I’ve read the entire internet so you don’t have to and here’s some links I found. Is this the start of a newsletter? 🤷‍♂️ I tried this two years ago. Anyways. Here’s some links.

Web platform news

• CSS Working Group resolved to add Mixins - Styles, now even more reusable
• CustomStateSet merged in HTML - Add your own pseudo-classes to custom elements like my-switch:state(flipped)
• EditContext - Microsoft is working on making contenteditable useful
• Syntax Highlighting with the Custom Highlights API - Bramus shows how to highlight code using without all the extra spans
• Apple removes Home Screen web apps in the EU - Apple nerfing PWAs as a part of their malicious compliance to the EU’s new Digital Markets Act

Prototyping

• De-stress Your Creative Process (With This Classical Practice) [Video] (23mins)
• The Bite - If you know, you know.

Impressive demos

• Make some hacky noise with CSS Gradients - Adam Argyle pulls off a cool CSS trick.
• Markdown CSS Framework [CW: Cursed] - Alex Riviere implements markdown in a CSS utility classes.
• half-light.js - Brian Kardell is experimenting with allowing styles to pierce the Shadow DOM. Rob Eisenberg also suggests using a little JS to setup adoptedStylesheets.
• Lenticular Photos - Jonathan Snook made photos come alive in your hand. (Demo)
• Web Components + WebGL Shaders by Karsten Schmidt
• Pong Wars - A hypnotizing visualization by Koen van Gilst (inspired by Nicolas Daniel)

Good reads

• The Great Fiction of AI - This is the best The Verge article I’ve read in awhile. I won’t stop talking about it.
• I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind by Triple Threat Josh Collinsworth
• Have we forgotten how to build ethical things for the web? by Nic Chan
• They’re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bissom (1991)
• The Websites vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist by Jake Lazaroff
• Is software getting worse? (Stackoverflow)