Web Development blogs

Mozilla's official blog, with Firefox announcements, browser policy, privacy positions, and company news.

Top post: Mozilla – We need more than deplatforming (2021)

Stack Overflow's company blog covers developer surveys, language trends, community policy, engineering practice, and the company's own infrastructure.

Top post: The Incredible Growth of Python

Google's official blog for web developers, covering Chrome features, web standards, extensions, and DevTools.

Top post: Built-In AI – AI on Chrome

Mozilla engineers explain web technologies and Firefox internals, including WebAssembly, CSS engines, and rendering.

Top post: Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

The WebKit project's blog from Apple and contributors covers the browser engine behind Safari, including features, tracking prevention, and JIT work.

Top post: WebKit Feature Status

The Chromium Blog is Google's official channel for Chrome and Chromium news on extensions, privacy, performance, and web platform changes.

Top post: From Chrome Apps to the Web

Troy Hunt is a security researcher and Microsoft MVP who writes about data breaches, HTTPS, passwords, and the Have I Been Pwned service.

Top post: "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

Maciej Ceglowski, who runs Pinboard, writes essays and talks on web bloat, technology criticism, history, and AI worries.

Top post: The Website Obesity Crisis

A long-running web publication where designers and developers write about CSS, responsive design, usability, and web standards.

Top post: Responsive Web Design

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, writes about software, leaving the cloud, and politics.

Top post: DHH – As I Remember London

News site covering Firefox, browsers, Windows, and privacy tools, with practical how-tos on settings and extensions.

Top post: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

Figma's engineering and product blog on its browser-based design tool, covering WebAssembly, multiplayer sync, plugins, and Rust.

Top post: WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x (2017)

freeCodeCamp's Medium publication, with tutorials and articles on web development, careers, and open source.

Top post: A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 Update)

Low-tech Magazine covers older and low-energy technologies, and runs on a self-hosted solar-powered website.

Top post: This website has 81% battery power remaining

thoughtbot's engineering blog covers Ruby, Rails, Elm, Phoenix, vim, git and other practical tips from its consultants.

Top post: How We Replaced React with Phoenix

Philip Greenspun, a software developer and pilot, writes about web publishing, software engineering, flying, careers, and money.

Top post: Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science

Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask, writes about Python, packaging, Unicode, async, and more recently AI agents and tooling.

Top post: Unicode in Python 3

Tim Bray, a software veteran who co-created XML and worked at Amazon and Google, writes about tech, cloud, and the web.

Top post: The Web's the place (don't be a sharecropper)

Dave Winer, a long-time software developer and RSS pioneer, blogs about web standards, open social networks, and blogging itself.

Top post: Manifesto: Rules for standards-makers

Adobe's company blogs, with posts on Flash, open source fonts, file formats like PSD, web standards, and creative tools.

Top post: Source Code Pro (monospaced Source Sans), released open source by Adobe

Bartosz Ciechanowski writes long interactive explainers on how things work, such as watches, GPS, engines, and cameras.

Top post: Mechanical Watch

Adam Langley, a Google security engineer, writes about TLS, certificates, browser security, and authentication such as WebAuthn.

Top post: Overclocking SSL

Terence Eden is a UK developer and open data advocate who writes about web standards, gadgets, security flaws and technology policy.

Top post: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

Eventbrite's engineering blog, covering its Britecharts D3 charting library and search, alongside the company's event ticketing platform.

Top post: Jobs

The official Django project blog, with release announcements, security fixes, roadmap updates and fellowship news for the Python web framework.

Top post: Support the Django Fellowship Program

Eevee is a programmer who writes long posts on programming languages, Unicode, CSS, music theory and game development.

Top post: Music theory for nerds

PortSwigger, maker of Burp Suite, publishes web security research on HTTP request smuggling, HTTP/2 flaws and browser-based attacks.

Top post: Burp

Eric Meyer is a CSS expert who writes about web standards, accessibility and design, along with personal essays about his family.

Top post: “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Vivaldi's company blog covers its Chromium-based browser, its business model, open-source status and positions on web standards like Manifest v3.

Top post: Source

Auth0's company blog covers identity and authentication for developers, including JWT vulnerabilities, JavaScript history and engineering hiring.

Top post: Auth0 announces a free production ready free plan and a free unlimited oss plan

Steven Wittens writes about 3D graphics, WebGL, math visualization and web technology, with interactive demos.

Top post: How to Fold a Julia Fractal

Google's official blog announcing Gmail features, such as offline mode, HTTPS default, unsubscribe links and Inbox.

Top post: Images Now Showing in Gmail

Supabase's company blog covers its open-source Postgres-based backend platform, including auth, edge functions, pgvector and Postgres tooling.

Top post: Postgres WASM

The official blog of Elm, a functional language that compiles to JavaScript, written by its creator Evan Czaplicki.

Top post: Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16

Moz (formerly SEOmoz) publishes guides, research and tools on search engine optimization and online marketing.

Top post: The consensus of 37 experts in SEO

John Resig, creator of jQuery and former Khan Academy engineer, writes about JavaScript, programming education, and developer habits.

Top post: Learning Advanced JavaScript

Nikita Prokopov, a Clojure developer and creator of the Fira Code font, writes about software quality, UI design, and web development.

Top post: Time to Upgrade Your Monitor

The V8 team at Google writes about the JavaScript and WebAssembly engine used in Chrome and Node.js, covering performance and new features.

Top post: The cost of parsing JSON

Vercel's blog for Next.js, the React framework, announcing releases, features, RFCs, and security issues.

Top post: Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer

Shopify's engineering team writes about Ruby, YJIT, Rust, infrastructure scaling, React Native and WebAssembly.

Top post: Deconstructing the Monolith – Shopify Engineering

Kissmetrics, an analytics company, publishes marketing and conversion-optimization articles on landing pages, page speed, customer lifetime value, and growth case studies.

Top post: Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page

Axel Rauschmayer writes about JavaScript and ECMAScript features, proposals, and internals, and also authors free online books on the language.

Top post: ECMAScript 2018: final feature set

Neal Agarwal makes playful interactive web projects, such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, Size of Space, and The Deep Sea.

Top post: Perfect Circle

Peter-Paul Koch writes about browser compatibility, mobile browsers, and web standards, and runs the QuirksMode cross-browser reference site.

Top post: The Great WebKit Comparison Table

Google's Webmaster Central Blog announces and explains how Google Search crawls, indexes, and ranks web pages, aimed at site owners and SEO practitioners.

Top post: Search Engines: Specify your canonical URL

Codrops is a front-end site with tutorials, demos, and references on CSS, JavaScript, and web animation.

Top post: Amazing Web Design and Development Resource

The New York Times engineering team writes about its CMS, HTTPS migration, recipe data extraction, and open source web tools.

Top post: Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)

Personal site of Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, covering WordPress, open source, and his companies.

Top post: 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number

Jakob Nielsen, usability researcher, writes Alertbox essays on web design, user testing, and interface usability.

Top post: Why you only need 5 users for usability testing

Engineering blog from LogRocket, a frontend monitoring company, with tutorials on JavaScript, Rust, Node.js, and TypeScript.

Top post: Why you should avoid ORMs (with examples in Node.js)

Barry Schwartz's news site covering Google and other search engine updates, ranking changes, and the SEO industry.

Top post: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

Official Amazon Web Services blog announcing new features, pricing changes, and how-to guides for S3, EC2, and related services.

Top post: Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3

Pingdom's company blog, publishing web performance statistics, tech industry charts, and posts on infrastructure, open source, and internet trends.

Top post: The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

Addy Osmani, an engineer on Google Chrome, writes about JavaScript patterns, web performance, and software engineering practice.

Top post: Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners

David Walsh is a web developer who writes JavaScript, CSS and browser API tutorials, plus occasional career posts and interviews.

Top post: Imposter Syndrome

The official blog of npm, the JavaScript package manager, covering policy changes, security incidents, and new features.

Top post: Kik, left-pad, and npm

The CodeSandbox blog covers the online code editor company's engineering, especially cloning and scaling microVMs, plus product news.

Top post: We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

The Plausible blog covers the privacy-focused, open source web analytics product, its licensing, GDPR approach, and business growth.

Top post: Data policy

Eric Elliott writes about JavaScript, React, testing, TypeScript, and software design on Medium's JavaScript Scene publication.

Top post: The Shocking Secret About Static Types

A Medium publication where startup founders and engineers share lessons from building products, including Evan Williams and Bonobos' Andy Dunn.

Top post: The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas