Robin made a few adjustments to The Society of the Double Dagger and the new format is great: he’s split up this newsletter into all sorts of micro-newsletters that you can pick and choose from. Not only that, but he’s also going to create a series of secret websites that adjoin each newsletter so we can dive into a...

Craig is back to talk about year three of Special Projects where he describes how this subscription service is working out for him so far: A membership program should be seen as an accelerant for work you must do. That is, it should be born from the desire for creative autonomy and for an untethered opportunity to...

When I look back on work from five or six years ago—heck, I don’t even have to go back that far—I see it clearly now: a few extra sentences here, another repetitive chunk of stuff over there. I’m so desperate to impress and swoon, so desperate to make a reader sit back and declare “ah, yes! Here is a very smart egg...

Here’s one for your RSS feeds: the blog of The Arrow Type foundry. That’s all.

This is a fabulous video by ContraPoints about J.K. Rowling, anti-trans sentiments, and what bigotry really is. I love Natalie’s videos for so many reasons—but this video reminds me why. Each of her arguments are like shots from an orbital laser cannon pointed at the earth, obliterating everything along it's path....

This piece by Jessica Boyall about the art of whaling is equal parts remarkable and horrifying: The first European settlers arrived at Nantucket, an isolated island some thirty miles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1659. They built homes, Quaker meeting houses, and cattle farms, swiftly and forcibly colonising the...

His voice is gone and the world is better for it. Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke, I don’t even need to say his name. But for the past five years his voice has poisoned everything. Those five years taught me that power is no longer about money but about reach as well; true power is the ability to climb into someone’s...

Alberto Manguel, writing in The Library at Night: The Web, and its promise of a voice and a site for all, is our equivalent of the mare incognitum, the unknown sea that lured ancient travelers with the temptation of discovery. Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web’s outstanding qualities...

Adventures in Typography is back, folks! After a far too long hiatus I’m bringing this little newsletter back for what I’m calling Season 3—I’ll publish one each Sunday from now until spring. That way I can give myself a goal without it being too overwhelming and exhuasting. You can read the first edition over on...

Descript is incredible; it’s an app for making transcriptions and recording podcasts/videos. The interface for editing everything is absolutely buck wild because you can edit the transcribed text from the audio you’ve recorded and that will then change the audio itself. Not only that but this thing is designed....

Here’s a neat newsletter about the web and accessibility from David A. Kennedy. Looks like a lot of interesting links with each issue and if you’re interested in learning more about a11y then I think it’s most certainly worth checking out.

Here is a website. Click on it. You’ll find yourself sat in front of a giant pirate treasure map with absolutely no clue as to what it is or how to use it. Scroll around a bit and you’ll see islands of text floating in the open ocean and clicking the landmass next to it, the text will change. Is this a story? Or is...