A List Apart “for people who make websites” 1997–?
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A List Apart (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. We began as a mailing list in 1997 and launched the web magazine in 1998. https://www.alistapart.com
Our most-used words in 2025 were (no surprise):
1. "content" (9×)
2. "design" (6×)
3. "webdevelopment" (5×)
4. "webdesign" (5×)
5. "html" (4×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
1. "content" (9×)
2. "design" (6×)
3. "webdevelopment" (5×)
4. "webdesign" (5×)
5. "html" (4×)
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Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Our most-used words in 2025 were (no surprise):
1. "content" (9×)
2. "design" (6×)
3. "webdevelopment" (5×)
4. "webdesign" (5×)
5. "html" (4×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
1. "content" (9×)
2. "design" (6×)
3. "webdevelopment" (5×)
4. "webdesign" (5×)
5. "html" (4×)
See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest
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"Ultimately, many of these edits and punts were made in light of the CSS Working Group’s three primary goals for this spec. It needed to be:" Powerful • Robust • Performant
The Story of CSS Grid, from Its Creators
alistapart.com/article/the-... #CSSgrid #css #WebDesign #code #frontend #WebHistory #WebDesignHistory #WebDevelopment
alistapart.com/article/the-... #CSSgrid #css #WebDesign #code #frontend #WebHistory #WebDesignHistory #WebDevelopment
The Story of CSS Grid, from Its Creators
Designers have used grids for centuries. And after more than 20 years of waiting, they are finally here for the browser. This is the story of CSS Grid. It took a lot of people in the right place an…
alistapart.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Ultimately, many of these edits and punts were made in light of the CSS Working Group’s three primary goals for this spec. It needed to be:" Powerful • Robust • Performant
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It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
A Modern Typographic Scale
Rob Weychert reaches for the top notes to sing us a song of typographic scale. A little attention to scale and to the mathematics will help you to hit a high note with your designs this Christmas and ...
24ways.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
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“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
The AI that we’ll have after AI
Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.
doctorow.medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
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November 30 is #BlueBeanieDay, supporting web standards and accessibility, the building blocks empowering a people-first web.
Remember how good that web felt? It still does.
Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.
Remember how good that web felt? It still does.
Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
November 30 is #BlueBeanieDay, supporting web standards and accessibility, the building blocks empowering a people-first web.
Remember how good that web felt? It still does.
Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.
Remember how good that web felt? It still does.
Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.
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A happy #BlueBeanieDay to you and yours, celebrating an open and accessible web.
( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )
( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A happy #BlueBeanieDay to you and yours, celebrating an open and accessible web.
( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )
( #pixelart design for @alistapart.com )
Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design
alistapart.com/article/a-si...
alistapart.com/article/a-si...
A Simpler Page
Want to design a book? There are mountains of beautifully designed examples to inspire you. But what about digital books? How do you create elegantly typeset, gloriously balanced reading experience…
alistapart.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Know your design history: @craigmod.com (Flipboard, Art Space Tokyo) introduces Bibliotype, an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. #OldGold #typography #KnowYourHistory #design
alistapart.com/article/a-si...
alistapart.com/article/a-si...
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When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
When you think about it, the phrase “earning a living” is really quite vile.
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233
🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22233
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.
zeldman.com/2025/10/25/r...
zeldman.com/2025/10/25/r...
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Personal site of author, designer, Automattician, and A List Apart founder & publisher Jeffrey Zeldman. Teaching and writing about web design and web standards since 1995. Also featuring “My Glamorous...
zeldman.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.
zeldman.com/2025/10/25/r...
zeldman.com/2025/10/25/r...
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Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
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📢 New post: I wrote about improving at designing type in fits and starts while working on a lowercase for my font Citywide. Progress isn’t always quick, but I’m really enjoying the make mistakes 🔁 get a little better loop.
jasonsantamaria.com/blog/learnin...
jasonsantamaria.com/blog/learnin...
Learning Curves — jasonsantamaria.com
Assorted thoughts on slowly improving at designing type while working on a lowercase addition to Citywide.
jasonsantamaria.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢 New post: I wrote about improving at designing type in fits and starts while working on a lowercase for my font Citywide. Progress isn’t always quick, but I’m really enjoying the make mistakes 🔁 get a little better loop.
jasonsantamaria.com/blog/learnin...
jasonsantamaria.com/blog/learnin...
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Back in 2007 I started freelancing under the name Made by Elephant. Was doing some domain cleanup and was curious what the logo would look like if I did it today. Fun little Wednesday warmup exercise. (Old on the left, new on the right)
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Back in 2007 I started freelancing under the name Made by Elephant. Was doing some domain cleanup and was curious what the logo would look like if I did it today. Fun little Wednesday warmup exercise. (Old on the left, new on the right)
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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As designers, “our role is to improve experiences for all users, always. But products operate in financial ecosystems. Without a viable business, there’s no user experience to champion.” – Andy Budd
andybudd.com/archives/202...
andybudd.com/archives/202...
In Defence of Enshittification | Andy Budd
Every designer has felt it: that pang of frustration when you’re asked to make a product worse. Maybe it’s hiding a feature behind a paywall. Maybe it’s adding extra steps to the sign-up flow to captu...
andybudd.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As designers, “our role is to improve experiences for all users, always. But products operate in financial ecosystems. Without a viable business, there’s no user experience to champion.” – Andy Budd
andybudd.com/archives/202...
andybudd.com/archives/202...
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While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture
Explore the impact of amiability in web interactions and learn from the history of Vienna Circle's collaborative spirit in dealing with disagreements.
alistapart.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
While Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists met weekly to invent Computer Science. Mark Bernstein mines this forgotten history for lessons that just might save today’s web from its worst impulses.
alistapart.com/article/desi...
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They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web.
They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. 1Inspired by the success of PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver, our "Push!" story argued that Web browsers were about to become obsolete.
zeldman.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.
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I probed an LLM’s responses to HTML code generation prompts to assess its adherence to accessibility best practices. The results showed key areas where better training data is needed.
Identifying Accessibility Data Gaps in CodeGen Models :: Aaron Gustafson
Late last year, I probed an LLM’s responses to HTML code generation prompts to assess its adherence to accessibility best practices. The results were unsurprisingly disappointing — roughly what I’d...
www.aaron-gustafson.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I probed an LLM’s responses to HTML code generation prompts to assess its adherence to accessibility best practices. The results showed key areas where better training data is needed.
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Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
simonwillison.net
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
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I can only imagine how much better our world would be if we taught kids about the social model of disability and normalized accessibility.
October 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I can only imagine how much better our world would be if we taught kids about the social model of disability and normalized accessibility.
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I can't tell you how freaking PUMPED I am to share the incredible conversations I've been having on Wake Up Excited! It's been so fulfilling to have such deep and fun conversations with so many positive & creative people.
I'd love it if you checked out the show: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I'd love it if you checked out the show: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Wake Up Excited!
Inspiring conversations with exuberant humans about how to live a creative, fulfilling, and authentic life. Hosted by enthusiasm enthusiast, Brad Frost.
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I can't tell you how freaking PUMPED I am to share the incredible conversations I've been having on Wake Up Excited! It's been so fulfilling to have such deep and fun conversations with so many positive & creative people.
I'd love it if you checked out the show: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I'd love it if you checked out the show: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the web for free: “I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale (...) In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free.”.
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the web for free: “I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale (...) In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free.”.
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“Design systems aren’t component libraries—they’re living languages.”
♛ Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by Michel Ferreira in @alistapart.com.
#DesignSystems #ux #FrontEnd #webdesign #webdevelopment
♛ Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by Michel Ferreira in @alistapart.com.
#DesignSystems #ux #FrontEnd #webdesign #webdevelopment
Embracing Design Dialects: Enhancing User Experience
Discover how design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.
alistapart.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Design systems aren’t component libraries—they’re living languages.”
♛ Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by Michel Ferreira in @alistapart.com.
#DesignSystems #ux #FrontEnd #webdesign #webdevelopment
♛ Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by Michel Ferreira in @alistapart.com.
#DesignSystems #ux #FrontEnd #webdesign #webdevelopment
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Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by @alistapart.com:
https://alistapart.com/article/design-dialects-breaking-the-rules-not-the-system/
#design #designsystems
https://alistapart.com/article/design-dialects-breaking-the-rules-not-the-system/
#design #designsystems
Embracing Design Dialects: Enhancing User Experience
Discover how design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.
alistapart.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System, by @alistapart.com:
https://alistapart.com/article/design-dialects-breaking-the-rules-not-the-system/
#design #designsystems
https://alistapart.com/article/design-dialects-breaking-the-rules-not-the-system/
#design #designsystems
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Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives.
Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures.
We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives. Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures.
zeldman.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures. We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas will find new lives.
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Futura®100 is made by TypeTogether in concert with Bauer Types (@bauertypes). Find out more about Futura®100 and the 12 global writing systems in the first release on our website:
www.type-together.com/futura100-font
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www.type-together.com/futura100-font
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September 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Futura®100 is made by TypeTogether in concert with Bauer Types (@bauertypes). Find out more about Futura®100 and the 12 global writing systems in the first release on our website:
www.type-together.com/futura100-font
5/5
www.type-together.com/futura100-font
5/5