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...