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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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zeldman, to random
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From @balambsprings.bsky.social:

“Just learned that if you add ‘cooked.wiki/‘ to beginning of ANY recipe url (before the https:/) it strips away everything but the recipe and organizes the ingredients and method into separate columns.

“Works for mobile and desktop 🤯”
https://bsky.app/profile/balambsprings.bsky.social/post/3kisrlri7yf2k

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zeldman, to random
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The W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives which may be kinder and more reliable. We can do better. Tell your friends. Tell your boss. Tell your clients. Tip o’ the beanie: @aardrian.

https://zeldman.com/2024/03/22/captcha-excludes-disabled-web-users/

zeldman, to random
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Heal an ailing web

Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation. Governance, which should correct for this, has failed to do so.

https://zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an-ailing-web/

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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

zeldman, to random
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During the FediForum conference, Meta demonstrated what it might look like to toggle on fediverse sharing and post across multiple platforms. Reporting by Emma Roth.

https://www.theverge.com/24106231/threads-fediverse-demo-meta-fediforum

zeldman, to random
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Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.

Thinktank report says ‘resounding evidence’ shows companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

zeldman, to webdev
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✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

zeldman, to random
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My take on the Apple ad: the killing in Gaza must stop.

zeldman, to random
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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/

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“LLMs are excellent at reworking stuff you’ve written—summarizing content, adjusting it to a particular reading level, helping you craft a suitable conclusion for an article or talk based on your existing content. They are not fact machines. Furthermore, they can’t replicate or replace your unique perspective on a subject and that’s the very humanness that makes your writings, talks, and other forms of communication worthy of our time.” – @Aaron

https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/dont-outsource-your-perspective-to-a-llm/

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Explained at last! Why, the moment you enter the kitchen, you forget why you went there.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Doorway_effect

zeldman, to accessibility
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✩ In A List Apart, for people who make websites: Microsoft’s Accessibility Innovation Strategist (and ALA editor-in-chief) @Aaron talks AI’s potential.

https://alistapart.com/article/opportunities-for-ai-in-accessibility/

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My dear old friends at Iconfactory — creators of Twitterrific and other great GUI gizmos — take on the challenge of keeping up with friends in a decentralized, post-Twitter world via their new app: Tapestry.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/twitterrifics-team-is-back-with-tapestry-an-app-for-tracking-social-media-news-rss-and-more/

zeldman, to Pubtips
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A New Chapter for A Book Apart

We will no longer be publishing new titles—but you can continue to shop our existing books nearly everywhere fine books are sold.

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

zeldman, to accessibility
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“Nielsen has given everyone who sees accessibility as an unnecessary cost center a way out. Listen, they will say, the experts are telling us that AI is going to solve this, so let’s deprioritize the work now so we don’t duplicate our efforts.”–Matt May

https://buttondown.email/practicaltips/archive/we-need-to-talk-about-jakob/

zeldman, to random
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Poachers, when caught stealing content from our website, always blamed the theft on an “intern” or “freelancer.” We always pretended to believe them.

https://zeldman.com/2024/05/22/ah-yes-the-famous-intern-did-it-syndrome/

zeldman, to random
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☞ “I built an Ultra-Lean, Web Components enhanced, no-build, no-dependencies boilerplate for PWAs, using only the Modern Web.”

https://medium.com/@neerventure/purepwa-a-radical-u-turn-in-web-development-a386c0dc092e

@marcvanheerden | Hat tip: @Aaron

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“Smaug-72B outperforms GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium, two of the most advanced proprietary large language models developed by OpenAI and Mistral, respectively, in several of the most popular benchmarks.”

https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-smaug-72b-the-new-king-of-open-source-ai/

zeldman, to random
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Mary L. Trump explains why today was actually a bad day for Donald—and how it increases the likelihood of his being a convicted criminal well before Election Day.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/now-judge-shuts-down-donalds-lawyers?r=ejkct

zeldman, to UIDesign
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UIUX: Evolution of the Scrollbar by Sébastien Matos.
Hat tip: Nikki Vias.

https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/

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‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’: the astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/26/dali-hitchcocks-lost-storyboards-spellbound-bric-a-brac-sale

zeldman, to design
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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/

zeldman, to random
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✩ From 2018, but it bears repeating.

https://alistapart.com/article/cult-of-the-complex/

zeldman, to random
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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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“We… encourage everyone to reflect on the ownership structure of the tools that they rely on, and perhaps to favour building some genuine commons rather than products that can simply vanish because of conflicting interests.”

https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/no-one-cares-intil/

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