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
Some friends dragged me to the Brava Theater in the Mission on Friday evening to watch a live version of The Allusionist, the podcast by Helen Zaltzman all about language. The evening was entirely perfect and I immediately felt guilty...
If we’ve ever met then you already know that one my favorite films is Nick Cave’s 20,000 Days on Earth which is part documentary and part autobiographic visual essay. Throughout the film Nick talks about his writing, his music making,...
I love this story about debugging so dang much that I want a whole television series about these sorts of issues: The technicians, despite their best efforts, could not reproduce the bug in test settings: this bug seemed only to happen...
This post by Chris all about the growing rift in the front-end development community is worth every second of your time as not only does it reveal the arguments we’ve been having over the last couple of years but it also shows just how...
I’m an inconsistent person. I’m in love with multiple exes at once and it bothers me. I’m not always funny, I’m not always charming. I let things slip. My weight, the way I dress. These things need constant attention and, well, I tend to...
I can’t remember the last time a book felt like this. It’s the sort of book that makes you want to quit your job and set up camp in bed for the day solely in order to get to the next scene, the next page, to discover what happens next....
I like this post by Georgy Marchuk on a minimal JavaScript setup but I especially like this bit where Georgy describes the difficulty of writing software as a group: The success of a development team starts with an agreement. An...
I adore Mary Beard’s latest book Women and Power. It’s a slim volume but that makes it the perfect size for Mary to keep you gripped to the edge of your seat as she compares sexism in modernity to that of the ancients. In one glorious...
We’re not in Los Angeles, Ali reminds me for maybe the fiftieth time as she unlocks her phone and points to the map. “This bit is Orange County, this bit is LA.” She’s mad and tells me I’m an idiot yet somehow it’s a mark of respect, a...
The other day I was reading Craig Mod’s article all about the Future Book where he briefly mentioned Matt Taibbi’s latest venture: Hate, Inc. This is a newsletter published via Substack (that charges $40 for a yearly subscription) but...
For the past couple of days I’ve been using You Need A Budget, a web app that’s designed around a rather simple premise: every dollar you earn should have a job, whether that’s paying for dumb stuff like video games, or paying off...
After reading a few posts about browser diversity I realized that I need to put my money where my mouth is and make the switch to Firefox. And so, despite my initial hesitation, that’s what I did last week and actually I’m loving...
What troubles me most about Brexit, despite that abomination of a name, is the wasted intellectual, emotional, and creative resources that have been spent on it so far. Two years of doubt, anxiety, and arguments. For nothing. I sometimes...
David Crawshaw has a wondrous idea for a new type of search engine that doesn’t scan the commerical web and instead indexes indie blogs, podcasts, and art instead: What I miss is that I could "go on the internet" and be in a creative...
I really like how Andy Baio describes Quora’s practices as “isolationist” in this post about why you should never use their service: All of Quora’s value is derived from the answers provided by its users, and they go to great lengths to...