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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 nyc
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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 #nyc, 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

zeldman, to random
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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 #enshittification

zeldman, to random
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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

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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@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/

jensimmons, to random
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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

zeldman,
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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/

zeldman, to random
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These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021

Some of the largest contributors to election deniers are also some of the country's leading companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Walmart, and Microsoft.

https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

zeldman, to random
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Who knew? Turns out Truth Social is a deliberately unfederated Mastodon instance.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/26/2231675/-Other-problems-at-Truth-Social-and-the-Mastodon-in-the-room
℅ Daily Kos. Hat tip: Buttonmonkey.

zeldman, to random
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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 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

glyph, to random
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It seems silly but mastodon’s retreat from the language of “toots” and now even “boosts” ( they’re “reblogs” in the official app now ) is exactly the same dumb-as-rocks discarding of a recognizable brand that Xitter is doing

zeldman,
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@glyph In principle, I would normally agree with you. But, personally, I find the whole “toots” thing objectionable. It actually kept me from being an early adopter of Mastodon. Fart humor. Genteel euphemisms. Bleh! The worst. “Posts” is accurate and portable. In a federated universe, using widely accepted terms across multiple platforms makes sense; calling federated posts “toots” if they originate on a Mastodon instance seems kind of limiting, given the wider context. JMO YMMV

zeldman, to random
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To all who struggle in these times, be kind to others and gentle with yourself.

https://zeldman.com/2024/03/25/the-valley-of-hidden-sorrows/

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/

gedeonm, to random
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It’s troubling when the tech industry and the public in general seems to have a better understanding of Apple’s behavior in the tech space than the entire Department of Justice

zeldman,
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@gedeonm Same as it ever was.

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

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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Love that posed photo - where on earth* is T.B-L, it's like a brighter version of the ducting-everywhere aesthetic of Gilliam's Brazil:

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

Here's the full open letter: https://webfoundation.org/2024/03/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter/

  • Presumably somewhere at CERN. Those pipes look a bit exposed and bendy for accelerated particles, tho...

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zeldman,
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@andycarolan @sarajw Thank you both. I learned something today.

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/

zeldman, to random
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“Generative AI allows creators to weaponize the algorithms' weaknesses to monetize and popularize low-effort crap.”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/

zeldman, to random
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“America is divided not by some free-floating condition of ‘polarization’ but by one party going off the deep end.”

https://wapo.st/4ccHL3R

zeldman, to random
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Sex, Lies & Conspiracy Theories: latest far-right panic claims a 16-person design studio “has secretly written and controlled almost every popular video game of the past five years, shutting straight white men out.”

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/mar/08/gamergate-trolls-woke-game-consultants

zeldman, to random
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As American as cabbage pie: Moscow ups its already formidable disinformation game with a fresh barrage of mock news sites.

Gift link, no paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/media/spate-of-mock-news-sites-with-russian-ties-pop-up-in-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a00.gAok.H0oLcCrtqcN1&smid=url-share

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 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 random
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I will say that this has been one of the better internet conversations I’ve had on a social media platform in quite some time. And that brings joy.

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