Ambition always gets the best of me. Instead of trying to write a book I’ll have to write the single greatest work of fiction the world has ever seen. The problem there is that, you might have noticed, that never happens and instead I flail about and make a bunch of notes and never see it through. The same goes for...

We got hitched! It was a Friday afternoon—bright and cold, with a cloudless blue sky—when our small group headed to San Francisco City Hall for the ceremony; my brother had flown in from the UK for the first time and we’d spent the week prior walking around and doing touristy things like going to Alcatraz; some...

I just started work on my next essay and it’s clear to me at this point that it’s visually going to be inspired by comics. So I asked Lucy for advice about where to get started learning about layouts, formatting, etc. because I remember reading Scott McCloud’s books about a decade ago but now I wanted to learn about...

Have you ever heard of Jusant? If not then skip all this — don’t read another word and go pick up the game. I think it might be my favorite of the year. I booted up Jusant in the early afternoon and was feeling pretty cynical about everything, expecting to bounce off and return to my mindless fast food games —...

A personal website sits on the blurry line between a corporate entity and a skate park. Because a personal website has everything in its future; career connections and maybe weirdo web friends out there, potential ad money to be squeezed out of it or analytics to be siphoned. These constraints and incentives push...

I kept bugging him, over and over again. How does cd work? How do I search my previous commands? How do I exit out of Vim? Wait, what even is Vim? And then how do I string multiple commands together? What fonts should I use for my terminal? Why are we using Sass and how do I use that weird app to bundle files...

Here’s Michelle Barker on why we should stop using AI-generated images: By choosing AI-generated images over those made by a human, editors are taking away one of the only sources of income available to those entering the field. This means that fewer people will choose to train in the profession. It will...

I’ve been a big fan of Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs for a while now. In this lovely series of interviews, Manu asks web folks he admires how they got started writing on the ol’ www and it always makes for a fun read. Today though I had the privilege of Manu interviewing me. It helped me clarify a few decisions...

I’ve only just stumbled upon Nuform Type from Erik Marinovich but I’m so glad that I did. His type foundry has some remarkable work and beautiful fonts but the websites! Man, the websites. I wish my eye for shape and color was half as good as this stuff. I say that because every page of this site has been lovingly...

It’s been a while, huh? It’s foolish of me to run away from this website since it always makes me feel better but once every other year I do. It all seems useless. Blogging, I mean. The pursuit of self improvement and reflection without financial reward? Are you kidding me? In this economy? Jokes aside, I do tend to...

Here’s one way to improve the thing you’re writing: cut the intro. Writing about the symbiosis between trees and mushrooms? Don’t start talking about how humanity has depended on trees since the blah blah blah. Just jump right in! Talking about new features in your app? Don’t start with the fluffy stuff about how...

Earlier today I wrote a thing for the ol’ newsletter about which color space you should use in CSS and I mostly focused on background gradients just to explain the core concepts to myself. However! I totally missed this post about why oklch() is a great go-to choice, written by Andrey Sitnik last year: Unlike rgb()...