The 2025 Web Almanac finds median Lighthouse accessibility scores hit 85% but color contrast still fails 69% of sites, TetraLogical debunks persistent WCAG misconceptions, and Daniel Yuschick demonstrates ARIA live regions over screen-reader linear navigation at NDC Copenhagen.
Cloudflare acquires The Astro Technology Company just as Astro 6 Beta lands with Cloudflare Workers support, Bun v1.3.6 delivers 3.5–20x performance wins across core APIs, and ESLint's 2025 review celebrates 65% download growth alongside multithreaded linting.
CSS's new scroll-state container queries and ::scroll-marker pseudo-elements replace entire JavaScript libraries, OKLCH relative colors automate SVG animation theming, and the customizable <select multiple> element debuts in Chrome Canary with appearance: base-select.
Penpot wires MCP into design workflows, TetraLogical and Deque reframe accessibility testing and ADA reform, and Dave Rupert pushes nested contrast-color() to its edge.
Kevin Powell builds smarter palettes with CSS relative colors and OKLCH, Miriam Suzanne resolves the fluid-typography vs. zoom tension, and a media-query-free hexagon grid shows off sibling-index().
Nicholas Zakas prescribes anomaly detection for npm after Shai-Hulud, Mozilla stakes out open-source AI, Shopify and Google launch the Universal Commerce Protocol, and deepfake hires become a breach vector.
Lea Verou dissects the web's broken dependency story, VoidZero's Oxlint reaches 8–12x type-aware linting, ESLint v10 enters RC, and Angular's DomPortal preserves component state across the DOM.
Addy Osmani maps the next two years of engineering, Polypane exposes vendor-backed browser APIs, Vitest projects and an AI e2e agent modernize testing, and ads get reframed as a performance budget.
Figma Make gets called the biggest UX/UI shift since Sketch, Ramp shows its prototype-first AI design process, and two strong accessibility reads cover deaf-inclusive design and touch targets.
Signals meet query-based compilers, require(esm) goes stable across Node.js LTS, Rspack 1.7 closes out the 1.x line, and two fresh React vulnerabilities demand a post-holiday audit.
CSS Anchor Positioning graduates to a real workflow in a two-part deep dive, ::scroll-marker enables zero-JS carousels, custom CSS functions arrive, and Kevin Powell wants you to simplify your grid.
Addy Osmani's 21 lessons from 14 years at Google lead a career-and-craft week: why bugs survive years of fuzzing, 37 frontend testing tips, DevTools habits worth building, and Syntax's 2026 predictions.