I once wrote 60 lines of ResizeObserver JavaScript so one hero headline would fill its container. Chrome Canary is prototyping text-grow and text-shrink, which do the same job in CSS, with one accessibility catch.
We shipped a Quick Reorder button for a WooCommerce client and the conversion rate never moved. The problem was the metric, not the button. TARS breaks feature success into target audience, adoption, retention and satisfaction.
A client wanted a Pinterest-style WooCommerce gallery, which used to mean Masonry.js or fragile grid math. The CSS Working Group settled on display: grid-lanes instead, and it is still rolling out behind flags.
A 30,000-line stylesheet taught me that BEM cannot outrun global scope. Web components and the Shadow DOM can, and the idea goes back to a 1998 proposal for HTML components.
My niece walked into the office and asked what I was typing. Explaining HTML as bricks and CSS as paint was harder than I expected, and it showed me where I had gotten sloppy in my own work.
A WooCommerce homepage carousel was wrecking Core Web Vitals. Dropping the JS slider for CSS animation-timeline and view() cut the script weight and pulled the LCP score back into the green.
A core update took a client’s checkout page down at 2 AM. Reading the release retrospectives and controlling minor auto-updates per environment is how I stopped that from happening again.
WordPress 7.0 pulls View Transitions into core, and ticket #64066 raises preloading eagerness when a proxy cache is detected. Here is what that changes for admin speed, and why blanket prefetching pinned my CPU at 100%.
A Friday night emergency on a site I had not touched in six months cost me two hours of MAMP wrangling. WordPress Studio blueprints and selective sync are what I use now to keep client environments consistent.
The 2026 proposal moves WordPress back to three majors a year, roughly one every four months, with one to three minors in between. Freezing a client site at 6.7 is what taught me why that cadence is easier to live with.