All entries filed under Web Development
CSS in 2026 is the best version of itself it has ever been. Most of the workarounds we accumulated through the 2010s — the SCSS variables, the PostCSS plugins, the CSS-in-JS libraries, the utility-class abstractions — have native equivalent…
Cloudflare Pages is now our default static host. It has been for about eighteen months. The tooling settled, the edge story matured, and the price for serious traffic is still — improbably — zero. This is the workflow we use for production …
The choice used to be simple: code ran on a server. Then it ran on a fleet of servers. Then it ran on serverless functions in one region. Now, in 2026, "where does the code run" is a real architectural decision with three credible answers —…
Python is, by most measures, the most-used programming language in the world in 2026. That was a defensible claim five years ago and it is a stronger one now. The growth has not slowed — it has compounded, fed by AI, data, automation, and a…
Two services need to talk. They might be in different languages, different organisations, different decades. The history of web services is a history of agreeing on a contract — and the agreement has shifted shape several times. In 2026 we …
The link-building advice of 2015 reads, in 2026, like a manual for a different internet. Guest posts on low-quality blogs, directory submissions, blog comment links — Google has been ignoring or actively penalising most of this for nearly a…