Smashing Animations Part 6: Magnificent SVGs With `<use>` And CSS Custom Properties

SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke e...

Six Key Components of UX Strategy

Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achi...

[Paper Analysis] The Free Transformer (and some Variational Autoencoder stuff)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17558 Abstract: We propose an extension of the decoder Transformer that conditions its generative process on random latent...

Code like a surgeon

The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advoc...

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads...

React Foundation: Solving Reacts Existential Problems

React's new Foundation is how we solve the existential issues that React has had since its beginnings. Foundation blog entry: https://react.dev/blog/2...

I Used to Hate Typescript

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Ken...

Optional Chaining in JavaScript

CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox

Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing acti...

How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

JSON.stringify is a core JavaScript function for serializing data. Its performance directly affects common operations across the web, from serializing...

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design pro...

Speculative Optimizations for WebAssembly using Deopts and Inlining

In this blog post, we explain two optimizations for WebAssembly that we recently implemented in V8 and that shipped with Google Chrome M137, namely sp...

Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup with Explicit Compile Hints

Getting JavaScript running fast is key for a responsive web app. Even with V8's advanced optimizations, parsing and compiling critical JavaScript duri...

From Beta to Bedrock: Build Products that Stick.

As a product builder over too many years to mention, I've lost count of the number of times I've seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few we...

Improving Firefox Stability in the Enterprise by Reducing DLL Injection

Beginning in version 138, Firefox will offer an alternative to DLL injection for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) deployments in enterprise environments. DL...

Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes

V8’s end-tier optimizing compiler, Turbofan, is famously one of the few large-scale production compilers to use Sea of Nodes (SoN). However, since alm...

Easy way to upload, transform and deliver files and images (Sponsored)

Managing media is a really difficult task if you try to do all of it yourself, especially if the media comes from other sources. The file can be submi...

Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers

At V8, we're constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently revisited the JetStream2 benchmark suite to el...

Launching Interop 2025

Interop 2025 continues the mission to make the web more consistent across browsers, building on 2024’s 95% interoperability score. This year, 19 focus...