Plus WordPress 7.0 AI Connectors, Interop 2026, and tools worth your attention
CSS-Tricks demos wild customizable select UIs. WordPress 7.0 ships AI Connectors API. GitHub's skills ecosystem explodes with 6 of top 15 new repos.

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A single news page weighing more than Windows 95. An engineer who failed an interview for knowing too much. And the uncomfortable truth that half of AI-generated code passes benchmarks but gets rejected by the humans who actually maintain the repos. This week's picks are the kind of reads that make you close your IDE for 20 minutes - and come back sharper.

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🔖 The Reading Room

Articles we have hand-picked for you:

Abusing Customizable Selects

Patrick Brosset explores creative and unexpected uses of the new customizable <select> element in Chromium. From folder pickers to color pickers, he demos inventive UIs built entirely with native <select> and <option> elements using CSS features like option::before pseudo-elements.

By Patrick Brosset →

Introducing the Connectors API in WordPress 7.0

WordPress 7.0 (shipping April 9, 2026) introduces a Connectors API — a centralized credential management system that lets any plugin connect to OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude through a shared PHP AI Client layer. A fresh install uses no AI by default; plugins must be installed to activate AI functionality.

By WordPress Core Team →

The LLM and AI Agent Releases That Actually Matter This Week

A plain-English breakdown of March 2026's biggest AI model and agent releases, covering what each does and why developers should care. Key highlights include models that operate computers through actual UIs rather than APIs, and the narrowing gap between closed frontier models and open-source alternatives for code generation.

By aibughunter →

7 AI Tools That Changed Developer Workflow (March 2026)

A practical comparison of the AI developer tools reshaping productivity in 2026. Covers the layered approach where editor suggestions, terminal agents, and CI integrations complement each other. Includes pricing breakdowns and real-world usage data showing 84% developer adoption of AI tools.

By Satvik Paramkusham →

Interop 2026

CSS-Tricks covers the formal Interop 2026 agreement where Blink, WebKit, and Mozilla commit to consistent support for anchor positioning, enhanced attr(), scroll-driven animations, and more. This cross-browser initiative aims to eliminate the compatibility headaches that have plagued web developers for years.

By CSS-Tricks →

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🧰 The Toolbox

Tools and products we're excited about today:

JetBrains Central

A new open platform from JetBrains that provides governance, execution infrastructure, and shared semantic context for AI coding agents across IDEs, CLIs, and pipelines. Supports agents from JetBrains (Junie), Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Early access Q2 2026.

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MolmoWeb

Open-source visual web agent (4B and 8B parameter models) from Ai2 that navigates browsers by interpreting screenshots rather than HTML. Ships with 30,000 human task trajectories and outperforms GPT-4o on key web navigation benchmarks despite its compact size.

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Oxfmt

A Rust-based JavaScript/TypeScript code formatter from VoidZero (Evan You's company) that is 30x faster than Prettier with 100% JS/TS conformance. Now formats 20+ file types including Vue, CSS, SCSS, Markdown, and GraphQL, with built-in Tailwind class sorting.

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Goose by Block

Free, open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent from Block (Square/Cash App) with 26,000+ GitHub stars. Can scaffold projects, edit files, run tests, and debug. Works with any LLM provider or runs fully locally via Ollama.

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Four pillars that allow teams to move faster while staying secure

AI is transforming how software is built & delivered, but speed without strong platform controls can increase risk. This AWS-sponsored Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper outlines four critical pillars for using AI safely to accelerate delivery. 

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Learn how leading engineering teams reduce time-to-market, lower defect escape, & contain supply-chain risk. Explore practical adoption strategies & real-world results from organizations that have successfully implemented AI at scale.

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