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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The salad bar theory of UX professionalism - Design Less, but better? Not this week.

“This is an arms race. What comes after those is almost always a war. It’s a war no tech company wants to lose. Hence the focus on output and tooling. In time, we will complete the transition and return our gaze to surprising and delighting the customer. Meantime, strap in, and wear a large bib.”

Transforming Data Visualization with AI and best practices Discover how AI transforms data visualization from raw numbers to compelling stories, using WordPress code history as example.

The same data tells a different story when presented effectively.

★ From Default to Delightful: AI-Assisted Data Visualization

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Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers

What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar

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The 2026 Color Collection by 3form is Rooted in History The 3form 2026 Color Collection features eight historically significant tones that can be paired together for maximum impact in interiors.

Design Milk: The 2026 Color Collection from 3form highlights “hues that have anchored design across generations and cultures for thousands of years.”

Longtime NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice | TechCrunch The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.

David Greene, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on Greene, according to The Washington Post.

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The salad bar theory of UX professionalism Less, but better? Not this week.

“Food by the pound,” my colleague Mike called the endless, four-bench salad bar. He meant that quantity, and not quality, was what we were consuming.

@kissane.myatproto.social Happy birthday to a brave and brilliant leader.

I can’t believe he’s gone. Rest in peace, thou good and faithful servant.

made with love Amanda and her friend Megan have been working on a project to support the local immigrant community impacted by ICE. Hi friends. We’re excited to share a little something we’ve been working on for …

Every little bit helps. Tangible support for the immigrant community.

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Gutenberg Changelog #126 – Gutenberg Releases 22.3, 22.4, 22.5 and WordPress 7.0 In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack welcomes Carolina Nymark back to discuss recent Gutenberg releases (22.3, 22.4, 22.5) and preview features coming in WordPress 7.0. Birgit Pauli-Haack shares her recovery journey and emphasizes the value of Carolina Nymark’s expertise. Carolina Nymark introduces herself as a long-time WordPress core committer and theme bundle maintainer, explaining her role in triaging, testing, and updating default themes.

Gutenberg Changelog #126 – Gutenberg Releases 22.3, 22.4, 22.5 and WordPress 7.0

In this episode, Birgit Pauli-Haack welcomes Carolina Nymark back to discuss recent Gutenberg releases (22.3, 22.4, 22.5) and preview features coming in WordPress 7.0. Birgit Pauli-Haack shares her recovery journey…

The Empire State Building, lit red to celebrate lunar new year.

Happy Lunar New Year from NYC.

ICE is partially responsible for the death of a Savannah school teacher this morning

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The salad bar theory of UX professionalism Less, but better? Not this week.

“Food by the pound,” my colleague Mike called the endless, four-bench salad bar. He meant that quantity, and not quality, was what we were consuming.

A Book Apart - Resources for Authoring Brief books for people who design, write, and code

So you want to write a book.

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Duck ICE and Autocorrect.

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters.

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The DOJ is monitoring what lawmakers search for in the Epstein files. Maybe they could put that same energy into monitoring, I don’t know… the people in the files.

My law firm is now litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest number of cases in the most states we have ever handled at one time. And, while Big Law firms mostly sit idly by, the need to protect elections in court is only growing.

This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yep. Pharmacist didn’t bat an eye. Said it made sense to just get it just in case.
If you don’t know if you’ve been immunized for measles just go get the shot.

Not a journalist, but if someone says “I’ve never been to his island.” You should probably immediately follow up with a question about Epstein’s other properties.

Not a journalist, but you may want to ask if any portion of the Epstein files were recovered from Mar-a-Lago document raid.

Way to make an horrible ID verification much worse Discord.

No I don't care you claimed to backtrack now.
You did it — you'll do it again.

Opinion | Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It

“Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this.”

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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.

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