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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Open-Source Funding: Do We Need a “No Maintenance” Month? (j9t)167
foss, community
The Inconvenient Truth: How Web Performance Case Studies Undermine Our Relationship With Business (mac/per)166
performance, metrics
UX Is Your Moat (and You’re Ignoring It) (cwo)165
user-experience
Why Big Tech Won’t Hire Flutter Developers (and Why You Should Care) (ala)164
career, flutter
Amazon’s Return to Office Mandates Backfire (jpr)163
aws, culture
16 Charts That Explain the AI Boom162
ai, metrics, openai, anthropic, facebook+meta, oracle, google, microsoft, aws
How Are Engineering Leaders Approaching 2026 AI Tooling Budgets? (lau)161
tooling, ai, engineering-management
Are U.S. Software Developers Worth the Premium?160
hiring
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup (edz)159
openai, ai
How to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off158
leadership, ai, culture
The EU’s €2T Budget Overlooks a Key Tech Pillar: Open Source (bag)157
foss
Open Source Can’t Rely on Magic Piles of Money (rgi/ope)156
foss, community, openjs
The AI Bubble Is About to Burst155
videos, ai, openai, sustainability
The Politics of AI: We’ll Need More Sustainability, Community, and Democracy (hdv)154
ai, sustainability, community
How Tech Companies Measure the Impact of AI on Software Development (ger+)153
ai, productivity, metrics, github, google, microsoft, atlassian
How Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster (the)152
kubernetes, maintenance, security, foss
AI Cuts Onboarding Time in Half for New Hires in the Enterprise (lau)151
ai, hiring, onboarding
Why Every Senior Developer I Know Is Planning Their Exit150
career, productivity
Who’s Funding Open Source in 2025? A Guide for Maintainers (eli)149
guides, foss, monetization
How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone148
accessibility, history
Open Source Is One Person (jos)147
foss, community
Handling 500M Clicks With a $4 VPS (asc)146
videos, servers
How to Create a CRO Strategy That Turns Traffic Into Revenue (moz)145
how-tos, user-conversion, monetization, seo, strategies
Open Source Is Dying and We’re All to Blame144
foss, community
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong (qui/las)143
aws, s3, lambda, dynamodb, network, authentication
How to Stand Out When Anyone Can Build Anything (ant)142
how-tos, communication, craft, ai
How Much Should You Spend on Accessibility? (kar)141
accessibility, compliance
Let’s Stop Pretending That Managers and Executives Care About Productivity (bal)140
productivity, ai, engineering-management
Information Pollution, Poisoning, and Hygiene (uxd)139
content, information-architecture, user-experience
The Hidden Cost of Poor Navigation: How Information Architecture Directly Impacts Business Metrics (uxm)138
information-architecture, navigation
How to Measure the ROI of AI Coding Assistants (jkr/the)137
how-tos, ai, code-editors
Don’t Choose the Wrong Web Team—Here’s Why It Matters136
business-relations, collaboration, processes
The Cost of Ownership of a 1,000 Applications (may)135
architecture, licensing, maintenance
The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding (fre/uxd)134
ai, vibe-coding, metrics, tips-and-tricks
We Cannot Talk About AI Without Talking About Capitalism, Fascism, and Liberty (chr)133
ai
The 4 Motivations for Accessibility—the Big “Why?”132
accessibility, legal, dei
Salesforce and Shopify CEOs Just Declared War on Human-Only Teams (pet/uxd)131
shopify, ai, career
Unlocking 7 Hidden Benefits Through Web Site Redesign (uxm)130
redesigning, user-experience, user-conversion, maintainability, accessibility, usability, branding
Can LLMs Earn $1M From Real Freelance Coding Work?129
ai, programming, engineering-management, quality
Digital Accessibility Is a Civil Right (kar)128
accessibility, legal, ada, wcag
Downtime vs. Slowtime: Which Costs You More? (tam/spe)127
performance, branding
Please Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face (sir)126
ai, crawling, traffic
Open-Source Is Where Dreams Go to Die (tre)125
foss, culture, community
UX Is Dead, Long Live UX (nng)124
user-experience, ai
Digital Accessibility and the Cost of Exclusion (deq)123
accessibility, ethics
Getting the Relationship Between UX Design and Business Strategy Right (uxm)122
design, user-experience, product-management, strategies, collaboration, business-relations
9 Design System Metrics That Matter121
design-systems, metrics, user-experience, consistency, accessibility, maintenance, documentation
The Second Wave of AI Coding Is Here (wil/tec)120
ai
The Web Is a Creative Industry and Is Facing the Same Decline and Shattered Economics as Film, TV, or Publishing (bal)119
web, creativity, career
Meta and Spotify’s AI Takeover: Is This the End of Human-Created Content? (uxd)118
facebook+meta, ai, content
I Reduced AWS Bills by 80% Just by Optimizing Node.js Code117
aws, nodejs, optimization
Never Forgive Them (edz)116
web, ai, user-experience
What a Web Performance Engineer Needs to Know About Cloud Cost Savings (per)115
performance, cloud-computing, efficiency
Doing the Numbers: Digital Accessibility and Shifting Left (deq)114
accessibility, processes, metrics
Ecommerce (htt)113
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, ecommerce
What Happened to the Agile Movement?112
videos, agile, processes, productivity
Calculating the ROI of Your Design System (lur/zer)111
design-systems, metrics
How Effective UX Design Can Boost Business Success (uxm)110
user-experience, design, user-conversion, mobile, navigation, performance
Google Is Killing Information Economics on the Internet (tre)109
google, ai
Igalia Chats: The Coming Adpocalypse (bka+/iga)108
podcasts, browsers, monetization
How Can Accessibility Improve Your Conversion Rate Optimization Efforts? (cer)107
accessibility, user-conversion, optimization, usability
UX Is Dead. Long Live UX. (uxd)106
user-experience, history
5 Questions for Tammy Everts (tam+/fro)105
interviews, performance, metrics, user-experience
The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless (zac)104
scalability, serverless, vercel, aws, comparisons
To Hell With the Business Case, Again (mat)103
accessibility
Meaningful Ways to Measure Website Success (web)102
metrics
Understanding Organizational Capacity: Why It Matters in OKR Practice (cwo)101
leadership, engineering-management, processes, okr
The Great Tech and People Hypocrisy (j9t)100
career, leadership
Accessibility Evolution of Organizations (cer)99
accessibility, processes
The Era of High-Paying Tech Jobs Is Over98
programming, career, ai
What Negative Effects Does a Bad Website Design Have on My Business? (web)97
design
5 Ways Productivity Culture Kills Business Agility96
productivity, agile, culture
Design Patterns That Encourage Junk Data (mic)95
design-patterns, sustainability, storage, email
Are Design Systems a Zero-Interest Rate Phenomenon? (dav)94
design-systems
Under-Supported and Underpaid (aar)93
accessibility, career, craft
The Financial Argument for Using an Outside Firm for Accessibility Remediation (kar)92
accessibility
To Hell With the Business Case (mat)91
accessibility, legal
The True Cost of Not Prioritizing Accessibility: Avoid Risk and Maximize Product ROI90
accessibility, product-management, prioritization
Can We Truly “Create” Value? (uxd)89
user-experience
What Is Page Bloat? And How Is It Hurting Your Business, Your Search Rank, and Your Users? (tam/spe)88
performance, user-experience, user-conversion, metrics
Design Debt: The Hidden Cost of Neglecting UX Investment, and How to Measure and Manage It (uxd)87
design-debt, user-experience, metrics
Business Impacts of UI Design and UX Design (uxm)86
design
Stream File Uploads to S3 Object Storage and Save Money (aus)85
aws, s3, streaming, storage
Establishing Metrics for Accessibility ROI (kar)84
accessibility, metrics
What Is the Cost of Designing a Mobile App? (uxm)83
mobile
Craft vs. Industry: Separating Concerns (nac)82
quality, maintainability, craft, comparisons
Continuous Growth Is Cancer (cod)81
career
The Cost of Architectural Complexity80
research, architecture, complexity
Understanding the Cost of Not Being Accessible (kar)79
accessibility
Igalia Chats/Shop Talk Crossover: Ecosystem Health Part IX (bka+/iga)78
videos, web-platform, browsers
So, What’s Next [for core-js]?77
javascript, foss, community
The 10 Cheapest Web Hosting Solutions in 2022 (sta)76
hosting
Making the Wrong Choice on Build vs. Buy75
processes, engineering-management, complexity, comparisons
Magento Tips and Tricks to Increase Online Sales: 8 Simple Strategies74
magento, tips-and-tricks, strategies
Is It Expensive to Build an Eco-Friendly Website?73
sustainability
Sponsoring Dependencies: The Next Step in Open Source Sustainability (nza)72
dependencies, foss
Why SEO Is a Great Investment, Not Just a Cost (sea)71
seo
Mobile App Versus Web Site: Which Is Better for Your Business? (uxm)70
comparisons, mobile
The Business Case for Accessibility (tet)69
accessibility
Design Systems Aren’t Cheap68
design-systems, frameworks
The Real Added Costs of Accessibility (joe)67
accessibility
Dependency Risk and Funding (mit)66
dependencies, github
The Business Case for Performance (per)65
performance
UX Design Isn’t Killing Creativity, Money Is (uxd)64
user-experience, creativity
The True Cost of a Redesign (uxd)63
redesigning
I Love MDN, or the Cult of the Free in Action (ppk)62
mdn, community
#defundAI (tan)61
ai
The Economics of JavaScript Web Apps60
javascript, web-apps
Should You Add WordPress Maintenance to Your Service Offering? (sma)59
wordpress, maintenance, business-relations
Multi-Million Dollar HTML (chr/css)58
html, accessibility, labels
Why Fast Matters (css/btc)57
videos, performance
ProgrammableWeb’s Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Payments, Banking, Blockchain, and Finance56
apis, link-lists
The Cost of Frameworks, Illustrated (j9t)55
frameworks
How to Work Out What to Charge Clients: The Honest Version (boa/sma)54
how-tos, business-relations
Why Localization Is Crucial for Brands to Build a Global Advantage53
localization, internationalization, branding
Why Every Business Needs a Website (jef)52
domains, hosting, maintenance
[Insert Clickbait Headline About Progressive Enhancement Here] (aar)51
progressive-enhancement, principles, javascript
10 Ways to Earn Money From Your Site (dxn)50
monetization, marketing
W3C Web Payments HTTP Specification Working Drafts Released (inf)49
w3c
The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps (gri/clo)48
web-apps, progressive-web-apps
AMP… and Drums… Faster Ads (kar)47
amp, google, monetization
The Web’s Original Sin (ppk)46
web, content, monetization
Accessibility’s Costs Are Lower Than You Think (vig)45
accessibility
How to Charge for Websites: The Agile Way (cra)44
how-tos, business-relations, agile
How the W3C Met Its Waterloo at the “Do Not Track” Vote Showdown (the)43
w3c, do-not-track, privacy, mobile
About Cost in Web Development (j9t)42
prioritization
The True Cost of Progressive Enhancement (aar)41
progressive-enhancement
W3C Rejects Ad Industry Attempt to Hijack Do-Not-Track Specs40
w3c, do-not-track, privacy
Selling Social in 201339
social-media, metrics
EFF Blasts Proposed DRM Features in HTML538
eff, html, drm, content
Is It Time for Open Standards for Web Payments? (w3c)37
w3c
Web Developer Economics: The Wrapup (chr/css)36
career, metrics
“Do Not Track” Proposal Runs Into More Roadblocks (lan)35
do-not-track, privacy, w3c, browsers
“Do Not Track” Effort Going Nowhere (ton/pol)34
do-not-track, privacy, w3c
Usable Yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery (ali)33
usability, user-experience, product-management
Why “Do Not Track” Measures May Still Track You (mas)32
do-not-track, privacy, support
Don’t Keep on Trackin’ (eco)31
do-not-track, privacy, w3c
Agile Is a Sham30
agile, processes
Why Web Accessibility Matters and How It Can Benefit Your Business or Website29
interviews, accessibility, assistive-tech, mistakes, w3c
Separation Anxiety (eco)28
web
Is Software Licensed or Sold? (cra)27
licensing
Optimizing Conversion Rates: Less Effort, More Customers (sma)26
user-conversion, optimization, usability
Do You Do Spec Work?25
design, business-relations
The Myth of Stability (dre)24
career, myths
Mobile Web “to Be Worth $22B by 2013”23
web, web-2.0, mobile
What’s Your Web Site Worth?22
monetization
Cost of Solution vs. Cost of Problem (j9t)21
principles, prioritization, comparisons
The Value of Email Marketing20
email, marketing, monetization
What Are Web Services?19
interviews, web-services
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites (kar/w3c)18
standards, conformance, compliance, professionalism
Vendors Unite to Promote AJAX Tool Development (inf)17
ajax, javascript, web-apps
The Total Cost of Using PHP? (ore)16
php
Open Source vs. Closed Source (jus)15
foss, comparisons
Commercializing the Semantic Web14
semantic-web
Users Have Standards Role13
standards, web-services, microsoft
Buy Standards Compliant Web Sites (don/w3c)12
standards, conformance, compliance, maintainability, accessibility, business-relations
Web Hosting—Why Pay?11
hosting
The Money Page (ali)10
user-experience
Where the Web Leads Us (tim)9
web, outlooks, foss
Cost of User Testing a Website (nng)8
usability, testing
The Web in 1998: Some Predictions (nng)7
outlooks, usability
Website Data Analyzer and Value Estimator (siteprice.org)6
tools, analysis
Website Data Analyzer and Value Estimator (Website Value Calculator)5
tools, analysis
Website Data Analyzer and Value Estimator (Worth Of Web)4
tools, analysis
Website Value Estimator3
tools, analysis
Design System ROI Calculator2
tools, exploration, design-systems
Purchasing Power Parity Salary Converter1
tools, exploration