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  1. A quick guide to creating syndication feeds

    RSS and syndication are the backbone of the web and have outlived many cycles of the tech industry. There's never been a better time to properly syndicate your content either, so Declan is here to give you a high level tour of your options.

    Content syndication

  2. Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good

    This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job.

    Accessibility

  3. Building dynamic toggletips using anchored container queries

    Anchored container queries are only available in Chrome 143 upwards right now, but here’s Daniel Schwarz to show you how to use progressive enhancement to build up to using that new capability in the context of position-aware toggle tips.

    CSS

  4. Finding an accessibility-first culture in npmx

    Today is the alpha release of npmx — an alternative browser for the npm registry. Abbey Perini joined early and soon discovered accessibility was a deep part of the culture, right from the start, which was both refreshing and incredibly productive.

    Accessibility

  5. A 2026 Piccalilli homepage redesign

    We've got a brand new homepage that communicates exactly what we're about at Piccalilli: providing really high quality educational material for humans, written by humans to boost their career.

    Announcements

  6. An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS

    Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level.

    CSS

  7. You might not need role="presentation"

    Steve Frenzel shares some sage advice on correctly using this role and value combination by showing questionable examples, followed by some better approaches. Spoiler: the better ones are the simple ones.

    Accessibility

  8. It’s about to get a lot easier for your JavaScript to clean up after itself

    There’s some very useful capabilities coming to JavaScript: “[Symbol.dispose]()” and “using”. Mat Marquis is here to explain why they’re coming and how to use them effectively.

    JavaScript

  9. The open source design stack

    Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you.

    Design

  10. Some CSS only contrast options until contrast-color() is Baseline widely available

    While we wait for contrast-color() to arrive in all browsers, these CSS-only approaches by Donnie D’Amato give us a practical way forward that we can use right now, along with lots of other knowledge on how colour works in CSS.

    CSS