Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
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.
Latest Posts
For the newsletter last week I jotted down some quick thoughts about Astro—it’s a static site generator that lets you build with React/Vue/Svelte components but then it produces plain ol’ HTML and CSS: I guess that’s what’s so exciting...
I need a new project; something enormous and scary, something to sweep my evenings up and away. Because now, looking back on everything I’ve made over the last decade, I realize just how much these side projects have helped me during...
Robinson Meyer on what folks get wrong about technology: Zoom out a bit, and you can see a deeper problem with how Americans think about technology. We tend, perhaps counterintuitively, to overintellectualize it. Here’s an example: You...
You know those documentaries where you see a tiny octopus on a reef and they’re getting completely annihilated by the crushing waves above and all around? They’ll clutch onto that tiny rock with all their tiny might and won’t ever let...
Okay, so I finally got around to watching Invincible—a new show on Amazon Prime based on a comic book I’d never heard of—and holy shit did it wreck an evening for me the other day. If you like great shows, go watch it. But if you like...
I do not hate many things in this world but I will make one exception. Each day I pour all my vitriol and hatred into this thing and hour by hour my hatred increases steadily. So I ask you to please bear with me whilst I throw off this...
Chris made some notes about turning 40 and what he’s learned so far. Of all the great notes and takeaways in here I think the most important one is perhaps this: Be a big fan. Good things will come from your enthusiasm.
Yesterday the sky was so very blue. It was the sort of day that’s impossible in England, a country where the blue is rare and on the occasion it does appear, it’s now faded somewhat to my eye. But just when I thought the color yesterday...
This album by Emily Hopkins called Animal Crossing is a pure delight. If you like farming games or if you’d like to feel like you’re farming whilst you work then this is the absolute perfect album for you.
Somehow I had missed this excellent blog post from Reagan Ray about the lettering in Marvel comics: ...like most lettering, right around the late 90s, it all went to shit. The hand-lettering masterpieces were abandoned for fonts and...
A few weeks ago I ranted about RSS again: One of the neat things about RSS I’ve noticed is the number of times I walk away from it feeling awe instead of anger (basically 100% of the time). I think that’s because there’s no money in it,...
Ethan Marcotte wrote about why tech workers should unionize: The Basecamp story’s been a difficult one for me to follow. It’s a story about employees volunteering time to improve their workplace; it’s a story about racism and white...
New design day! Well, really it’s more of a typographic facelift with a few improvements to the homepage, but still. Why have I redesigned this here website? I guess for a while now I’ve felt that I want to push back against the grain of...
I love this post from Chris where he asks if CSS is a programming language and confronts it in a way I’ve always felt quietly but never put into words: I have a real distaste for this question. It might seem like a fun question to dig...
When you’re building an app you often want to know two things: why are things slow and what’s on fire? Or: how miserable are my users and where is that pain felt the most? That’s why we just shipped a host of improvements that should...