zeldman
@zeldman

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

 New York, NY
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Oct 19
For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock and beyond. Now Playing: “Side Two” zeldman.com/2026/10/19/now-p… via @zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Now Playing: “Side Two” - music

For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock and beyond.

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Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Move over, pervert glasses – the latest toxic trend is robogroping

Whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women

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Eric Lipton shares a warm, human reassessment of the aesthetics, vision, and legacy of Detroit architect MInoru Yamasaki, who designed the old World Trade Center in New York. Link after the jump.
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25 Years After the World Trade Center Fell, an Architect’s Legacy Is Still Being Written (Gift...

Our reporter’s personal journey in search of buildings by Minoru Yamasaki finds some abandoned, some celebrated.

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At one end of the onboarding bell curve is passive instruction that users find boring and restrictive. On the other is chucking new users into the deep end of a complicated product. Optimal onboarding is about finding the precise amount of friction that strikes a balance between the two extremes. kryshiggins.com/optimal-onbo…
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THE DESIGNER Marcel Breuer THE DESIGN Wassily Chair, 1925
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How To Live, my tenth and best book, launches next week! rulestolive.substack.com/p/n…
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A brutalist beauty. A flower-shaped building somewhere between structure and sculpture. La Tulipe, Geneva. Designed by Jack Vicajee Bertoli, 1972.
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How big was the internet? Or at least, how many new .com sites did each year produce?
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Interestingly, the corrected line is almost flat from 2016 to 2022, and the growth has largely happened in the last three years.
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Predicting the past: how big was the internet? | Matthew Sharpe data.blog/2026/10/20/predict… #DataScience #WWWgrowth

Predicting the past: how big was the internet?

Explore the challenge of predicting the past in web data science, uncovering the effects of survivorship bias and hazard rates.

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Figma Tips and Shortcuts I Wish I Knew Earlier automattic.design/2026/10/19…

Figma Tips and Shortcuts I Wish I Knew Earlier

Generally speaking, it’s good to learn as many shortcuts as you can. They keep you in a flow state and give you superpowers. Instead of listing every single Figma shortcut in a cheat sheet, t…

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Imagine being ok with kids getting killed in their classrooms to protect your right to go to the local coffee shop like this:
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Oct 17
Brian Eno's album Another Green World was released on October 17, 1975
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In September, five Automattic designers traveled to Copenhagen for Future Product Days. A month later, here are the ideas they’re still thinking about. automattic.design/2026/10/15… #ProductDesign #UX #design

When building is cheap, judgment is the job

In September, five of us from design, product, and program management traveled to Copenhagen for Future Product Days. We spent three days attending talks and workshops, and many ideas resonated wit…

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An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds and took from a wallet it did not own.
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The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway. coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/16…

An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway.

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Silly Old Bear zeldman.com/2026/10/15/pooh-… via @zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Silly Old Bear -

Remembrance of Poohs past.

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