The performance budget
A number, agreed in advance, that fails the build. The only mechanism that has ever kept a system fast.
#frontend
12 pieces tagged frontend,
from February 7, 2025 to July 27, 2026.
The crawler tolls, one year on
Default blocking and pay-per-crawl changed who can read the web. An assessment of what actually happened.
I/O 2026 and the assistant that lives in everything
More model, more surfaces, and a search product that keeps changing what the web is for.
Accessibility is a testing problem
Most accessibility failures are mechanical and catchable. Treating it as a specialist concern is why it doesn't get fixed.
Passkeys mostly won and nobody noticed
Phishing-resistant authentication is now the default on major platforms. The remaining problem is account recovery.
HTTP/3 and QUIC, five years in
It shipped, it works, most of the web uses it, and almost nobody understands what changed. A practical review.
The 2026 web platform baseline
Container queries, :has(), view transitions, popover, anchor positioning. The polyfill era is over for real this time.
SQLite in the browser and the end of the API round trip
A real relational database in WebAssembly with durable storage. What it makes possible and what it breaks.
The component model and the plugin problem
WebAssembly's most important feature isn't running fast in a browser. It's letting you run someone else's code safely.
Cloudflare flips the default and starts charging crawlers
AI bots blocked unless allowed, plus a marketplace for per-crawl payment. A fifth of the web changes its robots policy at once.
Chrome keeps third-party cookies after all
Five years, a Privacy Sandbox, a regulatory process, and the answer is: nothing changes.
Chrome finishes off Manifest V2
The extension platform migration everyone fought about for six years reaches its end state.