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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Working With AI: A Concrete Example (htm)141
ai, claude, anthropic, debugging
How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage (kev/tan)140
tanstack, refactoring, memory, metrics
Shipping psql Without psql: A Pure-TypeScript Postgres Client in neonctl139
tooling, ai, postgresql, databases
How Building an HTML-First Site Doubled Our Users Overnight (moh)138
html, web-components, validation, traffic
When AI Builds Itself (ant)137
ai, processes, metrics, quality, efficiency, anthropic
How We Cut Build Times by Two-Thirds by Deleting Our CMS (get)136
migrating, gatsby, astro, content-management, optimization
Optimizing Our Build Times by Migrating From Webpack to Rspack135
migrating, webpack, rspack, building, optimization
Building a General-Purpose Accessibility Agent—and What We Learned in the Process (eri)134
ai-agents, ai, accessibility, lessons, github
We Needed a Screenshot Pipeline—We Got a Design QA Tool Instead (ben/cal)133
tooling, screenshots, quality, playwright
How’s Linear So Fast? A Technical Breakdown132
performance, tech-stacks
I Built a $32,000 AI Platform for Less Than a Penny (hac)131
ai, architecture, economics
How We Optimized Agent Device for Mobile App Automation (thy/cal)130
debugging, optimization, ai
The Uphill Climb of Making Diff Lines Performant129
github, performance, optimization
Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon128
migrating, javascript, typescript
V7: Typographic Scales and Technical Pens127
design, typography, css
Fixing TypeScript Performance Problems: A Case Study (vig)126
typescript, performance
Tech Talk: Improving Window Resize Behavior (ele)125
electron, resizing, debugging
The Old Ways Are the Best: 100 Lighthouse, 0 ms TBT, 32 ms Queries (per)124
performance
How We’re Protecting Our Newsroom From npm Supply Chain Attacks (rya/pnp)123
npm, dependencies, security
“Sloppy” Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project (not)122
design, accessibility, quality
Unifying [Wikipedia’s] Mobile and Desktop Domains (kri/wik)121
wikipedia, refactoring, mobile, desktop, performance, seo, user-experience, infrastructure, link-lists
The Engineer You Never Met: Why Interview Processes Systematically Reject Qualified Engineers120
hiring, economics
Making a Design System That Gets Adopted (cle)119
design-systems
How to Create a Strong Design System and Survive: Case Study118
how-tos, design-systems, lessons
Design Has Never Been More Important: Inside Shopify’s Acquisition of Molly (cod)117
design, ai, ecommerce, shopify
Rebuilding Graphs for Accessibility: Inside Khan Academy’s Inclusive Design (kha)116
accessibility, visualization, information-design
I’m More Proud of These 128 Kilobytes Than Anything I’ve Built Since115
performance, flash-of-x, svg, minification, optimization
4 Untranslatable Words Behind Patreon’s Internationalization Overhaul114
internationalization, localization
We Added Chaos to Our CI/CD Pipelines—It Made Everything More Stable113
ci-cd, ai
6 Ways Slack, Notion, and VS Code Improved Electron App Performance112
electron, performance, slack, vs-code
Behind the Scenes: How We Iterate on UI Copy (aut)111
design, content, microcontent, processes, automattic
How Google Is Accelerating Code Migrations With AI110
studies, research, google, ai, migrating
We Launched Our First Shopify Theme (nic)109
shopify, theming
Integrating Localization Into Design Systems (sma)108
design-systems, localization, figma
Advanced React in the Wild (add)107
react, nextjs, performance
Making Node.js Downloads Reliable (nod)106
nodejs, reliability, refactoring
Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration With LLMs105
testing, migrating, ai
CDEs Aren’t Just for Developers: How QA, Tech Writers, and Designers Benefit Too (jet)104
code-editors, jetbrains
The Dark Side of UX: Lessons From OnlyFans’ Addictive Design (web)103
lessons, design, dark-patterns, ethics, user-experience
Considerations for Making a Tree View Component Accessible (eri)102
components, accessibility, keyboard-navigation, aria
Designing for Clarity: How We Restructured Intercom’s Information Architecture101
design, information-architecture
Building Design Consistency: A Deep Dive Into Figma Variables at JW Player100
deep-dives, design, design-systems, design-tokens, consistency, figma, variables
Don’t Let Your Redesign Ruin Performance: A Case Study (mac/per)99
performance, redesigning
A Leap in the Evolution of Airtable’s Codebase: Scaling TypeScript to Thousands of Projects98
typescript, scalability
Blast From the Past: 2advanced.com (web)97
design, flash, history
How a BBC Navigation Bar Component Broke Depending on Which External Monitor It Was On (jos)96
debugging, javascript
“We Were Wrong”: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website (vir/wir)95
podcasts, history
How Vercel Adopted Microfrontends94
vercel, micro-frontends
How Is This Website So Fast!? (wes)93
videos, performance
Prioritizing Design Systems92
design-systems, prioritization, processes
Breaking Into UX Research: Non-Traditional Paths to Success91
user-experience, career
How We Built a Design System in 2 Weeks90
design-systems
Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx (shl/htm)89
htmx
Pfizer’s Future of Development (lau)88
outlooks, prioritization, processes, culture
Tackling a System’s Accessibility Without Testing (jbu+)87
accessibility, wcag, heuristics
Mutation-Testing Our JavaScript SDKs (get)86
javascript, testing
Improving the Screen Reader Experience for “Learn WCs” (and)85
accessibility, user-experience, screen-readers, assistive-tech, apple, voiceover
The Evolution of Attention84
design
Faster Continuous Integration Builds at Canva83
ci-cd, efficiency, optimization
Designing Design Systems: Constructing an Icon System82
design, design-systems, icons, images
Growing a Design System Organically81
design-systems, scalability
Enhancing The New York Times Web Performance With React 1880
performance, react
uBlock Origin: Let’s Read the Code! (ant)79
videos
How We’re Building More Inclusive and Accessible Components at GitHub (eri)78
components, accessibility, dei, github
How Slack Automates Deploys77
deploying, automation, slack
The Evolution of Figma’s Mobile Engine: Compiling Away Our Custom Programming Language (fig)76
figma, programming, typescript, migrating
Web Accessibility in the 2024 [US] Presidential Campaigns (web)75
accessibility
Hello Bun: How Sveld Now Deploys 2× Faster on GitHub and Render74
bun, deploying, performance
Purging Design System “Rot” From Our Checkboxes (chu)73
design-systems, maintenance, quality, accessibility
Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire72
css
Diving Into the Node.js Website Redesign (bri/nod)71
redesigning
Names Are Complex: Displaying Initials for an Avatar Component in a Design System (hey)70
naming, design
High-Level System Architecture of Booking.com69
architecture, microservices
How We Reduced CSS Size and Improved Performance Across GOV.UK68
css, performance, optimization
CSS Scroll Snapping Aligned With Global Page Layout: A Full-Width Slider Case Study (uti/sma)67
sliders, css, scrolling, layout
How I Brought LCP Down to Under 350 ms for Google-Referred Users on My Website (paw)66
performance, web-vitals, optimization
Baseline’s Evolution on MDN (pep/mdn)65
browsers, support, web-platform, documentation, mdn
Jimdo’s Engineering Guidelines64
guidelines, processes, collaboration, onboarding
Comparison of Accessibility of E-Government Websites in Europe (cer)63
accessibility, comparisons
4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea (whi+)62
videos, web-apps
How Bear Does Analytics With CSS61
analytics, metrics, css
CSS Findings From Photoshop Web Version (sha)60
html, css, adobe, photoshop
How We Optimized Package Imports in Next.js59
nextjs, dependencies, optimization
Skip Links on ikea.com (mat)58
accessibility, skip-links
Hashnode’s Overall Architecture (has)57
architecture
Greenwashing and the COP28 Website (mic)56
sustainability
CSS Findings From The Threads App II (sha)55
css
From Silos to Design Systems54
design-systems, processes
Case Study: Rebuilding TechCrunch Layout With Modern CSS (sha)53
refactoring, css
Optimizing Speed on ebay.com (add)52
performance, optimization, web-vitals, ebay
How We Optimized Performance to Serve a Global Audience (sma)51
performance, optimization
CSS Findings From the Threads App (sha)50
css, facebook+meta
End-to-End Tracing49
observability, tracing
How We Created an Accessible, Scalable Color Palette48
colors, color-palettes, accessibility, scalability
Simple Things Make Things Simple (pjo)47
simplicity
Moving From Vue 1 to Vue 2 to Vue 3: A Case Study of Migrating a Headless CMS System (sma)46
vuejs, migrating, headless, content-management
How We Built Our Multi-Platform Design System at Booking.com45
design-systems, theming, scalability
Caching at DEV44
caching, performance
Our Future CSS Strategy43
css, javascript, css-in-js, strategies
Early Learnings for Early Hints at Shopify (sia/per)42
videos, shopify, performance, hints
How We Improved React Loading Times by 70% With Next.js41
react, performance, nextjs
Wired.com: 20 Years Later (sto)40
design, retrospectives
A Delightful Guide to Culture at Mamo (Inspired by Khalil Gibran)39
guides, culture
How We Designed an Accessible Color Palette From Scratch38
accessibility, colors, color-palettes
How We Think About Browsers (kei)37
browsers
Accessibility Monitoring: How We Test36
accessibility, monitoring, testing
Improving the Performance of Wix Websites (Case Study) (sma)35
performance, monitoring, culture
Design Systems at Replit: Better Tokens34
design-systems, design-tokens
How We Improved Our Design System Delivery33
design-systems, processes, optimization
Using Monorepos Is Not That Bad32
monorepos
How We Reduced Next.js Page Size by 3.5× and Achieved a 98 Lighthouse Score31
performance, nextjs, lighthouse, google
How We Built React Components for Any Front End30
react, components
Reducing HTML Payload With Next.js (Case Study) (sma)29
nextjs, html, performance
Updating React at Etsy28
react, preact, frameworks
A Netflix Web Performance Case Study (add)27
performance, netflix
Removing jQuery From GitHub.com Frontend26
github, jquery, javascript, processes, refactoring
Improving the Accessibility of 24 Ways (pau/css)25
accessibility
Why We Didn’t Use a Framework (sma)24
frameworks
PWA Stats (clo)23
websites, web-apps, progressive-web-apps, metrics
How Mail.ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 to 32 PB (sma)22
storage, email, optimization
A Redesign With CSS Shapes (mey/ali)21
css, shapes, redesigning
Building Social: A Case Study on Progressive Enhancement (sma)20
javascript, progressive-enhancement
How We Use Prototyping, and How It Made Us More Efficient (sma)19
design, prototyping, processes, efficiency
Building the UI for the New “The Times” Website18
design, collaboration, architecture, css, documentation
Move Fast and Fix Things17
technical-debt, git, github, processes
How We Get Things Done16
project-management, processes
Tour of a Performant and Responsive CSS Only Site (css)15
css, parallax, effects, performance
Getting Started With Pattern Libraries (ali)14
introductions, design, documentation, pattern-libraries
Controlling Heavy Weight Websites13
performance, user-experience
Building the New Financial Times Web App (A Case Study) (sma)12
web-apps, css, scrolling
HTML5 Quake to Shake Up Flash (mis)11
html, canvas, websockets, webgl, flash
IKEA and the Font Fiasco10
typography, fonts
Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration (gar/dig)9
forms, design, ebay
WaSP Interviews Dan Cederholm (sim)8
interviews, design, standards
An SVG Case Study: Integrated, Dynamic Avalanche Forecasting7
perl, html, sql, databases, svg, images
ESPN Moves Forward With Standards6
standards, conformance
W3C Home Page Table-Less Layout (don/w3c)5
w3c, redesigning, css, floats
Anil Dash Does Amazon (sim)4
html, conformance
The Birth of Design Is Kinky (dig)3
design
Access for All2
accessibility, w3c
MSNBC Makes News by Making HTML Dynamic (zdn)1
microsoft, html, java, dhtml