The Daily Report
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My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized…
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How do you spell success?
Working in tech means being comfortable with change and uncertainty. Successfully working in tech means not letting change and uncertainty paralyze you. Forge ahead on the best information you have, and be prepared to change…
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Behind every successful launch, there are 100 interesting failures.
We must stop thinking of failure as an end of something, and learn to see it as a natural part of progress. The first incarnation of a new idea may die, but the best ideas…
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Everybody’s lost it, Part I
My beloved veterinarian’s office apparently moved to a new office location without informing customers. They also changed phone systems. The new phone system doesn’t work, and they didn’t leave a forwarding message on the old…
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Too many meetings?
At Automattic, we know our time is finite and precious. Here are the questions we ask ourselves before agreeing to any meeting:
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Staying relevant
“And in their place came acceptance.” Staying relevant in your profession as you age and technology changes.
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Project 2026
Starting today, file suits to prevent biased gerrymandering. Fight harder for the right to vote than the GOP has fought to suppress the votes of Americans MAGA dislikes. Craft a Democratic party platform focused on…
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The eye of God
My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the…
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Accessibility 101
Nat Tarnoff covers the basics.
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My Glamorous Life: broken by design.
I encounter broken systems like this almost every week. And probably, so do you.
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A morning’s tale
Instead of screaming, I turned on the faucet.
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Writing in WordLand
This is a test. This is only a test. I’m using WordLand to write this post to my WordPress website. It’s a new, stripped-down writer’s tool for bloggers. Think of it as a frill-free writer’s…
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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My father, Maurice Zeldman, and his ZGANNT software
I asked Claude to write about the career of my father, the inventor Maurice Zeldman, as if I’d written it myself. Here, with no edits by me, is what Claude said.
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Forever
The first website my colleagues and I created was for “Batman Forever” (1995, d. Joel Schumacher), starring Val Kilmer. That website changed my life and career. I never saw “Top Gun,” but Val Kilmer made…