Native @mixin is under discussion, an SVG favicon can follow the user’s color scheme on its own, and object-view-box has been cropping images in Chrome since 2022. Notes on what each one replaces.
Gmail’s Mic Drop button and Stack Overflow’s Stack Egg are the two April 1st pranks worth studying: one ignored user intent, the other shipped a whole execution layer for a 24-hour gag.
A decade of explaining why WordPress sites don’t feel like apps, and what 2026 changes: blocks described to an AI instead of scaffolded by hand, the Interactivity API handling state without page reloads, and theme.json holding the design system.
GenUI promises an interface generated per user in real time. The accessibility side is not there yet, from the criticism that met Figma Sites to Jakob Nielsen’s claim that individualized interfaces will fix a11y on their own.
Alt tags do not save a layout that falls apart at 150% zoom. Setting up Figma variable modes for 100, 120, 150 and 200 percent, seeing what breaks when you toggle them, and the rem-based CSS that keeps the scaling honest.
Scott Wilson came out of a liver transplant with an organ donation campaign to run, not time to debug a slider. Why he had his site built for him instead of assembling it himself.
Modals are interruptive by design. Four checks for deciding between a modal, a side drawer and a dedicated page, plus the tasks each one is actually good for.
Adding delight everywhere backfires. This post compares how anime handles a tonal shift against the Marvel background-gag habit, then covers Don Norman’s three levels and the microinteractions that hold a flow together.
Ten years of persuasive design taught me that badges do not fix retention. This is how I use the COM-B model to work out whether a user is stuck on capability, opportunity or motivation before adding a nudge.
Chromium made the native select element styleable. This walks through appearance: base-select, the ::picker pseudo-element, sibling-index() for per-option maths, and the anchor positioning that makes a radial picker possible, without giving up keyboard support.