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As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation….

Imagine the following scene: you’re on a website, and there’s a button. When you click the button, it shows some text, but the website’s font size is really small. So, you change the default font size in your browser from 16 to 24 pixels. You go back to the website…

In January, I read Geoff Graham’s article, Changing Roles. It dawned on him that somehow at sometime, he stopped being a web designer. It was not something he necessarily intended to happen. He took advantage of different opportunities and evolved into a new role. Web educator is the best way…

Modern Web Weekly #68The Modern Web, tested and explained in plain English͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏    …

Say you’re working with a LLM and training it to write good frontend code. Good frontend code is accessible code, so of course you want to instruct the LLM to produce it. However, the bulk of frontend code on the web is inaccessible to some degree. Also know here that…

The latest SEO fad is the idea that websites need a machine-only version. Strip out the layout, remove the “noise”, and hand LLMs a simplified view of your content. The pitch is always framed as pragmatic. Modern websites are bloated. LLMs don’t need the design. They just want the content….

At the end of 2025, Firefox added the CSS @scope rule – making the new feature available across all major browsers! Since Chris Coyier has done a fair amount of writing and speaking on the topic, we wanted to talk with him about what that means. Chris has also been…

This first rule of styling lists is that they should be treated with the same reverence you would show any other text. If a list is inserted within a passage of text, treat it as a continuation and integral part of that text. For bulleted or unordered lists, use padding…

I’m sure you’ve heard of streaks or used an app with one. But ever wondered why streaks are so popular and powerful? Well, there is the obvious one that apps want as much of your attention as possible, but aside from that, did you know that when the popular learning…

AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible I was joking with a colleague that the most highly prized skill of a product designer might soon be writing a well-structured Markdown file. If you work in a large product org, you’re watching agentic AI creep into every aspect of the product…