Not much to report today: San Francisco is intermittently speckled with rain and the tree outside my bedroom window sways from side to side whilst I pretend to do useful things with my keyboard. All is quiet here in the quarantine. But wait! Where on earth are my manners…I do have something to report: a compliment,...

For some reason today I find myself scouring through the archives of Grilli Type and I particularly love the catalogue page where they show a list of every family available: It’s a simple layout without any flair, but dang I just want to buy every single typeface here. Like the ever-so-weird GT Alipna Condensed...

I ravaged this collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman called Norse Mythology; it reminds me of Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath and brought me back to replaying the latest installment in the God of War series. Gaiman collects some of the most interesting stories of the Norse gods—Thor, Odin, Loki—and I just couldn’t...

I adore this video all about the past, present, and future of copyright by Tom Scott. He looks at how our legal system no longer makes any sense, as today we don’t need a big publishing company to distribute our work to millions of people; our existing laws were built for giant companies and lawyers instead. My...

From Alice Bartlett’s blog, weak notes, where she quotes from an entry of Feminist Friday: This week my thoughts have particularly turned to parents, and to parents who are working from home while their kids are under their feet and bored. I am sorry if this is you and good luck with it all. It reminds me though of...

My pal Jez Burrows has started a newsletter called Dept. of Enthusiasm and I think everyone should sign up. Why? Well, first off—rude. Second, JB is one of my favorite people in the world but he also happens to be one of my favorite writers (don’t tell him I said any of this please). He’s funny and quick-witted,...

I tried to avoid writing about it. To write over it, even; to skip, hop, and dance around the topic so that I can focus on sharing lovely things. Everything useful and everything awful has already been said about the event. But dammit, I can’t focus. Paragraphs are hard for me now, and I have three books on the go,...

Whenever I’m nervous or upset I tend to pull up my sleeves and throw myself at the ol’ website. Out of pure anxiety I’ll change the fonts over an evening of frantic typing, or I’ll bump up the font size with a glass of wine. Over a weekend I’ll get frustrated and take out all my anger on the poor navigation, or I’ll...

I wrote a piece for CSS Tricks the other day about why the CSS language is frustrating: I reckon the biggest issue that engineers face — and the reason why they find it all so dang frustrating — is that CSS forces you to face the webishness of the web. Things require fallbacks. You need to take different devices...

Kicks Condor: It seems that everything is white and blue in the present day. We’ve settled on these neutral colors, in case we need to sell it all. The old garish animated construction cones and embedded MIDI files are relegated to Neocities now—and who even cares what that is? When we post, we post a few words. A...

Season 3 landed on Netflix yesterday and it’s one of the very few shows that I’ll drop everything for, although I guess that can be said for every Warren Ellis project. That’s because—in classic Ellisian fashion—this season is like a freight train; pulling out of a station slowly to begin, but by the end all the...

The other day I mentioned that I might not be taking writing seriously enough and then, in a delightfully bloggish way, Robin Sloan riffed on this idea. He published his own thoughts about writing and lightness and this part stuck out to me: I don’t mean to pick on a stray paragraph. It’s just that you encounter...