Category: Websites
-
The Day the Focus Died
If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week.”
-
A Permanent Home
Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like…
-
RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto
Bluesky can’t abandon the developers who made a bet on AT Proto, so they should give the protocol to a standards body while catching up on UX.—Dave Winer
-
Mark your calendar: Local News Day is 9 April
It’s no secret that newspapers across the country exist in a fragile ecosystem. Automattic has long supported journalism and local media with investments in publications and platforms like Longreads, The Atavist, and Newspack. We believe that local news…
-
Cold Storage
Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
-
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…
-
My weekend project
By controlling what I listen to, and the order in which I listen, I’m slowly designing an infinite collage of my evolving musical tastes.
-
Valediction.
What a ride that was.
-
Domain harvesting and the Twitter long game in retrospect
Tricking people into seeing unexpected content and converting some of them into customers is a tale as old as the web. It was the perfect model for the takeover.
-
Of Books and Conferences Past
Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.
-
A List Apart contributors list on Bluesky
I’ve started a Bluesky list featuring some of the brilliant writers, designers, coders, editors, and others who’ve contributed to A List Apart “for people who make websites.”
-
Web Design Inspiration
If you’re finding today a bit stressful for some reason, grab a respite by sinking into any of these web design inspiration websites.
-
This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
-
Akismet means never having to say you’re sorry
The bots who shit in your sandbox are bigger, brassier, and better than ever!
-
In search of a digital town square
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about…