Frameworks run inside the web, not the other way around. New post on breaking free from framework gravity, building React apps that respect the platform and could outlast React itself. denodell.com/blog/escape-...

CSS Weekly #622 🚀 Best of CSS in 2025 😳 Uncommon media queries 💠 corner-shape property 💬 :heading pseudo-class Featuring @chriscoyier.net, @dxnny.fun, @jensimmons.bsky.social, @emilkowal.ski, @bram.us, @denodell.bsky.social. @silvestar.codes, @miocene.io. 🙏 cssw.io/issue-622

I recently discovered the HTML tag almost nobody uses. The <output> tag announces dynamic content to screen readers. Like an ARIA live region, except it's built in. We've spent years hacking divs when the answer was in the spec. Classic. New post: denodell.com/blog/html-be...

Frontend code reviews should test the experience, not just the diff. Too many bugs slip through because no one thought to preview in a browser. My latest post covers how to shift reviews from “LGTM” to real UX quality checks. denodell.com/blog/code-re...

We keep changing how we style the web. Tailwind. CSS Modules. CSS-in-JS. Cascade layers. Still feels off though. Maybe CSS was never the real problem. denodell.com/blog/we-keep...

The next big shift in frontend isn’t a framework. It’s a law. The EU’s accessibility rules will ripple far beyond Europe, and the web will get better because of it. denodell.com/blog/a-bette...

Apparently, AI just made frontend developers obsolete. Again. Don’t panic. I’ve been here before. I know how this goes. You’ll want to read this one. denodell.com/blog/ai-is-j...

Loading spinners. Hydration delays. 300kB of JS for a blog post. We’ve normalised complexity where it’s not needed. There’s a better way — and it starts with islands. denodell.com/blog/buildin... #frontend #architecture

Before CSS, we still had to build layouts. No grid, no flex, not even float. Just hacks, slices, and a lot of guesswork. 🆕 Hacking Layout Before CSS Even Existed What we did, how it worked, and what it still teaches us. 👉 denodell.com/blog/hacking...

You’re going to hate me for saying this, but I actually like being on-call. It’s not the 2:43 AM alerts. It’s what they taught me about frontend quality. My first piece of new writing in 10 years. denodell.com/blog/try-a-w...