Joe Dakroub

Today I released transclude — an HTML-first server-side web framework. A page is one HTML file. Any element can be a URL. HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Custom Elements. Node, Bun, Deno & Workers. MIT licensed. transclude.dev #WebStandards #WebFrameworks #HTML #CSS #JavaScript

Blink: Intent to Implement and Ship: AccentColor/Text follows accent-color

"The native-first guidance was deliberate, an attempt to convince AI to reach for the platform before abstracting." Yes, because more abstractions means more complexity, more mess, and more tokens. Great take 👏 castastrophe.blog/blog/on-writ...

I've got web components implemented in isolated Wasm modules working today, including SSR! Now refining the JS ↔ Wasm protocol and hope to publish something very soon.

TIL you can use light-dark() with images

Soon it'll be easier to build custom apps on top of editable.website. Add custom code through defined interfaces, while still keeping your copy in sync with upstream Editable. There might still be conflicts to resolve, but they'll be less likely.

Happy to see CKEditor adding support for shadow DOM! www.thedroptimes.com/72872/ckedit...

Introducing tsrs: a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler 🦀 We are not forking TypeScript! ◆ In close collab with the TypeScript team ◆ Up to 8x faster than TS 7.0 & ~70% less memory ◆ Runs in WASM (works in your browser & workers) ◆ Soon part of Oxc npx tsrs blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-r...

I just shipped CSS Custom Highlight Universal Selector! Coming in Chrome 158. With ::highlight(*), you can write a shared rule that applies to every custom highlight instead of repeating the same styles for each name. See the Blog post: blog.seokho.dev/development/...

Better Icon and Label Alignment

"The tempting conclusion is that the alternative-runtime experiment is over & Node has won by default. In reality, the ecosystem has gotten the benefits Deno was pushing, just not from Deno itself." Thank you, Deno www.vlt.io/blog/competi...

Another `:scroll-*` demo — an interactive CSS solar system! 🪐 Advanced `attr()` pulls planet data to define orbits and speeds, while `::scroll-marker` brings the planets to life. Always fun to see what CSS can do! See the full demo on @codepen.io codepen.io/editor/cbols... #CSSOnly

From the unlimited MDN knowledge archive... Just a quick reminder: `::details-content` is a thing these days. https://developer.mozill...

Happy World Browser Day! I've long used "long live the web" as my motto/tagline, so today I published a blog post explaining what this phrase means to me: longlivetheweb.org/not-a-manife...

Web Awesome works in React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Rails, and that .html file from 2009 you're scared to open. They're web components. They don't care about your framework drama.

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Hey Japanese learners! I built a font that renders Furigana or Romaji on top of Kanji, with ligatures to support words. It can be applied everywhere to get furigana notations for free. Give it a try, and I hope it will be helpful :) furifont.antfu.me

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

Introducing Tiny Little Office tinylittleoffice.com?c=xdgpfud#/v...

A Web Awesome user created this Chrome extension that lets you inspect custom elements built with Lit 🔥 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lit-i...

Here's a funky learning from a couple of years ago: do you know that there's a `CSS` namespace in JavaScript that includes a method to `escape` CSS selectors? https://www.stefanjudis....

Aaron Seigo led the development of KDE Plasma and served as President of KDE e.V. Here he talks about why KDE, and free software more broadly, matters. Full documentary premieres October 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJuY...

🔥 New blog post: The best way to use icons in Web UIs What if I told you, you could use CSS to *insert* and *tweak* icons without touching any HTML? And that you can manage them alongside your other design tokens? lea.verou.me/blog/2026/ic...

@kevinpowell.co thanks for the shoutout in your newsletter about the potential of a #webcomponents conference! bsky.app/profile/mich... The unofficial planning committee is now Me @stuffbreaker.bsky.social @cory.laviska.com @zachleat.com check out the interest form! we’re still gathering data!

Definitely bummed by the Deno news but I also am an investor and supporter of Cloudflare, so I don't think it could have turned out any better. Looking forward to what comes of it!

I've been working towards a CSS-only sphere for years, and now I want to set it free (in #Saturn form 🪐) I added toggles so you can see what each layer contributes to the scene. Try it: codepen.io/alowpoly/pen...

This might be intense (or, intensely boring), but I wrote down everything I know about differences between Mac and PC keyboards today. It might be useful for people who design cross-platform apps, especially web apps! unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-...

Concurrent JavaScript, it works! Over the last couple of days I (Claude) have hacked on porffor.dev to add Threads! I've added concurrency primitives as described by Filip Pizlo here: webkit.org/blog/7846/co... You can play with in your browser at porffor-threads.up.railway.app/threads/play...

We're making the Cloudflare developer platform the best place to run JavaScript, anywhere. Big step toward that today: the Deno team is joining us to build what’s next. https://cfl.re/4rXMBKy

hey everyone here is a brand new totally free CC0 font for your collection please enjoy :) 12px height, contains latin extended, latin supplemental, gender symbols, maths symbols, cyrillic, runic, and probably more not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-seri...

Today at 15:50 CEST, our very own @mariospr.bsky.social presents a WPE 2.54 milestone: the new WPEPlatform API, now stable and the recommended way to use WPE in embedded products. Join us for a quick intro plus tips on building or migrating your apps to the new design! #OSSummit #EmbeddedLinux #WPE

📝 Really enjoyed this talk. Alex covers lots of great topics, like - When did “modernize” come to mean updating something that’s only ~5 years old? - Do technological choices have values tied to them? (Spoiler: they do) - HTML is amazing. My notes here: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/talk-no...

Explore the universe in 3D CSS. JavaScript is optional. Launching css.earth 🌍 🚀 #WorldSpaceWeek

Decentralized mesh networking (for messaging without internet or cell network): Meshtastic vs. MeshCore www.austinmesh.org/about/meshco...

Okay, here's some more fun with CSS-only custom elements - layout components! #html #css #webcomponents dev.to/stuffbreaker...

eliminating xslt is a huge middle finger to the open web this is something that has worked reliably for 25 literal years i know because i have been using it for 25 literal years the rationale is "it's old", "less than 1% use it", and that there are vulns in the implementation

The more expensive everything gets, the more joy I take in rescuing or repairing stuff I already own. A recent example: tylersticka.com/journal/repu... #linux #mac #upcycling

Today Igalia turns 25. Ten engineers started it in A Coruña in 2001 with no investors and no managers. There are now close to 200 of us, and everything we build still goes upstream. igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...

What happens when browsers agree with each other, but disagree with the specification? A few days ago, my colleague @bkardell.com pointed out that this sometimes happens! You might expect us to fix the browsers. But sometimes, we change the specification instead. www.atbrakhi.dev/blog/browser...

We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator. https://cfl.re/4xNVnfe #BirthdayWeek

Just started digging into @wpewebkit.org over the past week. I've got a quick prototype of Linux booting and running Cog to display my own web view. Also excited about the @igalia.com and Wind River embedded web runtime. Is there code or a preview available for this?

This is a super special release of WPE! New WPEPlatform API that superseeds the good old libWPE + backends architecture, a new Skia-based compositor, lots of performance improvements, new documentation and tutorials... check it out! #wpe #webkit

<wa-combobox> can pull options from your server now! Set a dataSource callback, get debounced fetch + loading/error/empty slots, and improve performance by not shipping thousands of options in your DOM.

✍️ New Article: Detect when elements overlap with CSS Can CSS tell when two elements overlap? At first, I thought this was not possible, but it turned out it can be done with scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. ishadeed.com/article/css-...

Firefox's new design ships September 29. And did you know... The Firefox UI is built with Lit? A web browser built with web components! 🔥

giving old domains some use, we've published a basic site on ESM and how to migrate to it at esmodule.com if anyone wants to contrib a guide or improve one, please do! thanks to @iamstan.dev for putting the domain to good use 🙏

I'm a little late to the game, but happy 20 year anniversary to @developer.mozilla.org! I would be nothing without this website and frequently let anyone who will listen know that it is my favorite resource on the Web. 👏💗

Did you see the news about Safari 27.0, out this week? Safari MCP 844 resolved issues Customizable select (w/ new UA default styles) <model> on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS immersive environments on visionOS sizes="auto" for easier responsive lazy-loaded images width: stretch webkit.org/blog/18325/w...

I dug up a bunch of old book covers I re-created using HTML and Tachyons (CSS utility library that pre-dates Tailwind by 3 years) and converted them to run on my site today. Lot of fun seeing these almost 10 year-old creations running in my own framework. dakroub.co/log/book-cov...