Sometimes, the best inspiration lies right in front of us. With that in mind, we embarked on our [wallpapers adventure](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/wallpapers) more than 14 years ago....

Over the last two years, my team at [Work & Co](https://work.co/) and I have been testing out and gradually integrating AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT to help us ship web...

[I recently wrote for Smashing Magazine](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/12/the-design-leader-dilemma/) about how UX leaders face increasing pressure to deliver more with limited resources. L...

Animating from and to display: none; was something we could only achieve with JavaScript to change classes or create other hacks. The reason why we couldn’t do this in CSS is explained in the new [...

Svelte occupies a curious space within the web development world. It’s been around in one form or another for eight years now, and despite being used by the likes of Apple, Spotify, IKEA, and the N...

Have you ever set z-index: 99999 on an element in your CSS, and it doesn’t come out on top of other elements? A value that large should easily place that element visually on top of anything else, a...

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It’s 2026\. We are operating in an era of incredible technological leaps, where advanced tooling and AI-enhanced workflows have fundamentally transformed how we design, build, and bridge the gap be...

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’...

It’s not too far-fetched to say AI is a pretty handy tool that we all rely on for everyday tasks. It handles tasks like recognizing faces, understanding or cloning speech, analyzing large data, and...

I’ve recently refreshed the animated graphics on [my website](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/) with a new theme and a group of pioneering characters, putting into practice plenty of the techniques ...

Illustration has been used for 10,000 years. One of the first ever recorded drawings was of a hand silhouette found in [Spain](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-paintings-of-...

As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year ahead. And as I speak with colleagues and friends at the time, i...

As expected from anyone who has ever tried building anything solo, my goal was not to build an app but _the_ app — the one app that’s so good you wonder how you ever survived without it. I had ever...

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The list of attributes available in HTML is long and well-documented. Even if you haven’t memorized them (and there’s totally nothing wrong with an author… er… random person off the street, who has...

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Has work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite the same anymore. Maybe the work has become too routine, or ...

In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much public attention so quickly is that the term becomes ambiguou...