How do you know that you can trust someone? I struggle to answer this question objectively because trust feels like such a subjective matter. Some people just don't "sit right with me," and that's okay. I also can't expect that I'm trusted and liked by everyone. That's okay, too. But why is it so ha...

Here's a quick and handy addition to the Firefox DevTools. Whenever you debug CSS that's full of CSS variables, it becomes annoyingly hard to parse everything going on in the DevTools because the custom properties are cluttering :root or * or whatever. Firefox 145 (released Nov 11, 2025) now added a...

Jim is, as always, on point. My desire to give you constructive feedback is in direct correlation to your effort to care — about your communications, about what you ship, even about what you don't ship. Shipping something unfinished, half-assed or broken to "gather feedback" just won't do any good....

Frohes Neues! 👋 Do you wonder what the final masonry CSS syntax will look like? Do you use the dialog element to its fullest potential? And are you excited about CSS @scope entering baseline? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some answers below. Enjoy! Mohamed listens to LAW NASYANY and says: I...

Node.js continues to follow the lead of competing runtimes and implements more and more userland features. Loading .env files was one of these features that's been solved in userland (dotenv has 46m weekly downloads) since I started writing Node.js code almost 15 years ago. Today I learned that Node...

I just stumbled over this package: @pierre/diffs. @pierre/diffs is an open source diff and code rendering library. It's built on Shiki for syntax highlighting and theming, is super customizable, and comes packed with features. The package just hit v1 and seems to be pretty new. The docs live on diff...

I've been working on the new Web Weekly website and implemented the fairly new View Transition Types to trigger different view transitions depending on specific actions. I discovered that the usual feature detection doesn't work. Let's dive in! View Transitions support is still fairly new across bro...

Simon Willison published "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work". It frustrates me that the developer community is at a point in which posts like this need to be written, but let me share some highlights. [Coworkers submitting huge untested PRs is] a dereliction of duty as a software d...

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Do you preload your responsive images? Have you heard of the new text-grow CSS property? And do you know that the strong HTML element isn't really announced by screen readers? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some answers below. Enjoy! Paweł listens to "Nightmares On Wax...