WebKit in Safari 26 Beta — A huge rundown of all the new things to be found in the beta of Safari 26. Yes, like Apple’s various operating systems Safari is also moving to a year number for its versioning, so we’re jumping from 18 to 26 here. There’s over 60 new feature and 100+ improvements, including WebGPU support, anchor positioning, scroll-driven animations, and so much more.
WebKit
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▶ What’s new in Safari and WebKit — If you'd rather, there's also a near 40-minute video running through the new features — highlighting different CSS features and new media support across audio, video, images, and icons.
Saron Yibarek
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▶ Learn More About Declarative Web Push — A 20-minute explainer on how Declarative Web Push works, how to build on existing standards, and deliver notifications whilst retaining backwards compatibility.
Brady Eidson
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2x-40x Faster Docker Builds with Blacksmith — With a one-line code change, Blacksmith can make your Docker builds incremental by mounting your Docker layer cache into your GitHub Actions runner. Blacksmith is used by 600+ companies like Ashby, Clerk, and Mintlify.
Blacksmith sponsor
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State of CSS 2025 — The annual CSS survey returns, and the results should prove particularly interesting this year, if only to see the adoption and usage levels of all the new features and tools we’ve now got at our disposal. Worth filling out — tell ‘em we sent you. :)
Devographics
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📙 Articles, Opinions & Tutorials
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Partial Keyframes — Josh shares a neat trick for creating dynamic, composable keyframe animations, explaining it clearly, and highlighting what we can do with it in his typical accessible style.
Josh W. Comeau
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Decoding the SVG path Element — Aims to teach you the basics of <path> and its sometimes mystifying commands, there’s handy examples and visualizations too.
Myriam Frisano
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📄 Printing the Web: Making Webpages Look Good on Paper — This is one of those things that’s probably low on your list of priorities, but Declan shares why we should bother, and how to go about it with CSS to create “clean, sleek, readable” documents.
Declan Chidlow
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🧰 Tools, Code & Resources
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SF Symbols 7 — Currently in beta but available to download, Apple’s own library of icons has been updated and features hundreds of new symbols, with the total now closing in on 7,000 glyphs.
Apple
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Astro 5.9 Released — Adds experimental support for the highly requested Content Security Policy, along with a new helper function for rendering Markdown, logging changes, and more.
Stoppa & Kane
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Storybook 9: The UI Component Workshop — The popular one-stop tool for working on, and testing, frontend UI components gets a big update in terms of testing. Storybook Test offers interaction, visual, and accessibility testing, complete with a ‘watch mode’ for testing whenever you save, whether you’re working with React, Svelte, Next.js, React Native, and more.
Michael Shilman
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