WebDev Weekly - Issue 67
Quiet week on the release front, which leaves room for the practical stuff. First up: fallbacks for CSS progress(), so you can use the new function without waiting for full browser support, and an early look at the dynamic model defaults coming in Laravel 14. There's a refreshingly honest case study on building a 3D portfolio in Blender and Spline (the shader nodes were the hard part, apparently), and Alex Tkachev on the art of designing less. The AI section earns its keep this week: OpenAI's DevDay recap runs to more than twenty announcements, Cloudflare is now grounding model calls with live search results, and GitHub weighs in on what all this does to the developer career ladder. Pizza Bot, an email-style inbox for your background agents, rounds things out. Better idea than the name suggests.
Tutorials
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Fallbacks for CSS `progress()`
blog.master.dev
Practical fallback recipes for the new progress() function with calc(), clamp() and the tan(atan2()) trick, usable while support fills in
Articles
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Laravel 14 Adds a `defaults()` Method to Eloquent Models
laravel-news.com
First look at Laravel 14's dynamic model defaults, computed at instantiation so config, flags and dates work as defaults
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Building the ULTRAGRID Portfolio in Blender and Spline
tympanus.net
Honest case study of shipping a 3D isometric desk site: shader nodes, polygon budgets, texture compression lessons
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Alex Tkachev on Systems, Subtraction, and the Tools He Makes Himself
tympanus.net
Designer Alex Tkachev on his path from self-taught developer to building design systems, minimal portfolios, and his own AI-assisted tools, with motion design and personal music projects along the way.
Tools
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Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents
infoq.com
AWS devs released an Apache-licensed, email-style inbox for delegating agent tasks and reviewing results asynchronously
Sponsored
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The HTML to Image API: Convert HTML, CSS and URLs to PNG or PDF
html2img.com
REST API that converts HTML, CSS or any URL into PNG images or PDF documents. Free tier, seven language guides, named templates for invoices, social cards and more.
AI
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Web Search API via AI Gateway on Cloudflare
blog.cloudflare.com
Real-time web search grounding for model calls via AI Gateway, REST or Workers bindings; directly useful to anyone building agents on Workers
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AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
github.blog
The three skills GitHub argues matter as agents take over implementation: directing agents, critically evaluating output, owning the wider problem
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DevDay 2026 Recap
openai.com
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including Dots, GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.