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An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many website Request for Proposal documents specify CMS platforms, sitemaps, templates, integrations and launch dates in such granular detail that agencies are left simply pricing a predetermined solution rather than solving a business problem. The piece recommends organizations separate firm requirements from assumptions and explicitly invite agencies to challenge the brief.
Developers of the widely used PHP programming language disclosed critical security vulnerabilities this week, prompting websites worldwide to go offline as organisations rushed to patch systems. The UK government confirmed 32 services were unavailable and four partially unavailable as a precaution, with ministers saying no major public-facing critical services were affected and no breaches have been confirmed.
Corey Prophitt shipped a commercial product, marketyour.games, built with the BCHS stack: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite. The app includes user accounts, a search dashboard, folder organization, Stripe payments and Postmark emails, served through CGI binaries rather than a modern framework. Deployment consists of replacing a single statically linked binary, relying on only three external libraries: libcurl, libsodium and libcjson.
A web industry commentator argues that despite financial struggles in the web development business, core skills remain in demand. The author specifically highlights accessibility as a critical, under-practiced skill that developers should master now to strengthen their careers once the industry stabilizes.
CSS Bed is a website that gathers multiple classless CSS stylesheets developers can drop into a page's head tag as instant starting styles. Each theme requires no custom classes, works with plain HTML, and the project is open source on GitHub for bug reports or new theme submissions.
Developer Baldur Bjarnason writes that his training courses and ebook sales have dried up, alongside peers who ran similar businesses, as AI chatbots become the default way developers seek coding help. JavaScript writer Axel Rauschmayer says his book income fell from sustaining him in 2024 to zero in 2026, while traffic to his free online books surged from AI crawlers rather than human readers, prompting him to take his blog and books offline.
A WIRED column examines the long-running debate over whether CSS counts as a true programming language, noting that despite lacking compilation or runtime errors, it has grown from roughly 50 properties in 1996 to hundreds today. The piece highlights developers like Cassidy Williams, who built a database-query engine in CSS and competed in the inaugural March MadCSS tournament, showcasing feats such as a CSS-only recreation of Doom and 3D rendering engines.
Apple's WebKit blog detailed Safari 27.0's developer features, headlined by a new Safari MCP server that lets AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex control the browser to inspect DOM elements, network requests, screenshots, and console output. Developers enable it through Safari's Developer settings after turning on features for web developers, and Apple says the server runs locally without sending data externally.
Nolan Lawson notes that several prominent frontend web development educators—including Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel Nabors, and Lydia Hallie—have either scaled back their work or pivoted toward AI-related topics. To illustrate the shift, Lawson tested Claude Sonnet on a nuanced Chrome performance debugging scenario involving high 'Style Calculation' costs, a problem that has historically tripped up even experienced developers, and found the AI's answer impressively accurate.