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A collection of weekly bus passes from Milwaukee, WI. Years covered are 1930-1979. Was there a new design every single week? (via @slowernet) [This is a vintage post orig…

This pseudo-truth just bugs me. I hear it all the the time. People saying they choose Safari as a browser because it’s better for their battery. But there isn’t any data (that I know of) t…

Happy April 24th, Y’all. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🕹️ Current MIT students paid homage to a legendary 201…

In the latest issue of Matthias’s excellent Own Your Web series, he describes the recent betrayal by Google: The search engine no longer says “here, go read what this person wrote.” It now…

On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we’ve sh…

I want to discuss accessibility because it is the most important thing for making websites. Other A List Apart articles give you innovation and insight. This article will give you homework. The…

In 2004 I published the first edition of The CSS Anthology with Sitepoint. The idea for the book was to take the entire CSS 2.1 specification, and come up with 101 examples to show people how to use a…

It made me giggle: Pantry Pants.…

(This is an updated version of a post I first wrote in 2017. Given everything happening in tech today, it felt worth dusting off.) The question “Why can’t they just…” has been a common refrai…

The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managin…

There's a Qobuz Beta for desktop available to download from the Qobuz Club forum (Beta Club channel) and I was curious to see what's changed, and how much my theme had to be updated. There’s a fair…

I’m giving a talk at next week’s Boston WordPress meetup! If you’re around on Monday night — that’s 27 April 2026, for you Julian calendar sickos — I hope you’ll be able t…

AI makes particle board. As a child, woodworking was part of my school’s curriculum. One of our projects was making a simple sailboat, with the kind of shape and blockines…

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me.  After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journal…