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zeldman

@zeldman@front-end.social

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

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“Remarkably blunt and transactional”: Pay me a billion dollars, Trump tells oil co bosses, and he’ll happily help hasten the planet’s demise.

The Republican front-runner, folks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation

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My take on the Apple ad: the killing in Gaza must stop.

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At my annual physical this morning, the nurse asked questions they’ve never asked before. One was, “Are you sometimes sad?" I wanted to answer, “Aren’t you?” But I just said, “Sure, sometimes.”

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In an Adobe Design interview, A Book Apart author @timbrown (Flexible Typesetting) talks typography, platforms, and playlists.

https://adobe.design/stories/our-people/what-does-a-head-of-typography-do-tim-brown

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What to make of it? Jack Dorsey left BlueSky’s board, closed his user account, and is back on Twitter, praising it as “freedom technology” under Elon’s misrule.

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“A great idea cannot be predicted.”

Interview with Jony Ive.

https://trurocollegeartanddesign.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/the-creative-process-is-fabulously-unpredictable/

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Yep had this today with two Apple accounts. Very unusual. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112345102562161450

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@simoncox Sorry to hear, Simon!

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“our founders anticipated a Donald Trump — but they didn’t anticipate an entire political party lining up behind an amoral fascist, and they sure as fuck couldn’t imagine a corrupt Supreme Court twisting the law into pretzels to help an 88-count crime factory escape accountability forever.”

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-supreme-court-is-making-my-fucking-1be

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Rest in power.

Terry Carter broke color barriers onstage and on TV in the 1950s and ’60s and later produced multicultural documentaries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/arts/television/terry-carter-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.19vG.ph5mDr-mKylY&smid=url-share

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Cute and fun: a toggle switch with feelings. By Jon Kantner at CodePen, ℅ @codepo8.

https://codepen.io/jkantner/pen/KKYZrRv

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All my life, I've been underestimated or overestimated. Just once, I’d like to be estimated.

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Most websites have ALWAYS looked the same. Reasons include technological limitations, platform defaults, typical business needs and use cases, best practices at the time, stakeholder desire to imitate competitor features, marketing dep’t directives, and lack—or fear—of originality.

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Sure, watches that tell you when you’re walking unsteadily and pocket computer phones that show you the closest pizzeria are swell, but were you around for ResEdit?

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/13/for-love-of-pixels/

zeldman,
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@Luke That icon is courtesy of @pseudoroom .

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The states in yellow below are ones where non-citizens can vote in federal elections.

Gift link, no paywall.
https://wapo.st/3VYQC3g

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If you thought the guestbook spam of yore was impressive, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The new, AI-assisted comment spam has improved keyword stuffing, fewer grammatical mistakes, and, best of all, there’s tons more of it. Your website’s Comments section was never so useless!

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/09/akismet-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

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This happened to my family last year, and we will be paying it off for years to come.

Only in America: How insurers avoid paying large bills for covered expenses—saddling customers with huge debts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/health-insurance-medical-bills.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.9Lbz.-XrLUFwq3m8h&smid=url-share

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I wrote something for you:

My Glamorous Life: Roman Holiday

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/06/my-glamorous-life-roman-holiday/

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More than half of all women and nearly one-third of all men in America have experienced sexual violence. The rate of sexual violence is even higher for people of color.

Tonight in , the Empire State Building’s tower lights will shine teal and green to honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month and season 25 of “Law & Order: SVU.”

https://www.esbnyc.com/blog/mariska-hargitay-lights-esb-sexual-assault-awareness-month

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“Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug… Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product.” @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

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R.I.P. John Barth, author of Giles Goat-Boy.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/03/john-barth-death-american-novelist-dies-dead-aged-93

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What’s in a job title? @elly explains why good old “web design” is the best way to understand what she does—and maybe what you do, too.

https://zeldman.com/2024/04/03/the-more-things-change-or-whats-in-a-job-title/

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@rachelandrew:

As somebody who has also been shuttering web-community-focused businesses I started with people I loved, reading “Closing Time” on your site gave me feelings. Thinking of you and old times. Reflecting on achievements and regrets. xox

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/03/23/closing-time/

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This week marked the 7 year anniversary of the fourth browser shipping CSS Grid.

Can you believe it’s been SEVEN years!?

How long where other methods the dominate best practice?

  • HTML tables = 7 years
  • Fixed-width layouts with CSS = 7 years
  • Responsive layouts with floats & media queries = 7 years

WOW, so... if you aren’t using CSS Grid for most of your layouts, why not?

(I counted years when I made this timeline in 2018, at https://youtu.be/jBwBACbRuGY?t=1400)

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@craiggrannell @jensimmons

“The New CSS Layout” by @rachelandrew (foreword by @jensimmons) could be a fine place to start.

https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout

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@craiggrannell @jensimmons @rachelandrew Good online resources are linked from this post on my site. The text is pitched at generalists and is mainly an editorial preface to a list of links. The links should be very helpful to you, and to anyone else beginning to learn modern web layout methods.

https://zeldman.com/2023/08/04/the-next-generation-of-web-layouts/

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