Why traditional loading patterns like spinners fail in agentic AI experiences, and how interface patterns that reveal the system’s process, status, and decision-making can improve transparency and build user trust.
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The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that.
Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Every product experimentation team doing causal inference on LLM-based features eventually hits the same wall: when the provider ships a new model version, there's no holdout. Your infrastructure team
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You've probably seen the demos. A Flutter app, a text field, and a few lines calling the Gemini API – and out comes something that feels like magic. The audience applauds. Your product manager is alre
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Whether it’s invoices, scanned documents, reports, certificates, or receipts, users often need to convert PDF pages into image files quickly. Modern browsers make this much easier than before. Instead
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Since moving to Silicon Valley in 2025, I've seen AI everywhere. And after I attended NVIDIA GTC 2025, one thing became very clear from many conversations I had: most companies now have AI agents runn
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Chrome extensions are lightweight tools that enhance and personalize your browsing experience, whether that's managing passwords, translating pages, or adding entirely new features to websites you use
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If you're running production workloads, this guide is for you. It's not about side projects, early-stage experiments, or a single-service app with low traffic. This is for teams shipping real systems.
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Before models like ChatGPT became part of everyday life, AI systems were already getting surprisingly good at generating text. But there was still a major limitation: most models could only perform ta
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WhatsApp is where your many of your customers likely already are. For support tickets, order updates, booking reminders, and lead qualification, a WhatsApp channel often converts several times better
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This handbook is written for developers, team leads, and admins who want to understand what Codex is, how to set it up, how to use it well, how it differs from general-purpose models, and how pricing
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Most developers spend a significant portion of their day in the terminal. They run flutter build, push with git, manage packages with dart pub, and orchestrate pipelines from the command line. Every o
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I came across Kitty Giraudel’s folded corners technique. I’ve been on a bit of a corner-shape kick lately, so I figured that corner-shape could be used to create folded corners as well.
Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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I will explain how my mum inspired this 2026 Mother’s Day scrollytelling experiment — but also, how she inspired my approach to dev and life.
A Scrollytelling Gift for Mum on Mother’s Day 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Most grid layouts sit in neat rows, perfectly aligned, like soldiers in formation. But sometimes you want something with more rhythm like, say, a zigzag pattern. Here's how to do it with CSS Grid.
Making Zigzag CSS Layouts With a Grid + Transform Trick originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
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Design always starts with function — function shapes form. But if that function can’t be made completely invisible and people still have to interact with it, it inevitably becomes part of their experience. In this article, Kyrylo Levashov shares four common software design assumptions.
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Getting a multi-column of cards to line up equally is is a headache we've all faced, and it gets even harder when working with fixed heights.
Fixed-Height Cards: More Fragile Than They Look originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Developers have been experimenting with HTML-in-Canvas, a hexagonal world map-analytics feature, a web-based OS for e-ink devices, replacing image sources using the content property, and more. This is What’s !important #10.
What’s !important #10: HTML-in-Canvas, Hex Maps, E-ink Optimization, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be needed?
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We're getting new functions for generating random numbers in CSS! But the road to get here has been a long and winding one.
The Importance of Native Randomness in CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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My shim might give the powers that be another reason to say native support isn't necessary, or if lots of people use my :nth-letter hack in the wild, the browser gods might recognize the need to implement it for real.
Let’s Use the Nonexistent ::nth-letter Selector Now originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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AI tools are eliminating the need to “bug” colleagues for help, but the informal interactions they replace are the very scaffolding that builds team trust, belonging, and innovation. Casey Hudetz and Eric Olive explore the research and potential impacts behind that risk and offer practical strategies for maintaining human connection while leveraging AI’s strengths.
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In a rush to embrace AI, the industry is redefining what it means to be a UX designer, blurring the line between design and engineering. Carrie Webster explores what’s gained, what’s lost, and why designers need to remain the guardians of the user experience.
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Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities. Here is how to implement thoughtful session management that improves usability, reduces frustration, and helps create a more accessible and respectful web.
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