How Markdown Took Over The World: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

SVG Filters Are Just Amazing: https://www.amitmerchant.com/svg-filters-are-just-amazing/ (Amit has been experimenting with what we can do with the `filter` property, and shares his findings here.)

Web Dependencies Are Broken; Can We Fix Them? https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/web-deps/

What Is The Minimum Markup Needed to Create A Modal? https://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/minimal-modal.html (Your options for building a modal dialog without any or as little as possible JavaScript.)

Tips for Making The Performance Panel Less Overwhelming: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/tips-for-making-the-performance-panel-less-overwhelming/

ARIA Roles Can Remove Their Children’s Semantics: https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/aria-roles-can-remove-their-childrens-semantics/

How I Write Custom Elements with lit-html: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/custom-elements-with-lit-html/

How Markdown Took Over The World: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

Directional CSS with Scroll-State (Scrolled): https://una.im/scroll-state-scrolled

Not All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs There's JS APIs in your browser that are little more than facades for cloud services. You might be sending your users' data to them. polypane.app/blog/not-all...

Introducing the `<geolocation>` HTML element: developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca.... This is the evolution of the `<permission>` element, and there's cross-browser interest! 📍🗺️

Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features: 🎉 CSS anchor positioning 🎉 The navigation API 🎉 View transition types 🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream 🎉 CSS module imports And more! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147

5 Accessibility Checks to Run On Every Component: https://zeroheight.com/blog/5-accessibility-checks-to-run-on-every-component/

Chrome DevTools Features I Use All The Time (And Why You Should Too): https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/chrome-devtools-all-the-time/

4 CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026: https://nerdy.dev/4-css-features-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2026

The Cost of Consistency: Avoiding Design System Bottlenecks - https://omid.dev/2025/12/25/cost-of-consistency-design-systems

Adam Wathan of Tailwind CSS: "75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business"

ExposedByDefault: What Your Browser Reveals About You - https://neberej.github.io/exposedbydefault/

color-input: A Modern Color Picker with Support for All Color Spaces - https://github.com/argyleink/css-color-component

4 CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026: https://nerdy.dev/4-css-features-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2026

Directional CSS with Scroll-State (Scrolled): https://una.im/scroll-state-scrolled

Why Federated Design Systems Keep Failing: https://www.shaunbent.co.uk/blog/why-federated-design-systems-keep-failing/

The first issue of the year is here! Features links to @nerdy.dev, @lea.verou.me, @jensimmons.bsky.social, @una.im and others. 🚀 frontendfoc.us/issues/723

Adam Wathan of Tailwind CSS: "75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business"

It took a while (mainly due to the huge quantity of data collected on some questions!), but the #StateOfHTML 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/ Big thanks to @lea.verou.me who not only designed the original survey back in 2023, but then came back this year to update it.

What are your favorite css/front-end blogs and publications?

4 #css Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026 https://nerdy.dev/4-css-features-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2026

Happy new year! Ah, now we can checkout the results of Interop 2025 — and see the entire year on the dashboard. wpt.fyi/interop-2025... Safari might have started the year in last place, but we definitely ended in first. (Interop Project tracks automated test pass rates for specific web API.)

Fun isn’t a distraction from learning, it’s how we learn best. The web is still a playful playground: open a text editor, try something weird, learn something new. Let's all keep the web fun, weird, and wonderful! ➡️ patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-acces... I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components! (note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)

ImageConverter.dev: A 100% Local, Web-Based Image Converter - https://imageconverter.dev/

Accessible Names and Labels: Understanding What Works and What Doesn’t - https://www.tpgi.com/accessible-names-and-labels-understanding-what-works-and-what-doesnt/

The Best Way to Create A Parallax Effect: https://www.builder.io/blog/parallax-scrolling-effect

Monotype Font Licencing Shake-down : https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down A cautionary tale of sorts on a dubious licensing claim, based on automated scans, that was ultimately an inaccurate one.

ImageConverter.dev: A 100% Local, Web-Based Image Converter - https://imageconverter.dev/

Enhancing Web Components Safely with Self-Destructing CSS: https://scottjehl.com/posts/web-component-self-destruct-css/ (Shares a way to reveal a hidden web component without relying on JavaScript.)

When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React? https://webtechnology.news/when-everyones-a-developer-how-do-we-promote-the-web-platform-over-react/

How to Create 3D Images in CSS with the Layered Pattern: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-3d-images-in-css-with-the-layered-pattern/ (A fun one here on creating 3D objects using the CSS `perspective` and `transform` properties.)

wc-pagination: A Web Component for Accessible Pagination - https://github.com/annoyingmouse/wc-pagination

Did You Know Your Browser Has Two Accessibility Trees? https://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/two-trees.html

Updating CSS Border Radius When a Container is Overflowing: https://pqina.nl/blog/update-container-border-radius-scrollbar-overflow/

Web Monetization is Still Inching Along, But Still Too Difficult: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/web-monetization-is-still-inching-along-but-still-too-difficult/ (A sound idea, but one that no one has cracked just yet.)

On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values: https://css-tricks.com/on-inheriting-and-sharing-property-values/

The Performance Inequality Gap in 2026: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

How Fast Can Browsers Process Base64 Data? https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/29/how-fast-can-browsers-process-base64-data/ (Gigabytes per second on modern hardware in most cases, except for Firefox and Servo.)

Prevent A Page From Scrolling While A Dialog Is Open: https://css-tricks.com/prevent-a-page-from-scrolling-while-a-dialog-is-open/

One CSS Trick to Eliminate Scrollbar Layout Shifts: https://www.amitmerchant.com/one-css-trick-to-eliminate-scrollbar-layout-shifts/

Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/masonry-things-you-wont-need-library-anymore/

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer: Fix Link Rot on WordPress - https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/

Get The Core Right and The Resilient Code Will Follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sh-5UYnJc