Chris has a lot of exciting stuff to say about Arc here and why he hasn’t been interested in other browsers until now: I’ve developed some doubts about how much value a skin over an existing browser engine can actually bring. Like, don’t build me a browser with a built-in crypto wallet or whatever. Don’t want it,...

As we walk in the twilight-sunset-dark I find myself sniffling, then crying, then that other kind of crying. You know the kind, that overwhelming and heaving motion that takes full control but no matter how strong and disciplined I want to be for my partner I can’t find it in myself to stop. I’m crying because...

For the Sentry blog I wrote about some of my experiences at work, like learning how to gather consensus and how to be political: When I first heard that you have to “sell” your designs many moons ago though I was horrified. Shouldn’t great design be obvious? Why do I have to sell it when the design work itself is...

Stephen Coles celebrates Typographica’s 20th year with a look back through the archives and how the site began: Looking back at the bite-size, mostly-text, link-laden posts of those first few months, it becomes clear: early Typographica was essentially Type Twitter before there was Twitter. It was a daily stream of...

Last night, in a heated web design rage, I redesigned the tiny website of my newsletter, How Not To Make A Book. It bugged me for a while that I didn’t have archives of all the posts that are sent out via Buttondown and now it feels pretty good to read these missives in this format. I want to keep each website as...

I’ve waited many days for this little thing. It’s just a tiny bit of plastic that showed up in the mail this morning. No fanfare, no angels singing, no warm, bright light. It’s just a tiny envelope, but one that happens to alter the trajectory of my life in untold ways. Yet I can’t describe how I feel, how I ought...

We’re up earlier than usual, watching the sunrise, and our home is almost empty. The morning is crisp and pink, the soft blues of the sky are losing the fight up there between the intergalactic purples and oranges engaged in mortal combat. Down here though, things are just as chaotic. We’ve torn up the rugs and...

Aegir’s website is extremely, impossibly, fantastically good. He only updates it once a week or so but when he does it’s fantastic: each blog post is a custom-designed card like Five Moons or Four Quarter Moons or The Yellow Season or Still Harvesting. Each of them feels like what Robin was dreaming up with his...

I wrote about how we’re trying to be more playful with copywriting at Sentry and what other websites get wrong: Every website, to my ear, sounds as if it’s written by the same maniacally happy person sat at their keyboard typing. But I get why. Companies want to sound alert, inspiring, delighted to meet your...

Sloan, in a post about his Spring ‘83 protocol/social network experiment, noted how it feels to be on the web right now: You feel it, don’t you? They’re all crumbling, the platforms of the last decade. It’s unsettling, but/and also undeniably exciting. Tall trees fall in the forest, and light streams in, nourishing...

At the beginning of the pandemic I snapped into shape. I had just been fired and dumped, my visa on the verge of expiring. All things looked down and to the right. One day, in an effort to stop feeling sorry for myself, I dragged an exercise bike into the empty bedroom of my ex-roommate. It was here that I kicked my...

In a dazed fury the other day I saw that A Plague Tale: Requiem came out and so many folks were saying so many good things about it that I decided to pick up the first game in the series called A Plague Tale: Innocence and see what the fuss was all about. I was cynically expecting an indie hit with a half-baked...