Website of the week:

Make It Work vs. Make It Good
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/make-it-work-make-it-good/

99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | PatronView
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.
https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/

Karl Koch | Why I built a semantic-HTML first library
Kernel simplifies UI components by sticking to native HTML, avoiding unnecessary abstraction and improving accessibility.
https://karlkoch.me/writing/why-i-built-a-semantic-html-first-library/

Spec-Driven UI Component Development
Deliver design intent from multiple origins across design, code and doc libraries
https://nathanacurtis.substack.com/p/spec-driven-ui-component-development

How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)
Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font, plus 10 alternatives from independent foundries.
https://yeptype.com/article/inter-alternatives

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