Web Development

An Auckland convenience store is in the midst of an ongoing online battle after inadvertently allowing its website to be edited by the general public.

The store […] found itself advertising, among other things, a “pair of crusty socks”, a “Princess Diana Commemorative Plate”, and “National Parks to the highest bidder”.

The store’s site uses Base44, a “no-code AI platform” that allows users to build web applications, but it has been left open for the public to edit.

At one point, while items were being added for sale, the website’s operator appeared to be arguing with the public, with one item saying “stop hacking us”. An item popped up in response saying “don’t use an AI site builder then.”

Airline websites are slow. 95% of them fail Google’s Core Web Vitals on mobile.

HTML has a <geolocation> element now. While it’s only supported in Chrome’n’friends for now, it’s progressive-enhancement-able. I covered it in our 2026 HTML article and also blogged about its interesting enforced accessibility.

But the most interesting story about this element is: permissions recovery.

Mostly meaning: you said no, but now you wanna say yes.

The buttons are supposed to only be clicked when someone completes a series of tasks, bots clicking the buttons throws off the count. I don’t have my own domain it is nested under the main neocities.org domain.

If you’ve encountered a web platform feature that behaves differently across browsers, a standards-based capability that’s difficult to rely on today, or an area where better interoperability would unlock new opportunities, we want to hear from you.

The proposal submission period is open now and will remain open through September 23, 2026.

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) roles have been exploding for several months now. These roles focus mostly on the server-side of things, but they seem to also be absorbing frontend performance roles (i.e. Core Web Vitals) as if that field were a “sidenote”…