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Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore

About 15 years ago, I was working at a company where we built apps for travel agents, airport workers, and airline companies. We also built our own in-house framework for UI components and single-page app capabilities. We had components for everything: fields, buttons, tabs, ranges, datatables, menus, datepickers, selects, and multiselects. We even had a…

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DEV: Refactor? I Hardly Know Her!

Welcome to DEV, your fortnightly dose of WordPress news. We’ve stacked up the latest tools, clever dev tricks, fresh features and standout community creations, all carefully assembled to help you keep building with confidence. Stick around to the end to see the moment a future star is born. In today’s edition: Patchstack & FAIR team…

A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)

As the year winds down, many of us are busy wrapping up projects, meeting deadlines, or getting ready for the holiday season. Why not take a moment amid the end-of-year hustle to set the mood for December with some wintery desktop wallpapers? They might just bring a sparkle of inspiration to your workspace in these…

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.74 Release

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.74 is here! This release brings powerful new features, improved security, and expanded platform support to ensure server management is smoother and safer than ever. What’s New? TuxCare Extended Lifecycle Support for PHP We’re excited to introduce TuxCare ELS for PHP. This extension provides extended security updates for older PHP versions directly from the Plesk UI. Now you can keep your websites secure even if they’re running…

The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has become ingrained in internet browsing since personal computers gained momentum in the consumer electronics market. For nearly as long as people have been going online, web developers have sought ways to block spam bots. The CAPTCHA service distinguishes between human and…

Designing For Stress And Emergency

No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frustrating, stressful situations. And they are the ones that we rarely account for. So how do we account for such situations?…

Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects

Picture this: you join a new project, dive into the codebase, and within the first few hours, you discover something frustratingly familiar. Scattered throughout the stylesheets, you find multiple @keyframes definitions for the same basic animations. Three different fade-in effects, two or three slide variations, a handful of zoom animations, and at least two different…

DEV: You Shall Not Cache!

Welcome to DEV, your fortnightly dose of WordPress news. Here’s your round-up of precious new tools, clever dev tricks, fresh features and community creations. One newsletter to rule them all, forged in the fires of WPMU DEV. Stick around to the end to see a Weakest Link answer that had the other contestants weak in…