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
It’s so very strange when you’ve been talking to someone for 6 months and then, suddenly, from nothing but a quick look, you can see how they feel. You've spent so much time with them that they can’t hide anything from you; all their...
Here’s a nifty event hosted by Sentry that’s all about the future of front-end development: Join us on November 10th for yet another virtual event. Learn how application monitoring is more than just a failsafe for frontend development —...
When a design crit goes south, it’s almost impossible to take all that brutal feedback and focus on course correction; going back to the interface, reviewing ten thousand comments, limping away and reassessing my approach to the problem....
I love this post from Mark Story about how he used the Sentry app on a big refactor of Sentry itself: Recently we used Sentry to ensure we didn’t break Sentry while doing a large refactor. When replacing an API or code path with a new...
I wrote about how to not be a jerk the other day and some of my experiences when it comes to making websites faster: This was definitely shocking to learn when I joined a company a few years ago and found that there was a mountain of...
I was ranting about work the other day—what I was stressed about, how I’m not good at my job, how I feel like progress is never made—and my pal stopped me short and said “the least interesting thing about you is your job.” And, well, woof.
I want to quote this whole piece by Mandy Brown about rereading books but to avoid plagiarism I will only mention this graf: Reread a book enough times, or often enough—keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up...
I don’t know how much I agree with Slava Akhmechet on how to get promoted, but I do think this is true: Most good work doesn't look good. Sometimes it interferes with other people and tanks your career. But mostly it doesn't look bad...
Nathan Law Kwun Chung wrote this piece about the situation in Hong Kong: A broad range of freedoms, relating to assembly, association, speech, the press, academic research, the electoral process and more, is increasingly under threat in...
Ethan Marcotte’s latest talk is so great and I think he captures the feeling of the whole industy/craft right now. But the part that really stuck out to me is where Ethan argued that: Creating modular components isn’t the primary goal or...
In the Bay Area there’s this very clear distinction folks make between “websites” and “web apps.” Somehow, the thinking goes, if we make a web app then we don’t need to care about accessibility or responsive design. We don’t need to care...
I helped my quarantine pal move out of her apartment today. She’s leaving San Francisco and it was tough yada yada shut up. But as we're packing up her place, I start to make fun of her a bit. “Everything is a story, huh,” I said,...
Reagan Ray made a lovely collection of Jazz-inspired hand-lettering that’s very much worth a look. There’s so many interesting styles on display here!
Newsletters often feel like having to keep up with extracurricular homework. And so a word of advice for publishing a newsletter, blog post, novel, or literally anything: keep it short and keep it sweet. Writing is easy, editing is hard....
Blot makes me angry. It’s so painfully simple to make tiny websites, and the video there shows just how straightforward writing on the web can be instead of the rather blotted and clunky system that I’m working with today. I’m using...