What Is Frontend Dogma?

Frontend Dogma is a daily-updated news and tools site for web developers and designers, covering articles, videos, books, people, projects, processes, tools, and tips from the web development and design world. Its distinguishing trait is historical range: it presents material spanning from the 1990s to the present, and it preserves the links it shares through the Wayback Machine rather than relying on the original URLs staying alive.

What the site covers

The site describes its scope as "articles and videos and books, people and projects and processes, tools and tips and tricks from the world of web development and design." In practice, entries are tagged by topic and source, so a single day's listing can mix technical, career, and industry-policy items.

A representative slice of the entry list shows the range:

Each entry carries a date and a numeric ID, and many carry a short source abbreviation in parentheses (for example (sea), (str), (fro), (sta), (the), (ele / des), (sem), (web), (eva), (sac / dev), (cor)). Those abbreviations point back to the originating publication, which is how the site credits sources rather than republishing them.

The 1990s-to-now angle

Most frontend news aggregators only track what shipped this week. Frontend Dogma deliberately keeps older material in the mix — standards history, XML/SGML/HTML/XHTML lineage, early mobile web constraints, and the argument that accessibility predates "responsive design" as a concept. That makes it useful if you are researching how a current practice evolved, not just what changed in the latest release.

Link preservation via the Wayback Machine

The site states that it preserves links using the Wayback Machine and asks readers to donate to the Internet Archive to support that work. This matters for two reasons:

• Link rot. Frontend writing from the 1990s and 2000s frequently disappears. An archived snapshot keeps the reference usable.
• Verification. If you cite something you found there, you can point to the archived copy rather than a dead URL.

If you want to check whether a given link is archived, look for the Wayback Machine snapshot link on the entry; if you want to archive something yourself, the Internet Archive's save-page function is the same mechanism.

How to follow it

The site offers several channels:

• RSS feeds — multiple topical feeds, plus a main feed described as carrying exclusive news for $1/month.
• Mastodon
• Bluesky

The paid main feed is the only pricing signal present on the page; the topical feeds and social accounts are presented as the free way to follow along. Nothing on the page indicates a login requirement for reading entries.

When Frontend Dogma is the right source

It fits well if you want:

• A single daily stream that mixes tooling, standards, accessibility, legal, and career items.
• Historical context alongside current news, rather than only release notes.
• Archived links you can still open years later.

It fits less well if you need deep original reporting, hands-on tutorials with runnable code, or a curated "best of" ranking — the entries are pointers to external articles, videos, and books, not full reproductions. For a specific technical decision, treat an entry as a lead and read the linked source.