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Back in January I joined the Help Scout brand creative team. A few months in I noticed that we had three different, but similar, sans serif typefaces in play. Each one had a very specific purpose and worked very well. But we made a...
The magical Warner Bros. production of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1935) is now available on a beautiful Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.As a homeschooling parent years ago, I bought the original Warner Bros. DVD...
Felix Kent, Defector (gift link): […] I believed then and still believe that operating a car is too difficult for human beings. This is obviously not true at the level of making a car move. Making a car move is easy. A rat can make a car...
Read: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout ★★★ 📚 As he steered the sailboat back to his wharf, it came to him how he had once, when he was a kid, said to his father, "I'm going to have a boat one day," and his father had smiled...
On July 11, I visited the Trustees of Reservations property Charles River Peninsula in Needham, MA. It’s a lovely property which I recommend. It’s an easy hike, almost entirely flat, and there is a good amount of interesting stuff to...
In It Ends, director Alexander Ullom gives the road-movie genre a mind-bending twist. Ullom tells the story of four characters stuck on a road that never ends. They drive and drive, but can never find an exit from this road to nowhere....
Almost forgot, so this will have to do 😂 Selfie a day for a year, day 8: Aug 26, 2026 edition.
To make my doomscrolling session from yesterday feel more productive: 4 random thoughts #1. Writing an About page is the hardest part of starting a blog or newsletter. #2. Welcoming DMs on social media feel like a preamble to sales...
A while back, Ava wrote a post that I enjoyed (as always), but at times offered a perspective that didn't entirely sit right with me. Ava's issue of concern is a lack of precision around labeling, using "vegan", "almost vegan" and...
Portrait of a Mathemagician Just a short look at some number.The benefit of using plain text or markdown for all of my writing and being able to import old formats into text, I have some stats on my writing over the years. I would have...
(Continued from my previous post about what is likely the first adventure game written in Sweden on a home computer.) I may not have squeezed out every single piece of working game from The Temple, but I’ve squeezed out most of it. Once...
To my knowledge, you don’t have a personal website. You seem to be doing ok without it! How do you prefer to enjoy all that “free” time that the rest of us sweat working on portfolios? Oh, I’m not any different than everyone else on this...
One of the small things I added to Medium in early 2016 was a change to the favicon: It came from an observation about the writing process. When writing on Medium, you are likely to have a bunch of Medium tabs open with other posts,...
About my daily life, because I’m so backed up in things to do that I’m just picking little stuff out of a hat. (The incidental good news is that my lab tests were very pleasingly improved, and I’m now starting, eek, a very slow...
I’m on my way to the San Francisco Pen Show, where I’ll be co-hosting a maker’s panel tomorrow night, helping out at the Vanness Pens table through the weekend, and teaching two workshops on notebook systems: one on Saturday and one on...