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1,726 from 4 Nov 2005 to 29 Oct 2026
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weekly (50 in the last year)
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personal blog
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Latest

October 2026

  1. The Day the Focus Died
  2. Figma Tips and Shortcuts
  3. Now Playing: “Side Two”
  4. Silly Old Bear
  5. Another Saturday, Another Song.

September 2026

  1. My Glamorous Life: in Which I am a Target
  2. Undersung Hero: M. Frog
  3. Remembrance of Websites Past
  4. My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie
  5. AI, Disruption, and Standards
  6. Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools

August 2026

  1. Mix
  2. Her Glamorous Life
  3. The Most Important Industrial Designer of All Time
  4. Ebb, Meet Flow: Intrinsic Design in a Nutshell
  5. For students who make websites

July 2026

  1. A Permanent Home
  2. You lost me at “infielder.”
  3. The name of this LP is “Side One.”
  4. Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved.
  5. The Secret
  6. Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web
  7. The End
  8. The Human Story of the Open Web

June 2026

  1. Underdubbed
  2. Remembrance of zeldman.coms past
  3. She’s the Boss.

May 2026

  1. Required reading: “The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything”
  2. Lest we forget

April 2026

  1. My UX Superpower: Nothing Works!
  2. Pete’s Presence
  3. The Courage to Stop
  4. Jimmy Carter was right
  5. Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers

March 2026

  1. Dine ’n em-dash
  2. RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto
  3. Too Many Notes
  4. A die-cut above
  5. My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist
  6. What a year that was.
  7. Advice for job seekers

February 2026

  1. American healthcare
  2. The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
  3. Works in Progress
  4. Claude Code for Designers
  5. “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era”

January 2026

  1. Mark your calendar: Local News Day is 9 April
  2. We named them after the humans they were replacing.
  3. Cold Storage

December 2025

  1. Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong.

October 2025

  1. Receipts: a brief history of the death of the web.
  2. My Glamorous Life: Entertaining Uncle George
  3. My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal

September 2025

  1. How do you spell success?
  2. Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures.
  3. Everybody’s lost it, Part I

August 2025

  1. Too many meetings?
  2. Staying relevant

July 2025

  1. Project 2026
  2. The eye of God

May 2025

  1. Accessibility 101
  2. My Glamorous Life: broken by design.
  3. A morning’s tale

April 2025

  1. Writing in WordLand
  2. Web typography: a refresher and history
  3. My father, Maurice Zeldman, and his ZGANNT software
  4. Forever
  5. Who turned off the juice?

March 2025

  1. This Years Model
  2. Your opt-innie wants to talk to your opt-outtie.
  3. My Glamorous Life: The Unexpected Samples
  4. A Jewish Joke

February 2025

  1. Far from the bullying crowd
  2. My weekend project

December 2024

  1. Valediction.
  2. Domain harvesting and the Twitter long game in retrospect
  3. Of Books and Conferences Past

November 2024

  1. How to Join Blue Beanie Day: Wear and Share!
  2. Lessons from Cats: Jasper’s Clever Cleanup Routine
  3. A List Apart contributors list on Bluesky
  4. Understanding MARTI: A New Metadata Framework for AI
  5. Veterans Day Remembrance
  6. Web Design Inspiration

October 2024

  1. I Remember, Part 1
  2. I stayed.

September 2024

  1. 9/13/01
  2. Broken Blossoms

August 2024

  1. Strange Beliefs of Childhood № 99

July 2024

  1. What happened to the Share button in Zoom?
  2. One weird trick

June 2024

  1. Designer Jonathan Lee

May 2024

  1. The gift of a three-month sabbatical
  2. Ah yes, the famous “intern did it” syndrome
  3. Indigenous

April 2024

  1. Suckage begins here: why search engines now prioritize advertising over good UX
  2. This Web of Ours, Revisited
  3. Don’t bring venture capital to a knife fight
  4. Both Sides, No
  5. For love of pixels
  6. Akismet means never having to say you’re sorry
  7. The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
  8. Our Lady of Perpetual Profit

March 2024

  1. The Valley of Hidden Sorrows
  2. AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool
  3. CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users
  4. Heal an ailing web
  5. Death of a father
  6. Open-source moderation
  7. New music from the beyond
  8. “Where the people are”

February 2024

  1. R.I.Pete
  2. Just add water.
  3. Get it right.
  4. In search of a digital town square
  5. Boys! Ragu!

January 2024

  1. A Death at Walmart
  2. Knowledge Management for the win
  3. satyricon

December 2023

  1. Operation Paperclip (and other crimes)

November 2023

  1. Fly, my designers, fly!
  2. Algorithm & Blues

September 2023

  1. Resistance makes side projects hard
  2. How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years
  3. A faster horse

August 2023

  1. My Liz Danzico Joke
  2. The Next Generation of Web Layouts

April 2023

  1. My father’s story
  2. His Service

March 2023

  1. Immersive Content and Usability
  2. Valediction

February 2023

  1. Twitter Blues

January 2023

  1. About Pete
  2. Smells like victory
  3. “A $44 billion version of MySpace.”

November 2022

  1. A Cat Tale

July 2022

  1. A Tale of Two Pools

June 2022

  1. I’m Here

May 2022

  1. He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis

February 2022

  1. Education is its own privilege
  2. Walking Through Fear

January 2022

  1. Gender Bias and Reputation on Stack Overflow
  2. Fear of getting noticed
  3. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: artist Dan Licht

December 2021

  1. My First Job
  2. Enabling Folks to Express Themselves on the Web: State of the Word 2021
  3. “Like a school bus teetering on the guardrail of a bridge over a roaring river.”
  4. #SpotifyWrapped

November 2021

  1. Blue Beanie Day 2021

October 2021

  1. DOOMSDAY
  2. My Night With Essl

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