What Happens When AI Becomes the Buyer?
AI agents are moving beyond assisting with purchases to making them, raising new questions about trust, marketing,…
Merchantee targets Poland and Germany
Agentic marketplace intelligence company Merchantee has raised 1.8 million euros in a funding round. With the capital…
AI Buying Agents Raise New Accountability Questions
Earlier this year, eBay updated its user agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and…
Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions
I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with…
Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View Transitions
I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with…
5 Content Marketing Ideas for July 2026
From America’s 250th birthday to back-to-school preparation, July 2026 offers plenty for content marketers seeking to connect…
Isklad: ‘Selling in CEE comes with different customer needs’
Western European online sellers expanding into Central and Eastern Europe often underestimate how different customer expectations are…
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she…
Belgian ecommerce worth 18 billion euros
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 18.3 billion euros online. Compared to a year earlier, this is an…
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript!
Recently, Juan Diego Rodríguez published an excellent article exploring how far CSS can be pushed to build a semantic…
Better Product Images Build Buyer Trust in Resale Marketplaces
As resale marketplaces grow, a platform’s ability to process and verify visuals at the point of upload…
Cautious Shoppers Reward Clear Value
Recent quarterly earnings reports from Walmart, Costco, and Dollar Tree suggest that consumers are still spending, but…
Creating a VCF Workload Domain Fails
VCF June 4, 2026 Creating a VCF Workload Domain Fails Read moreDrupal 8.8.0 is available Not enough…
offset-path
The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation. This…
@custom-media
The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries. This is particularly valuable if you have…
@function
The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can…
Why European Ecommerce Fails in the U.S.
Growing up and working in Europe taught me an important lesson about ecommerce: what succeeds there often…
::search-text
The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects matching text from your browser’s “find in page” feature. For example, if you use…
Amazon invested 17 billion euros in UK
Last year, ecommerce giant Amazon invested more than 17 billion euros (15 billion British pounds) in the…
TikTok Shop evolves into a pan-European marketplace
TikTok Shop is expanding rapidly across Europe. On June 15, the platform will launch in Austria, Belgium,…
Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in…
FAQs for Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’
Google’s recently announced “preferred sources” feature is not exactly new. The feature, which allows searchers to designate…
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new…
Zalando partners with Vestiaire Collective
Online fashion platform Zalando has partnered with French second-hand platform Vestiaire Collective. The partnership is an effort…