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Tech and the War Nobody Wanted

Frontend Dogma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:33:48 +0000

Tech consists of people, people cannot not be political, and therefore, Tech is political.

With Frontend Dogma, we are denouncing and responding to Israeli colonization, apartheid, and genocide in occupied Palestine, and Israel’s violent disrespect for other people, their views, and their very existence.

We’re also responding to Israel’s and the United States’ unprovoked and per international law illegal war against Iran, a war not only Iranians pay dearly for—but also everyone else, like you and us.

But the point is not what we do, as one of many tech sites.

The point is that we do something.

The point is that we don’t just watch Israel and the United States be responsible for the attacks on at least six countries in the last two years alone, and with that also for the counter-attacks on even more countries; for the hijacking and assassination of the leaders of sovereign nations; for more than a hundred thousand deaths; for many more hundreds of thousands of injured; for more than three million people displaced; for the destruction of up to 90% of all infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, in areas under occupation or invasion; for the betrayal and undermining of human rights and international law, diplomacy and decency; for a massive abuse of power and quite possibly a third world war.

There are individuals and organizations in Tech that support and even try to profit from all of these crimes. (We know, because we follow the field closely.)

We do not support any of this, we believe there should be severe consequences for everyone involved in these atrocities, and at the very least, we will not reward association and complicity.

What actions do you take?

20,000

Frontend Dogma — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:13:16 +0000

Frontend Dogma has just crossed the 20,000 entries mark—that is, we’ve now literally curated tens of thousands of articles and videos about web development and design 🙂

This spans the entire history of the Web—you find entries from the first three decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s) and entries from every individual year since. It spans more than 1,000 topics, too. (You can pair and analyze joint topics via the tags filter/combinator.)

You can follow each topic individually (via topic feeds) or subscribe to the global RSS feed which is more reliable and features more material than our standard free channels on Mastodon and Bluesky.

On our end, we keep working on featuring the latest news and tools and adding more material to the archives. If you like this work, and it’s useful for you and our field, please support us by buying some of the Frontend Dogma ebooks or backing the project on Open Collective. It helps sustain it all. Cheers!

Dropping Support for Twitter/X

Frontend Dogma — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:56:06 +0000

Since its launch in 2021, Frontend Dogma has supported Twitter/X for attributing authors and publishers.

Twitter/X was already a difficult platform at that point, but it was popular in the community.

With Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in 2022, everything got worse. X, the company, and X, the platform, began sending all the wrong signals, most of all contempt for various groups of people.

Frontend Dogma gradually reduced its support for Twitter/X to the point of making it “Twitter/X last.”

Today, Frontend Dogma is discontinuing all support for Twitter/X.

This means that if you're an author or publisher who is only active on Twitter/X, Frontend Dogma will no longer attribute you.

For a grace period, Frontend Dogma will retain metadata of authors and publishers who were previously only attributable on Twitter/X. If you’re an author or publisher whose work is featured on Frontend Dogma and who has recently started a presence on Mastodon or Bluesky, you can contact us to have your previous attributions updated and restored.

We ask everyone to take more responsibility, and to demand the same of our platforms. Leave the hate behind, and take more care of others.

The 2025 Frontend Dogma Survey

Frontend Dogma — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:25:47 +0000

Please take one minute to take the brief and anonymous 2025 Frontend Dogma survey!

This is a survey that’s likely to run once a year, to understand you as a professional, how you’re using Frontend Dogma (there’s no tracking on FD), and what could make Frontend Dogma better for you.

The survey is going to be open for 2 weeks, after which—depending on questions and suggestions—we’re likely to share aggregate results and feedback.

If you like to make the results more useful and meaningful, consider sharing the survey!

Thank you!

2000s + 2010s = 10,000

Frontend Dogma — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:17:12 +0000

Frontend Dogma just added archives for the 2000s and 2010s, and with that hit the 10,000 posts mark (at more than 700 topics)…! 🍾

Including the 2000s and 2010s had been the goal soon after providing the 1990s archives. On the one hand, to close that two-decade gap between the 90s and the year 2020, the year that Frontend Dogma originally started covering. On the other hand, not to discard material that was also important, useful, and interesting to frontend developers.

(Why is this exciting? Because by linking from a single website as well as by tagging, the archives unlock access to a vast amount of information. A little plug, it’s similar to Frontend Dogma’s Web Development Glossary: Sure, you can look for terms whenever you want—but there’s no way to browse the field and and discover new terms if it wasn’t for a concise glossary.)

Now, what would be interesting from the newly covered time? Let’s have a look at select topics and authors:

Topics

For example, here’s a choice of topics particularly common in the 2000s and/or 2010s:

Authors

Here’s a small selection of authors whose 2000s/2010s work is being covered and honored in the archives:

Craig Buckler
Marcos Cáceres
Joe Clark
Ian Hickson
Molly Holzschlag (molly.com until about 2009)
Lachlan Hunt
Paul Irish
Jakob Nielsen (useit.com until about 2010)
Mark Pilgrim (diveintomark.org until about 2009)
Christopher Schmitt
Dave Shea (mezzoblue.com until about 2010)
Henri Sivonen
Jonathan Snook
Anne van Kesteren
Kevin Yank
Juriy Zaytsev

(Many more authors and publishers are being covered—and even more are to be covered. Featuring authors and publishers is generally only limited by the time and resources available to add them.)

—Now, this is one milestone for Frontend Dogma, and there are other sites that (so far!) link to or even host more content (like SitePoint, with more than 15,000 articles). But it’s only one milestone, on the impossible quest to meaningfully map all of frontend development, over all the time.

Follow and support the journey: Enjoy exploring the 2000s and 2010s archives, send suggestions on glaring omissions (Frontend Dogma is continuously updated), and follow Frontend Dogma by feed, on Mastodon, on Bluesky, on Twitter/X, or on other platforms hopefully soon to be fed. Cheers!

Follow Your Favorite Web Dev Topics With Frontend Dogma’s Topic Feeds

Frontend Dogma — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:47:20 +0000

TL;DR: Each topic on Frontend Dogma now comes with its own RSS feed! (What’s a feed?) If your browser or your browser extensions don’t indicate them, add “topic.xml” at the end of a topic main page (as with “accessibility” and its feed), to then follow the topic.

Web and frontend development are huge fields, especially if you support the idea that it’s useful to know a little bit about the neighboring disciplines as well.

Accordingly, Frontend Dogma already features more than 500 topics and tags (just as much as The Web Development Glossary and its website include almost 4,000 terms!).

Not everyone may like to follow all related news, however.

For that reason, Frontend Dogma now features topic-related feeds:

Your browser or your extensions might indicate them automatically (look for the respective feeds called Topic “x” only).
You can navigate to any topic page and append “topic.xml” to access the feed manually.

If you want to try it out, check out some of the following topics:

Languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript (or a bit of Python, Java, or Go?)
Frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Angular
Performance
Principles, best practices, and craft
History (specifically the 1990s?)

At the moment, topic feeds aren’t featured prominently. That is because they only include a small number of entries (so they come with limitations, like not showing all additions), to test the feeds and listen to feedback, and also not to pull away too much attention from the main feeds (all entries, news, and tools), which are most reliable and still recommended.

But, topics feeds are here. If you run into any issues or like to comment, please reach out!