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
“Let a website be a worry stone,” Ethan wrote last year and I believe that’s so very true. We can treat our personal sites like stress balls and use all that pent up anxiety about the state of the world; we can tidy up the fonts, improve...
James Bridle on museums, archivists, and art: And at some point I had this vision of the great bonfire at the end of time, and how there’s this conveyor belt moving towards it, filled with everything we’ve ever made: every word, every...
Sloan wrote about blogging this morning and so of course I must excitedly reblog this: ...the High Blogging Era might be behind us, but there is still blogging to be done, and it is so easy and rewarding to dip a toe in, start to follow...
Wrote this lil piece about the :has selector: File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in...
The design team at Sentry is hiring a UI engineer in San Francisco (no remote, sadly) and so this is a rare opportunity: if you like design systems, front-end development, and shouting at me when I rant about CSS for too long then please...
Hookshot.app is real good. I picked it up last night and it matches my mental model for how I want to manage windows on my desktop. Throw that app up there, throw this one down there. Get back to work. I think Hookshot is the kind of app...
Over on the Sentry blog I wrote about how we shipped dark mode; what we did, what we struggled with, and ultimately why this was such a great project for our team and our design system: For most front-end codebases, the design of your...
This standup special by James Acaster called Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 is not only the funniest show I’ve seen in a long time but also has the best explanation of Brexit I’ve ever heard. If you’ve never heard of James before (he’s...
I love RSS because of how it focuses my attention on the right stuff: big, complex, and contradicting ideas that let you chew on them over extended periods of time. No one can jump into your timeline and hijack your focus or throw junk...
Thinking about the American Rescue Plan this morning and I feel light as a feather. It fills me up with something unknown, something almost unheard of during the past year. Hope. Biden's $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package is a sign of...
Charlie Loyd wrote this great piece about Landsat 8: Here’s a picture of LA, just like an ordinary digital camera would take (if it had ten times as many megapixels and were in space). The image is only two weeks old, taken from Landsat...
One thing I love about Sentry is that it's an open source project which means that you can go ahead and look at every line of code I've written over the past year. You can see me slowly refactoring our typography, deleting unused...
On the way down to California, my dearest Lucy Bellwood stopped by to have a fun, distanced chat about websites, online dating, science writing, and Miss Piggy. It’s the first episode in our dark-web-punk-rock podcast: I’m Sorry, You’re...
I’ve long considered everything related to the blockchain to be a poison but I’ve tried to keep an open mind as much as possible. I’ve never played with the technology, never bought a coin, never owned an NFT. But you really don’t need...
Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about this piece by everest pipkin on crypto art: ...in a digital context scarcity must be constructed – there is nothing that demands the next block in the blockchain be harder to make than the...