How many times have you decided not to post something online because it wasn’t perfect? How many times have blog posts, social media updates, or photos that “weren’t all that bad, but…” fallen by the wayside? How many times have you said… “it doesn’t make sense now” or “it’s too late now” or “anyway, what’s the point?”
During these months of “reflection”—from newsletter #2 to #3—I’ve thought a lot about what drives us to share and what holds us back. Some people don’t have that filter (though a few of them should), but I’m sure many of you reading this can relate.
From now on, I plan to create a lot more content in this newsletter, on the blog, and wherever else it comes up. These newsletters aren’t going to be perfect. That’s okay. They don’t have to be. If I were capable of creating perfect newsletters every week, I’d be doing it professionally. But if my goal is to share things that might be useful to you, the “audience,” then the only thing that doesn’t make sense is… not doing it.
🌐 Back to the basics
Artificial intelligence already does everything. Or so they say. But when you ask it about a topic you’re knowledgeable about, you start to see its limitations. That’s why it’s essential to keep learning and educating ourselves about the things that interest us. Because there’s little point in speeding up work if it only serves to create chaos at a faster rate.
Manuel Matuzović is a front-end developer, consultant, and accessibility auditor from Austria, and he has released his HTML Boilerplate updated for 2026. For all of us who work in the world of the web, there’s nothing more basic and fundamental than a website’s HTML. It’s what we see when we right-click on any page and view the source code. It’s what our WordPress, our AI, or whatever we use to create a website generates. It’s what our browser understands. And it’s what we should understand, too.
In this article, Manuel explains what a modern, simple website framework should look like. And he explains it line by line. You can try it out on your personal website and compare. Because you do have a personal website, right? If not, this page gives you 95 reasons to have one. No more, no less.
And going back to the first paragraph about AI. Here's an article by Vitaly Friedman on the kind of AI people really want:
Many conversations about AI are conversations about the speed of delivery. But to many people, there is little value in increasing the speed of delivery. They want to do things well, with enough time to think and make good decisions. They also want to enjoy the time they spend working on things, rather than just ship faster. There is an enormous feeling of reward and achievement that slowly disappears, one vibe-coded change at a time.
And his final conclusion:
No, people don’t need more AI in their lives — they need AI to automate all the boring stuff they have to deal with every day, so they have more time and headspace to do things that they actually love and enjoy doing. That doesn’t mean spending more time with AI — but spending more time with people they love.
🧐 Extra links, I'm rambling...
- Taken. “You’ve opened this page. It already knows the following.” We all know that browsers can track us down to the last detail, but sometimes it’s a little scary to see just how much they know about us simply by clicking a link. Take a look.
- The Story Behind the Gifts from the WCEU 2026 Local Team The impact of an event isn’t limited to the people who attend. As organizers, we can also make a real impact on the community around us. In this article, Sebastian Misniakiewicz explains how, by commissioning the creation of the gifts "by outsourcing the job to the Occupational Therapy Workshop, many people were able to use their skills during production, giving each mascot a deeper meaning. We got handmade mascots, and people with intellectual disabilities got work and an income that will support their social integration."
- Automattic and director Bao Nguyen have released *Code for the People*, a short documentary that explores the past, present, and endangered future of the open web. It’s 19 minutes well spent.
🧙♂️ Published thanks to...
Weglot continues to support this newsletter because they speak our language—and many others as well.
Weglot is the solution that makes any website multilingual in minutes, without touching the code. With AI trained to maintain your brand voice in every language, managing your translations has never been easier. More than 111,000 companies worldwide already trust Weglot to grow internationally.
And they'll have some really cool new stuff coming soon.
Two final points. First, we’re working hard to ensure you have an exceptional WordCamp Galicia in A Coruña from October 16 to 18. It’s a new challenge for a team full of energy. The program is worth far more than the 40-euro admission fee.
And second, I love that every month Smashing Magazine publishes an article with really cool wallpapers. I think over the last decade I've always had wallpapers from their collections. Right now I have “Searching For Higgs Boson” from this August collection.
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