“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad

AI agents write and run code you haven't reviewed. They need real isolation. Codewire gives every AI agent its own machine. Launch Claude Code, Codex, or any AI tool on dedicated cloud environments. Run them in parallel. Check in tomorrow. Get early access. codewire.sh

Yes, of course. Because LLMs are being built by people who made social networks before, which were algorithms designed to amplify content that would reflect back your priors in another person’s voice. It’s ex-Facebook product managers making ChatGPT! Except more emotionally addictive this time.

JavaScript's date object has been tricky for years, but that is changing. The NEW Temporal API brings, 🌍 Easily handle time zones 📆 Precise date math 🕒 Parse ISO strings without errors ⌛ Durations, date ranges, and more. Start experimenting 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Lazy-loaded video/auto elements are finally coming to the web! 🎉 scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-m...

Cool stuff, hosting is the next thing that's getting way more expensive because AI companies docs.hetzner.com/general/infr...

The Sanitizer API landed in Firefox 148, along with element.setHTML(). This lets you fully configure how HTML strings are cleaned as they're parsed. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/good...

Modern CSS is no longer just about presentation. It increasingly allows us to explore interaction, state, and progressive enhancement in places that used to be JavaScript territory. More on that in my blogpost: schepp.dev/posts/turnin... (and with that post I've fulfilled my duty for 2026 😅)

"agents" running on my machine has always been a hard no, but christ on a bicycle 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

A lot better user experience than the classic flow that is easy to mess up and hard to recover from. “Introducing the <geolocation> HTML element” by @developer.chrome.com developer.chrome.com/blog/geoloca... #html #webdev

Unser ehemaliger Co-Host @helloanselm.bsky.social erzählt in der neusten Folge, warum er nicht dauerhaft auf einen Burnout zusteuern wollte – und wie ihn der Wunsch nach praktischer Arbeit weg vom Bildschirm schließlich zu einer Gemüsegärtnerei führte. 🎧 👉 workingdraft.de/696/

Revision 696: Was macht eigentlich… @helloanselm.bsky.social? workingdraft.de/696/

I must say that I like how Bsky iOS app asks once if I want a link to open inapp or external and just remembers my choice. This is how it should be!

New year, new impact. I have some freelance capacity: I can help your team get effective. If it’s about coding/work/team standards, send me a message. Recently, I was hired as Lead Dev, Workflow Coach, Engineering Manager, Accessibility Program Manager and clients were happy. #timetofill

Wish y’all some good days around Christmas! All the best!

Tired of long-running scripts blocking the UI? The Web Workers API lets you run JS in the background, keeping your app responsive and smooth. ✅ Offload heavy tasks ✅ Keep the main thread free ✅ Great for data crunching, parsing, and more Read how 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Firefox 146 ships improvements for CSS devs 🎨 • contrast-color() for WCAG-friendly contrast • display-p3-linear color space • text-decoration-inset • scope at-rule now on by default • -webkit-fill-available for better compat Release notes 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

#React is on a roll 🍿 react.dev/blog/2025/12...

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring

Early still, but excited as this (Squarespace-sponsored 🖤) work to propose the addition of video[loading=lazy] to the HTML spec seems to be moving along nicely so far🤞. Great to see Mozilla's position go positive today. github.com/whatwg/html/...

Fine-tune multilingual typography with text-autospace ✨ It lets you control spacing between CJK and Latin characters. > text-autospace: ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric punctuation; Now available on Baseline 2025. 🎉 Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Daten sind das Wasser des digitalen Zeitalters! 🌊 Warum behandeln wir sie wie eine unendliche Ressource? Warum dieses Denken gefährlich ist und inwieweit ein Umdenken dringend erforderlich wäre, um digitale Verschwendung zu verringern, erfährst Du in der neusten Folge: 🎧 👉 workingdraft.de/691/

Are AI and other tools helpful for accessibility testing of web apps? Here’s my insight — spoiler: Yes but not 100%. helloanselm.com/writings/too...

Since Open Source does not work too well financially… this is how to become sustainable and keep your tool active? 🫤

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? asks glamorous Hidde. hidde.blog/filtered-ope...

And yes, this is an important accessibility detail if you use Popover for Toasts along with native Dialogs for modals: htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Quite nice summary of CSS in JS and how today I wouldn’t recommend choosing it anymore: thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...

In the past few days I’ve been analysing a couple of web apps and websites to check if tools can really help identify whether a website is accessible. → Lighthouse, ARC Toolkit, axe DevTools, Claude AI, Local LLM Models ✅ helloanselm.com/writings/too... #accessibility #ai

Decentralized Social Media should be funded from a European defense fund.

I've worked on a dark/light themed site and went all-in using `light-dark()`. So far, I've thought that I can use it as a `prefers-color-scheme` replacement... I learned that there are some differences in how they treat `color-scheme`. 👇 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

I recently started to write about why freelancers are a vital part of companies to be successful and effective. Here are some insights on how it feels to be a freelancer in the web development industry. Change, change, change = experience. helloanselm.com/writings/ins...

I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.

Why are XSS still a thing? Why do we have div-soups instead of semantic markup? Why is the web app slow? Frontend engineering is complex and requirements are high. Consider using external input to improve the quality of your products. helloanselm.com/writings/on-... #codeaudit #freelance #frontend

Tips for good System Design. Things principal engineers, experienced freelancers and system design architects can do. If you build an app, build it for 100 users. If you’re near this, scale it up. Not before. Tips from a Github engineer with great insights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeUU...

Sunce I’m not writing work.info anymore, it’s my favorite web dev newsletters. Thanks @stefanjudis.com for curating it!

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...