What Chris Coyier thinks about simplicity

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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.

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1. 15 Sept 2026

   Our readingA browser works better as a single window than as multiple separate windows.

   Their wordsIt takes some serious getting-used-to in Arc that you don't open multiple windows. You just have the one browser window. It's weird to have multiple windows. It lets you, but it probably shouldn't.

   ↗The Four Tiers of Tab Importancechriscoyier.net