- How AI Can Help You Document Your WordPress Projects
Sonntag 16:05 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Struggling to keep WordPress project notes up to date? We take a look at how AI can document code changes, explain features, store key details, and help build a system for ongoing project records.
The post How AI Can Help You Document Your WordPress Projects appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Freitag 20:54 – Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can’t Vibe Code Love. It’s such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted:Hey Jeff,Hope you and your family are doing well. - 80+ Best Free After Effects Templates in 2026
Freitag 20:14 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Download free After Effects templates for titles, logo reveals, intros, slideshows, lower thirds, animated fonts, icons, and video projects.
The post 80+ Best Free After Effects Templates in 2026 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
Mittwoch 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container queries help reusable components respond naturally to the contexts in which they appear. – CSS – Tools – Techniques - Are Browser-Based Apps Enough for Web Designers?
Sonntag 19:09 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Browser-based apps can now handle serious design, editing, and productivity work. We take a look at their convenience, collaboration benefits, privacy risks, and where desktop tools still make sense.
The post Are Browser-Based Apps Enough for Web Designers? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Strong UX ideas do not secure investment on their own. Through a worked example, Alex Williams breaks down how to define business value, calculate costs, test causality, and build a credible case for the return on a design initiative. – UX – Design – Business - 20+ Best Free Fonts Perfect for Art Deco-Inspired Designs
Freitag 7:15 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Are you looking for the perfect free Art Deco font? We have both serif and sans-serif variants, and all will add a touch of elegance to your project.
The post 20+ Best Free Fonts Perfect for Art Deco-Inspired Designs appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
Mittwoch 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
TThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences. - 25+ Best Free DaVinci Resolve Templates in 2026
Freitag 15:36 – Andrew Childress at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Save time on video editing with these free DaVinci Resolve templates. Includes ready-to-use designs for intros, titles, transitions, and more.
The post 25+ Best Free DaVinci Resolve Templates in 2026 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - 20+ Best Free Lightroom Mobile Presets for Photographers
Freitag 11:19 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A stunning collection of free presets for Lightroom Mobile that will allow you to improve your mobile photos with just a few clicks.
The post 20+ Best Free Lightroom Mobile Presets for Photographers appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - 20+ Best Free Resume Templates for Creatives in 2026
Donnerstag 5:43 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Get noticed by potential employers with these professionally designed resume templates for creatives. Download them for free and land you your dream job.
The post 20+ Best Free Resume Templates for Creatives in 2026 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - Can You Really Replicate Your Favorite SaaS With AI?
Mittwoch 18:29 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
AI makes it easier to recreate parts of SaaS apps, but building a useful tool takes more than generated code. This article covers scope, integrations, data ownership, and maintenance.
The post Can You Really Replicate Your Favorite SaaS With AI? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers
Montag 15:12 – Lee Meyer at CSS-Tricks
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers.Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More
Montag 14:08 – Daniel Schwarz at CSS-Tricks
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so.What’s !important #18: , Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - The Many Faces Of September (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Montag 11:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? Whether you’re holding tightly onto summer or eagerly awaiting autumn, we’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy! - You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
Montag 4:35 – Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror
About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the contingency that - Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API
Donnerstag 14:41 – Daniel Schwarz at CSS-Tricks
The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into it.Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - animation-trigger
Mittwoch 15:38 – Saleh Mubashar at CSS-Tricks
The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs.animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
Mittwoch 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring structured UX thinking to dashboards and data presentations, from the questions you ask before opening any tool to the decisions that determine whether an insight actually lands. - The Best WordPress Hosting in 2026
Mittwoch 9:25 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Compare the best WordPress hosting providers for 2026, including pricing, performance, tools, support, and options for different types of sites.
The post The Best WordPress Hosting in 2026 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - 6 Best WordPress Plugins for Improving Website Accessibility in 2026
Dienstag 17:09 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
We have a fantastic collection of WordPress plugins and tools to help you overcome the challenges that come along with website accessibility.
The post 6 Best WordPress Plugins for Improving Website Accessibility in 2026 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine. - MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter
Dienstag 14:10 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave.MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
Dienstag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way. - WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
Montag 13:54 – Fränk Klein at CSS-Tricks
Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP.WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector
Freitag 15:13 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
A newly resolved proposal would allow us to select classes that are a prefix for variations with a wildcard, like .prefix-*.Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
Donnerstag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside „ tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript. - CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days
Mittwoch 14:44 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it’d make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript.CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - WordPress.com Student Plan
Mittwoch 8:50 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though.WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
Montag 14:15 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Lea’s pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system.Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More
Freitag 14:01 – Daniel Schwarz at CSS-Tricks
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff.What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
Donnerstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products. - Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
Mittwoch 13:43 – Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar at CSS-Tricks
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you’ve probably seen are wrong. Here’s what you can do instead to properly fix the issue.Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion. - Animating CSS border-image
Montag 15:58 – Preethi at CSS-Tricks
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects.Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10
Montag 15:57 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10.SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. - Using and Styling the Dialog Element
Freitag 14:06 – Geoff Graham at CSS-Tricks
There’s a lot of nuance to the - How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you. - Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Freitag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got you covered! - The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
Mittwoch 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act. - Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.