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Stefan Judis
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Freelance dev sending Frontend news to 6k people over at webweekly.email. Sharing lots of tips'n'tricks on the way.

Google Dev Expert, Microsoft MVP and Playwright Ambassador
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This week's Web Weekly is about to hit all the inboxes in just a little bit! As always, it's jam-packed. 🎉

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If you're into web dev news close to the platform, you should check it out!
Web Weekly 180 - Iterator helpers - A new switch polyfill - Performance debugging tricks - command and commandfor - Scroll-triggered animations - font-size-adjust
January 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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And I'm sitting down to write this week's Web Weekly newsletter.

If you want to stay up to date with the web platform (you know vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS), browser updates and web dev best practices, you should check it out!

webweekly.email
More than your regular Frontend newsletter. Web Weekly covers what the web platform gives you — no package.json required.
January 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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Love it!

Firefox DevTools now hide unused CSS properties so that debugging sites with lots of design tokens and custom properties becomes a bit easier!
Firefox devtools hiding 51 unused CSS properties.
January 12, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Web Weekly has some free ad slots starting mid-January.

If you want to reach 6.3k Frontend devs who care about the web and build quality websites, you should check it out. 👇

webweekly.email/advertise

And of course, you'll earn karma points for supporting indie publishing. 🫣
Web Weekly — More than your regular Frontend newsletter.
January 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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So much this! 👏 @jim-nielsen.com

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/feedbac...
My desire to give you constructive feedback is in direct correlation to your effort to care — about your communications, about what you ship, even about what you don’t ship.
January 7, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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The first Web Weekly of 2026 is going out. As always, it's jam-packed!

For the first time, the online version won't live on my blog but on the new Web Weekly site.😱 That's wild, isn't it?😅

webweekly.email/archive/web-...

If you're into web dev news close to the platform, you should check it out!
Web Weekly 179 - loadEnvFile() - wbr and &shy; - The new No-Vary-Search header - <dialog closedby="any"> - display: grid-lanes - @scope goes baseline
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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TIL that modern Node not only supports `--env-file` / `--env-file-if-exists` but also a new method to programmatically load .env files.

It's been marked stable since Node v24 (current LTS), and I'm now on the journey of removing all the `dotenv` dependencies. 😅

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import { loadEnvFile } from 'node:process'; // load .env file with default path ('./.env`) loadEnvFile(); // load .env file with a custom path loadEnvFile('../../.env');
January 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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New year, new redesigned site and the new Web Weekly edition in the making! 🥂

I'm getting ready to send out this year's first newsletter. If you're into web "stuff" close to the platform you should check it out. 👇

webweekly.email
More than you regular Frontend newsletter Web Weekly covers what the web platform gives you — no package.json required.
January 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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This has been in the making for over a year, and I'm super excited about the new Web Weekly site!

Check it out if you're into Frontend news about browser APIs, CSS features, and web standards. 🥰

webweekly.email

There are still some rough edges here and there, but it's about time to get it out. 🫣
January 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Man, I love that view transitions make things like this possible with only a few lines of code. 🥰
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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And this year's last Web Weekly is soon going out to hit all the inboxes one final time!

You know the deal; if you're into web dev news close to the platform (HTML, CSS, JS and browser updates), you should check it out (and subscribe for next year)!

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Web Weekly 178 - How to safely handle process.env - How to preload responsive images - The often forgotten lang attribute - dialog.requestClose() - The new text-grow property - Accessible paginations
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I'm getting ready to send out this week's Web Weekly newsletter later today. It'll be the last one for 2025.

If you're into web dev news very close to the platform, you should check it out! 👇

webweekly.email
Web Weekly — Your friendly web dev newsletter.
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I was dealing with client-side cookies the other day and, of course, I used `document.cookie`. This API is "something", isn't it?

But then I remembered that `cookieStore` is a thing today, and it makes cookie handling way easier! 👇

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
await cookieStore.set({ name: 'my-cookie', value: `sup?`, expires: Date.now() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 })
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I'm a bit late, but this week's Web Weekly will hit all the inboxes in just a little bit!

If you care about the web platform and browser features, you should check it out!

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Web Weekly 177 - navigator.userActivation - DevTools debugging tricks - CSS-only arrows with corner-shape - The satisfies keyword - subgrid explained - cookieStore
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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It's Monday and you know what this means. 🫣 Later tonight, the new Web Weekly will hit over 6k inboxes.

If you're into platform-close web dev news (you know HTML, CSS, JS and standards), you should check it out!

webweekly.email
Web Weekly — Your friendly web dev newsletter
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I've worked on a dark/light themed site and went all-in using `light-dark()`. So far, I've thought that I can use it as a `prefers-color-scheme` replacement...

I learned that there are some differences in how they treat `color-scheme`. 👇

www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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This week's Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes! 🥂

If you care about the web platform you should check it out!

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Web Weekly 176 - light-dark() vs @media - The enterkeyhint attribute - The new random() function - string[] or Array<string> - Component styles with @scope - :scope in querySelector()
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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There are plenty of color palette generators out there, but I must say the COLORPALETTE PRO is by far the best-looking one! 😲

colorpalette.pro
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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And, as every Monday, I'm getting ready to send out this week's Web Weekly newsletter.

If you're into web dev news very close to the platform, you should check it out! 👇

webweekly.email
Web Weekly — Your friendly web dev newsletter.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This is wild!

Gitlogue is a CLI tool that takes a Git repo and transforms it into a CLI cinematic replay show. I really don't know when I'd need this, but it's cool as heck!

github.com/unhappychoic...
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Can we quickly appreciate how powerful CSS has become and what a beautiful snippet this is? 👏

una.im/range-style-...
/* Range style query in an if() statement */ .weather-card { background: if( style(--rain-percent > 45%): blue; else: gray; ); }
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Let's pretend I didn't spend 1 1/2h debugging some weird Array behavior this week...

I even blogged about how strangely `Array.some` and `Array.every` behave when you use them with an empty array. Now, I might actually remember this weirdness. (I hope)

www.stefanjudis.com/notes/array-...
[].every((item) => item === 'great'); // true [].every((item) => item !== 'great'); // true [].some((item) => item === 'great'); // false [].some((item) => item !== 'great'); // false
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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If you dislike looking at AI "art", you're gonna love this comic. 👇

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
If feels hopeless. Like there's no point in making anything because your average twelve-year-old can do it in seconds. Let's talk about AI art. AI art is an interesting technology because despite its growing popularity, nobody seems to want it.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Haha! 😅

There's nothing to see here; it's just the usual Super Mario Bros game running in your URL bar. 🫣

diego.horse/tiny-mario
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This page might easily become a reference for UX and accessibility focused Frontend engineers. 💯

> GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.

primer.style/accessibilit...
Toasts GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues. Toasts pose significant accessibility concerns and are not recommended for use.
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM