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How to build an autocomplete combobox that searches for people on a server, prevents outdated search results from appearing, and ensures the form submits the person displayed in the field.
Why remote coworkers turn into a chat in Slack and how to bring the connection back, with research, what other remote companies do, and my own team's story.
Developers can finally use Gemini 4 Argon! Meta's Muse Wonder Full came third on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index. Claude Haiku 5.5 and Firefox 158 are out. Then there's Core Web Vitals for single-page apps, browser news, more decision models, Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, Genkit Dart 1.0, and Vercel's storage charges.
How to render a Markdown comment safely in every place it shows up, with one policy for setHTML() and DOMPurify, and Trusted Types to catch code that writes the comment with innerHTML instead.
A lot happened this week. I became a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies! Gemini 4 Argon tied GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1. Chrome 155 and Firefox 158 are out. Then there's what's coming in Chrome 156 and 157, more decision models, Pi 1.0, news from Antigravity and Claude Code, OpenAI's text watermarks, and Cloudflare's AI toll.
How to build a small router on the Navigation API that keeps the URL, the content, focus, and scroll in agreement, even if the user presses Back before a page finishes loading.
TOCus is officially out! In AI news, Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, OpenAI had a big DevDay where they announced GPT-6.1 Sol and some bad news for current Pro users, and Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5. Then there's Firefox 157, CSS corner shapes, an open model that finds browser bugs, vertical wrap in Figma, Gemini's text-to-speech models, and JavaScript iterators.
Update from TOCusThe story from the first pencil sketch on Aug 20 to the official launch on Sep 29: why I built it, the capybara, the 3D scene, translating it, publishing it to the stores, and what comes next.
CSS can finally style a real select, picker and all. The opt-in also takes over the phone's own picker, so the job is scoping it to the devices where your design is the better one.
Claude Opus 5.5 led Artificial Analysis' tests. I explain what Jev is, the thing everybody is talking about. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.7, and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now free. Chrome 154 allows embedded frames to resize to fit the page, Lighthouse 13.5 checks support for AI assistants, and Cloudflare added previews for each branch. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI updated their programming tools, and nine mathematicians will help OpenAI with sharing math research.
