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
I’m running out of books, and I need your help. It looks like I’ll be spending Christmas alone here in San Francisco and so I need copious distractions. So: what is your favorite winter book? The sort of books that you associate most...
I’ve been reading The Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel where he looks at those two epic poems and before you yawn and click away—wait! This book sure is yawn inducing from a mile away, but up close I think it’s extremely...
Last night was manic and dizzying, and it all began with re-reading Alberto Manguel’s book A Reader on Reading. Manguel is one of my favorite writers and if you’ve never read or even heard his name then go and pick up The Library at...
Sentry is looking for a senior product designer to join the team in Vienna. We’re doing a bunch of exciting work and I wouldn’t link to it here unless I loved my current gig. Also! Get in touch if you’re interested and have any questions...
This was the job: sit in the tractor, break the ice, save the world. It was boredom beyond boredom, the sort of monotony that stretched out all day long, but each time Marlo climbed into his tractor, the world became safer by a smudge....
This video by Tom Scott about the early history of the web and how we found ourselves in a nightmare of popups and bad web design is worthy of your time. Tom walks through the EU’s legal confrontation with shady advertisers and why so...
Via Susan Jean Robertson, here’s a story about Octavia Butler's life for the LA Times by Aida Ylanan and Casey Miller—they’ve made a particularly lovely story here by binding the map of Butler’s life with the format of the site itself....
Zeynep Tufekci: There is a Turkish saying for times like these, when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel: “Time passes quickly if we can count the days until the end.” We are no longer in the open-ended, dreadful period of spring...
Heather Havrilesky’s life advice: The good news is that once you understand the things that trigger you, attract you, make you anxious, relax you, etc, the whole world looks a lot less complicated: You seek worthy judges in life and you...
Over the course of a summer it all clicked for me. I mean how computers are for much more than playing Zoombinis and making spreadsheets. And I cannot describe how liberating that felt. My life today is still buzzing in the afterglow of...
Over the past few weeks I’ve made a few notes about some front-end things for CSS-Tricks. First up, I wrote about the flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis CSS properties and a simple trick to understand the flex shorthand that you see...
I saw Eddie Glaude as all good things used to appear—in a flash, captured somewhere in a snippet of video in my timeline. I can’t remember how and when and where but I remember thinking “holy shit, I want to read something like this.” A...
She once texted me from a train. "I am enjoying my own company, giggling to myself," she said. O was not a good person, but she was dazzling. Because in those rare moments in which she loved herself it was impossible not to agree with...
We knew Biden and Harris were going to win days before they did, but when the call came on Saturday morning I found myself without excitement. I didn’t shout “yahoo!” or jump up and down. Short bursts of relief were punctured by the...
Prop 22 passed in California, and Alex Press wrote about why it’s devastating: On Tuesday, California voters passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure backed by app-based “gig” companies that exempts them from classifying their estimated...