This year the Web Standards podcast for the Russian-speaking community celebrated 10 years. You might’ve spotted the podcast in the State of JavaScript 2025 results and wondered what it’s doing there. For almost as long, we were publishing daily news on the web platform: browser releases, spec changes, useful articles, tools. Thousands of links over the years!
I always wanted to do something like this for the English-speaking community: one piece of news a day, every weekday, with a short summary and a cute cover. The kind of thing that would keep you informed even if you don’t have a lot of time to follow the news.
Well, the time has come. On September 9, 2025, I published the first news on Web Standards, a new project dedicated to daily web platform news in English. And yesterday, February 10, 2026, I hit a milestone: the 100th news 🎉
What’s inside
Every news item is a link to an article, announcement, or release, paired with a short summary. I try to make it useful on its own: you should get the gist even if you don’t click through. I also create a cover image for each one to make it stand out in social feeds. It’s a small thing, but it helps attract attention in a busy timeline.
I try to cover all major browser releases, surveys, practical tutorials, and tools. Basically, if it matters for the web platform, it’ll probably show up. I implemented a system of tags and a quick search to help navigate the growing archive. The main page features five tags: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and browsers. Even though they’re called “news,” most of them stay relevant for many months or even years. A good tutorial on CSS grid doesn’t expire next week.
How it works
The site is built on Eleventy, because of course it is 😎
I prepare news in advance and mark them with a publication date and draft: true. The rest is handled by a GitHub Actions workflow that runs every weekday at 11:00 UTC. It checks if there’s a news item scheduled for today, removes the draft flag, commits, and pushes. The site rebuilds automatically. I don’t have to touch anything on the day of publication.
Social posting is still manual: I cross-post every news to Mastodon, Bluesky, and X. It gives me a chance to tweak the message for each platform, but honestly, I’m considering automating this part too.
What’s next
I’m thinking about starting an email list with a weekly digest. Not everyone reads RSS these days or wants to follow news on socials, and a short weekly email with five links feels like a nice format. If that sounds interesting to you, stay tuned.
In the meantime, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, browse the archive, or check out the source code if you’re curious about the setup. And if you know a good article or tool that deserves a mention, let me know!
Here’s to the next hundred ✨
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