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The latest SEO fad is the idea that websites need a machine-only version. Strip out the layout, remove the “noise”, and hand LLMs a simplified view of your content. The pitch is always framed as pragmatic. Modern websites are bloated. LLMs don’t need the design. They just want the content….

At the end of 2025, Firefox added the CSS @scope rule – making the new feature available across all major browsers! Since Chris Coyier has done a fair amount of writing and speaking on the topic, we wanted to talk with him about what that means. Chris has also been…

This first rule of styling lists is that they should be treated with the same reverence you would show any other text. If a list is inserted within a passage of text, treat it as a continuation and integral part of that text. For bulleted or unordered lists, use padding…

I’m sure you’ve heard of streaks or used an app with one. But ever wondered why streaks are so popular and powerful? Well, there is the obvious one that apps want as much of your attention as possible, but aside from that, did you know that when the popular learning…

AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible I was joking with a colleague that the most highly prized skill of a product designer might soon be writing a well-structured Markdown file. If you work in a large product org, you’re watching agentic AI creep into every aspect of the product…

I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of…

I’ve spent more time with religious people in the last year than perhaps I have in my whole life. It’s got me thinking about religion with more curiosity than I ever have. So I’m having what are probably middle-school level thoughts. I’ve forever identified as agnostic, likely because that’s how…

The corner-shape property in CSS can do some neat designs. Things like vintage tickets, with corners trimmed inwards, sci-fi corners, tags, and those types of designs are usually comes to mind when we think of the CSS property corner-shape. There are a variety of nice primitive keywords we get with corner-shape,…

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…

I never bothered to document how I do sidenotes because they’re basically a simplified version of other implementations. But several people have asked about them, so in the spirit of sharing, here are my Super Simple Sidenotes. No javascript, just html and css. To figure these out, I referred to…