Well, this sure is exciting: Syntax, the web dev podcast by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski, is joining the team at Sentry. Over on the Sentry blog, Cramer wrote about why this makes a bunch of sense and how Syntax will grow in the future: Many of us reminisce about the glory days of web forums and personal blogs that...

As good as my eye might be after years of looking at letters, arranging white space is where I always fall short. And you can tell immediately when someone has fantastic white-space skills. It’s like watching a tea ceremony that’s been acted out every day for a thousand years; natural and intricate, careful in a...

We’re in Sonoma this weekend and I’m sat by the pool with one objective: finish Ray Nayler’s electric, goosebump-inducing novel The Mountain in the Sea. I’ve been sat in the sun for far too long but I can’t stop turning the page, can’t stop thinking about this frightening, potential future that Nayler has drawn...

During the week I’m now slammed; meetings to meet, Slack threads to be unthreaded, and with endless emails inbetween that are nothing more than a distraction. Suddenly I find that my time has splintered into all these tiny incremental blocks of half-baked progress. In fact, it’s real hard for me to see progress in...

There’s been years without building anything worthwhile, years without contribution, empty days and weeks without progress, with no great thing made, no lovely object at the end to show for it. There have been whole months without everything that makes something worthwhile, replaced instead by countless evenings and...

My family had a room that we called the Library, but even back then I knew it was really just our dining room with a few bookshelves around a small table. When I was a kid I would look up at this tower of books though and wonder at all those people and ideas and stories, it was simply overwhelming. I was told that...

Molly White: Recent weeks have drawn a bold underline beneath what has been clear to many for a long time: that those controlling massive amounts of capital and power in our society are not the smartest, or most level-headed, or most altruistic among us. Venture capital may be the best way to serve the interests of...

A few more notes about (ugh) AI. I promise I’ll stop at some point but this is basically therapy now and since you aren’t legally obligated to read any further, this is technically your fault. I have two conflicting feelings about AI, the text generating kind. First, I see AI as a mirror. Bounce ideas back and...

Making good decisions in a large organization is always impossible. But it’s especially hard when a new technology sweeps through the culture and consumes everyone’s attention. Once a year, every year, a new thing will appear on the market and be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. You won’t be able to escape...

Here’s a handy new thing coming to a CSS near you: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { text-wrap: balance;} Richard Rutter has the scoop and explains how this bit of CSS will help ensure that titles and large headings don’t break weirdly and leave a word on a line all by itself. It doesn’t help in all cases though, as Richard...

Elizabeth Lopatto wrote this great piece about how junk web design practices are ruining the web; the login forms, the popups, the chatbots, the everything! Our standards are so very low when it comes to web design and Elizabeth points at it all and says why: One of the major problems with salesbros is that they...

Tim Kadlec: The act of spending that time in those feeds still feels like a very deliberate, intentional act. Curating a set of feeds I find interesting and making the time to read them feels like an investment in myself.