Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utop…

The Firefox team just launched a website that allows users to rank the Interop 2027 proposals that they care about. And I care about things - for selfish reasons and for work. And that's a challenge.…

How it started: How it’s going: This is my prescription: I think it means nearsightedness. I’m mostly fine with close-up objects (like my phone/computer), but things 10+ feet away are blur…

Treat every input field on your website as a potential door into your web application. If you keep the door unlocked, it not only puts the application at risk, but every user who visits the site and t…

While I appreciate the time we just spent on the road, I envy an old friend who recently finished a year of traveling abroad with her family. Sophie, her partner, and daughter visited thirty-two count…

There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather…

In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a…

My blog more or less fell out of the Google Index in late August and I was suddenly unable to find anything in it via Google. (I set up Google Search Console long ago but don’t look at it very o…

🎬 Zach Cregger, 2026, ★★★★ Yes! Fumbling through the dark; ears twitching at every unidentified sound; scanning the environment for weapons, ammo, keys, exits, and most importa…

This weekend, I took Ella to her cousin's birthday party at Laser Storm on McKnight Road north of Pittsburgh. The small structure is now dwarfed by much larger, newer chain stores, but entering the do…

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I was recently debugging why an image was being downloaded. In Chrome devtools, in the network panel, the column for "initiator" was pointing to the end of the HTML document. But that wasn't true and…

🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Prese…