Richard MacManus

We look at the nuts and bolts of OpenAI's new Apps SDK, which enables developers to create web-based applications for ChatGPT.

After ChatGPT hit, You.com pivoted hard — from consumer search competing with Google, to enterprise AI competing with OpenAI (and Google again).

WebMCP is a new standard from Microsoft and Google that lets devs control how AI agents interact with websites using client-side JavaScript.

We talk to Evan You about Vite's journey from a prototype inspired by ES Modules to the industry-standard build tool. Also: Vite+ and AI.

A new AI coding tool from China aims to revolutionize software development. Would you bet against the former head of algorithms at TikTok?

Today, Google's Chrome browser is rolling out new AI features. Are the curtains being drawn on web browsing as we've known it for 30+ years?

From Tim Berners-Lee to Microsoft and Shopify, developers are integrating AI agents with the web. The W3C is calling this the "agentic web".

We interview an OpenAI researcher about GPT-5 from a frontend coding perspective. Also, Sonar reveals that GPT-5 code can be hard to maintain.

Cloudflare announces an implementation of NLWeb, an open protocol for AI chat on websites. Also, an update on its creator compensation drive.

We talk to Webflow's CTO about how the company has gone all-in on AI for its 300 engineers, including offering each one an AI toolkit.

We talk to two Shopify engineers about how they used MCP-UI to add web components to AI agents, as part of its "agentic commerce" rollout.

We speak to the developers behind MCP-UI, a way to add React components or Web Components to agentic chats. This may be the future of the web.

With GPT-5, will frontend devs even need to use JavaScript frameworks as a prop for their work? Or will they just use it to create even more React apps?

We talk to Oren Michels, who ran API company Mashery in Web 2.0. He's back now with a modern twist: Barndoor, a control plane for agentic AI.

Are websites about to go out of style? AI agents are exploring new user interfaces, including AI browsers and a new project called MCP-UI.

With its focus now on AI, Google is no longer a conduit to the web. It's become an AI-first company, with the web barely worth a mention.

XMLUI is a new components builder that takes its inspiration from Visual Basic in the 1990s, except it's for React components and modern CSS.

Hono is a web framework gaining momentum. Like many such tools, it aims to be full stack. But where does Hono fit in today's dev ecosystem?

From its 1995 creation at Netscape, to ECMAScript in 1997, to jQuery, Node.js and React in the 21st century, JavaScript has had a wild run.

Google is releasing an AI-powered terminal app called Gemini CLI. It's free and open source, so will Warp and Ghostty users be tempted?