Anne S. Katzeff

Summer Painting in the Berkshires - Peggy & I headed to the mountains in June to one of our favorite destinations: Kripalu. Its calming vibe set the tone for a wonderful stay. The weather was spectacular, so I was able to get outside to paint in the beautiful Berkshires. buff.ly/mZPRMe5

Two Great Ways to Create Masks in Photoshop - Masks are powerful tools for manipulating images. Just as Halloween masks hide and protect areas of the face, Photoshop masks hide and protect areas of an image. You use masks to isolate the parts that you want to change. buff.ly/2fuAAHs

Figma Tips and Shortcuts I Wish I Knew Earlier automattic.design/2026/10/19/f...

Sweet Auburn (1106) - Sweet Auburn, Cambridge, MA. Little did I know in 2011, when I painted this scene, that I would get married at this very spot! Magical! buff.ly/GOBmfGL • NFS - Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

Very cool. My 2 faves = Infinite Loop Spiral & CSS Scroll-Timeline Word Highlight.

Peggy's newest blog post is "Clear the Fear!" buff.ly/qIhG21G "Turn off the TV and computer, put down your cell phone, and take a walk outside in a park or nature sanctuary. Find your inner balance among the trees and flowers. Listen to birdsong and the sweet silence that surrounds you."

Open Air Painting Beyond Hull - The weekly painting gatherings with my Hull Artists group motivated me to check out other locations and practice my craft. Around the 2 hour mark, fatigue, hunger, and the need for a rest room set in. So, I often finish a painting at home. buff.ly/QzfRVSS

PHP ships a critical security release at 14:00 UTC today (15:00 UK). Two vulnerabilities, both CVSS v4.0 9.2. Versions not published yet. It won't arrive via #WordPress updates. Your host applies it at server level or you do if you manage your own server, pretty critical if you do!

Polihale Beach, Kauai (1103) - This is an expansive beach in a secluded area on Kauai. When we arrived and first saw the view, we felt welcomed by the energy. It took our breath away. buff.ly/w5xjocY • Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

Preflighting and Packaging InDesign Files - Sending an InDesign file to another person or vendor is more complicated than simply emailing the file. You must provide the IDD document along with all of its associated images and fonts. buff.ly/1M7WXPl

I’ll be showing my work in the 21st Annual Hingham Arts Walk • Oct. 18, 2026 • 12pm to 4pm. Find me in front of The Pilates Edit, 37 Main St, Hingham, MA 02043 . Throughout downtown Hingham, including sidewalks, local shops, and historic spaces. www.askdesign.biz/blog/calendar/

Fabulicious! Bookmarked!

David Attenborough's acclaimed nature series Life on Earth began production 50 years ago. Now, a PBS documentary captures the host looking back on that series as it's projected in a screening room. n.pr/3R86xvO

Undermountain Autumn (1015) - A magical fall day painting at Undermountain Farm with a wonderful group of art friends. Lenox, MA. buff.ly/z955nWg • Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

"There is no experience without conscious practice."

On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator.

[new post] Using Font Awesome w/ WordPress (Part 2: Manual Set Up) - The official Font Awesome plugin doesn’t work in a local development environment. This part 2 tutorial demonstrates how to manually set up Font Awesome with theme.json (register fonts) and functions.php (enqueue). buff.ly/Ff3UzsZ

Front-page template: using a mix of FSE responsive settings and CSS to achieve uniform resizing on smaller devices. Applying the styles to the selected FSE viewport was the key. #Wordpress

Blanket Flowers and Cosmos (1011) - A vibrant combination of purples and oranges on a teal background. Our garden in Belmont, MA. buff.ly/5zXO6Ep • Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

👀ooh lookie lookie Auditing a legacy design system: The first to-do list New article from me, this time on the @zeroheight.com blog zeroheight.com/blog/auditin... 🙏🖤

OK, you got my attention!

CSS Flexbox for beginners (mini course): "Hey folks, in this video I'm going to show you how to get started with Flexbox as a beginner. Flexbox is a really powerful #CSS feature that lets you size and align groups of elements." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvP...

Distracted Driving Project 2017 - Students approached the assignment with some apprehension, partly because of the seriousness of the subject. But they analyzed the problem well and designed with unique perspectives that focused on the best ways to reach their target audiences. buff.ly/64CRRrU

Teaching clients to use #WordPress is difficult. That's why I spoke with Allie Nimmons, an expert who has helped thousands of people learn the CMS. She has some terrific tips for teaching WordPress like a pro! thewpminute.com/how-to-teach...

WordPress MCP I've still got all my WordPress sites on Pressable and happily so; I think they do a good job! They do everything you'd expect a WordPress host to do. The... https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/05/wordpress-mcp/

Nature rocks. youtube.com/shorts/LcvAk...

Needed to fix empty box and centered nav items in #WordPress 2025 child theme footer secondary nav overlay. Tried a bunch of CSS tweaks. What worked? Rebuilt the overlay! Ta-da! #blocktheme #fse

"new Zinn bio by Dave Zirin: The People’s Historian, The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.... His presence leaps from the page.... The magic of Howard Zinn was in the living legacy of his thinking and activism" See Peggy's newest blog "For the People" buff.ly/RfCyseq

Peaceful Beginnings (1009) - My favorite way to begin my day when at Omega: go to the lake and breathe in the beauty. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY. buff.ly/A84jlzh • Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

Painting at the Farmers’ Market - It was my participation in an art show at the Belmont Gallery of Art (“From the Garden to the Kitchen to the Table”) which planted the initial seed of inspiration. This year’s show relates to all aspects of sustainable agriculture. buff.ly/zSx5BjB

1) Place a little cutie on the border of parent element with `offset-path: border-box;` 2) Animate to random positions like `offset-distance: random(0%, 100%);` 3) Swoon blog.master.dev/randomly-pla...

Gutenberg 24.0, the road to 7.2, a new default theme named Ipsum, and more—Weekend Edition 377 Read onlineIssue #377 | September 26, 2026 Howdy, Before anything else: if you maintain WordPress sites, go update them. WordPress 7.1.2 shipped on September 22 to patch a single critical vulnerability…

"If we could see every living being and every so-called “inanimate object” as part of an intricate fabric of intelligence and light, maybe we would drop many of our preconceptions and assumptions." in Peggy's newest blog post spirit-flower.com/2026/09/10/i...

Cosmic Coneflowers (1005) - The echinacea in Peggy's garden was quite impressive the year I painted this. They seemed otherworldly to me, almost like spaceships! buff.ly/A1j5V0A • Reproduced on cards, prints, bags, tees, mugs, and more!

[new post] Using Font Awesome w/ WordPress (Part 2: Manual Set Up) - The official Font Awesome plugin doesn’t work in a local development environment. This part 2 tutorial demonstrates how to manually set up Font Awesome with theme.json (register fonts) and functions.php (enqueue). buff.ly/Ff3UzsZ

Redesigning My Bootstrap Website - It had been at least 10 yrs. since I last redesigned my website. To keep up with the ever-changing web landscape, I use Bootstrap for my main site & WordPress for my blog. In this post, I share my process/tools as I tackled the main site.

Awesome! youtu.be/ayWiE_gL9mU

On September 18, 1995, the Netscape Communications Corporation launched Netscape Navigator 2.0 as its new major product.

No kings, no thrones, no crowns; just a lot of voters with absolutely zero interest in being managed by a man with a crown complex. October 17, vote early and show up ready to defend the plain, radical idea that power belongs to the people. social.demcast.com/s/smUptjEW #USDemocracy

[new post] Using Font Awesome Icons with WordPress (Part 1: Plugin) - There are 2 primary ways to use Font Awesome icons with WordPress: plugin + manual code. I share with you both approaches in a 2-part series. This first tut will demonstrate the plugin. buff.ly/SBj36iD

Open Air Painting Beyond Hull - The weekly painting gatherings with my Hull Artists group motivated me to check out other locations and practice my craft. I rarely finish paintings on location. So, I often put the final touches on a painting at home, outdoors on our deck. buff.ly/lqxweX8

"There is no “trans invasion” of the WNBA—that simply doesn’t exist. What does exist, however, is the ongoing, relentless attack on trans kids and trans people ... promulgated through a coordinated, well-funded, and highly organized campaign, of which Kanter is merely a grateful shill."

Two Great Ways to Create Masks in Photoshop - Masks are powerful tools for manipulating images. Just as Halloween masks hide and protect areas of the face, Photoshop masks hide and protect areas of an image. You use masks to isolate the parts that you want to change. buff.ly/OE5vKul

Where can I get clear instrux. on how to enqueue a child block theme’s custom.css? I’ve got it working on the front-end, but not the FSE. Functions.php is not my comfort zone. Helppppp! 😊

Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s – Spectacle in 1996 – Urban Diary in 1997 – Conscience Records in 1998 – p2 output in 1998

Folks, you don't need AI to check color contrasts. You also don't need AI, to get suggestions for colors that pass the contrast ratio. It's pure, good, old math formula. Not everything needs to be "AI". Also, here are many, color contrast tools and more to help you build accessible color palettes:

I asked how much people use AI to write CSS on YouTube, and about 60% said they don't use it at all or use it only occasionally. I thought the balanced mix would be way higher. In the comments, most people complain that it's still bad at CSS, even if it's good at other stuff.

Jane Addams: the first American woman awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize, 1931, her efforts to revive the ideal of peace & champion social justice globally. She co-founded @aclu.org, 1920, and is the "mother" of the #socialwork profession in the US. She was born #OTD in 1860. #CivilLiberties #HistSky

Redesigning My Bootstrap Website - It had been at least 10 yrs. since I last redesigned my website. To keep up with the ever-changing web landscape, I use Bootstrap for my main site & WordPress for my blog. In this post, I share my process/tools as I tackled the main site.

The most undervalued front-end skill right now isn't prompting, it's being able to look at a broken layout and know what's causing it. youtu.be/2pJHWhmqlNU