Category: Coding

Web Privacy Guide: What Identity Resolution Means for Websites

Web Privacy Guide: What Identity Resolution Means for Websites

For years, the conversation around web tracking revolved around cookies. Third-party cookies were blocked. Browsers introduced storage partitioning. Fingerprinting became a bigger privacy concern. Developers adjusted analytics and advertising systems around a web where the old tracking model was becoming harder to use. But there is another identifier a browser cannot simply delete. Your email […]

Oct 26, 2026 12 min read
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PHP Critical RCE Fix: What Website Owners Must Do Now

PHP Critical RCE Fix: What Website Owners Must Do Now

There is a question worth answering before touching a PHP server after a critical security release: Which PHP process is serving the website? Not which PHP version was installed last month. Not which version appears in a hosting dashboard. Not even necessarily the version returned by php -v. The important one is the runtime that […]

Oct 22, 2026 10 min read
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WordPress 7.1.3 Security: What Site Owners Should Check

WordPress 7.1.3 Security: What Site Owners Should Check

A WordPress security update can be easy to underestimate. The dashboard shows a new version. You click Update Now. A few seconds later, the notification disappears and the site looks exactly as it did before. That is usually the goal. But WordPress 7.1.3 is not an update worth treating as routine maintenance. It is a […]

Oct 20, 2026 10 min read
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CSS Typed Arithmetic: How calc() Works in Modern CSS

CSS Typed Arithmetic: How calc() Works in Modern CSS

CSS has been getting better at doing things that once felt like they belonged in JavaScript. We already use calc() for responsive widths, spacing, positioning, and typography. But there has always been an awkward boundary around CSS math: values have types, units matter, and some calculations simply could not be expressed directly. Typed arithmetic changes […]

Oct 20, 2026 11 min read
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Accessible Web Forms: 7 Mistakes Designers Should Avoid

Accessible Web Forms: 7 Mistakes Designers Should Avoid

A form can look perfectly polished and still be difficult to use. The fields line up. The spacing feels balanced. The button has the right color. The validation animation looks great. Then someone tries to complete it without a mouse. Or with a screen reader. Or after zooming the page to 200%. Or simply after […]

Oct 19, 2026 12 min read
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JPEG XL for Web Images: Is It Finally Worth Using?

JPEG XL for Web Images: Is It Finally Worth Using?

For years, JPEG XL has occupied an awkward position in web development. The format had an impressive feature set. It could compress photographs efficiently, preserve images losslessly, handle HDR and wide color, progressively decode large images, and even losslessly transcode existing JPEG files. On paper, it looked like exactly the kind of format the modern […]

Oct 16, 2026 11 min read
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Figma Specs Guide: Give AI Agents Your Design Rules

Figma Specs Guide: Give AI Agents Your Design Rules

AI can look at a design and produce something that seems convincing in seconds. That is also the problem. A generated interface can have the right buttons, the right layout, and even the right brand colors while quietly breaking the rules that make a product feel consistent. Maybe the spacing is wrong. Maybe a destructive […]

Oct 16, 2026 11 min read
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CSS progress() Guide: Build Responsive UI Without JavaScript

CSS progress() Guide: Build Responsive UI Without JavaScript

There is a particular kind of JavaScript code that feels necessary until you look at what it is actually doing. Read a value.Compare it with a minimum and maximum.Turn the result into a percentage.Use that percentage to change a width, opacity, size, or color. If that is the whole job, the browser does not always […]

Oct 15, 2026 11 min read
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CSS Anchor Positioning Guide: Build Tooltips Without JavaScript

CSS Anchor Positioning Guide: Build Tooltips Without JavaScript

A tooltip should not be a difficult component. You have a button. You have a small box of information. The box needs to stay near the button. Simple. Yet for years, that little relationship has often pushed frontend developers toward JavaScript. Once the page starts scrolling, the viewport changes, or the button gets close to […]

Oct 13, 2026 15 min read
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Shopify Script Tags Are Ending: What Developers Need to Know

Shopify Script Tags Are Ending: What Developers Need to Know

If your Shopify app still relies on ScriptTags to load JavaScript on a storefront, there is a migration you should already be working on. The confusing part is that an existing integration may still appear completely healthy. That does not mean it is safe. Shopify stopped allowing apps to create or update storefront ScriptTags on […]

Oct 13, 2026 12 min read
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