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A very good looking proposal! patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

Good news is so rare now and this really is the good stuff. It's been a Weird Time™ for publishers but CSS-Tricks being back is only going to shift the momentum in the right direction.

If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...

This is just delightful. addy.zone/snail-racing

BBC News get a lot wrong, including their RSS feeds, so Dan has fixed that part at least. bbc-feeds.danq.dev

Nothing sounds good is a great service and they've expanded with this immense resource for finding gigs near you. nothingsoundsgood.club/gig-guide

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #203!

It’s been a long process but now, masonry layouts have an actual CSS approach, so Saleh Mubashar has put together a really useful guide on how it works, how we got here and what’s next.

The great folks at Calibre just don't miss. Another great deep-dive. calibreapp.com/blog/airline...

Thanks to the whole PHP thing, I can’t actually send out the latest issue of my typography newsletter to subscribers, but I *can* still publish it on my site, so here it is. And after the newsletter’s extended summer break, this issue’s a long one! New fonts, new events, new books. All type-tastic.

Yet again, the industry has been let down by DigitalOcean and their abandonment of CSS-Tricks. It's time to step up and protect publishers whose goal is simply, to educate and share knowledge. bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

We must never forget how lucky we are to have links. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ode-to-...

The Accessibility Compat Data project run by @lolaodelola.bsky.social is a vital and much-needed resource. Let's fund it. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/th...

This year’s FFConf is shaping up to be genuinely unmissable. So …um, you know …don’t miss it: https://2026.ffconf.org/ I’ll see you there! 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22807

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

You know us, if it's type scale related, we're interested. Donnie had a good follow-up article too. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/us...

Figured I might as well accept the fact that the video series has become a show with a set format and topic "Out of the Software Crisis: How do we get out of the political, economic, cultural, and societal crises caused by our current software industry?" www.youtube.com/show/VLPLDfn...

Rachel's newsletter is one of our all time favourites here. Great to see it back! rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

The "Every #FFConf speaker (we could find on BlueSky)" starter pack has been updated with our 2026 speakers go.bsky.app/QsJs5kh

An absolutely fascinating read with some delightful multi-media demos that really help you understand. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

This is exactly what we need to counter the great slopification of what used to be useful products. Calm, considered and above all, useful. Scott's written about the why here, too. mindfuldesign.xyz/products/

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #202!

There were already two ways to make a color transparent in CSS, color-mix() and relative colors, and both work great. So why did they add a third with the alpha() function, which recently hit Baseline Newly Available? youtu.be/Pfj9OmvqU0Q

We 💛 to hear this and can't wait to see more from @css-tricks.bsky.social!!

An extremely satisfying web-based game. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/wire-loop/

I strongly encourage everyone interested in web accessibility to read through the docs. It's so rare to see components with this much thought and actual testing put into them!

〰️ Wavy Progress Bar 〰️ Mapping a custom property to `shape()` using a custom function. All in #CSS!!! 🤯 Single div, using background gradients, and animation on the background position. 🔗 Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/amit_...

A really cool service for cataloging physical media. The bookshelves are really nicely done too. reelswap.net

This is a great piece. As we see it, the web — at large — always wins and those green shoots will come. michellebarker.co.uk/writing/litt...

Many devs are frustrated with management enforcing AI at work, especially when they're required to use it all the time. In a recent video I encouraged people to talk with their managers as much as they can about this, but the issue, at least in some places, is the mandate comes from the very top...

There are so many better options than Spotify for music and Elliot helpfully breaks plenty of options for you. elliotjaystocks.com/blog/spotify

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

A handy service that helps you explore music and find the best prices for vinyl. midnightvinylclub.com

An extremely lightweight syntax highlighter using the new ::highlight() functionality? Yes please! daverupert.com/2026/08/micr...

So much good stuff has arrived in HTML that gives us rich functionality for free and Chris helpfully breaks that down for us. chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-...

I'm really glad we're running this again. It helped us prioritise a lot of work this year. The previous method was 👍 on GitHub issues, which (imo) is too easily gamed, either intentionally or unintentionally.

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #201!

A good write-up on how annoying and harmful notifications are. dbushell.com/2026/08/20/r...

WDC2026 is tomorrow! @lurkmoophy.bsky.social and @alexolder.com are looking to see all you beautiful people in Bristol tomorrow! We have a great lineup of speakers who will be sharing their knowledge with us We will see you at the @wshed.bsky.social tomorrow! Doors open at 8:45! webdevconf.com

As Bramus says in the article, we can sort of do this already, but those substring selectors don't perform well. This new method is a very good improvement! www.bram.us/2026/08/20/t...

This is the stuff that's exciting about the AT protocol. Not the "new twitter" bullshit, but the endless possibilities that this technology opens up. It's using the fancy new private data stuff too. bulleted.app

After 7.5 months of tweaking, reviewing, and rewriting, the docs for Scroll-Triggered Animations have landed on @developer.mozilla.org (MDN)! → developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Congrats and thanks to Chris Mills and @estelle.bsky.social for their hard work and sweating the details on this!

The deep issue isn't that CSS-in-JS was always shite, it's that the epistemic rot has settled in so deeply that teams don't know how to evaluate engineering choices on any basis but GH stars and twitter clout. Or as @baldurbjarnason.com quipped, programming as pop culture.

Plenty of people will refuse to buy a product that used AI (whether as a feature or just a promo). But no one out there will refuse to buy it because there's no AI in it. The profitable choice is not to use AI.

when everyone can generate anything with a prompt, how do you stand out? most app promo videos I see are indistinguishable from each other (because they were likely made w/the same basic prompt) the only way to stand out is to care and to put actual effort into what you make. been true. still true

It's WDC2026 this Friday!! Tickets are just £99 and the schedule is live! webdevconf.com#schedule

We're only a handful of tickets to making it bigger than last year (which was our biggest year since I can't remember when). BUY BUY BUY

It's issue #200 of The Index! A real milestone that we should celebrate with a dedicated CSS links issue! Sponsored by our friends at Mozilla Festival. piccalil.li/the-index/200/

In this final lesson of the free to read Principles module from Complete CSS, @bell.bz breaks down why progressive enhancement is the foundation of building websites that actually work for everyone and without it, you're already losing piccalilli.link/cc-free-less...