Notices by zeldman (zeldman@front-end.social)

“Across many demos, I saw the same evolution: command line, markdown files, HTML, rich browser experiences. Agents and humans are converging on a shared visual surface: pointing, annotating, dragging, and previewing, instead of describing things in pure prose.”

https://data.blog/2026/06/19/two-weeks-at-ai-enablement-nyc/

“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-trans-rights-in-the-uk-is-the-start-of-democratic-collapse/

50 years ago today.

Rushing to the hospital Emergency Room has emerged as perhaps the paramount objective of slamming one’s own dick in a doorway.

I use this and it really is cool. I’d love it even if I didn’t work for the company.

Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/03/25/jetpack-social-major-upgrade/ #Features, #Jetpack

Bubbles, bubbles, toil and trouble. Return with us to January, 2006, where we evaluated the hype around “Web 2.0.” #OldGold Illo: Kevin Cornell.

https://alistapart.com/article/web3point0/

For your testing/developing pleasure, @WordPress 7.0.

Real-time collaborative editing, visual diffs, new blocks (Grid, Icons, Breadcrumbs), responsive controls, Font Library for all, in-browser media processing, an AI layer for developers, and a fresh admin look.

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/wordpress-7-0-beta-1/

Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties in the United States.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance #BigBrother #surveillance #SurveillanceState #Bezos #Amazon #dystopia #PoliceState

Somehow I missed this when @scripting first posted it in 2020. A principled stand against Google’s efforts to deprecate HTTP, the protocol of the web. h/t @cagrimmett

https://this.how/googleAndHttp/

“As she spoke to the Guardian she held a plastic bag into which she regularly retched.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/a-lot-of-fear-the-families-bearing-brunt-of-swedens-immigration-crackdown #AsylumSeekers #rightwing #cruelty

Happy MLK Day.

Everything you always wanted to know about Docker, but were afraid to ask. By Tiniaco Leyba.

https://tiniacoleyba.com/blog/docker-unpacked-a-10000-foot-guide-for-in-depth-understanding/

“These companies make billions of dollars on the back of harmful content.”

https://counterhate.com/blog/what-are-algorithms-and-how-do-they-make-social-media-more-harmful/

Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/internet-archive-wayback-machine-link-fixer/

“Time will show the Trump era to be less turning point, more freakish aberration—a sort of Prohibition for populists. In history’s bigger picture, Trump is a blotch, an unsightly smear on the canvas.” Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/28/donald-trump-legacy-maga-2026-tyrants

The Administration is spending over $1 billion taxpayer dollars to make our weak, demented narcissist-in-chief feel better about himself. – Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-dear-leader-bondi-noem-republican-propaganda-1235356187/

“Christopher Anderson’s photographs in Vanity Fair allow us to observe President Trump’s senior staff attempting to occupy a space long denied to him: the realm of cultural legitimacy.” – Debbie Millman

https://www.printmag.com/photography-and-design/the-most-revealing-thing-about-the-vanity-fair-photos-is-that-they-exist/

“WordPress is shipping faster, listening better and building for teams, not just individuals.” Ivana Cirkovic, wpbakery.

900 contributors on 6.9, including 230 first-time contributors, show that the community pipeline is strong.

https://wpbakery.com/blog/state-of-the-word-2025-recap/

✩ 2025 Publishing Tech Stack ✩

For publishers navigating digital production.

Long-standing and emerging CMS platforms, from open, self-hosted frameworks to fully managed enterprise environments. Architecture, usability, and typical use cases.

https://funds4media.notion.site/2025-Publishing-Tech-Stack-28c0aa86cdbb813babcfc2ecc94a9d0f

Fool’s gold.