A comprehensive guide to design system engineering (DSE): when it’s relevant, how AI changes things, and pointers for getting started. From Michael Abernethy, Principal Frontend Engineer at Rubrik

Software used to feel separate from us. It sat behind the glass, efficient and obedient. Then it fell into our hands. It became a thing we pinched, swiped, and tapped, each gesture rewiring how we think, feel, and connect. For an entire generation, the connection to software has turned the user experience into human experience.

Working solo is one of the benefits of being a freelance web designer. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or tracking every mouse click. That’s one reason why many of us choose this career path.

When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessarily the best programmers – they’re the ones who’ve figured out how to navigate everything around the code: the people, the politics, the alignment, the ambiguity.

Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface. The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude Code, but requires far less technical savvy to set up.

A deep dive into how Flim was built, breaking down the animations, interactions, and technical decisions behind a GSAP-powered Webflow experience.

Flowbite can be included as a plugin into an existing Tailwind CSS project and it is supposed to help you build websites faster by having a set of web components to work with built with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS.

Firefox 146 now supports @scope in CSS, joining Chrome and Safari, meaning that it’s now supported in all major web browsers, earning it the “Baseline: Newly Available” tag.

A tutorial showing how video pixels are voxelized in 3D and dropped into a physics-driven world using Three.js, shaders, and Rapier.

Working with forms in React is one of the most common frontend tasks — and one of the easiest places to accumulate technical debt. Before worrying about architecture, every developer has to understand the basics: how form events work, how values flow from inputs, and how React and TypeScript model those interactions.