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.... https://zeldman.com/2026/07/29/a-permanent-home/
The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost.... https://zeldman.com/2026/07/24/you-lost-me-at-infielder/
The name of this LP is “Side One.” On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock....
Stalin decided what was good science. Millions starved. Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs.... https://zeldman.com/2026/07/11/stalin-decided-what-was-good-science-millions-starved/
Designed for a Dead Language Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves can teach you.... https://alistapart.com/article/designed-for-a-dead-language/
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. Here’s what happened next. https://zeldman.com/2026/06/17/underdubbed/
Look back in anchor tags: a partial review of my site’s 31-year visual history before diving into the new design.... https://zeldman.com/2026/06/04/remembrance-of-zeldman-coms-past/
