Amazing (and I never, ever use that word) visit to the Jamestown Audubon center today - beautiful, well designed, and such a great community resource and respite… @audubon.org

Chicago folks, the Art Institute's exhibition of Elizabeth Catlett's work is open and I highly encourage you to visit. I saw the exhibition 3 times when it was at the Brooklyn Museum. You will thank me later. www.artic.edu/articles/121...

🎥 New (Video) Podcast: "Navigating the World of Web Accessibility with Sara Soueidan", with @kevinpowell.co www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGK... I finally sat down with Kevin for a long-overdue, in-depth conversation about web #accessibility, and we had a blast!

If weekends were 4 days and the “work” week was 3 days, I think I’d get more done. But, maybe that’s true problem…

I wrote a thing! Finding it hard to understand why my Additional CSS wasn’t working (doing it wrong), I googled, tested, and perplexitied this brief guide into existence for you: alwaysopen.design/additional-c...

If health care costs go up as expected, 2026 is going to be a make-or-break year for me (and a lot of other US-based freelancers). I will either have to increase revenue significantly or just go out of business (after 26+ years). #Freelance time.com/7312361/obam...

[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Sally Schaefer and Tyler Bagwell – August 22, 2025 Buffalo musicians Sally Schaefer and Tyler Bagwell stopped by the WRFA studios before their performance at the 2025 Mayville Bluegrass Festival to play some songs in-studio and talk music with AOF host Anthony Merchant…

an old meals on wheels truck drove by, the letters faded, it read: eals on eels

Resisting and bargaining with myself re: working in the studio again. I worked on a watercolor for an hour but returning after a - um, year - is harder than getting back to a gym (although, getting back to the gym here is also quite hard as there is only one and it’s a mile walk one way)…

👉 On 18th September, I'm teaching a Practical layout workshop for designers and creative teams. stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/p... For designers who want to break free from the gridlock and create layouts that feel bold and expressive without losing clarity or usability. Tickets are £69

Style your underlines people! Listen to @adactio.com: we shouldn’t rely on color alone to indicate that something is interactive. Make your links beautiful and accessible, underline them. As simple as that. adactio.com/journal/22084

This was a great episode, recommend a listen if you #WordPress.

Things are growing in my first ever garden … it’s a bit experimental but things are mostly surviving. #JamestownNY

[LISTEN] Arts on Fire – STCLVR, Succulent and Sinister, Eternal Creatures – August 15, 2025 STCLVR (Gorg Mor), Eternal Creatures (Rora Morealis) and Succulent and Sinister (Rose Hewitt) stopped by the studio to talk music, their upcoming tour and the August 29th show at Secret Undisclosed Location…

“Successful businesses may be on social media, but that doesn’t mean social media made them successful.” - why we should consider where we post: alwaysopen.design/social-media...

I’ve discovered the best ice cream in the world in #JamestownNY - this was lavender honey and pistachio in a freshly made waffle cone. Made by: Pine Cone Creamery - also, I’ll try to post more here instead of Instagram because Meta Sux…

Why I'm a terrible vibe coder, thoughts on the future of AI + WordPress, and my response to another Gutenberg "crisis" article. All that and more in my latest newsletter, sent this morning 📬 www.briancoords.com/newsletter/m...

👉 Unfinished Business 131 with Jon Harvey: Spinning plates and hamster wheeling This week on Unfinished Business, Andy and Rich talk with writer, producer, and alter-ego of Count Binface, Jon Harvey.

I get a lot of blog inspiration from client questions. Here’s the latest on conversion rate optimization - it’s aimed at therapy practices but true for any business working to make their website better for people: alwaysopen.design/therapy-prac... - feedback welcome!

@a-steinerphoto.bsky.social yay! Welcome!

This RULES.

"These meetings are distracting me from the work." The meetings are the work. Sorry. The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.

If people in your organization keep having a lot of stupid arguments and making decisions based on wishful thinking or trends or opinion polls or something, get in my workshop next week on June 11. www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...

👉 Well, hello there. Unfinished Business is back again! Richard Rutter and I have run design agencies, and we've come together to discuss business, clients, and creativity because we both have Unfinished Business. https://unfinished.bz (Background: https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/unfinished-b

Good news, everyone! @alistapart.com “for people who make websites” is accepting drafts and queries. alistapart.com/about/contri...

The Index #98 is here, featuring keyboard accessibility, broken promises, Figma, ARIA and a fun Dreamcast thing. piccalil.li/the-index/98/

14 plugins for the block editor, Gutenberg 20.8, Studio 1.15.1, Woo 9.9 and more — Weekend Edition 330 gutenbergtimes.com/14-plugins-f... #Gutenberg #WordPress

Join me tomorrow for my open office hours. It’s an open discussion among WordPressers. Sometimes it's just conversational, and sometimes we help each other solve issues. (Wednesdays at 10am EDT/2pm UTC) Sign up below! events.zoom.us/ev/AtWlv0oVh...

Clients are often concerned about indexing “errors” in Google Search Console. I wrote this for them (and maybe for you)! I’m not an SEO expert, so professional comments are welcome - alwaysopen.design/google-searc...

A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.

Looking for somebody to sponsor in WordPress? Rian Rietveld is looking for sponsorship to work on Accessibility documentation, and we need her! rianrietveld.com/2025/05/19/w... #WordPress #a11y

It is critical to keep reminding everyone that a better world is possible. Not magically easy, but possible, and worth it.

So far, 62 people have pledged 269 hours towards improving accessibility in WordPress for Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 🙌 Join us this Thursday, fixing #accessibility issues in WordPress core, plugins, or on your own website! equalizedigital.com/gaad2025/ #WordPress #GAAD #GAAD2025 #a11y

Nice. Good to see how others approach theme-building.

"Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…" adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... "…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users." #a11y

Buckled down to figure out how to self-host variable fonts the right way resulted in a little how-to article: alwaysopen.design/self-hosting...

“I think the pattern in organized labor is generally that when rank-and-file workers lead, then risk-averse official union leaders tend to eventually follow.“ Whether you’re a federal worker or not, this discussion between @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social is worth your time.

Cat recovery week - doing well, a bit unhappy with her required outfit.

A nice resource for my UX writer friends: Website Headlines is a curated collection of website headers for your inspiration, that you can browse by categories. websiteheadlines.com/

They want to get rid of it *because* it's successful. Evidence-based policy undermines authority as the source of truth, so authoritarian people reject the basis of evidence. I know we are living through this battle on a world-historical scale right now, but it happens in most organizations.

Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

There are so many reasons why we don’t do this shit with SENSITIVE DATA and systems requiring HIGH AVAILABILITY A “mega API” like this *will* lead to sheer chaos, disaster, death, theft, targeted attacks, national security incidents, who knows else

ICYMI: Field Guide, No-Code Theme, Pattern Library, why you might not need a Custom Block - Weekend Edition 323 gutenbergtimes.com/field-guide-... on @gutenbergtimes.com contributions by @nathanwrigley.com @mamaduka.com @jamiemarsland.bsky.social @elpuas.bsky.social @ryanwelcher.com @briancoords.com

Thank you @raemorey.bsky.social for the post about the new @poststatus.com webinar series! www.therepository.email/post-status-...

Join us LIVE in about 2 hours for the 'This Week in #WordPress' show. It's fun, and we'd love your comments! Go on!!! Starts at 2pm UK time. bit.ly/3R2UuOn Join Nathan Wrigley, Remkus de Vries, Anna Hurko and Jonathan Overall.

The livestream will begin in two hours! @ryanwelcher.com and I are going to discuss and demo best practices for WordPress plugin development using AI. Join us 👉 www.youtube.com/live/ZHTMLvy...

🦊 I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too. Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres... #YDATUbook #books #unions #1u

Captioned recording (w ASL) of my #CSUNATC US digital #accessibility legal update talk. Trying to find the balance between risks and hope in this terrible time in the United States: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyW.... #disability #a11y #CSUN #CSUNATC2025

“It’s wild,” says another researcher who has worked with the AI Safety Institute in the past. “What does it even mean for humans to flourish?”