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With critical CVEs surging as LLMs get better at finding vulnerabilities, Gavin Anderegg argues that most content sites never needed a CMS or a server-rendered Node stack: clients rarely edit them, nobody patches them, and statically generated HTML is faster, nearly free to host and has a far smaller attack surface.
5 min · 1,136 words
Brennen Puth argues that text-heavy websites should print cleanly, walking through what went wrong when he printed his own blog and the print stylesheet changes he made to hide navigation and other screen-only elements.
3 min · 602 words
There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Elias Taylor argues that the much-hyped PHP vulnerability behind this week's emergency security releases is a real bug but hard to exploit in practice, nowhere near Log4Shell or Heartbleed, and explains why the panic outruns the risk in the LLM era.
4 min · 808 words
Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
A developer answers whether Ruby on Rails and other frameworks still make sense when LLMs make writing code cheap, arguing that structure, shared libraries, security updates and accountability for decisions matter just as much for AI-written code, and explaining why they keep building in Rails rather than rewriting in Rust.
7 min · 1,509 words
Kev Quirk finally leaves Firefox after Mozilla’s AI push, tries Vivaldi, and lands on Brave—covering extensions, sync, and why privacy-default browsing finally stuck.
2 min · 528 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
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
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
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