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
Election anxiety has led to a small website cleanup today. To the ol’ blog I added a reply link that lets you pop open an email directly to me — emails I get from here are a pure delight and I want to encourage many more conversations...
Students at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp documented their research of the 18th-century Belgian punchcutter Jacques-François Rosart and turned it into a fabulous website called The Rosart Project. But what’s so...
Robinson Meyer just started a newsletter about the environment called The Weekly Planet that I’m pretty excited about. He’s on the climate crisis beat for The Atlantic, where he writes: Many readers, as well as some of my own colleagues,...
1 Absolute War Crime of Coffee 2 Inconsequential and Underwhelming Tuna Sandwiches 4 Hateful Amounts of Chicken An Unknown Number of Tragic Bachelor Omelettes
After screaming for several months non-stop about it, my pal Lucy Bellwood has finally relented and is now starting to blog more often. Lucy writes (and this is why you should subscribe to this RSS feed immediately): I’m lying in the...
One thing I’ve noticed in video games this past year is the huge improvement they’ve made when it comes to accessibility. Crack open The Last of Us: Part II or Watch Dogs: Legion or Gears 5 and they’ll begin with a series of...
Woh Hei Yuen is a little park in Chinatown and I’m the only one here; I’m sat at a picnic table in the dark and the cold, looking forlornly at the pagoda across from me where a cat is showing off, prowling along the very top. This whole...
It’s so very strange when you’ve been talking to someone for 6 months and then, suddenly, from nothing but a quick look, you can see how they feel. You've spent so much time with them that they can’t hide anything from you; all their...
Here’s a nifty event hosted by Sentry that’s all about the future of front-end development: Join us on November 10th for yet another virtual event. Learn how application monitoring is more than just a failsafe for frontend development —...
When a design crit goes south, it’s almost impossible to take all that brutal feedback and focus on course correction; going back to the interface, reviewing ten thousand comments, limping away and reassessing my approach to the problem....
I love this post from Mark Story about how he used the Sentry app on a big refactor of Sentry itself: Recently we used Sentry to ensure we didn’t break Sentry while doing a large refactor. When replacing an API or code path with a new...
I wrote about how to not be a jerk the other day and some of my experiences when it comes to making websites faster: This was definitely shocking to learn when I joined a company a few years ago and found that there was a mountain of...
I was ranting about work the other day—what I was stressed about, how I’m not good at my job, how I feel like progress is never made—and my pal stopped me short and said “the least interesting thing about you is your job.” And, well, woof.
I want to quote this whole piece by Mandy Brown about rereading books but to avoid plagiarism I will only mention this graf: Reread a book enough times, or often enough—keep it at hand so you can flip to dog-eared pages and marked up...
I don’t know how much I agree with Slava Akhmechet on how to get promoted, but I do think this is true: Most good work doesn't look good. Sometimes it interferes with other people and tanks your career. But mostly it doesn't look bad...