Cloudflare Stream, Workers, Containers and related primitives, such as rendering dynamic annotations on livestreams or burning subtitles into hosted video, and what it learned about media processing limits.
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Example.com Just Launched The Biggest Redesign In Decades
DebugBear looks at the 28 September 2026 redesign of example.com, which now cycles its explanation through six languages with a character-by-character opacity animation, and traces the reserved domain's visual history and page speed across more than 20 years.
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An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can continue them, while the team focuses on Orion for macOS and iOS.
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Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
I haven’t found much use for the personal assistant part of Muse. People on X (Twitter) keep using these assistants to order DoorDash or something. I order DoorDash like five times a year, so that’s not going to speed anything up for me. I also don’t get many emails, and managing my appointments is easy enough already.
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Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and testsA generated web rendering engine verified against Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit
Bez generates Rust web-engine code from specifications, admitting candidates only when three shipping browsers agree on geometry—aiming for complete or content-scoped engines that update by regeneration.
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GitHub repository landing pages now show an accessibility tab, if provided
Eric Bailey describes his last official contribution at GitHub: repository landing pages now surface an ACCESSIBILITY.md accessibility statement in the same tab strip as the README, license, and security files, with tips on what to put in one and why it matters.
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Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc
A practical pipeline for keeping writing inside Emacs while publishing with Gleam, Org-mode, and Pandoc—why the composition stays in the editor and how the static site pieces fit together.
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