I wasn’t quite satisfied with it yet … so I’ll send out the issue a bit later. Which means there is still more time to sign up! 🎉😜
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The agents (of non-enterprise customers) were burning too much money: GitHub tightens usage limits, removes Opus from the Pro plan, and pauses new sign-ups for Copilot individual plans.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
It’s been a while… but how about a new #OwnYourWeb newsletter issue, going out tomorrow? 😊
Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉
Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
Alles Taktik 😬
Alles Taktik. Wir wiegen sie in Sicherheit.
Realmadridbesiegerbesieger 🤍♥️
If you feel like flagging the analytics subdomain of someone’s personal website on various DNS blocklists, at least take the time to look up what Plausible analytics is and why a cookie banner might not be needed before labelling it as "BREAKS EU LAW!" *sigh* 🙄
Also: there are only a few tickets left for what might just be Europe’s finest conference on design, creativity, and the Web. ✨ Trust me: this one’s genuinely special. The kind of event that will change you and your perspectives. 🖤
A week from now, I’ll be in Düsseldorf for @btconf 🎉🤗
Can’t wait to be back in the audience – who will join me there? 👋
“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.”
Wise words from @zeldman 💙
https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/
✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
14-year-old today: “The option of me becoming a classic coder, one who writes everything by hand, probably doesn't exist anymore, does it? Too bad, it was actually fun.”
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Your AI-generated videos of the Moon sure look impressive. But nothing compares to the real Artemis II footage – they’re almost there 😯:
“LLMs can autonomously, and without fancy scaffolding, find and exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in critical software. This is not something that was true even, let’s say, three or four months ago.”
Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️
You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨
New UNSW Sydney research finds vaping likely causes lung and oral cancer: Carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosols show DNA damage, tumours in mice & cellular harm. Please – tell your children, friends, and loved ones who might believe the “vaping is safe" lie of the tobacco industry. 💚
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-findings
Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀
So “Matt” and “Matt” from Cloudflare used their AI coding agents to slopfork WordPress? Really? 🤔🧐
I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. Because you could also write 100 Prozent. You also don’t write 100cm without a space, right?
And the careful typographer will make a Jan Tschichold gesture and decrease the space slightly …
But obviously, things are different in written English.
That’s going to be … interesting 😂
Typography nerds, I need your opinion! (And help 🙏)
Channeling your inner Robert Bringhurst – how would you write a percentage in English correctly?
100 % – with a space, because % is a unit
100% – who needs a weird space here?
100 % – with a thin space, don't half-ass it!
Honestly, who cares, really…
✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone
A few thoughts on the new WebAIM million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together.
Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy
And here’s a small favour I’d love to ask: If you’ve seen me speak and have a few kind words to share – a short testimonial about your experience – I’d be genuinely thankful if you wrote me. It would mean a lot and help others know what to expect. 🙏💚
I finally did it: I now have a speaking page on my site. 🎤🎉
If you’re looking for someone to talk about design, the web, CSS, accessibility, or the independent web at your event, that’s where you’ll find what I do, what I’ve spoken about, and how to get in touch:
31 years.
For the kids: That’s a dad joke referring to a line from a hip-hop track from 31 years ago.