Paul Ford archived his father’s poetry and writing, uploading it to the Internet Archive: My father’s last decade was one of relentless downsizing, from apartment to assisted living to nursing home, shedding belongings, throwing away clothes and furniture. And at the end: Two boxes and a tiny green urn. The ultimate...

Fixed a few things around these parts today; I started using Fakir for headings and tidied up a lot of stuff on smaller screens. The biggest change is that the headings now change size depending on the width of the container that they’re in, like this: .title-wrapper { container-type: inline-size;}.title-wrapper h1...

I never liked Untitled Sans or its brother, Untitled Serif. There was a sort of anti-design-designer thing going on with them. They screamed “I am extremely from New York City” for some reason, as if they were designed for ugly billboards that legally require a generic sans. They weren’t beautiful or striking or...

Last month Mandy Brown wrote about how she struggled to quit her job and this bit hit me like a sledgehammer: “I assumed that all the risk was in moving, that by definition staying put was the prudent option.” Same! For months I’ve been paralyzed with indecision about quitting my job. What happens if I have nothing...

Back in 2012, Doug Wilson made one of those Defining Media Objects for me—a fantastic movie called Linotype: The Film. Watching it then in college, it certainly pushed me towards publishing and typography and learning about these beautiful old machines. Now, ten years later, Doug is writing the book with his...

I’m not ready to write just yet; the sun is in the wrong place, the coffee is too hot, my sweater is too scratchy. I’ll take any excuse I can get to avoid sitting down and bang my head against a block of text that refuses to figure itself out. That’s why I like what Marcin has to say in his latest newsletter: What...

A calendar invite will appear with a cryptic note: a strange location attached — somewhere in the middle of nowhere up north, across the bridge — and a dozen or so people on your team will be subscribed. It might be bowling, or a visit to a farm, or a fancy dinner. There will be emojis and long threads and emails...

I can’t look at Dave’s tutorial about the View Transitions API without my mind racing through all the possibilities here. How does this change web design in the future? Do websites even use frameworks if all you need for some app-like animations is a few lines of JavaScript and CSS? Looks like Jake Archibald also...

Sometimes you don’t want to get distracted by flashy fonts and colors and what you really need is a great typeface that looks handwritten. But the other day I struggled finding something appropriate so, after asking around, I’m noting the best ones here for future reference. I’ll keep adding to this list, so lemme...

There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites. And, in my teens, that’s what I thought I’d be doing with my career; spending my lifetime in a dark room, playing with sounds and tinkering with adding layers upon layers of complimentary vibrations. But all that experience layering tracks on...

One of the real fucked up things about being an adult is how all those feelings you had at sixteen—not knowing what you’re doing with your life etc.—never really leave you. Those feelings might temporarily soften and quiet down but you’ll constantly bump into that not-knowing-ness over and over again. Even though...

Have you seen those fancy cards that pop open when ya click em and reveal more info? I think I saw em on Apple dot com not so long ago although now I can’t find a good example. Well, this morning I realized we don’t need a ton of JavaScript and CSS fanciness to get those big beautiful cards and here’s the proof: the...