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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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Remembering my brother Pete. Gone a year and a day.

https://zeldman.com/2024/02/29/r-i-pete/

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@zeldman @photomatt Is this true? --> https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/112005292466494238 (via: @Meyerweb)
If true, this will be a sad day for the Web.

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@optimiced @photomatt @Meyerweb

Thanks for asking! The article is misleading.

See https://automattic.com/2024/02/27/protecting-user-choice/ and https://www.tumblr.com/staff/743510217982083072/hi-tumblr-its-tumblr-were-working-on-some.

IMO, it’s a positive approach to a complex issue: AI, public content, and creator rights.

By sharing a private work conversation out of context before we were ready to announce the initiative, the leaker cast a negative light on the company, and—worse—shone an unfair spotlight on my colleagues.

I don’t speak for the company—that’s what the links are for.

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‘If there was ever a moment when the obvious, catastrophic, imminent risk of trusting Big Tech intermediaries to sit between you and your customers or audience, it was now. This is not the moment to be "social first." This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control.’

From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111987579737914632

zeldman, to Pubtips
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“Pluralistic is… an experiment in retaining control over my destiny—but not my work. Rather than hitching my ability to reach an audienceindieweb a platform that can be enshittified at the whim of a mercurial, infantile billionaire or their venal, callous shareholders, Pluralistic is published web-first, on a site I control, and then syndicated to every platform that matters to me.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis

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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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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/

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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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“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/

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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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“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/

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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★ I wrote something for you. Published seconds ago on A List Apart, for people who make websites.

https://alistapart.com/article/i-am-a-creative/

zeldman, to design
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♛ Take a deep dive into the visual direction for State of the Word 2023, hosted for the first time in Madrid, Spain.

https://automattic.design/2024/01/25/crafting-state-of-the-word-2023-madrid-edition/

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✩ From 2018, but it bears repeating.

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

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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

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Question of the day: Agencies, do client-facing push-button products like Tyler (AI + templates = semi-instant website) frighten you, excite you, or what?

https://tyler.com/

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Truncation is not a content strategy.

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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

After

zeldman, to CSS
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✩ A CSS 2024 snapshot, compiled by Sebastian Zartner of the W3C CSS Working Group.

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9770

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People who took an anti-malaria treatment that Donald Trump touted as a cure for Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic and waning days of his presidency were 11% more likely to die from the virus, according to a new scientific study.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/hydroxychloroquine-covid-increase-chance-death-trump

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The cruel and evil cannot be shamed.

https://www.zeldman.com/2024/01/13/satyricon/

zeldman, to accessibility
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★ It’s World Braille Day!

https://www.un.org/en/observances/braille-day

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

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It’s Day 3.

12 Days of Web: A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

https://12daysofweb.dev/
Rating: 12 Blue Beanies

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