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Thoughts on the Future of Web Browsers
Sarah Jamie Lewis reflects on AI-stuffed browsers, the erosion of the open web client, and what a healthier browser future might prioritize beyond chat sidebars and surveillance-friendly defaults.
5 min · 1,191 words
Eric Bailey argues CSS-Tricks should become a co-op so the web keeps an independent, practitioner-owned home for frontend knowledge—after the site’s repeated near-deaths under corporate ownership.
3 min · 595 words
Persistent Databases in the Browser with DuckDB-Wasm and OPFS
DuckDB explains how DuckDB-Wasm can open a persistent database file in the browser’s Origin Private File System (OPFS), when data reaches disk, and how that changes browser analytics apps that previously relied on Parquet-in-IndexedDB workarounds.
8 min · 1,800 words
Ethan Hawksley argues passkeys excel against phishing and breaches but are a poor fit for personal accounts: lockout risk, hardware-key limits, Big Tech sync bans, and fragmented third-party UX still outweigh the day-to-day threat of AiTM proxies for most individuals.
3 min · 786 words
Flavio Copes builds a practical scraper with Node.js and Cloudflare Workers—fetch, Cheerio, caching, alerts, browser rendering—and tests what breaks when Google fights back.
42 min · 9,641 words
Securing web applications with Coraza WAF and Wazuh
How to integrate the open-source Coraza WAF with Wazuh for centralized visibility into SQL injection, XSS, and other OWASP CRS attacks before they reach your app.
10 min · 2,203 words
Appwrite Init 2026 recap: Everything we shipped
Appwrite wraps Init 2026 with a full recap of five days of launches: Appwrite 2.0, native PostgreSQL and MySQL, VectorsDB, S3-compatible storage, Firewall, OAuth2 server, and custom Domains.
7 min · 1,505 words
One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Last September, the Servo project announced that long-time maintainer Josh Bowman-Matthews (@jdm) would work part-time on improving the Servo contributor experience, entirely funded by the monthly donations on OpenCollective and GitHub. In his own words, here is a look back over the past year!
1 min · 333 words
Developer Vale observes that CSS-Tricks, the long-running web development publication acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, has gone inactive again after a second revival attempt. The post criticises DigitalOcean for pledging $3 million to DHH's Omarchy project while allowing its own publication to go dark and quietly cutting small infrastructure payments to GNOME and Flathub.
1 min · 257 wordsagent-written
The last mile of a long road: faster NumPy in the browser
Notebook.link explains how Emscripten-forge NumPy now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, delivering large matmul and linear-algebra speedups for browser scientific computing.
19 min · 4,315 words
The death of web development educationRescuing a field from disappearing
molily surveys how generative AI has cratered demand for web-dev courses, books, and DevRel—citing educators whose income collapsed—and argues for human learning communities and open infrastructure.
2 min · 382 words
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
Adam Wathan announces that Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify to give Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home. The open-source framework will continue under the MIT license with no changes, while commercial products like Tailwind UI will stop accepting new customers.
1 min · 256 wordsagent-written
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
A 3,000-word survey of HTML meta tags and markup that accumulated through browser wars, vendor extensions, and platform integrations but now serve no practical purpose. The piece covers IE compatibility directives, ICBM geolocation tags, Microsoft Smart Tags opt-outs, frame-busting techniques, Baidu transcoding headers, defunct web directory directives, and IE9 pinned-site meta tags.
1 min · 261 wordsagent-written
JavaScript Backdoors and Page Integrity
Entelecheia proposes page-integrity architecture so browsers can verify content per URL, not only per domain, addressing JavaScript backdoors on shared hosting and CDNs.
10 min · 2,312 words
The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
Nolan Lawson surveys how AI coding agents are reshaping frontend web development, noting that prominent educators are stepping back, that frontend code is riskier to automate than database migrations, and that React's overrepresentation in training data is driving 'agent experience' to outweigh developer experience in framework selection decisions.
1 min · 281 wordsagent-written
Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs Neato vs Twopi vs Circo
Compare Graphviz layout engines Dot, Neato, Twopi, and Circo — when each shines, how overlaps happen, and how to pick an algorithm for readable architecture diagrams.
3 min · 748 words
Some more things about Django I've been enjoyingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Julia Evans explores Django features that make server-rendered websites easier to build, including composable query sets and built-in conventions. The post reflects on keeping application logic manageable while learning a backend-focused approach.
1 min · 79 wordsagent-written
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSSOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A migration from Tailwind to semantic HTML and plain CSS becomes a lesson in organizing styles. Julia Evans considers resets, components, colors, spacing, typography, and which useful conventions to carry forward.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
Judah Gabriel Himango argues agentic interfaces will subsume traditional apps and websites—what changes for developers when the primary UI becomes a conversation with tools.
5 min · 1,254 words
Some notes on starting to use DjangoOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
First impressions of Django from a developer seeking a mature framework with explicit structure. Julia Evans examines its administration interface and the experience of returning to a small project after time away.
1 min · 79 wordsagent-written