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The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200

For more than 15 years already, our monthly wallpapers series has been the perfect opportunity for creatives of all backgrounds to put their skills to the test. You don’t have to meet stakeholder or client requirements; for a change, it’s just you, exploring your ideas and bringing them to life in your own, unique style. Since we first embarked on this wallpapers journey, so many talented folks from all across the globe have accepted the challenge, and this September is no exception.

Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200

In organisations today, data has never been more available. Dashboards and performance decks exist for almost every function — sales, product, marketing, operations — and the tools to build them have never been more accessible. And yet, in weekly standups and quarterly reviews, the same thing happens constantly: someone shares the numbers, the room nods, and the meeting ends without a decision or clear direction.
When that happens, the data usually takes the blame. The numbers weren&

Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200

This article is a sponsored by Fimo
Every website is at its best the day it ships. The final branch merges, the site goes live exactly as designed, and it is briefly perfect. It will never be this good again.
Not because anything breaks. The site keeps working. But the market moves, the messaging shifts, a competitor launches something, and the careful thing you built slowly stops matching the company it represents. A year later, it is a period piece. Not broken, just behind. Every team knows th

Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200

We know that everything on the web is a box by default, but you’ll find many animated

s pretending to be circles. But if you’ve ever met a real , you’ll know that they’ve got a lot more going for them. Dressed in SVG, they fit into a wider range of crowds than a humble

wearing HTML/CSS can. has a strict no .html policy.
The tag is not as static as its name suggests. Any embedded JavaScript unfortunately won&rsqu

New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200

There’s been a lot of confusion and panic this week about “huge fines”, “drastic measures” and “sweeping new AI rules” in the EU. In reality, it’s a lot more narrow — and a lot more sensible. And mostly it’s about making AI more obvious when it actually needs to be obvious — especially for AI-generated content.
Starting from Aug 2, 2026, AI labelling is a legal requirement for any company that serves EU citizens. And similar to Eu

Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200

This article is a sponsored by Isadora Agency
When front-end developers and UX engineers are tasked with building a web interface that feels tactile, bouncy, or destructive, the industry instinct is almost always the same: reach for a physics engine. Frameworks like Matter.js, Cannon.js, or custom WebGL solutions have become the gold standard for creating immersive, gamified websites.
When our team at Isadora Agency set out to build Stress Release, a digital stress-relief squeeze toy designed to

How to Add HTTP Password on an Astro Site

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200

So you just built a site with Astro, and now you need to lock it down. Maybe it is a work-in-progress for a client, or an internal tool you do not want indexed by search engines.
You could set up a VPN, configure nginx auth, or install an npm package. But those add complexity, extra config files, and more things that can break.
Astro has a built-in middleware system that runs whenever a page or endpoint is rendered, and HTTP Basic Authentication is a standard HTTP feature supported by every brow

How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200

Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and we move on. But the web platform keeps moving too, and a surprising number of the libraries sitting in your package.json today are now built into the browser.
In a typical mid-sized JavaScript app, you can often find somewhere between 60KB and 90KB (minified and gzipped) of dependencies that the platform can now handle on its own. Date and number formatting, HTTP requests, modals, tooltips, deep

Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens, right? To provide you with inspiring designs on a regular basis, we started our monthly wallpapers series more than 15 years ago, and from the very beginning to today, artists and designers from across the globe have tickled their creativity and contributed their artworks to it.This August is no exception, of course, so following our monthly tradition, we have a new collection of wallpapers waiting for you below

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (July 2026)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:00:00 +0200

July has been a busy month for new tools. This batch runs from AI agent evaluations and what AI agent skills actually do to self-hosted SSO, a PHP compiler that outputs native assembly, and a terminal app that speaks SCP, SFTP, S3, and half a dozen more protocols. If you are building apps, websites, or simply exploring what is new this month, I think you will find something worth your time here.
Codiff
Codiff is a fast, minimal diff viewer for reviewing Git changes outside your editor. It genera

The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200

Designers have spent years saying they would do better work if the organisation got out of the way. Not always in those exact words, obviously. It usually comes out as something more reasonable: we didn’t get enough engineering time, product had already decided the solution, the roadmap was too packed, leadership only cared about this quarter’s numbers, research got cut, the experiment was never run properly, the design debt was known about, but nobody wanted to spend a sprint fixing

Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

This article is a sponsored by MacPaw
The phrase “artificial intelligence” has many excited, especially those in tech. But for those of us in creative fields like digital art and design, AI can be more concerning than it is exciting.
AI-generated art, videos, and images have flooded the internet, raising questions about whether more companies will turn to tools like OpenAI’s Dall-E, Midjourney, Leonardo.ai, and more, rather than employing human artists. What’s more, the f

Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

React Server Components don’t send HTML to your browser. They don’t send JSON either. When a server component renders, what actually travels over the wire is a custom streaming protocol called Flight. It’s a line-delimited format with its own type system, its own reference resolution, and its own rules for reconstructing executable behavior on the client.
Most React developers have never opened the Network tab and actually looked at a Flight payload. It looks like a mix of JSON

Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200

We’ve all heard of the sacred rule in modern web development, the rule never to be broken. The rule of “Never block the main thread.”
You almost can’t miss it as a web developer; it’s in almost every performance guide, and to be fair, it is good advice. We all know the browser’s main thread is single-threaded, meaning it can only do one thing at a time.
Plus, as we know, the main thread isn’t ours alone; we share it with the browser’s rendering eng

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200

No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

Many companies silently assume that everybody wants more AI in their lives. That people are craving new AI features, new AI products, new AI workflows — that would all magically replace all existing outdated practices and broken ways of working.
But in reality, it seems like people don’t want more AI at all — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Unsurprisingly, many AI features have low adoption and retention — at a very high cost of delivery, and a high r

No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When a branding project fails, it usually happens long before the logo stage: in the strategy phase, when words like “modern,” “trustworthy,” “premium,” “friendly,” and “disruptive” are left undefined. The result is a gap between what the brand is supposed to communicate and what the designer is expected to create. This is the space I like to call the “pre-concept” phase.
At the beginning of a project, designers usually rece

From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200