internet links Creating an HTML “spoilers” element with no JS by Sage (wavebeem) Gabriele Pala’s website — omg!! I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice by Elizabeth Lopatto in The Verge — now this is hard-hitting journalism!!! “I am not going to get into the fountain pens question because it, like the...

In general November is the worst month. Cold and rainy. The days are short, and the holiday season hasn’t quite kicked in enough for it to be romantic. URL 1-bit Puerto Rico by Rubén Rodríguez against the dark forest by Erin Kissane Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones by Bridget Carey for CNET Belmonte...

note for rss reader enjoyers: this post uses a custom layout, so i recommend reading it on my blog itself. it’ll probably read like hot garbage without the layout (like, hotter garbage than it already is) so what’s all this then ugh, writing this post was KILLING me so now i’m doing this am i perhaps taking the...

After aspiring to for the past few years, I finally succeeded in updating my site for Halloween! I have a new (spooky) homepage. ⚠ Note: I discuss the homepage’s easter egg here, so I recommend checking it out before reading this post. Concept Making this was a lot less of a linear process than when I was making my...

An extremely long post because I haven’t written this in a month and there is so much to catch up on. More like MONTHnotes amirite??!?!? Mille Fiori (2012), Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington A New Homepage (Spooky) I updated my homepage for spooky season! I’ll hopefully write a longer post about it...

Reading The Canary by Michael Lewis for The Washington Post. h/t to Geoffrey Adams on mastodon, who introduced it so nicely and incited me to read it: This is a remarkable piece of long-form journalism from the Washington Post about a US federal government employee who has used his position to transform the way...

Reading & Links How to draw an owl by Jenn Schiffer platforms.fyi, a rhetorical exhibit by Robin Sloan Responsive Comics by Taylor Hunt Un paseo por Mataró by Javier Arce — beautiful photos, photo log goals… Why I Finally Quit Spotify by Kyle Chayka for The New Yorker — yah, I use spotify and the UI annoys me more...

I have a bunch of nebulous ideas for my website bouncing around in my head or splattered horribly across Figma files, which would probably all die in obscurity if I don’t get my shit together, but I’ve been somewhat inspired by Jim Nielsen’s post about his ‘failed’ site redesign, and publicly documenting incomplete...

It’s July, and the passage of time continues to be disorienting. If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, I must implore you to read it on my blog itself because I designed a nice new post layout just for this and I want you to look at it. an approximation of what it looks like Reading list AI Is Coming For Your...

Truthfully, there is not much to recap from the past couple of weeks because I spent all of my time playing Destiny. Destiny 2 The Final Shape, the newest expansion, came out on June 4 and completely consumed me. My review: it’s excellent, and Destiny is the most beautiful game in the world. Highlights: Contest mode...

Reading Blurry Type on Stealing Rocks — ooh CSS effect oooh Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template by Brendan Schlagel — ‘personal canon’ is a good term…i have a half-assed ‘influences’ page I should work on Coding my Handwriting by Amy Goodchild – cool handwriting Design outside the computer by Eva Decker —...

I was clicking around Pinterest and fell into the rabbit hole of editorial illustration (very cool, wish that were me (some day)) and then homage covers of The New Yorker. And I thought, huh, that could be a fun thing to do. the tokyoiter by waneella, the parisianer by icinori, the home stayer by luis mendo I’ve...