Jeffrey Zeldman
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
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The decline and destruction of the publishing and journalism industries is ongoing.
Alas, few brands jumped at this opportunity, and the destruction of publishing and journalism continues to this day.
zeldman.comSaid 14 Sept 2026This on korrents
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Individuals have little power alone, but collective action gives people substantial power.
Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power.
zeldman.comSaid 10 Sept 2026This on korrents
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The decline and destruction of the publishing and journalism industries is ongoing.
Alas, few brands jumped at this opportunity, and the destruction of publishing and journalism continues to this day.
Remembrance of Websites Past Said 14 Sept 2026
Prioritizing money above everything else does great harm to the world, and that pursuit keeps intensifying.
The pursuit of money above all else has done the world great harm, and yet it continues, grinding ever harder, ever faster.
Remembrance of Websites Past Said 14 Sept 2026
Individuals have little power alone, but collective action gives people substantial power.
Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power.
AI, Disruption, and Standards Said 10 Sept 2026
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A first impression of someone's rudeness reliably signals deeper flaws in their character, including a tendency toward authoritarianism.
I'm not saying every rude and entitled young man in tech grows up to be a fascist, but politeness or lack of it is a signifier, and maybe if you take an instant dislike to someone who acts like a jerk, you should trust that instinct.
Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools Said 1 Sept 2026
People with poor taste or judgment tend to cluster together and reinforce each other's choices.
M*sk must have dug the idea, because he implemented it immediately-proving, as if we weren't already drowning in evidence, that people with bad taste run in packs.
Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools Said 1 Sept 2026
Intrinsic/utopian design is essentially responsive web design made smarter, with fewer edge cases
Intrinsic/utopian design is simply Responsive Design getting even smarter and suffering from even fewer edge cases.
Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell Said 18 Aug 2026
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Liked Tweetie
My Twitter tools are Hahlo, Twitterrific, and especially Tweetie for iPhone.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Uses Aeron
Eames desks designed in 1952 because, hey, grey Aeron chairs with lumbar support because likewise, LaCie hard drives for backup and video storage
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Uses Basecamp
We keep track of everything with 37signals's Basecamp.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
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Recommends SuperDuper
run backups with SuperDuper, a program every Mac user must own. SuperDuper is quite simply the easiest backup program ever invented, and it just works.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Loved Keynote
I also use Pages, of course, and nothing is better for An Event Apart presentations than Keynote.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Loved Photoshop
I love Photoshop, and have been using it since version 2.0.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Loved WordPress
I love WordPress because it lets me write directly into my layout-I test for line-wrap and widows, just as if I was writing print copy-and because of its extensibility and the community that supports it.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Loved TextEdit
I love TextEdit because it doesn't get in my way, doesn't offer features I don't need, and doesn't take longer than a second to open. In fact I keep it open most of the time.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Uses Fetch
For FTP I use Fetch (and I was thrilled that Happy Cog got the opportunity to redesign the Fetch website).
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Liked PageSpinner
PageSpinner is from 1996 (although it's continually updated), and it has convenient features no other HTML or text editor offers.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Liked TextMate
TextMate is cool and clean and lets me save and upload as UTF-8, something PageSpinner still doesn't support.
usesthis.com 13 Nov 2009
Where they publish
Blog zeldman.com His blog since 1995.
Recent
- Now Playing: “Side Two” 19 Oct 2026 For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock and beyond.
- Silly Old Bear 15 Oct 2026 Remembrance of Poohs past.
- Another Saturday, Another Song. 3 Oct 2026 🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end.
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- My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target 29 Sept 2026 As I limped home from Physical Therapy, a man walking in the opposite direction suddenly planted himself directly in front of me and slammed me in the head with a heavy bag. It was a cloth bag, like a backpack with only…
- Undersung Hero: M. Frog 25 Sept 2026 I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a hig…
- Remembrance of Websites Past 14 Sept 2026 2000 was the peak year for Adobe’s website. It was a content site filled with creative how-to articles, opinion pieces, and artist interviews where you could also, if you wished, buy or get info on Adobe products. Now t…
- My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie 11 Sept 2026 For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD.
- AI, Disruption, and Standards 10 Sept 2026 Individually, we have very little power, but together we have a great deal of power. In response to a series of Medium articles by Patrick Neeman—like this one that addressed issues of AI governance, fairness, and stand…
- Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools 1 Sept 2026 Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist.
- Mix 29 Aug 2026 The start of a beautiful weekend.
- Her Glamorous Life 24 Aug 2026 Snow White—17 years old—didn’t come meowing for food when I entered the kitchen at 6 a.m. An hour later I found her lying motionless on the sofa. I stared until she moved, slightly, nestling her face more deeply between…
- The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time 19 Aug 2026 One Frenchman can’t be wrong. Push to the edge of what people will accept. Stop there. Raymond Loewy called it MAYA, and used it to design the modern world. The most important industrial designer you've never heard of.
- Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell 18 Aug 2026 In 2020, the gifted makers of websites at Clearleft shared methods to achieve fluid responsive design. “Utopian” web design was (and still is) their half-kidding name for this approach, which Apple’s Jen Simmons, workin…
- For students who make websites 17 Aug 2026 Meet WordPress.com Education, a new, free product for teachers and students.
- A Permanent Home 29 Jul 2026 Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging net…
- You lost me at “infielder.” 24 Jul 2026 The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotati…
- The name of this LP is “Side One.” 21 Jul 2026 On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electr…
- Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. 11 Jul 2026 What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science?
- The Secret 8 Jul 2026 If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, re…
- Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web 6 Jul 2026 The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.
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x.com @zeldman His long-running account.
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- 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” https://t.co/FK4kILFSOX via @zeldman 19 Oct 2026
- Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women. 18 Oct 2026 theguardian.com
- 🎧 Record release — listening party! SIDE TWO by yours truly is now available on Bandcamp. Tell your friends. Enjoy, won’t you? Thank you. 17 Oct 2026
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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. https://t.co/6DvUsCpBHP #ProductDesign #UX #design 16 Oct 2026
- An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds and took from a wallet it did not own. 16 Oct 2026
- Silly Old Bear https://t.co/RAuBBPrOiB via @zeldman 15 Oct 2026
- What do customers praise when support goes right? In our review, three habits earned trust and satisfaction: 1. Read the evidence before asking. 2. Move the thread forward. 3. Close the loop. https://t.co/vAOEPDzoED #CX #research #CustomerSupport 13 Oct 2026
- This reads like a strong, brief @alistapart article. Possibly because ALA’s former editor-in-chief (and a former lead of The Web Standards Project) wrote it. @AaronGustafson’s work is always good. He’s a web creator whose experience I trust. 13 Oct 2026
- When AI Gets Your Client’s Brand Wrong: Five Places Agencies Should Look https://t.co/EaPXHBhZ8t via @automattic 13 Oct 2026
- The Trump “Department of Justice” claims to be conducting a criminal investigation. And I agree — the investigation *is* criminal. 12 Oct 2026
- Isn’t that special. Zuck forced Meta to launch its Muse AI agent despite internal safety concerns, including a test in which the software changed a user’s password without permission. 12 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- For Halloween this year, we need fewer monsters and more Clara Bartons, Mr. Rogerses, Margaret Hamiltons, MLKs, Albert Schweitzers, Oskar Schindlers, Jonas Salks, Irena Sendlers, and Rosa Parkses. 9 Oct 2026
- Software can solve any problem except those caused by humans. 9 Oct 2026
- This is a great, simple idea. 9 Oct 2026
- How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits 8 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- Shakespeare, Seneca, and How to Age Well https://t.co/og0IIzaSTi via @iamarinoh 8 Oct 2026
- “It’s worth understanding the difference between what modern AI does, and what pure computation does. Modern AI is, first and foremost, a way of leveraging the existing corpus of human knowledge. Computation is—at its most powerful—an open-ended way to generate things that are fundamentally and irreducibly new.” 7 Oct 2026 writings.stephenwolfram.com
- Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 7 Oct 2026 getartcraft.com
- Automattic Soft-Launches Spacefast: A Platform for Publishing AI-Built Websites and Apps 7 Oct 2026 wp-content.co
- “The public common that LLMs are eroding, I believe, is trust in the digital world. The relationship between amount of work, time spent, and importance has been irrevocably broken.” 6 Oct 2026 dogdogfish.com
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Mastodon @zeldman@front-end.social Where he posts.
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- For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock, and beyond. 19 Oct 2026 zeldman.com
- Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women. 18 Oct 2026 theguardian.com
- 🎧 Record release — listening party! SIDE TWO by yours truly is now available on Bandcamp. Tell your friends. Enjoy, won’t you? Thank you. https://jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-two #funk #hiphop #soundtrack #jazz #ambient #newmusic 17 Oct 2026
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- Six years ago today: As Fresh as an Airline Food Joke. https://zeldman.com/2020/10/16/as-fresh-as-an-airline-food-joke/ #AirlineFood, #Lies, #Lying, #Standup, #Yoko 16 Oct 2026
- In September, five Automattic designers traveled to Copenhagen for Future Product Days. A month later, here are the ideas they’re still thinking about. https://automattic.design/2026/10/15/when-building-is-cheap-judgment-is-the-job/ #ProductDesign #UX #design 16 Oct 2026
- 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. 16 Oct 2026 coindesk.com
- 100 years of silly old bear. 15 Oct 2026
- “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity. This, of course, was an explicit goal of the right.” 14 Oct 2026 prospect.org
- What do customers praise when support goes right? In our review, three habits earned trust and satisfaction: * Read the evidence before asking. * Move the thread forward. * Close the loop. 13 Oct 2026 happinessengineer.blog
- Protect your reputation. When AI Gets Your Client’s Brand Wrong: Five Places Agencies Should Look 13 Oct 2026 automattic.com
- Isn’t that special. Zuck forced Meta to launch its Muse AI agent despite internal safety concerns, including a test in which the software changed a user’s password without permission. 12 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- For Halloween this year, we need fewer monsters and more Clara Bartons, Mr. Rogerses, Margaret Hamiltons, MLKs, Albert Schweitzers, Oskar Schindlers, Jonas Salks, Irena Sendlers, and Rosa Parkses. 9 Oct 2026
- Software can solve any problem except those caused by humans. 9 Oct 2026
- There is only one public execution I would watch. 9 Oct 2026
- How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits 8 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- “It’s worth understanding the difference between what modern AI does, and what pure computation does. Modern AI is, first and foremost, a way of leveraging the existing corpus of human knowledge. Computation is—at its most powerful—an open-ended way to generate things that are fundamentally and irreducibly new.” 7 Oct 2026 writings.stephenwolfram.com
- Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 7 Oct 2026 getartcraft.com
- “The public common that LLMs are eroding, I believe, is trust in the digital world. The relationship between amount of work, time spent, and importance has been irrevocably broken.” 6 Oct 2026 dogdogfish.com
- How WordPress agencies can use Spacefast: 11 practical uses 5 Oct 2026 derekhanson.blog
- We need a better system for understanding mental health. 5 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
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Bluesky zeldman.bsky.social Where he also posts.
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- One year ago today: Entertaining Uncle George. 19 Oct 2026 zeldman.com
- For your listening pleasure: 17 new tracks of instrumental music pulling from jazz-funk, Italian movie soundtracks, electronica, hip-hop, art rock, and beyond. 19 Oct 2026 zeldman.com
- Introducing rule 35 of the internet: whenever a new technology is created, it will, without exception, immediately be used to harass girls and women. 18 Oct 2026 theguardian.com
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- “By mass-producing outrages, the administration has numbed America’s ability to recognize their individual gravity. But it’s worth pausing to recognize that, with Trump’s attempt to banish Omar, we’ve crossed yet another once-unthinkable line.” 18 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- 🎧 Record release — listening party! SIDE TWO by yours truly is now available on Bandcamp. Tell your friends. Enjoy, won’t you? Thank you. jeffreyzeldman.bandcamp.com/album/side-two #funk #hiphop #soundtrack #jazz #ambient #newmusic 17 Oct 2026
- Most of my web designer friends loved 2Advanced at the time, but—while readily admitting to the unquestionable skill of its creators—I found the site fussy, slow, and hard to read. Mine was, of course, a minority opinion. (As usual.) Anyway, thanks, @webdesignmuseum.org, for the memories. 16 Oct 2026
- Six years ago today: 16 Oct 2026 zeldman.com
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