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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Mar 04, 2026

“What would WordPress look like if it were invented today?”

https://www.pootlepress.com/2026/03/are-we-in-wordpress-asking-the-right-question/

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Mar 01, 2026

Resistance? On Saturday night, Claude overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot in the App store, a position it still held as of this morning.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/anthropics-claude-rises-to-no-2-in-the-app-store-following-pentagon-dispute/

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Mar 01, 2026

It only *feels* useless. On “Delete and Report Junk” in iPhone:

“Collectively, these reports help shape the filters, blocklists, and machine learning models at Apple and phone carriers to better protect users.”

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/28/security-bite-why-apple-still-needs-your-spam-reports/

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 27, 2026

Someone at Apple should read Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 27, 2026

An uninformed populace is a docile populace.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 27, 2026

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 26, 2026

It was never about bathrooms.

It was never about women’s sports.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 25, 2026

The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade: 75 book covers our favorite designers loved.

https://lithub.com/the-best-book-covers-of-the-last-decade/

h/t: @cagrimmett

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 25, 2026

In the movies, Dystopia was better art-directed.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 25, 2026

A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation, and lightness aren’t shaped by culture or experience—they’re built directly into the mathematical structure of how we see color.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260222092302.htm

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 24, 2026

Let that sink in.

John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/23/john-oliver-elon-musk-twitter-x

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 24, 2026

Do not watch tonight’s State of the Union. Low ratings wound him. Let’s make this the least-watched SotU address ever.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

“An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.”

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold Illo: Kevin Cornell.

https://alistapart.com/article/web3point0/

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

“Speed has trained us to confuse movement with progress. To mistake activity for clarity. To believe that changing something is always better than the discipline of standing still.

“This is the part of the work I find hardest. The part that doesn’t look heroic. Where improvement is subtle. Where growth is slow. Where the discipline is not in changing things, but in resisting the urge to change them too soon.”

https://fernandojose.es/not-yet #design #DesignVersusArt

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

Live camera view from NYC’s Empire State Building, as the great blizzard continues. 

https://www.esbnyc.com/about/live-cam

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 23, 2026

Winter Storm live updates. (Gift link.)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/23/weather/nyc-snow-storm?unlocked_article_code=1.OVA.fUiy.aGAVt70qyKfB&smid=url-share

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 22, 2026

For your testing/developing pleasure, @WordPress@mastodon.world 7.0.

Real-time collaborative editing, visual diffs, new blocks (Grid, Icons, Breadcrumbs), responsive controls, Font Library for all, in-browser media processing, an AI layer for developers, and a fresh admin look.

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/wordpress-7-0-beta-1/

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 22, 2026

Friday, 20 February, marked the 20th anniversary of MF DOOM’s Operation: Doomsday.

“On a shoestring budget, under the worst of circumstances, DOOM returned to Rap as a villain with a masked identity and a sinister sound. However, instead of snatching jewels, he dropped them.”

https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/04/mf-doom-operation-doomsday-20-years-later/

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social

Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 22, 2026

Time for some Ranch!

“OpenClaw is here to help you vibe code while you take a little stroll through Wall Street.”

https://gizmodo.com/oh-god-vibe-coding-on-smart-glasses-is-a-thing-now-2000724466

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CM Harrington @octothorpe@mastodon.online

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 20, 2026

Newsletter creators: own your content, data, and audience without being locked in. Spend time building your brand, not someone else’s platform. https://wordpress.com/newsletter/

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 16, 2026

“Food by the pound,” my colleague Mike called the endless, four-bench salad bar. He meant that quantity, and not quality, was what we were consuming.

https://zeldman.com/2026/02/16/the-salad-bar-theory-of-ux-professionalism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 15, 2026

So you want to write a book.

https://abookapart.com/pages/resources-for-authoring/

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 14, 2026

“Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/columnists/trump-immigrant-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.v-_3.BzRwOJiXWTMY&smid=url-share

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 14, 2026

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-air-pollution-mississippi

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 14, 2026

Happy Valentine’s day to all the single ladies and gentlemen. Don’t let the rom coms get you down.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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Ava’s dad. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” and “Taking Your Talent to the Web.” Publisher, A LIST APART and A BOOK APART. Emeritus: Happy Cog™, An Event Apart, School of Visual Arts MFA IXD faculty, and The Web Standards Project.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 14, 2026

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/gender-studies-trump-epstein

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 13, 2026

How 1,500 people spread across dozens of time zones manage to stay connected, collaborate, and make decisions together—without ever sharing the same office.

https://ttl.blog/using-chaos-to-communicate-order/ #automattic

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 11, 2026

“The designs I made during that trial are no longer relevant. But the habit of writing carefully still shapes how I work every day.”—Henri Iamarino

https://iamarino.com/my-automattic-trial/

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 10, 2026

12 Essential WordPress Plugins for 2026 (Data-Backed Picks)

https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/02/09/best-wordpress-plugins/

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 10, 2026

New music from an old maker. Alpha test works in progress on Sonica. Dreamy, percussive, and just getting started.

https://zeldman.com/2026/02/10/works-in-progress/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 10, 2026

WordPress has launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users control what data they want to share, and access can be revoked at will.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/it-just-got-easier-for-claude-to-check-in-on-your-wordpress-site/

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 10, 2026

Before: Here’s data.
After: Here’s what the data means.

“Data visualization best practices haven’t changed. But now anyone can apply them.”

https://data.blog/2026/02/10/from-default-to-delightful-ai-assisted-data-visualization/

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 09, 2026

“Calligraphy combines with sculpture in master type designer Rubén Fontana’s Archibrazo, a serif type family designed with effortless readability in mind.”

https://www.type-together.com/archibrazo-font

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 09, 2026

What your neurodivergent colleagues wish you knew

https://data.blog/2024/04/04/what-your-neurodivergent-colleagues-wish-you-knew/ #ND #neurodiverse #OldGold

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 09, 2026

Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties in the United States.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance #BigBrother #surveillance #SurveillanceState #Bezos #Amazon #dystopia #PoliceState

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 09, 2026

A full-stack designer/developer who used to code rediscovers his superpower.

https://zeldman.com/2026/02/09/claude-code-for-designers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 08, 2026

“With the rise of A.I., the coalition of the disaffected will only grow. Policy choices in the next few years will determine whether A.I. becomes a tool for shared prosperity or a driver of downward mobility. It is ultimately in everyone’s interest to bring about a broader wealth.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/ai-democrats-jobs-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlA.oq8J.RXQk4fxlX0TM&smid=url-share

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 08, 2026

“You deserve that, you’ve earned it,” I exclaim with love while dumping a can of Fancy Feast onto a paper plate.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Feb 06, 2026

I expected to be stuck in NYU Hospital all day waiting to be seen, but the whole thing—from my physiatrist in his office printing the forms and saying “go get these x-rays today” to my arriving back home having finished the hospital procedures—took under an hour. I ❤️ NY.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Jan 07, 2026

As a designer, if you’re not occasionally annoying people by stubbornly sticking to your guns, you’re not doing your job.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Dec 08, 2025

“Our problems started before we even began to touch a single design tool.” – Nic Chan https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Nov 14, 2025

The co-production of harm by legal systems (policing, bail, sentencing) and financial systems (predatory lending, debt surveillance, credit scoring) uniquely impacts Black and Brown communities by criminalizing poverty and enforcing exclusion from economic life.

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@zeldman@front-end.social · Sep 11, 2025

Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update. 

https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-2025 #webstandards #html #css

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