Programming languages, frameworks, and development tools
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were b...
Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder meetings with unclear directives th...
CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the browser viewport to elements on a page. But every once in a while a new feature comes along that makes us rethink our desi...
The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced, and it’s been a common design pattern for years. So developing your CSS mobile-first sh...
I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change. Just as you start to get the ...
In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been usin...
Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office manager’s essential value? Or a dentist’s? Or a librarian’s? They all sound great. When humility is ou...
Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your ailments...
"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So should our de...
Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has th...
Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things t...
The Nuvio media client can deliver really impressive Blu-ray audio, but keeping things open source requires a bit of effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants a humanoid that can operate in a world designed for people, though the CEO says a robot 'brain' is a much bigger challenge.
The Sony Bravia 9 II shows the next evolution of backlit TVs and how they can compete with OLED — although at a cost.
Is the plug starting to be pulled on the GeForce GPU range? And is Nvidia turning to cloud gaming instead?
Five ways today's PC gamers can keep costs down amid the ongoing RAM crisis.
From the government's proposed legislation to the impact on viewers, an expert shares their thoughts on the BBC's new funding model.
Elon Musk’s company pushes the boundaries of what a car can do, but its everyday EV lineup feels in need of a little inspiration
Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee, and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.
Today, Reflection released Beam, its first open-weight model built to give developers, researchers, and enterprises open control and customization for frontier software engineering and long-horizon ag...