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Robin Rendle

I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.

https://robinrendle.com/

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An Abundance of Inspiration 2025-10-28 09:21am
The Drifter 2025-10-05 08:57am
A Few Nice Words about Viewfinder 2025-09-20 04:11pm
Ditch those words! 2025-09-13 09:18am
Poverty, By America 2025-09-07 09:03am
Fix the Signal 2025-08-23 10:20am
Book notes 2025-07-13 10:26am
The End of Everything 2025-05-21 09:56am
item-flow 2025-03-30 08:56am
Humiliation 2025-03-15 09:09am
Abandon all keyboards 2025-03-10 05:02pm
trot 2025-02-15 09:46am
Notes on blogging 2025-02-01 01:00pm
Change and risk 2025-01-20 11:32am
Work is just work 2025-01-16 08:44am
Learnable by default 2025-01-11 09:23am
Digital gardening 2025-01-05 11:30am
Design artifacts 2025-01-04 10:49am
This Glorious Machine 2024-12-31 11:42am
2024 in music 2024-12-29 11:41am
text-box 2024-12-27 07:54am
Code shufflin’ 2024-12-07 08:06am
Frameworkism 2024-12-01 10:17am
The eras of CSS 2024-11-29 10:03am
Safety and stability 2024-11-26 08:41pm
into the wreck 2024-10-10 09:07am
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain 2024-10-09 09:40am
Big Apple Blues 2024-10-05 12:18pm
Coming home 2024-09-28 08:16am
Hire HTML and CSS people 2024-09-21 08:41am
Every webpage deserves to be a place 2024-09-16 08:02am
Notes on font licensing 2024-08-31 11:20pm
No one’s ready for this 2024-08-29 11:53pm
A message in binary 2024-08-29 09:05pm
Departure Mono 2024-08-28 10:40pm
Moonbound 2024-08-14 05:30pm
Ideas are vulnerable 2024-08-13 09:14am
How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust 2024-08-11 10:45am
Guess who’s back 2024-08-11 10:28am
We don’t need a boss, we need a process 2024-08-10 10:31am
Trust the vibes 2024-08-10 09:59am
Closed in England 2024-08-09 09:06am
Struggle and process 2024-08-07 06:13pm
Chase the product, not the data 2024-08-04 11:11am
When in doubt, use Roslindale 2024-08-03 09:16am
Design ain’t a democracy 2024-07-30 03:30pm
The story is a codebase 2024-07-27 10:02am
The computer is a feeling 2024-07-24 08:05pm
Stop calling yourself an IC 2024-07-13 10:10am
Book Tour Simulator 2024 2024-07-12 08:24am
Creativity is the byproduct of work 2024-07-06 01:15pm
Piranesi 2024-07-01 07:21pm
Instability 2024-06-29 08:34am
Job Hoppin’ 2024-06-21 07:48am
The New Alt Media 2024-06-16 09:53am
A prototype of the future 2024-06-04 06:50pm
Against Landlords 2024-05-26 12:44pm
Design interviews 2024-05-19 01:55pm
Sleepless in San Francisco 2024-04-25 02:40am
Designing The Cascade 2024-04-24 08:03pm
Longboarding 2024-04-14 01:10pm
Good and useful writing 2024-04-11 08:41am
E-essays 2024-04-01 08:38pm
Indoor Kid 2024-04-01 08:09am
Design is a process of getting stuck 2024-03-30 09:27am
Good Taste 2024-03-30 09:02am
The Other Side 2024-03-28 06:13pm
:has roundup 2024-03-24 05:24pm
One endless meeting 2024-03-23 08:29am
Keyboard-first apps 2024-03-23 08:01am
Is there a sane way to use the internet? 2024-03-23 07:43am
The Murderbot Diaries 2024-03-22 08:22pm
Be kind, be cool 2024-03-10 09:48am
The Elevator Test 2024-02-22 09:13am
Mini Manifesto 2024-02-21 08:12am
A *New* Program for Graphic Design 2024-02-11 09:01am
A unified theory of fucks 2024-01-26 10:43pm
If it doesn’t ship, then it doesn’t count 2024-01-21 12:09pm
Be loud about the things you love 2024-01-14 03:39pm
Resolutions are dumb 2024-01-01 12:22pm
Hitched 2023-12-30 11:07am
22 panels 2023-12-27 10:17am
Jusant 2023-12-23 10:32am
I am a poem I am not software 2023-12-06 07:51am
Figure it out 2023-12-01 09:23am
Stop Using AI-Generated Images 2023-11-28 07:47am
People and Blogs 2023-11-24 11:32am
Nuform Type 2023-11-22 09:40pm
Help is just help 2023-11-13 11:39pm
Cut the Intro 2023-10-22 10:57am
Design systems, color spaces, and CSS 2023-10-14 08:31pm
The Cascade 2023-10-06 01:36pm
footer.design 2023-10-04 10:38am
Typographic Malaise 2023-09-30 10:33am
Meta in Myanmar 2023-09-30 10:13am
Meh 2023-09-22 07:01pm
Metra Ticket Gallery 2023-09-21 10:28am
Kobo Libra 2 2023-09-20 11:18am
v13 2023-09-14 04:08pm
A lot of stuff is just fine. 2023-08-31 01:54pm
Processing painful work exits 2023-08-31 11:36am
Why are websites embarrassing? 2023-08-29 10:07am
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère 2023-08-17 03:59pm
Type Revival for Film & TV 2023-08-16 09:24am
Where the gaps are 2023-08-14 08:58am
Marmite Defontes 2023-08-11 09:41am
Shufflin’ 2023-08-09 08:15am
brr 2023-08-06 09:43am
Dark mode in the ancient world 2023-08-06 08:14am
On successor states and websites 2023-07-29 08:39am
Writing Tools 2023-07-23 07:36pm
Guide Guide 2023-07-21 07:50am
What’s Next? 2023-07-20 09:31am
These Handsome Young Men 2023-07-12 03:47pm
Parallax 2023-07-05 10:46am
Seven Gigabytes 2023-06-24 10:09am
Update 2023-06-23 04:57pm
Typography is a service, not an art 2023-06-14 01:39pm
The Risks of Staying Put 2023-06-09 07:32pm
The Linotype Book Project 2023-06-09 10:05am
To-do 2023-06-04 09:33am
Offsite 2023-05-27 08:04am
View Transitions API 2023-05-20 08:33am
Handwriting Fonts For Lo-Fi Design 2023-05-19 08:24am
Layers 2023-04-23 09:31am
The Next Great Impasse 2023-04-15 09:41am
The details element is amazing 2023-04-14 03:21pm
Syntax × Sentry 2023-04-12 06:15pm
Counter-space 2023-04-11 12:25pm
The Mountain in the Sea 2023-04-09 07:12pm
Time Control 2023-04-01 08:17am
1,799 2023-03-27 08:13am
Your reading should be messy 2023-03-25 09:47am
The venture capitalist’s dilemma 2023-03-20 08:12am
Artificial Guessing 2023-03-16 03:42pm
Tech-last 2023-03-09 03:13pm
An end to typographic widows on the web 2023-03-07 08:41am
I don’t want to log in to your website 2023-03-05 08:50am
Investing in RSS 2023-02-28 07:59pm
The Brink 2023-02-24 07:44am
The Writing of the Gods 2023-02-20 10:43am
Vibe Driven Development 2023-02-19 09:57am
Notes from a decade in publishing 2023-02-16 07:35am
The Curse of Academy Engraved LET 2023-02-15 08:01am
CSS Nesting 2023-02-09 08:08pm
“These Don’t Shuffle” 2023-02-09 08:37am
The best time to own a domain 2023-02-06 08:07am
Shift Happens Livestream 2023-02-01 08:56am
Notes On Hypertext 2023-01-30 08:20am
Container Queries and Typography 2023-01-26 08:13am
The Book Cover Review 2023-01-17 08:00am
Grumble Time 2023-01-16 08:22am
The Case of the Golden Idol 2023-01-11 08:02am
labour of love 2023-01-05 08:06am
Fragments 2023-01-04 08:50am
Shift Happens 2023-01-03 09:00am
The Year in Words 2023-01-01 08:25am
How to Distort Text with SVG Filters 2022-12-26 04:17pm
Moving Timelines 2022-12-23 08:32am
Style Queries are Mind Boggling 2022-12-22 07:29pm
; 2022-12-20 08:41am
IndieKit 2022-12-19 07:51am
Novelist as a Vocation 2022-12-14 11:34am
An Internet of Zines 2022-12-09 07:04pm
The Last Walk 2022-12-09 10:09am
Design is Politics 2022-12-08 05:06pm
Typographica Turns 20 2022-12-03 12:55pm
Late Night Tinkering 2022-12-01 09:53am
2,392 days 2022-11-30 08:24am
Moving is not failure 2022-11-22 08:48am
Aegir 2022-11-16 08:39pm
The Art of Passive Aggressive Copywriting 2022-11-10 09:27pm
The Timeline is the Problem 2022-11-06 08:43am
Food and Sleep: III 2022-11-01 01:22am
Music for a Plague 2022-10-30 10:16am
Strategic and necessary 2022-10-22 12:07pm
Fake Work 2022-10-22 11:48am
Monarch 2022-10-17 04:47pm
The Right Kind of Attention 2022-10-15 09:34am
Take a Break You Idiot 2022-10-08 05:12pm
Prototyping, prototyping, prototyping 2022-10-02 08:34am
The Other Internet 2022-09-28 08:53am
The Food Issue 2022-09-26 08:05am
Take Care of Your Blog 2022-09-11 10:25am
The Tale of the Third Finger Scan 2022-09-10 09:28am
How Not To Make A Book 2022-09-04 07:52pm
TKTKTK 2022-09-03 05:12pm
Magnet 2022-09-03 04:21pm
I Don’t Believe in Sprints 2022-09-02 09:51am
Comparing Book-Printing Services 2022-08-30 06:47pm
Alphabettes 2022-08-24 02:10pm
MD System 2022-08-23 03:20pm
My home on the web 2022-08-23 07:26am
Work ethics 2022-08-23 04:32am
Close-looking 2022-08-21 03:55am
Snark Pass 2022-08-21 02:51am
All the things a blog post can be 2022-08-21 01:51am
About the Redesign 2022-08-20 02:00am
Fairy Tales 2022-08-19 05:00pm
Olympus 2022-08-17 05:00pm
Media Query Ranges 2022-08-12 05:00pm
TypeMedia 2021 2022-08-05 05:00pm
Livewired 2022-08-01 05:00pm
Happy in the Second 2022-07-28 05:00pm
Every Photograph from Shadows 2022-07-25 05:00pm
The Great Fiction of AI 2022-07-20 05:00pm
A playground, a wellspring 2022-07-10 05:00pm
The Future 2022-07-10 05:00pm
In Praise of Shadows 2022-07-10 05:00pm
We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse 2022-07-02 05:00pm
Late night website work 2022-06-19 05:00pm
The Smallest CSS 2022-06-12 05:00pm
Framer CMS 2022-05-26 05:00pm
The Week of Too Many Things 2022-05-25 05:00pm
Optical Size And Variable Fonts 2022-05-14 05:00pm
Interconnected 2022-05-12 05:00pm
Infamy 2022-05-12 05:00pm
Typeface 3 2022-05-09 05:00pm
I wish I could control CSS scroll-snap with Javascript 2022-04-29 05:00pm
Trust 2022-04-28 05:00pm
Attention and Email 2022-04-27 05:00pm
Taking Shortcuts 2022-04-22 05:00pm
Church Going 2022-04-22 05:00pm
Blogging and the heat death of the universe 2022-04-19 05:00pm
Home Sweet Homepage 2022-04-14 05:00pm
Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint 2022-04-14 09:20am
Ego and Design 2022-03-29 08:45am
Black Mesa 2022-03-19 01:26pm
Thanks Doc 2022-03-16 10:18pm
An Ode to CSS-Tricks 2022-03-15 08:48am
36 Days of Type 2022-03-13 05:16am
The Sound I Left Behind 2022-03-06 12:00pm
Draft no.4 2022-03-06 12:19am
Two Years of Mass-Driver 2022-03-03 12:09am
The Parthenon Sculptures 2022-03-01 09:52pm
An incoherent rant about design systems 2022-02-27 09:33pm
Return 2022-02-27 03:53am
Webster’s 1913 2022-02-21 01:35pm
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary 2022-02-20 02:55pm
The Sandwich 2022-02-16 06:34pm
Promotion 2022-02-04 01:39pm
I Trawl the Megahertz 2022-02-04 01:22pm
The difference between correct-ness and useful-ness in a design system 2022-01-31 11:36pm
Like Clockwork 2022-01-13 07:22pm
British & Exotic Mineralogy 2022-01-10 07:23pm
Escape 2022-01-09 03:51pm
My anti-resume 2021-12-31 02:17pm
Software is a Gift 2021-12-30 03:14pm
A New Thing 2021-12-29 07:57pm
CSS and Momentum 2021-12-29 12:58pm
The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive 2021-12-26 11:26am
Care for the Text 2021-12-24 04:36pm
The Sexism of CSS 2021-12-20 04:10pm
End of Year Thoughts 2021 2021-12-17 09:11am
Vectro Type 2021-12-11 04:04pm
browser.engineering 2021-12-04 09:50pm
The Writers We Thought We Were 2021-12-01 09:06pm
Type Specimen As Essay 2021-11-27 06:33pm
I Love Typography 2021-11-24 06:49pm
Teranoptia 2021-11-24 09:10am
The Crane Wife 2021-11-23 02:18pm
Tilt 2021-11-20 08:40am
Books, Money, and Accessibility 2021-11-19 08:36am
Who is web3 for? 2021-11-14 09:22am
Design Systems Metrics 2021-11-02 07:21pm
What Does a Good Design System Feel Like? 2021-11-02 10:24am
A Web Browser Built for Me 2021-11-01 08:04am
This House of Lovely Secrets 2021-11-01 07:48am
Unlimited Sand and Money Still Won’t Save the Hamptons 2021-10-30 09:52am
Occupant Oldstyle 2021-10-28 08:41am
Spacing and Sci-Fi 2021-10-20 07:58pm
Weird Browsers 2021-10-19 09:14am
White Tears and the OP-1 2021-10-13 05:53pm
The Manual of Diacritics 2021-10-11 04:35pm
Punctuation in novels 2021-10-10 06:13pm
Things Learned Blogging 2021-10-07 08:28am
Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’? 2021-10-07 08:26am
Experimental Variable Fonts 2021-10-02 12:47pm
From the distance of this website 2021-10-01 07:55am
Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble 2021-09-28 06:03pm
Packing My Library 2021-09-28 08:57am
Keeping Track 2021-09-24 09:16pm
Epicene design information 2021-09-24 10:35am
Money Stuff 2021-09-22 09:03am
MÖRK BORG 2021-09-16 03:10pm
Blunder 2021-09-12 05:53pm
Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical 2021-09-03 09:30am
Moiré no more 2021-09-02 12:26am
Ugh 2021-09-01 08:01pm
Bay Curious 2021-08-29 06:23pm
The Power of a Link 2021-08-28 06:36pm
Our Impatience Is Worth Billions 2021-08-27 07:07pm
Mars After Midnight 2021-08-21 09:51pm
An Ode to BART 2021-08-20 06:48pm
The Healing Power of JavaScript 2021-08-20 03:29pm
MD Nichrome 2021-08-17 08:23pm
Text on a Curve 2021-08-15 08:50am
Sentry Hackweek 2021 2021-08-13 04:31pm
The Annosphere 2021-08-13 11:48am
How Not To Be A Jerk 2021-08-12 09:31am
Redesign: The Source of Truth 2021-08-11 10:00pm
Redesign: Everything Broke 2021-08-11 09:41am
Stress Systems. 2021-08-10 04:54pm
Does this work? 2021-08-06 01:40pm
Back to the Future with RSS 2021-07-22 05:00pm
Crease 2021-07-21 05:00pm
Redesign: Content Migration 2021-07-11 05:00pm
Redesign: Moving to Astro 2021-07-09 05:00pm
Why is file manipulation so hard? 2021-07-09 05:00pm
Redesign: Measure Once 2021-07-06 07:50pm
Designing in Public 2021-07-06 08:39am
Omens 2021-07-06 08:32am
Timefulness 2021-06-25 09:49am
Just link! 2021-06-20 01:57pm
The web is too damn complex 2021-06-18 04:58pm
It’s a beautiful day to stay inside 2021-06-16 01:51pm
The Secret (and Very Important) History of the U.S. Solar Industry 2021-06-15 08:43pm
Old Place, New Place, Reef 2021-06-08 07:07am
Invincible 2021-06-04 11:46pm
Everything that books ought to be 2021-06-04 08:36pm
Be a Big Fan 2021-06-04 08:13pm
From way out here 2021-05-22 10:57am
Animal Crossing 2021-05-20 11:10am
Marvel Superhero Lettering 2021-05-20 08:50am
The Cage 2021-05-18 11:14am
Power and the workplace 2021-05-13 09:54am
The Return of the Blogroll 2021-05-09 10:10am
Is CSS a Programming Language? 2021-05-07 04:23pm
Sentry Alerts 2021-05-07 08:43am
Anti-SEO 2021-05-05 02:04pm
Mercure 2021-05-05 07:58am
What the Redesign 2021-05-02 11:14am
One of those photographs 2021-04-29 09:14am
Don’t think like a database 2021-04-27 09:37am
Everyone in the world is just an email away 2021-04-21 08:38am
Puffin and Puffin Arcade 2021-04-19 04:28pm
How To Be Hopeless 2021-04-14 09:33pm
Monitor 404s with Sentry 2021-04-13 08:49am
world@hey.com 2021-04-11 07:31pm
Fonts in Focus: Louche 2021-04-10 06:20pm
Neglect and the Shepard-Risset glissando 2021-04-09 12:05am
Okay, sue me! 2021-04-08 03:59pm
The Art of Typewriting 2021-04-08 03:43pm
Here, I am king 2021-04-08 06:35am
All I Want 2021-04-08 06:15am
The Loves of Achilles 2021-04-06 11:18pm
Patterned 2021-04-04 12:30am
Style Check 2021-04-03 11:54am
How Not to Write a Book 2021-03-31 08:53am
The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo 2021-03-30 12:30pm
The Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing 2021-03-28 10:05am
A Year Without Books 2021-03-26 08:09pm
Every website is a gift 2021-03-22 09:19pm
The Great Bonfire at the End of Time 2021-03-22 09:05pm
Blogging and Dimly Lit Bars 2021-03-20 02:06pm
Did you know about the :has CSS selector? 2021-03-19 11:46am
Join the Sentry Design Team 2021-03-17 06:12pm
Hookshot 2021-03-17 09:28am
Building Dark Mode 2021-03-16 10:35am
Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 2021-03-14 10:49am
RSS, Focus, and Attention 2021-03-13 04:28pm
The American Rescue Plan 2021-03-13 08:36am
Putting Landsat 8’s Bands to Work 2021-03-10 10:44am
Click, click, click 2021-03-10 10:41am
Websites? Wobsites. Wibsits! 2021-03-08 08:57am
Tulip Mania 2021-03-07 03:10pm
Crypto art 2021-03-07 03:08pm
Escape Bias 2021-03-03 08:46am
The Arch of Honor 2021-03-02 08:37am
Inheritance 2021-02-27 10:30am
New CSS Tricks and Design Engineers 2021-02-24 07:11pm
Pointing at things 2021-02-20 11:51pm
Exquisite kestrels disappear 2021-02-17 08:41am
Why I still use RSS 2021-02-16 09:30am
Carry Yourself Lightly 2021-02-15 03:27pm
How lucky we are 2021-02-11 09:01am
The new reading stack 2021-02-08 09:26am
Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time 2021-02-08 09:08am
The Hardest Thing to Measure 2021-02-03 09:21am
Foundation 2021-02-02 04:15pm
Running a Successful Membership Program 2021-02-02 03:53pm
Indeterminacy 2021-01-29 06:07pm
The Arrow Type Blog 2021-01-28 11:24am
What is Bigotry? 2021-01-27 08:27am
The Art of Whaling 2021-01-20 10:56am
Hijack 2021-01-19 01:43pm
The Unknown Sea 2021-01-18 12:34pm
Season 3 2021-01-17 04:54pm
Descript 2021-01-15 02:56pm
Accessibility Weekly 2021-01-13 06:19pm
...and by islands I mean paragraphs 2021-01-13 08:54am
Katy’s Book Bloggin’ Setup 2021-01-11 03:37pm
Peak Bullshit 2021-01-11 09:13am
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization 2021-01-10 10:19am
Is Substack the Media Future We Want? 2020-12-28 04:34pm
Etna 2020-12-22 09:14pm
The Catalogue of Broken Hearts 2020-12-18 02:42am
Books for Winter 2020-12-09 10:42pm
The Iliad and the Odyssey 2020-12-09 10:18pm
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge 2020-12-04 10:27am
We’re looking for a designer 2020-12-01 09:04am
Ice Breaker 2020-11-29 10:37pm
Why the web is such a mess 2020-11-29 12:46pm
The literary life of Octavia E. Butler 2020-11-27 11:16pm
It’s Time to Hunker Down 2020-11-25 11:58pm
I Was Tough, Now I’m Needy 2020-11-25 12:46pm
The Bad-Yet-Daring Things We Do 2020-11-24 08:50am
Front-end Bloggin’ 2020-11-19 09:19am
Begin Again 2020-11-18 11:28pm
Impress Yourself 2020-11-16 11:48pm
Voting is Not Enough 2020-11-13 11:17am
Prop 22 2020-11-05 02:52pm
Random Button 2020-11-04 09:33pm
Writing about Typography 2020-11-04 01:47pm
The Weekly Planet 2020-11-03 03:48pm
Some Things I Have Consumed This Week 2020-11-01 03:06pm
Night Owl 2020-11-01 03:01pm
Accessibility is for Everyone 2020-11-01 10:52am
Cool +1 2020-10-26 01:34pm
Signals 2020-10-22 09:14pm
The Future of Frontend 2020-10-22 11:02am
Why does this design crit hurt? 2020-10-20 05:07pm
Verifying Large Refactors 2020-10-20 01:11pm
People Problems 2020-10-18 06:27pm
The least interesting thing 2020-10-10 11:26am
The case for rereading 2020-10-10 10:47am
Good work doesn’t look good 2020-10-03 10:22am
Autonomy and Hong Kong 2020-10-03 10:07am
On the design systems between us 2020-10-01 03:12pm
Web Apps Are Not A Thing, Please Stop 2020-09-29 10:34pm
Everything is a Story 2020-09-29 09:46pm
Jazz Musician Lettering 2020-09-23 09:49pm
Less homework! More fun! 2020-09-22 10:39am
Blot 2020-09-20 04:53pm
Organizing as a Machine 2020-09-20 10:35am
RBG 2020-09-19 11:48am
Don’t Be A Hero 2020-09-18 11:48am
Huh 2020-09-17 09:15am
Retweet but do not read 2020-09-13 12:12pm
Fighting with a Smile 2020-09-11 06:36pm
Design Vlogs 2020-09-09 09:20am
Pop Music / False B-Sides II 2020-09-06 11:23pm
The Money-Bail System is Racist 2020-09-05 06:53pm
Subnautica 2020-09-05 11:03am
The Phone of the Wind 2020-09-04 09:13am
Risk 2020-09-04 09:02am
Foghorn 2020-09-02 09:12am
Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority 2020-09-02 08:23am
The Right Number 2020-09-02 08:19am
The Thing with Leading in CSS 2020-08-28 09:53pm
The Radium Craze 2020-08-28 09:38pm
Signs of a Toxic Workplace 2020-08-27 09:03am
A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet 2020-08-26 04:09pm
Cover stars 2020-08-24 09:16am
An Astronomical Clunk 2020-08-22 07:38pm
A Lighthouse, A Man, A City 2020-08-21 09:27am
The DNC 2020-08-19 08:47am
Oh! What a Joyous Thing 2020-08-17 01:30pm
1940s.nyc 2020-08-15 09:41pm
Hypercards 2020-08-15 10:20am
Aglet Mono 2020-08-12 10:21am
The Past is Not Dead and Can Never Die 2020-08-12 08:00am
How would I improve RSS? 2020-08-08 08:00pm
Profits ≠ Economy 2020-08-06 09:27am
That Blessed Destination 2020-08-01 03:02pm
Tokyo Train Station Stamps 2020-07-31 08:55am
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation 2020-07-30 09:24am
A Problem of Trust 2020-07-30 08:30am
A website is an essay 2020-07-29 08:33am
No one is above grief 2020-07-28 08:00am
The Color of Law 2020-07-27 08:35am
Capacity 2020-07-17 08:40am
LfA Aluminia 2020-07-15 05:21pm
Bias is Inevitable 2020-07-15 09:59am
Performance Monitoring 2020-07-14 06:02pm
Colorful Headings 2020-07-13 08:45am
Wear a Mask 2020-07-12 11:32am
Reply links in RSS feeds 2020-07-12 10:23am
The Strange Cultural Force of the Book Deal 2020-07-11 09:58am
A feature, not a bug 2020-07-10 11:33am
Momentum 2020-07-09 06:56pm
Design is not about solving problems 2020-07-09 09:48am
Everything is the thing 2020-07-09 09:15am
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Nichrome 2020-07-08 06:46pm
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