“Republicans are just better at the economy,” he said as I went down—the gunfire and explosions rattling all around me. It took me one whole beat but I realized that—whilst I was watching my pal-who-has-disagreeable-politics kill everyone around me in this stupid videogame at 1am—it was this subject, this one...

I’m sat in my kitchen listening to President Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis and absolutely not crying: We have to translate our passion and our causes into laws [...] like John we have to fight even harder for the most powerful tool we have which is the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act is one of the crowning...

For my birthday I played a game with some pals where, via Discord, we streamed one of us opening up Google Maps and walking to highschool via street view. It was extremely adorable and we started telling each other stories about these multi-year long walks; about our friends and families, how they changed over time,...

John Lewis wrote this essay to be read on the day of his funeral: When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at...

It wasn’t just attacking our bodies. Instead, the pandemic had found a weakness in the unbreakable social bonds that we share with one another. Our need to hold someone, to hug them, to be close to another person, anyone, even a stranger. But now, as cases in Europe are falling and the pandemic is still devastating...

This new ebook-esque Gameboy-cartridge playin’ synthesizer called Analogue Pocket looks nifty. I like the design of the site here because it squares up neatly with my theory that the best websites are in fact secret essays. And I also reckon that thinking about a website like an essay is helpful because then we can...

I somehow stumbled upon a piece this morning called Mourning a Patriot Whose Politics You Hate by Jon Lovett. It’s written just after the death of Senator John McCain in August of 2018 and it’s about how although Jon disagrees with everything about McCain’s politics, there’s a shred of hope to be found in that...

I thought I understood racist housing policy in America. I knew about redlining and I knew about how freeways were used to cut portions of cities into ghettos. But I didn’t fully understand the sheer overwhelming scale of segregation or the extent of the pain that this actual conspiracy inflicted on the Black...

Sometimes I worry that I don’t have the intellectual or creative capacity for design. I guess I’ve spent enough time working as a designer at this point that I can tell if something is good or not. When it’s bad I get uncomfortable and I begin to squint at the UI until my brain hurts and I groan. That doesn’t mean...

By some cruel fate and in a long running conspiracy involving secret foreign governments and spies, not to mention the tens of millions of dollars of shady private funding that has been poured into this network of deception...something something something...I somehow missed the release of LfA Aluminia, a typeface...

A while ago, Dora wrote about conducting user interviews: You have to stop adding your own voice and take to the topic. For example, don’t ask “What do you like about A?” or “What do you not like about A?” Instead, ask “What do you think about A?” This really matters because these questions affect the data, which...

Chris wrote about the analytics that matter earlier this month: I’ve long been skeptical of quoting global browser usage percentages to justify their usage of browser features. It doesn’t matter what global usage of a browser is, other than nerdy cocktail party fodder. The usage that matters is what users on your...