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Automattician. OG blogger/webdesigner. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Publisher, A Book Apart (RIP).

[zeldman @zeldman]

When my brother and I were kids and our parents were out of town, we ditched school and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. Here’s what happened next.

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[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Nothing says I feel your pain like a taxpayer funded ballroom.

[zeldman @zeldman]

The strongest workflow is not HTML instead of Markdown. It is HTML for review surfaces, then Markdown or structured data for the durable record.

Markdown wins as a durable source format because it is readable, diffable, and easy to edit. HTML wins as an agent artifact format when the reader needs layout, diagrams, navigation, or interaction.

*The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML for Agent Output* by Arthur Reimus, h/t @stephdau.

https://t.co/OAGSh0ywVI

[Jamie Marsland - Head of WordPress YouTube ❤️ @pootlepress]

The easiest way I’ve found to publish a WordPress plugin to https://t.co/0A9NzbhPIN 👇

I used Claude Cowork + Presship (https://t.co/EzZmgRuWdR) for my new Vibe Code plugin.

The whole thing took about 10 minutes and a handful of prompts.

Super smooth 💪

[Airla Fan @airlasart]

I created a new generative typeface that simulates typography being woven together. You can play with it as if it’s real strands of thread 🧵🪡

I initially designed this for an exhibition all about textiles but excited to see what else I can do with this.

[zeldman @zeldman]

The strongest workflow is not HTML instead of Markdown. It is HTML for review surfaces, then Markdown or structured data for the durable record.

Markdown wins as a durable source format because it is readable, diffable, and easy to edit. HTML wins as an agent artifact format when the reader needs layout, diagrams, navigation, or interaction.

*The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML for Agent Output* by Arthur Reimus, h/t @stephdau.

https://t.co/OAGSh0ywVI

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

17 June 1885. Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour from Paris, France. It was a gift from the people of France to the people of the people of USA designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel.

[zeldman @zeldman]

If you’ve considered applying to be a Happiness Engineer at Automattic but aren’t sure you’re ready, this guide will help you prepare to apply.

https://t.co/d6w7VsvySt

[zeldman @zeldman]

Learn to recognize and protect yourself from sophisticated phishing attacks.

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[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

[Brian Eno News @dark_shark]

David Bowie's album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars was released on June 16, 1972

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[zeldman @zeldman]

Jeers for @googlechrome 148’s rollout of the proprietary prompt API against developer consensus—burning through years of hard-earned community goodwill.

Read “A Tale of Two Browsers” at https://t.co/kkEPnEBDWw.

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[zeldman @zeldman]

Developer/author @adactio critiques the current browser landscape.

Cheers for @Apple’s @webkit team for Safari 27, highlighting their decision to fix a huge backlog of bugs and edge cases instead of just chasing new features.

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[zeldman @zeldman]

Know before you go: Fans can line the route along lower Broadway near City Hall to cheer on the team as the City celebrates a championship more than 50 years in the making.

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[zeldman @zeldman]

If you’ve considered applying to be a Happiness Engineer at Automattic but aren’t sure you’re ready, this guide will help you prepare to apply.

https://t.co/d6w7VsvySt

[zeldman @zeldman]

Algorithms bury good writing behind vanity metrics and misleading popularity signals, causing indie voices and small blogs to disappear in all the noise. rndr, a new publication by Kristina Quinones, wants to fix that.

Human recommendations, one writer at a time.

https://t.co/n5eINqnYHh

[zeldman @zeldman]

✩ We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible

Gorgeously written, eminently readable mini-essay by that dependable creator of memorable phrases, @pootlepress.

https://t.co/eWN7j8ggw9 #SocialMediaBan #UK #addiction #UKgovt #regulations #PhoneAddiction