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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 6h

#Business #Cartoons
Bot or not · “I’m starting to think they don’t want to me to shop here.” ilo.im/167m1l by Tom Fishburne

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#Bots #Captcha #Forms #Websites #Ecommerce #Security #Design #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Bot or Not cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

Recently I was nearly defeated by a restaurant mobile website. I somehow managed to fail a THIRD visual CAPTCHA puzzle asking me to identify something in a blurry image grid before I could order a burrito....

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 12h

#Development #Techniques
Fun website buttons with SVG · Ever wonder how to make unusual buttons? ilo.im/167k5h by Matt Visiwig

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#SVG #Buttons #Website #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS

Fun website buttons with SVG

Ever wonder how to make website buttons that don’t look like boring rectangles? 🎨In this quick tutorial, @MattVisiwig shows you how to use SVG shapes insid...

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 17h

#Development #Playgrounds
CSS Selectors Playground · A visual way to learn and test CSS selectors ilo.im/167b9x by Sandro Roth

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#Playgrounds #CssSelectors #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

CSS Selectors Playground

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 19h

#Development #Approaches
The beauty of constraints · How project limits help achieve more with less ilo.im/167a0f by James Stanier

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#Business #Leadership #Projects #Scope #Resources #Time #Constraints #Toolkit #WebDev

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 1d

#Development #Reviews
Lots to shout about in Quiet UI · A peek inside the promising new UI library ilo.im/167p4q by Dave Rupert

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#SideProjects #QuietUI #WebComponents #Library #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS #JavaScript

Lots to shout about in Quiet UI

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 1d

#Development #Rankings
CMS market share trends · WordPress declines as SaaS web builders rise ilo.im/167py7 by Shelley Walsh

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#Content #Platform #CMS #Market #Business #SEO #Blog #Website #WebDev #Backend

CMS Market Share Trends: Top Content Management Systems (Oct 2025)

WordPress continues its decline and SaaS builders gain traction – monitor the shifts in the CMS market for the most popular platforms

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 1d

#Design #Explorations
UI design with ChatGPT 5 · AI-driven UI design as an alternative to Figma ilo.im/167jta by Nick Babich

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#Prompting #AI #ChatGPT #Figma #DesignTools #Workflows #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

UI Design with ChatGPT 5

Generative UI is evolving at lightning speed, and nowadays we can achieve impressive results simply by asking AI tools to generate UIs for…

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 1d

#Development #Guides
Git worktrees · “They’re particularly powerful with AI coding assistants.” ilo.im/167nyw by Flavio Copes

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#Programming #Coding #Git #VersionControl #Repository #AI #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Git Worktrees

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Development #Guidelines
HTML page headings in the header? · Why they don’t really belong there ilo.im/167o5x by Martin Underhill

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#Headings #SemanticHTML #Accessibility #Landmarks #ScreenReader #Keyboard #WebPage #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

Page headings don’t belong in the header

I have a habit of thinking pretty deeply about semantics and structure, and have been considering the main page heading and where it should live.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Development #Comparisons
PostgreSQL vs. SQLite · Choosing the right database for backend services ilo.im/167ilo by Sylvain Kerkour

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#Database #SQLite #PostgreSQL #Cloud #WebDev #Backend

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Development #Techniques
Self-destructing CSS · What it is and when it matters ilo.im/167oj3 by Scott Jehl

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#CSS #Visibility #Content #WebPage #WebPerf #WebDev #Frontend #JavaScript

For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

A general defensive website delivery pattern for applying visual effects with less risk

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Development #Proposals
Highlighting everything in code? · “Everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong.” ilo.im/167obl by Nikita Prokopov

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#Programming #Coding #CodeEditor #Themes #Colors #Syntax #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Design #Mindsets
Designing amiable web spaces · Lessons from Vienna’s café culture ilo.im/167oic by Mark Bernstein

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#Web #OpenWeb #Amiability #Respectfulness #Humanity #Culture #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture

Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 3d

#Development #Comparisons
Progressive images in action · The current state of progressive image rendering ilo.im/167oml by Jake Archibald

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#Images #ResponsiveImages #Rendering #JPEG #JPEGXL #AVIF #WebP #Browsers #WebDev #Frontend

The present and potential future of progressive image rendering

Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 3d

#Design #Announcements
Improving accessibility in Figma · Figma enhances screen reader and keyboard navigation ilo.im/167n6g by Emma Webster

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#Figma #Accessibility #Keyboard #ScreenReader #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

15+ Ways We're Improving Accessibility in Figma | Figma Blog

To make Figma easier to navigate for all, we’re launching dozens of keyboard-only controls and improving the screen reader experience.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 3d

#Development #Findings
The State of PHP 2025 · Insights and trends shaping the PHP ecosystem ilo.im/167o37 by Tania Goral

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#Survey #Programming #Coding #PHP #IDE #CMS #AI #Frameworks #WebDev #Backend

The State of PHP 2025 – Expert review

Explore trends in the PHP ecosystem based on the State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 by JetBrains.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 3d

#Development #Techniques
Compressed fluid typography · Fluid type control with a weighted CSS scale ilo.im/167n72 by Matthias Ott

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#CssCalc #FluidType #Typography #Accessibility #FluidDesign #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

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Inautilo @inautilo.bsky.social · 3d

“If HTML is a programming language, yet virtually no one writes error-free HTML code, there can be only one conclusion: HTML is the most difficult programming language in the world.” — Jens O. Meiert

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#Development #Programming #Coding #HTML #WebDev #Frontend #Quotes