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 with a python library called Cold Type. Never heard of it before, but sure looks...

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 loved the description of all the different ways to set text like this in the...

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 their AI generated risograph art. It’s inspiring and yet also intimidating at the...

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. The annosphere tells time, but more usefully, it presents time. It shows you...

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 admire. Jerks that are strangers? That’s easy. Walk away from snarky tweets or shitty...

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 still love it to death, but I’d get lazy about migrating content out of it....

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 magic and turn a bunch of Markdown files into plain ol’ HTML. But each time I...

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 when it comes to design system it’s so easy to keep listing all the things we...

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. It’s weird having a broken blog for two weeks. I feel this big chunk of me missing,...

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 newsletter where you don't have to worry about them selling your email to...

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 that parted his face right down the middle like a kinder egg. Look, you can...

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 liberating to write a bunch of CSS in a file and it be automatically scoped to the HTML...