With container queries now on the horizon - will we need media queries at all? Is there a future where we build responsive interfaces completely without them?

There's a simple secret to building a faster website — just ship less.

Unfortunately, modern web development has been trending in the opposite direction—towards more. More JavaScript, more features, more moving parts, and ultimately more complexity needed to keep it all running smoothly.

WebP support is coming to WordPress 5.8. This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and is now supported by 95% of the web browsers in use worldwide. It has distinct advantages over more commonly used formats, providing both lossless and lossy compression that is 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images.

When Martin Fowler's post about microservices came out in 2014, the teams where I worked were already building service-oriented architectures. That post and the subsequent hype made their way into almost every software team in the world. The "Netflix OSS stack" was the coolest thing back then, allowing engineers worldwide to leverage Netflix's lessons in distributed systems. More than six years later, if we look into software engineering jobs right now, most of them talk about a microservices' architecture.

"Software seems 'large' and 'complicated' for what it does". I keep coming back to this quote by Alan Kay.

The trick to applying a shadow directly to SVG via CSS filters is the drop-shadow() function

A foundational overview of how to establish a dynamic and configurable color scheme

Amazing and detailed, 100% recommend

As a web font loads, you can now adjust its scale, to normalize the document font sizes and prevent layout shift when switching between fonts

We as developers should take the Fastly outage as an opportunity to improve our error messages. You never know when your witty in-joke might end up being seen by hundreds of millions of internet users, so just try to be helpful, and explain

Most app development technologies force teams to make hard decisions about where they will distribute their apps, usually either app stores as a native app or the web as a Progressive Web App.

Capacitor, a universal app runtime, avoids these tradeoffs by targeting one universal runtime (the web), and giving you maximum optionality for where you distribute the app that you build. You can deploy your app with one codebase anywhere your users are, even if that happens to change! That might mean the app stores today, but it could mean the web and desktop tomorrow.