Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.
Latest Posts
Lucas Pope has been writing intermittently about the development of his new game, Mars After Midnight: Working in 1-bit for this game has been interesting. Going in, I thought my experience with Obra Dinn would let me cruise through the...
Oh what a beautiful thing it is. Yesterday I snuck out of my apartment and hopped aboard BART—a series of snaking underground and above-ground lines that link the city of San Francisco to the East Bay—and it might’ve been for the first...
I love this note from Craig about how working on your website is an act of stewardship: This work of line-by-line problem solving gets me out of bed some days. Do you know this feeling? The not-wanting-to-emerge-from-the-covers feeling?...
MD Nichrome is a new type family from Mass-Driver and boy howdy does it look wondrous. I love the marketing website for it with all the flashy-as-hell animations showing just how flexible Nichrome is. Some of those animations are made...
Nick Sherman’s flickr group called Text on a Curve is just neat as hell. And this example from Patricia is especially beautiful; The Fan Safety Matches. I’ve never set text on a curve because getting it right is so damn hard, so I also...
Hackweek just wrapped up at Sentry and it’s always a lot of fun. There’s so many weird projects from so many smart weirdos. Today I watched someone skate around SF on bioluminescent rollerblades whilst another smart chap walked through...
Cool cool cool: The annosphere is a sundial that works without the sun. It shows you the time of day and the time of year as well. It keeps track of the changing seasons and models sunrise and sunset for each day, for any place on earth....
I’ve had a few folks I admire message me over the years and infrequently it’s a bummer—gasp! wow this person is reaching out!—only to find out that they’re a bit of a jerk. But I’m never quite so sure how to deal with a jerk that I...
One of the things I regret with my website is using a third party newsletter service for Adventures. Or, at least not archiving things properly. For years I used Buttondown—an excellent service that lets you write email newsletters—and I...
Okay, so. I spent far too long trying to push my build of Astro via Netlify. Netlify is where I host my site and it automatically detects when a commit is made in GitHub. It’ll then run a build command which will tell Astro to do it’s...
Ethan on stress and design systems: You don’t start by fixing the system. You start by relieving the stress. I made a snarky tweet some time ago that’s somewhat related to this, although I hadn’t identified the feeling with stress. But...
I definitely broke the RSS feed with this but I finally moved all my posts into Astro, updated the images, rewrote basically every page and all the CSS from scratch, and managed to get it through my perhaps too complex build process....
Nicky Case writes about why RSS was so damn good: Imagine an open version of Twitter or Facebook News Feed, with no psy-op ads, owned by no oligopoly, manipulated by no algorithm, and all under your full control. Imagine a version of the...
I’m sat at my desk crying. A beautiful light is washing over the bay right now and I’m crying because his name was Crease and he was a good boy. The boyest of boys, the goodest of goods. We named him Crease because of the tuft of hair...
Well, moving everything over from Eleventy to Astro is a little trickier than I first imagined. I’ve spent the last two days moving content around, updating the frontmatter, learning about Astro’s approach to CSS. It certainly is...