Chart libraries are heavy for four bars. Here is a CSS Grid bar chart that uses sibling-index() and attr() to read its values straight off the markup, plus the PHP helper I use to render it in WordPress.
Fifteen real WordPress sites looked at as architecture rather than inspiration: which themes they run, how they handle search and subscriptions, and where the block editor quietly does the work a plugin usually gets credit for.
Smashing Magazine’s February 2026 wallpapers collection, with the designs worth grabbing and a developer’s notes on shipping high-resolution images: srcset, lazy loading, and the mistakes that turn a wallpaper gallery into a slow page.
A custom VS Code theme takes hours rather than weeks once you move past CSS variables and into TextMate tokens. Ahmad Wael on scaffolding the first pass, debugging scopes in the Extension Host, and picking contrast that does not fry your eyes by lunchtime.
Which control to reach for once a dropdown of 500 product variations stops being usable: combobox, multiselect, listbox or dual listbox. With a Gutenberg ComboboxControl refactor and the keyboard focus rules a real combobox has to meet.
Matching a 1440px Figma file coordinate for coordinate produces CSS full of magic numbers that breaks on the first foldable phone or bumped font size. What to agree on with designers instead: tokens, fluid units, and rules about behavior.
Chrome 144 and Firefox 147 moved anchor positioning and @scope to Baseline, so tooltips and style isolation no longer need a JS library. Also here: the Temporal API in Chrome, the dead HTML document outline, and using your OS as a CMS.
Career debt is as real as technical debt. What an annual retrospective, a skills matrix and a translator-style horizontal role look like for a product designer heading into 2026, and why management is not the only way up.
Penpot is testing an MCP server that lets assistants like Claude read real design files instead of guessing from your prompt. What is in the experiment, how the translation layer works, and why design-as-code cuts down on invented components.
A new year is a decent excuse to refactor your desktop. Three picks from the January 2026 wallpaper collection, plus the CSS I use when an image like that becomes a hero background.