Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier — Founder of CSS-Tricks and CodePen
CSS-Tricks founder on web development, design, and running CodePen.
chriscoyier.netThe personal blog of the founder of CSS-Tricks and CodePen. Chris writes about web development, design, and the business of making things on the internet with the casual authority of someone who's been doing it publicly for nearly two decades. Posts range from quick CSS observations to longer reflections on how the industry is changing.
Written by Chris Coyier since 2007.
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AI is my CMS
I mean… it’s not really, of course. I just thought such a thing would start to trickle out to people’s minds as agentic workflows start to take hold. Has someone written "AI is my CMS" yet? Feels inevitable. Like why run a build tool when you can just prompt another page?— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier.net) 2026-03-10T01:52:20.536Z AI agents are already up in your codebase fingerbanging whole batches of files on command. What’s the difference between a...
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Jerod Santo: After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam shipped our Friends finale yesterday. Huge congrats Jerod! Heck of a legacy.
Claude is an Electron App
Juicy intro from Nikita Prokopov: In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good enough yet. They can do 90% of the work, so there’s still a substantial amount of manual polish, and thus, increased costs. But I think that’s not the real rea...
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The chances of macOS actually running an automatic update on my machines is super low. Even if I OK the “Update Tonight?” prompt, there is no way it actually goes through, because I’ll have apps open that prevent the restart. iTerm is a big one, that one won’t just quit on command. But even tabs with unsaved changes in a document (WordPress, CodePen, etc) will prevent the browser from quitting. I screenshot this because I’d never seen that prompt before and it s...
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Round One of Mad CSS is out on YouTube!
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