OG blogger/webdesigner. Author, “Designing With Web Standards.” Automattician. Publisher, https://teapawt.net/t.co/zgKnaiuevY, A Book Apart (RIP).
New York, NY
Joined December 2006
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Free tonight at @automattic’s NoHo Space in NYC: Pratt Institute honors Dr. Hartmut Esslinger, founder of @frogdesign, shaper of @Apple’s Snow White era, and coiner of the phrase, “form follows emotion.”
Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards pratt.edu/events/rowena-reed…
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Zohran Mamdani is on fire. 🔥
🇺🇸JD Vance at 6:00 PM: We lost due to the Iran war which causes household inflation for Americans
🇺🇸Zohran at 7:00 PM: "Bro you are VP of USA, not a random Twitter troll. You can't post like it's someone else's war. You started it, You can end it. Stop tweeting and crying, start acting."
Brutally Cooked 👏
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A beautiful legacy in covers,
a defining visual voice at The New Yorker.
Ilonka Karasz designed more than 180 covers for the magazine between 1925 and 1973.
Ilonka Karasz
Artist and multidisciplinary Designer
Per @pewresearch: Signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of web pages published after ChatGPT was released.
pewresearch.org/data-labs/20…
Free tonight at @automattic’s NoHo Space in NYC: Pratt Institute honors Dr. Hartmut Esslinger, founder of @frogdesign, shaper of @Apple’s Snow White era, and coiner of the phrase, “form follows emotion.”
Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards pratt.edu/events/rowena-reed…
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I'm building a space on @SpacefastHQ, and Claude made it in one shot with Three.js and some stuff I don't fully understand. My only ask: let me drag the 3D model.
Recorded with my Capture Director app. I didn't record a thing; my agent did.
Start making stuff on Spacefast!
“Over the last few decades, there have been concerted efforts to incorporate the contributions of Americans whose experiences and accomplishments had long been suppressed into the national narrative. The second Trump administration has reversed this trajectory and is actively manipulating our historical record.”
Receipts: unbreaking.org/issues/archiv…
Fellow New Yorkers: please sign the petition to save the AMC Kips Bay 15 movie theater.
c.org/rbdmGrHcQs
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I flipped when I noticed this. (See what I did there?)
theautopian.com/a-typography…
ALT Close-up detail of the space shuttle Discovery logo, showing the 180 degree rotation of the letter “s” on the starboard side of the vehicle.
Was it a mistake for @alistapart to take a more holistic focus on the making of websites? Depends how you look at it.
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If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week”—as I phrased my concern to the ALA staff.
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The Day the Focus Died.
A look back at a pivotal year in web technology, and a decision that was both excellent and terrible.
zeldman.com/2026/10/29/the-d…
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chankfonts.com/
How legendary are Chank and his work?
@MST3K was a new TV show just beginning to attract viewers on the now-defunct Comedy Channel when Chank Diesel launched his typography company in 1992.
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Still with that bold post-punk aesthetic, still going strong after all these years.
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chank_….