Behind the scenes today with director Nikolai Berger and some very special @automattic.com teammates. Something’s coming. 👀

It's time for part 1 of my interview with @zeldman.bsky.social, the "Godfather of Web Standards"! Jeffrey shared his journey from building the "Batman Forever" website to his efforts to convince browser makers and web designers to adopt standards. thewpminute.com/going-in-dep...

Chemo is free for cancer patients everywhere that has universal healthcare, except the USA.

Behind the scenes today with director Nikolai Berger and some very special @automattic.com teammates. Something’s coming. 👀

Good night from New York.

Happy Mother’s Day to all.

there are like a thousand movies that start this way

New Talk UX Strategy on Monday, May 11 at noon ET. UX Job Search: What Works Best in 2026 Join me as I explore why the UX job market has remained out of balance and what it now takes to stand out when hundreds of applicants compete for every role. RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/ #UXJobs

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.” #OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for black women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History 🗃️ 1/2

My amazing wife and I are live on YouTube playing music! youtube.com/live/q_RVWud...

Not all boys who lie to their mothers grow up to be men who lie to their wives. Some have husbands.

Ava and Zach last night at a diner after visiting the Hirschfeld exhibit at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel. It was my first venture outside my apartment in nearly a week. The exhibit ends today; if you find yourself in East Midtown before 6PM, check it out. www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/exhibitions

Not all boys who lie to their mothers grow up to be men who lie to their wives. Some have husbands.

So, I've got something amazing to announce. The one and only @zeldman.bsky.social joined me for 2-part episode on @thewpminute.com! Part 1 airs on Monday, May 11. And he's going to do an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Tuesday, May 12 at 1pm EDT on Slack - join us for free! thewpminute.com/membership/

Design interfaces that adapt their content, style, structure, and behavior on the fly in response to user context and intent: _Sentient Design_ by @bigmediumjosh.bsky.social and @veronikakindred.bsky.social comes out in June from @rosenfeldmedia.com. Link after the jump:

The first nine tracks of my LP-in-progress are available for free streaming and downloading. Likes and reposts appreciated. sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j #soundtrack #electronic #triphop #acidjazz #funk #hiphop #beats #chords #melodies #albums #composinginpublic

Own your own personalized pixel portrait, hand-crafted by real human artists just for you. iconfactory.com/pixelportrai...

A new resource for distributed companies: 700+ places that @automattic.com teams have stayed during meetups around the world. What the wifi was like, how many people the meeting space actually fit, and whether we’d go back. meetomattic.com #hotels #worldwide #meetups #locations #resources

The ten font families in the list share something important in common: an explicitly human touch, not machine-made or prompt-produced, but born from human minds and crafted by human hands. ilovetypography.com/2025/12/19/1... #typefaces

Literally, the definition of accessibility here. Making it available and accessible for everybody, not just a certain few.

Own your own personalized pixel portrait, hand-crafted by real human artists just for you. iconfactory.com/pixelportrai...

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

The first nine tracks of my LP-in-progress are available for free streaming and downloading. Likes and reposts appreciated. sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j #soundtrack #electronic #triphop #acidjazz #funk #hiphop #beats #chords #melodies #albums #composinginpublic

A new resource for distributed companies: 700+ places that @automattic.com teams have stayed during meetups around the world. What the wifi was like, how many people the meeting space actually fit, and whether we’d go back. meetomattic.com #hotels #worldwide #meetups #locations #resources

Ava and Zach last night at a diner after visiting the Hirschfeld exhibit at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel. It was my first venture outside my apartment in nearly a week. The exhibit ends today; if you find yourself in East Midtown before 6PM, check it out. www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/exhibitions

The ten font families in the list share something important in common: an explicitly human touch, not machine-made or prompt-produced, but born from human minds and crafted by human hands. ilovetypography.com/2025/12/19/1... #typefaces

Read it for free: Accessibility For Everyone by @laurakalbag.com. h/t @sekai.co.uk. accessibilityforeveryone.site #a11y #BooksNeverDie #ABookApart

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

Angela Smyth, contemporary artist #womensart

He didn’t build a political movement, he built an angry rage filled mob of cruel people

We can easily do without CNN, but TCM is the greatest cable channel of all time. Rest In Peace, Ted Turner.

History will show that when we needed them most, mainstream journalists chose protecting their jobs over democracy, and it was cartoonists who took up the fight. @jackohman.bsky.social

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The Small Web is a public space comprised of places you own and control. small-tech.org

Read it for free: Accessibility For Everyone by @laurakalbag.com. h/t @sekai.co.uk. accessibilityforeveryone.site #a11y #BooksNeverDie #ABookApart

We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...

WATCH: “Does this feel like the right thing to do? Are you ready to be on the wrong side of side of history?” Tennessee Republicans generally remorseless about stripping representation from majority Black Memphis, drowning it out with white power to protect a corrupt president.

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So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

Old Gold: An enlargement of Baby Yoda pixel art created by @pseudoroom.bsky.social and copied without attribution by all kinds of people on Reddit and other social sites.

My favorite (underrated) font right now: At Umami. I've designed keycaps with it, used it for branding, heck it's currently the font I use on my ereader since it's so pleasant to look at. arillatype.studio/font/at-umami

Soundtrack for a Sunday. My LP in progress. Free to play and download on Sonica. More tracks are coming soon. sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j

“In an attempt to appeal to the widest possible audience, many campaigns opt for a sterilised version of diversity. …it is a prevalent habit in large scale commercial work. It is a form of visual middle ground that attempts to represent everyone but often fails to reflect anyone.”

LogoArchive Now: @designwithjayr LogoArchive has celebrated the logo designer of the past, but what of the future, who might find their own logos in the archive twenty years from now? Create and tag us in your own to be featured. #logos #branding #design

Whole family sick since last Friday bleh

The Pathways initiative includes scannable how-to guides and a centralized board for beginner-friendly tasks, aiming to fix a contributor pipeline in the WordPress project that has been losing people at the door.

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not having your work cited by the @nytimes.com will definitely prepare them for a journalism career tho