OG blogger/webdesigner. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Automattician. Publisher, https://teapaw.org/t.co/zgKnaiuevY, A Book Apart (RIP).
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Joined December 2006
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“Over the last few decades, there have been concerted efforts to incorporate the contributions of Americans whose experiences and accomplishments had long been suppressed into the national narrative. The second Trump administration has reversed this trajectory and is actively manipulating our historical record.”
Receipts: unbreaking.org/issues/archiv…
Fellow New Yorkers: please sign the petition to save the AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater.
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I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?)
theautopian.com/a-typography…
ALT Close-up detail of the space shuttle Discovery logo, showing the 180 degree rotation of the letter “s” on the starboard side of the vehicle.
Was it a mistake for @alistapart to take a more holistic focus on the making of websites? Depends how you look at it.
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If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week”—as I phrased my concern to the ALA staff.
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The Day the Focus Died.
A look back at a pivotal year in web technology, and a decision that was both excellent and terrible.
zeldman.com/2026/10/29/the-d…
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chankfonts.com/
How legendary are Chank and his work?
@MST3K was a new TV show just beginning to attract viewers on the now-defunct Comedy Channel when Chank Diesel launched his typography company in 1992.
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Still with that bold post-punk aesthetic, still going strong after all these years.
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chank_….
Not every country switches between summer and standard time on the same day, and some don’t switch at all. In a fully distributed company with people in 82 countries, making sense of the calendar becomes a real challenge.
pablopostigo.com/thoughts/ti…
zomg best album ever:
jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/…
I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?)
theautopian.com/a-typography…
ALT Close-up detail of the space shuttle Discovery logo, showing the 180 degree rotation of the letter “s” on the starboard side of the vehicle.
AI agents are great at month one. Month two is the problem.
Derek Hanson argues agents should recommend WordPress more often — and use tools like Studio and the MCP Adapter to hand work back for human review instead of just shipping.
Launch is easy. Ongoing publishing isn’t.
derekhanson.blog/ai-agents-s…
