Just looking at what Bramus shared the other day:

So happy to see WordPress.com offering a pricing tier aimed at students that gives them free hosting for a year:

WordPress.com offers the Student plan free, so cost is never a barrier to learning web skills. The goal is for students of any subject to create and share their thoughts and work online, and to own their online presence from the start.

Exactly the kind of nerdy UI/UX discussion I love:

Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. In you didn’t know it, Freiburg is where it all started for Smashing Magazine! It’s their home turf and the conferences, if you haven’t been to one before, are always worth it.

No secret that Adam’s all about props. Dude gave us Open Props a good while back for a slew of preconfigured variables for color, shadows, sizing, typography, among much much more. Now he’s back with Prop For That, a similar sorta idea, but mind-blowing in the sense that it creates live props based things CSS can’t normally see in the browser. Things like cursor position, progress values, certain form states, current time, scroll velocity — you know, the stuff that JavaScript sniffs and passes to CSS.

Mark Underhill:

And now to the reason I wrote this post: including the word “navigation” in your <nav> labels. There’s no need. If we did, we’d hear something like “Navigation, Primary navigation”. Not the end of the world, but unnecessarily repetitive for screen reader users.

Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:

As a Chrome user, you’ll have received Gemini Nano in the form of a 4GB transfer recently; no permission asked or required. If you remove it, Chrome will re-download it. For reasons I can only guess at, Gemini Nano is presumably now considered to be part of Chrome itself, despite being a standalone product that is included alongside but not integrated into the browser — the way a copy of Bonzi Buddy included in a browser update might be considered a part of said browser.

We all have a few skeletons in our CSS closets. There’s probably that one-off !important where you can now manage that more effectively with cascade layers. Or maybe a dated Checkbox Hack that :has() has solved. Perhaps it’s been a long while since your last site redesign and it’s chock-full of vendor-prefixed properties from 2012. Thar be demons!

Stu Robson’s ReliCSS (clever name!) tool can excavate outdated CSS in your codebase that have modern CSS solutions.

The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn’t find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle’s on the beat noting that it’s behind a flag for now.

I love me some good web research reports. I’m a sucker for them. HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I’m not alone there. It’s one of those highly-anticipated publications on the state of the web, chock-full of well-documented findings about millions of live websites — 17.2 million in this edition! — from page content, to performance, to accessibility, to UX, to… well, let’s just get to it.