Why I Built VertiWiki: A Zero-Backend, Single-File Markdown Wiki Engine(opens dev.to in a new tab)
When building project documentation, knowledge bases, or internal wikis, developers typically face a...
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Peter Merholz
Design’s Legibility Gap(opens petermerholz.com in a new tab)
Strap in. This one gets wonky. For some personal work, I'm unpacking the question, "What are the conditions that enable a humane organization?" Emerging from that effort is the concept of 'legibility,' and I believe it to be crucial to understanding why UX/Design struggles within
Smashing Magazine
Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing(opens smashingmagazine.com in a new tab)
Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that.
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Dribbble
How To Build an Inevitable Brand in 2026: A Guide To Modern Brand Strategy(opens dribbble.com in a new tab)
Dribbble Community Leader, Brandly Founder and Design Director Zlatina Petrova discusses the modern brand strategy taking brands from functional to transformational, and the matrix that translates emotional positioning into visual design.
Piccalilli
A CLI for adding new music to the collection(opens piccalil.li in a new tab)
Adding markdown files for every new music item is a faff, so I built a multi-step CLI to do it for me.
Web Designer Depot
The Infinite Scroll Was a Design Crime. Now Meta is Paying for It.(opens webdesignerdepot.com in a new tab)
The infinite scroll was never a UX feature—it was a slot machine disguised as code. Now, as Meta faces a historic trial over algorithmic addiction, web designers must finally confront the ugly truth: we sacrificed basic usability and human willpower just to keep users trapped in
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F9XR Articles
EmDash: Cloudflare's New AI-Native CMS Explained(opens f9xr.github.io in a new tab)
Cloudflare launched EmDash, an open-source, AI-native CMS built as WordPress's successor. Here's what it does and if it fits your business.
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Figma is the New Dreamweaver: How Modern Prototyping Tools are Trapping Us in 2018(opens webdesignerdepot.com in a new tab)
Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma's perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just pixels.
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Medium
The Death of the Traditional UX Designer(opens medium.muz.li in a new tab)
How AI is changing UX research, wireframing, prototyping, testing, and what it means to be a designer in 2026
Bram.us
The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector(opens bram.us in a new tab)
To target multiple classes that share the same prefix, you'd typically have to resort to adding an extra base classes to your markup or to using badly performing attribute selectors. To make things easier, CSS is getting a new selector: The Class Prefix Selector (.prefix-*).
InfoQ
Cloudflare Migrates JavaScript CDN Serving 9B Requests a Day to Its Developer Platform(opens infoq.com in a new tab)
Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastructure while preserving pack
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Markdown SVG upgrades(opens simonwillison.net in a new tab)
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for …