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February 15, 2026
AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible
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…
February 17, 2026
Magic
I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of…
February 14, 2026
The Good & Not Good
I’ve spent more time with religious people in the last year than perhaps I have in my whole life. It’s got me thinking about religion with more curiosity than I ever have. So I’m having what are probably middle-school level thoughts. I’ve forever identified as agnostic, likely because that’s how…
February 9, 2026
Background Patterns with CSS `corner-radius`
The corner-shape property in CSS can do some neat designs. Things like vintage tickets, with corners trimmed inwards, sci-fi corners, tags, and those types of designs are usually comes to mind when we think of the CSS property corner-shape. There are a variety of nice primitive keywords we get with corner-shape,…
February 6, 2026
Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…
February 3, 2026
Super Simple Sidenotes
I never bothered to document how I do sidenotes because they’re basically a simplified version of other implementations. But several people have asked about them, so in the spirit of sharing, here are my Super Simple Sidenotes. No javascript, just html and css. To figure these out, I referred to…
January 27, 2026
More invoker commands, and more reasons not to use JavaScript please
The rule of least power on the web incentivised using HTML before reaching for CSS, CSS before JavaScript, and bashing it into the JS script as a last resort. Every time the web ships new features that let us shift the implementation left on the stack, I’m excited about it….
Whilst I was working on my last article about the new inherit() CSS function I looked at how we could use this to help simplify the border radius of child elements based on what the parent element had. But, I’d completely forgot about it when I started to write that…
January 21, 2026
Moving Away From U.S. Services: A Few Favorites
On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.
January 23, 2026
Barriers from Links with ARIA
Today Temani Afif asked a question: Are the below codes equivalent if we consider all the aspects? (a11y, semantic, something else maybe?) If not, what is missing (or should be changed) in the second code