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aboard-io/tinylittleoffice: A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:32:02 +0000

A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.

Tags: #nifty #office #tools #web #webdev

Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them? | Read the Tea Leaves

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:04:49 +0000

So whatever happens to web components in the future, and regardless of whether web developers ignore them, forget them, celebrate their demise, or write them off entirely, nothing can take this victory away from them. They are woven into the texture of the web platform in a way that can never be undone. For me, this makes me happy even if I never write another web component again.

Tags: #webcomponents #webdev

Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? | Read the Tea Leaves

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:31:48 +0000

The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it for you? Whatever you build, it’s likely to have poorer performance and worse usability than something the browser could just give you out-of-the-box.

Tags: #web #webdev

OpenSeadragon

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:26:53 +0000

An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile.

Tags: #nifty #webdev

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts | Vale.Rocks

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:41:46 +0000

This article doesn’t cover once-specced but now obsolete bits of HTML but instead looks at all the snippets that have wormed their way into websites as result of, or in combat against, third-party integrations, browser competition, vendor extensions, and platform-specific hacks. The bits of HTML that were included for reasons, and which have been forgotten for present irrelevance. The snippets that live on only in the markup of sites from bygone eras and in the minds of those who fought during the browser wars.

Tags: #history #html #webdev

Pure CSS halftone patterns: dots, lines, circles

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:59:25 +0000

A project overdue. As an 80's/90's kid, I was obsessed with printing technology - and especially halftone patterns. I've long theorized that these pat

Tags: #css #nifty #webdev

The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development | Read the Tea Leaves

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:06:13 +0000

Meanwhile, Cursor and Viget have blogged about migrating their codebases from Solid and Lit, respectively, to React. Since rewrites are less expensive with agents, this may be a bit surprising: why not move to the more performant/less verbose framework? The answer (explicitly in Cursor’s case, and I suspect for Viget as well) is of course: “the agents know React.” For better or worse, React is heavily overrepresented in the training weights, and “agent experience” is starting to matter more than developer experience.

Tags: #agents #ai #llms #webdev

daijro/camoufox: 🦊 Anti-detect browser

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:34:12 +0000

Camoufox is an open source anti-detect browser built for webscraping & AI agents.

Tags: #agents #ai #browser #webdev

Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers | Cloudflare Blog

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:33:45 +0000

Kitesurf is significantly more efficient in CPU and memory consumption than Chromium for common agentic tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction. What follows is the story of how we built it. Buckle up, it’s going to get technical — but we promise to keep it interesting.

Tags: #agents #ai #browsers #webdev

h4ckf0r0day/obscura: The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:32:21 +0000

The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

Tags: #agents #browsers #webdev

How I make my blog posts more resilient | Michael Harley

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:33:39 +0000

In short, the parts of my old archived posts that survived 14 years were the ones I owned and kept simple; the parts that broke were the ones I outsourced to someone else's server.

Tags: #metablogging #webdev

Softcore First, Hardcore Eventually: A Ladder for the IndieWeb · brennan.day

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:07:56 +0000

"Hardcore" and "easy" IndieWeb aren't two camps you have to pick a side of. No, there are rungs on the ladder, and most people need to climb it, rather than getting dropped on whichever rung feels most ideologically pure and getting told to figure out the rest.

Tags: #indieweb #webdev

mutativejs/travels: A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:46:54 +0000

A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch

Tags: #javascript #webdev

Jelly UI — Soft Web Components

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:34:38 +0000

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile product interfaces. Real form controls meet soft-body physics, with dark mode, right-to-left support and WCAG AA color tokens built in.

Tags: #components #webdev

Firefox in WebAssembly

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:13:29 +0000

he Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab.

Tags: #firefox #wasm #webdev