zeldman
@zeldman.bsky.social
Ava’s pa. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards,” etc. Founder, alistapart.com (1998), happycog.com (emeritus), zeldman.com (1995). RIP: abookapart.com, aneventapart.com. Former SVA MFA IXD faculty. zeldman.link
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Lots of blandness, too! But things like the NOAA and NYPL collections there are great starting points if you're not looking for stock-looking stuff, which I am generally not.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lots of blandness, too! But things like the NOAA and NYPL collections there are great starting points if you're not looking for stock-looking stuff, which I am generally not.
“Even when Michel went offline, his work did not. It stayed available, waiting for anyone who cared enough to pick it up and carry it forward.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/25/michel-valdrighi-the-coder-whose-code-never-went-silent/
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/25/michel-valdrighi-the-coder-whose-code-never-went-silent/
Michel Valdrighi: The Coder Whose Code Never Went Silent – Iterative Wonders
Flip a coin. Actually, cheat a little in your favor. That is roughly the statistical probability (about 43%) that a random website you visit is powered by WordP
iterativewonders.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“Even when Michel went offline, his work did not. It stayed available, waiting for anyone who cared enough to pick it up and carry it forward.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/25/michel-valdrighi-the-coder-whose-code-never-went-silent/
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/25/michel-valdrighi-the-coder-whose-code-never-went-silent/
Blog posts need pictures. If you’re an illustrator or photographer, or can afford to hire good ones, you’re lucky. If not, what do you do? Stock is bland and AI illustration’s unthinkable. What’s the answer? 1/4
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Blog posts need pictures. If you’re an illustrator or photographer, or can afford to hire good ones, you’re lucky. If not, what do you do? Stock is bland and AI illustration’s unthinkable. What’s the answer? 1/4
Belated happy anniversary to Joel and the bots.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Belated happy anniversary to Joel and the bots.
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📌They appease Vladimir Putin and come after Mark Kelly.
Traitors. All of ‘em.
Traitors. All of ‘em.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
📌They appease Vladimir Putin and come after Mark Kelly.
Traitors. All of ‘em.
Traitors. All of ‘em.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
“Realpolitik” is a fascinating word when you think about it.
As if most politics = lies, and bullshit, but *some* politics is *real*. 1/3
As if most politics = lies, and bullshit, but *some* politics is *real*. 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“Realpolitik” is a fascinating word when you think about it.
As if most politics = lies, and bullshit, but *some* politics is *real*. 1/3
As if most politics = lies, and bullshit, but *some* politics is *real*. 1/3
Good morning, Bluesky!
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Good morning, Bluesky!
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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“Self-Portrait” by Priscilla Warren Roberts (American) - Oil on canvas board / 1937 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) #WomenInArt #PriscillaWarrenRoberts #PriscillaRoberts #PAFA #SelfPortrait #artText #art #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFineArts
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“Self-Portrait” by Priscilla Warren Roberts (American) - Oil on canvas board / 1937 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) #WomenInArt #PriscillaWarrenRoberts #PriscillaRoberts #PAFA #SelfPortrait #artText #art #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFineArts
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Heh-heh. I said “bot stuff.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Heh-heh. I said “bot stuff.”
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Twitter's new feature that reveals where accounts originate doesn't reveal many surprises.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Twitter's new feature that reveals where accounts originate doesn't reveal many surprises.
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NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
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“I didn’t come to leadership through a business school.”
On Tools & Thoughts for Leaders, my colleague Paolo Belcastro shares the how and why of working with coaches for 10+ years to shape the arc of his career.
ttl.blog/the-one-thin... #ProfessionalDevelopment
On Tools & Thoughts for Leaders, my colleague Paolo Belcastro shares the how and why of working with coaches for 10+ years to shape the arc of his career.
ttl.blog/the-one-thin... #ProfessionalDevelopment
The one thing that changed how I work
Coached over the last 10 years
ttl.blog
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“I didn’t come to leadership through a business school.”
On Tools & Thoughts for Leaders, my colleague Paolo Belcastro shares the how and why of working with coaches for 10+ years to shape the arc of his career.
ttl.blog/the-one-thin... #ProfessionalDevelopment
On Tools & Thoughts for Leaders, my colleague Paolo Belcastro shares the how and why of working with coaches for 10+ years to shape the arc of his career.
ttl.blog/the-one-thin... #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Clackety-clack!
“That mechanical beast, with its satisfying thwack and ding, became my silent companion.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/22/how-a-typewriter-and-solitude-sparked-a-keyboard-obsession/
“That mechanical beast, with its satisfying thwack and ding, became my silent companion.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/22/how-a-typewriter-and-solitude-sparked-a-keyboard-obsession/
How a Typewriter and Solitude Sparked a Keyboard Obsession – Iterative Wonders
My brain often feels like a browser with too many tabs open. But there's one tab that's always a bit louder, a bit more tactile, and definitely more clicky: my
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November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Clackety-clack!
“That mechanical beast, with its satisfying thwack and ding, became my silent companion.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/22/how-a-typewriter-and-solitude-sparked-a-keyboard-obsession/
“That mechanical beast, with its satisfying thwack and ding, became my silent companion.”
https://iterativewonders.com/2025/11/22/how-a-typewriter-and-solitude-sparked-a-keyboard-obsession/
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The criminal cases against both James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed. A total humiliation for Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. — And it’s only Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The criminal cases against both James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed. A total humiliation for Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. — And it’s only Monday.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
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The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
I’ve been a fan since I sat in a Times Square Theater as a stoned teenager watching “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein” seven times in a row. R.I.P., Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’ve been a fan since I sat in a Times Square Theater as a stoned teenager watching “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein” seven times in a row. R.I.P., Udo Kier.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Why the fuck are we letting this asshole drag us into a war with Venezuela? Is anybody in that entire party home mentally? Are you guys okay? Do you guys ever have anything in the news that you want to respond to when this dipshit is doing stupid shit? Hello? Is anybody home?
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Why the fuck are we letting this asshole drag us into a war with Venezuela? Is anybody in that entire party home mentally? Are you guys okay? Do you guys ever have anything in the news that you want to respond to when this dipshit is doing stupid shit? Hello? Is anybody home?