Website of the week:

The CSS Selection
The state of real-world CSS usage, 2026 edition.
https://www.projectwallace.com/the-css-selection/2026

Shadow Directories: A Unique Method to Hijack WordPress Permalinks
Last month, while working on a WordPress cleanup case, a customer reached out with a strange complaint: their website looked completely normal to them and their visitors, but Google search results were showing something very different.
https://blog.sucuri.net/2026/01/shadow-directories-a-unique-method-to-hijack-wordpress-permalinks.html

Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
https://css-tricks.com/trying-to-make-the-perfect-pie-chart-in-css/

WordPress Now Lets Claude Read Your Site Data — Here’s What That Means
WordPress just handed Anthropic’s Claude a set of keys to your website’s back end. Well, sort of — more like a visitor’s badge with very limited clearance.
https://www.technology.org/2026/02/09/wordpress-now-lets-claude-read-your-site-data-heres-what-that-means/

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)
As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.
https://jonnyburch.com/life-after-figma/

Design Systems Checklist.
After building various design systems for clients and companies, I wanted to take what I've learned to write up a checklist that you can use to make sure you've covered all the essentials.
https://tylercoderre.com/projects/design-systems-checklist.html

The Story of Menu_Open
How the menu_open icon got encoded in Material Components history.
https://interfacecafe.com/the-story-of-menu_open/

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