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“King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. OG web designer. Automattician. Composer. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Author “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog. Taught MFA IXD @ SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 27m
“I want to read words written by my fellow humans, from their hearts and minds, through the effort of trying to clearly express what it is they’re trying to communicate, because in that effort, they figure out what it is that they actually think and want to say.” andreabadgley.blog/2026/09/24/b...
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Be human
I can’t believe I live in a time that I have to say this, but I don’t want to read blog posts or work memos or marketing materials that are clearly written by AI. That the human behind …
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 16h
As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. zeldman.com/2026/09/29/my-glamorous…
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My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target
As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. It was a cloth bag, like a backpack with only one strap. I’ve no idea what was inside it : a beat box? a toolbox? Whatever it was, it was heavy and hard and it struck the top and side of my head with stunning force.
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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I’ve lived all my life where the “close doors” elevator button does nothing so it’s truly remarkable to be in Japan where the same button instantly closes the doors on every elevator you board.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 22h
There is a 10% chance that listening to “Side One” will kill all life on the planet. Side Two is coming _very_ soon. jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-o...
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Side One, by Jeffrey Zeldman
17 track album
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy birthday to my darling daughter Ava. 🎂
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HTML is magic. The HTTP 103 Early Hints informational response lets a browser pre-connect to sites or start preloading resources *even before the server has prepared and sent a final response.
developer.mozilla.org
103 Early Hints - HTTP | MDN
The HTTP 103 Early Hints informational response may be sent by a server while it is still preparing a response, with hints about the sites and resources that the server expects the final response…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is your Diabetes diagnosis really helping you?
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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026
px in CSS ≠ a pixel on a display. This is something that is obvious when you think about it at all, but many people seem to gloss over it. I was explaining it to someone and figured I'd be best to jot it down: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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A CSS Pixel Isn't a True Pixel - 28 Sept 2026 05:15 UTC
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026
I miss when government ads just told us not to litter.
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 22/09/2026
Surfstation website in 2001 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/surf...
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Surfstation in 2001
Relive the early 2000s with the Surfstation in 2001. Visit the Web Design Museum’s gallery and experience the evolution of the internet.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An experiment in reparations: legalizing marijuana to heal the drug war’s harms to the Black community in Hudson. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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When the Weed Wars Came to Warren Street (Gift Article)
New money and age-old injustice in an American river town.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot the Empire State Building Disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/n...
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‘Hold My Legs’: How Ernie Sisto Shot the Empire State Building Disaster (Gift Article)
When a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, a Times photographer leaned far out to get close up.
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litherland @lither.land · 26/09/2026
It seems like one of the hallmarks of the fundamentally conservative mind is the fetishization of punishment and the belief that people have to “deserve” things (like food, clean air, housing, healthcare) that should be basic human rights.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Basing war strategy on the electoral calendar strikes me as suboptimal
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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TitaniumMan @titaniumman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In case anyone hasn't come across it yet, the trailer is on YouTube:
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 25/09/2026
⏰ There are only a few days left to get our courses at the pre-order price! bradfrost.com/blog/post/last-chance…
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
“People want to fuck the mascot for the surveillance app from the company that enabled the genocide.”
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See how many visible WCAG violations you can find in this 25 second clip from corpowid.ai/blog/the-eu-... ! My window is 1,280px wide. You don’t have to share. We don’t do free audits for #overlay companies here. As always—adding overlays adds risk, adds barriers, adds harm. #a11y #accessibility
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Know your music history. Get a taste of M. Frog Labat’s brilliant 1973 blend of electronica and garage rock. zeldman.com/2026/09/25/undersung-he…
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Undersung Hero: M. Frog
I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a high school senior, and I had hitchhiked to New York City with my friend Al Crump. The multi-floor Sam Goody record store in filthy Times Square was where I first laid eyes on it; hands instantly followed.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everything new is old again. webgardens.neocities.org
webgardens.neocities.org
Webgardens!
A website made by Corv, filled with fun stuff!
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Checked in for my MRIs, seated in waiting area. All is well. Caged birds tweeting. Clean, pleasant clinical setting, helpful staff. #NYUlangone
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Know your music history. Get a taste of M. Frog Labat’s brilliant 1973 blend of electronica and garage rock. zeldman.com/2026/09/25/undersung-he…
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Undersung Hero: M. Frog
I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a high school senior, and I had hitchhiked to New York City with my friend Al Crump. The multi-floor Sam Goody record store in filthy Times Square was where I first laid eyes on it; hands instantly followed.
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Communication Arts @commarts.com · 24/09/2026
CA Winner: Byron Maher. “El Salto Magazine cover summer 2025” Wood cellulose or life. A big cellulose company is destroying the environment in Galicia (Spain). ow.ly/hje850ZKFmM
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lawyers for the news outlets President Chimp banned from the White House have requested an emergency hearing after several journalists were turned away from the building Thursday morning, in blatant defiance of a federal judge’s order to restore their access. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
theguardian.com
News outlets banned from White House seek emergency hearing after being denied entry despite judge’s order – live
A federal judge had ruled Trump administration must immediately return the outlets’ press passes and said ban likely unconstitutional
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everything new is old again. webgardens.neocities.org
webgardens.neocities.org
Webgardens!
A website made by Corv, filled with fun stuff!
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You’ve just made a website, but now you're unsure where to go from here. Here are ideas for things to add and techniques to learn. 32bit.cafe/websiteideas/
32bit.cafe
32-Bit Cafe
A web space community that focuses on building websites for self-expression and creativity, made up of professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts of the personal web.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Holy shit. Please take my money.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 23/09/2026
Families of ICE victims tell panel that falsehoods, obstruction amount to ‘dual assassinations’
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Families of ICE victims tell panel that falsehoods, obstruction amount to ‘dual assassinations’
Highlighting the growing list of people killed by federal immigration agents, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and other Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday heard from family members of those killed about the Trump administration’s pattern of obstruction and lies about the shootings and victims themselves.The shadow hearing, which was held in Washington, D.C., underscored that despite new leadership at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, little has changed.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
welcometohellworld.com
His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Revisits the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero at the hands of Ice goons. She also calls attention to Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old shot by ICE before being placed in a detention center with a bullet still lodged in his back.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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TypeTogether @typetogether.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your design, our fonts /// It genuinely makes us happy to see what you’re doing with our fonts. Send us examples, and if we feature your work we’ll send you a voucher for half off any type family in our catalogue. Everybody wins! #typography #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour accessibility conference running all day. No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel h/t Elena Dosil inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"First as tragedy, then as farce" doesn't quite capture the distinction between "L'Etat, c'est moi" and "I am the [fire] code"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
“for national security reasons we need to build a deathtrap to keep all of our most important politicians safe”
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
“This is probably a new low in U.N. history."
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“New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly
The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate I...
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New macOS, new basic bugs. How it started/how it's going. Steve Jobs has rolled over in his grave so many times, by now he's halfway to China.
How customizing wallpaper is supposed to work (and has for years).Black screen, no wallpaper ever, loading screen forever without ever loading a thing, for pete's sake, Apple, DEBUG YOUR SHIT. Thank you.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour accessibility conference running all day. No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel h/t Elena Dosil inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
inclusivedesign24.org
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We classify all of the traffic in our dashboards by color. Purple is humans… it was all purple. It was all people. There were no bots in there. Bots weren’t going nuts to find out about Dolly Parton. They knew about it an hour later… It was very nice to see a spike of human activity.”
pressgazette.co.uk
Fifth of News UK website traffic was 'non-human' in past six months
Times and Sun publisher blocking 6% of total traffic - those deemed to be bad bots.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Steve Reich at 90. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Iconic photos of cultural icons — a gallery of Richard Avedon’s work. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
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Tina Turner to Cindy Crawford: icons shot by Richard Avedon – in pictures
To celebrate 100 years since the renowned American photographer’s birth, famous names pick their favourite images – of Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe and more
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The bag of wet farts that is our president has turned Eastside Manhattan below the UN into a parking lot. A parking lot full of angry drivers honking their horns uselessly.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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