New Ecommerce Tools: April 28, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for merchants includes updates on AI-powered advertising, video ad generators, shoppable…
Recreating Apple’s Vision Pro Animation in CSS
Apple’s product animations, particularly the scrolly teardowns (technical term), have always been inspiring. But these bleeding-edge animations…
A Well-Designed JavaScript Module System is Your First Architecture Decision
Writing large programs in JavaScript without modules would be pretty difficult. Imagine you only have the global…
How AI Is Changing Sales Teams Without Replacing Reps
Sales teams face a crossroads: one path sidelines reps with automation, while the other uses AI to…
Q&A with Claudia Pearson
We sat down with illustrator and textile designer Claudia Pearson to learn more about her eponymous and…
Selecting a Date Range in CSS
A date range selector lets users pick a time frame between a start and end date, which…
How to prepare your store for AI-driven commerce
The way people find products has a new channel. AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google’s AI Mode, Gemini,…
Alternatives to the !important Keyword
Every now and then, I stumble onto an old project of mine, or worse, someone else’s, and…
Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape()
Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such…
What’s !important #8: Light/Dark Favicons, @mixin, object-view-box, and More
Short n’ sweet but ever so neat, this issue covers light/dark favicons, @mixin, anchor-interpolated morphing, object-view-box, new…
Otto increased its GMV by 6%
In the past fiscal year, German ecommerce giant Otto was able to increase its gross merchandise value…
Ecommerce in Sweden grew 10% in 2025
Last year, online sales in Sweden increased 10 percent compared to the year before. In total, ecommerce…
Search Console’s Average Position, Explained
Google Search Console is the most reliable way to evaluate a site’s organic search visibility. Unfortunately, the…
Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations….
Amazon to invest over 5 billion euros in Poland
Between this year and 2028, Amazon is planning to invest 5 billion euros in Poland. This is…
Shein: ‘More than six hundred sales partners in Germany’
Shein says it has thousands of sales partners across Europe, including more than six hundred in Germany….
4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts
When I talk about layouts, I’m referring to how you place items on a page. The CSS…
Search Console Adds Brand Filters
Search Console now includes filters to show only branded queries or exclude them. Google uses AI to…
Abusing Customizable Selects
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build…
The Value of z-index
The z-index property is one of the most important tools any UI developer has at their disposal,…
Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element
sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions. There are lots of recent examples like this. Still, there is one little…
New Ecommerce Tools: February 25, 2026
This week’s rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants includes rollouts for third-party fulfillment, AI assistants, agentic…
Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()
Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript…
Interop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re…