I watched a good film last night. Tornado from the same writer and director of the also-excellent Slow West. Tornado is a Scottish Samurai Western set in the 1790s. Although it’s not likely that…

New tunes from an old maker. The post Works in Progress appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

The fact that A BUNCH OF PEOPLE have sent this to me makes me feel like I’m doing life right.…

Thoughts and reflections on some principles that help create conditions for great accessibility work…

I watched yesterday’s sports match at a sports bar. Specifically in a reserved seat at the bar in front of a gigantic OLED screen. I’m in Vegas which means that a good portion of the sea…

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When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature…

Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design”…

The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money hosting Nazi newsletters. These newsletters weren’t even hard to find or subtle: swastikas and in-app recommendations from one antisemitic n…

Added to the film diary:Bad SisterDoug Campbell, 2015PersonaIngmar Bergman, 1966, ★★★★Double MommyDoug Campbell, 2016 Tagged: February 2026 Reply via email…

I’ve just returned from my third trip to Japan — my first in almost eight years. I have some general notes and photos to post when time allows. In the meantime, here…

In a tribute to Catherine O’Hara for her 2021 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Noah Reid performed Joni Mitchell’s classic. So much talent. So much love for Catherine O̵…

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Howdy, Fine People. Here's issue #70 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧳 This book is an instant add-to-cart: Hotel Retro: Vintage Luggage Labels f…

Over the decade I ran my agency SuperFriendly, more than 700 freelancers passed through our network. Which means I’ve interviewed a lot of freelancers. Across that time, one question proved more re…