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Jun 2, 2023: Started reading Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama 📚 Reading this along with a few of my co-workers this summer. …
Jun 2, 2023: Ty updated his website recently, and it looks awesome. The whole thing is set in Noted, a font he designed based on his own handwriting. It’s …
Jun 1, 2023: Once in a while I still see a great website design with a “Site by …” link in the footer. Or a humans.txt file. Or both! I love …
May 31, 2023: Amy Hupe has a new podcast called Systems of Harm, which examines ways to design more inclusive digital products. 🎙️ Episode topics so far have …
May 29, 2023: We’ve created a way of working where the digital maker community (including its leaders) is addicted to speed in design and deployment but …
May 28, 2023: To add insult to injury, last fall, AT&T internet service across Hope Village [in Detroit] went down for 45 days before being restored. The …
May 28, 2023: “Initially we turned to Mapbox, an established leader for generating and publishing online maps. But when we embedded a map from Mapbox on our staging …
May 27, 2023: Want to read After Black Lives Matter by Cedric Johnson 📚 Johnson was on a recent New Books Network podcast to talk about his new book on policing and …
May 23, 2023: Reason #1,461 to love Micro.blog: A small feature I requested on Monday (alpha sorted categories) made it into production by Tuesday evening. …
May 23, 2023: I set up an account on last.fm today so I can keep track of all the great music I listen to while I wash the dishes. www.last.fm/user/nsms… …
May 23, 2023: Discovered these potato chips at the supermarket recently. Nice flavor in between both salt and vinegar and BBQ chips. 4/5 would recommend.
May 22, 2023: Want to read The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet (author of The Family, co-author of Killing the Buddha) 📚
May 22, 2023: Founders Grotesk Condensed + Iowan Old Style + system-ui + SF Mono Playing around with custom CSS and the Tiny theme for Micro.blog by @Mtt.
May 22, 2023: This morning I made sure to download Canela, Domaine Display, Founders Grotesk, and Graphik; some of the nice type shipped with MacOS. I do wish Apple …
May 21, 2023: Just catching up on the weekend’s news and stuff, and the workers at Bandcamp won their union!!!
May 21, 2023: It doesn’t get much better than this: Mavis Staples performing “The Weight” with more than two dozen of her friends on a gigantic …
May 21, 2023: Sunday under glass: Listening to When Your Heartstrings Break, 1999 album by Beulah. 🎵
May 20, 2023: Inflation index, food on a stick edition: $12 USD for two small corn dogs. Seems a bit high.
May 20, 2023: At the Children’s Festival of Reading earlier today. 📍World’s Fair Park, Knoxville, Tenn. Tee shirt by Greg Pizzoli
May 20, 2023: I rented a car recently and the worker behind the counter recognized my email address was a personal domain name. We ended up chatting for a bit about …
May 19, 2023: Been getting into the music of Ghost lately. The Japanese psychedelic group from the 1990s, not the Swedish theatrical metal band touring today. 🎵 …
May 19, 2023: Started reading Not Alms but Opportunity by Touré F. Reed 📚
May 18, 2023: Aw, nuts. I’m leaving Knoxville just in time to miss Yo La Tengo at the Bijou Theatre. 🎵
May 18, 2023: Listening to “Flying Saucer 1947” album by Harry Hosono and the World Shyness 🎵
May 17, 2023: Finished reading Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu 📚
May 13, 2023: Started reading Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu 📚
May 9, 2023: Nice to see a spotlight on Jim O’Rourke’s music featured in Bandcamp Daily: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/jim… 🎵
May 1, 2023: I’m looking for a good entry point to Star Trek: I’ve never really watched any of the various series or movies before. People tell me TNG is good. …
Apr 29, 2023: How to prep, pack, and transport vinyl records the right way I’ll be moving house soon, and crossing the Mississippi River for the third time in my …
Apr 26, 2023: Since the characters on “The Simpsons” never age, Homer and Marge (age 34-40) must be millennials now, right?
Apr 17, 2023: Started reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 📚 Only really know this book from the Rolling Stones song. Trying to read more classics …
Apr 17, 2023: “If you want to understand what’s happening in America today, you need to understand what happened a generation ago right here in …
Apr 7, 2023: Listening to Marquee Moon by Television again 🎶🎵 The title track is incredible of course, but this is also one of those “flawless side one” albums for …
Apr 5, 2023: Did someone order a tiny Gateway computer?
Apr 1, 2023: Baby bookworm 📚
Mar 31, 2023: Betty Bean: Tim, please stop this foolishness🔗 Yes, unfortunately Tim Burchett is my Congressman. Or more accurately, he represents the Tennessee …
Mar 31, 2023: Finished reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Mar 29, 2023: Promises Clearleft Newsletter, March 2023 — Promises 📬 Making a comp for sign-off is like making a promise. When the finished product doesn’t match the comp, …
Mar 28, 2023: Finished reading I Must Resist, Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters 📚
Mar 27, 2023: Checked and saw that the mp3s and stencils and everything at protest-records.com is still up after all these years (Twenty in fact). 🎵
Mar 20, 2023: Quick programming note: If you subscribe to my microblog with RSS, you may want to update your feed to this address: log.nick.sh/feed.xml That’s …
Mar 19, 2023: Fortesa Latifi: Influencer Parents and Their Children Are Rethinking Growing Up On Social Media
Mar 19, 2023: Use your powers wisely, and enjoy! I got a notification this morning that my application to join the Literal Librarian program was approved. Literal is one of numerous Goodreads …
Mar 18, 2023: Started reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Mar 15, 2023: Finished reading: The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald 📚
Mar 15, 2023: Nashville Tennessean: Ira and James from Yo La Tengo perform in drag to protest stupid new Tennessee law.
Mar 10, 2023: Listening to The Wizard Of Is, a remastered collection of demos, alternate versions, covers and more by Pearls Before Swine (Tom Rapp). 🎵
Mar 10, 2023: RIP, old Netlify logo.
Mar 7, 2023: Started listening to Transmissions (the podcast) this week 🎙️. Transmissions, narrated by Maxine Peake, tells the story of Joy Division and New Order …
Feb 14, 2023: Open UI > OpenAI
Feb 13, 2023: Today I discovered html.energy: a website, a podcast, a movement. ❇️ Also, this is a pretty sweet poster written entirely in HTML. You can go ahead …
Feb 10, 2023: New Yo La Tengo album out today! 🎵
Feb 9, 2023: Started reading: Thelonious Monk by Robin D. G. Kelley 📚
Feb 7, 2023: Started reading: I Must Resist by Bayard Rustin 📚
Jan 31, 2023: Finished reading: Tenth of December by George Saunders 📚
Jan 22, 2023: Started reading: Tenth of December by George Saunders 📚
Jan 21, 2023: Visited npr.org today and discovered Gotham (Hoefler&Co./Monotype) was swapped out for Lato (open source) recently. I’m probably among the 0.5% to …
Jan 21, 2023: 🔗Andy Bell: Front-end is so much more than building designs ”Only by starting those fires have I developed into a more experienced designer and …
Jan 21, 2023: 🔗Jennifer Riggins: Is Low-Code Development Better for the Environment? Some interesting sustainability considerations and case studies for low-code, …
Jan 18, 2023: Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 This the second novel about a fictional pandemic (and the immediate collapse of society) I …
Jan 17, 2023: 🔗 Bookmarked Figtree, an open-source geometric sans serif typeface, designed by Erik Kennedy. This one feels a bit like the friendly, geometric cousin …
Jan 15, 2023: Started reading: The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald 📚
Jan 14, 2023: I’m looking out for a lightweight weather widget (ideally one that does not track users). The Dark Sky weather widget embed is still chugging …
Jan 12, 2023: Registered for The Jam 2023, presented by cfe.dev. Not sure how much I can attend in real-time, but there are a number of promising sessions about web …
Jan 12, 2023: Finished reading: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow 📚 This book is worth reading, as are the …
Jan 10, 2023: Registered for Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil, featuring David Dylan Thomas and hosted by Content Strategy …
Jan 8, 2023: Started reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Jan 7, 2023: Finished reading: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 📚
Jan 6, 2023: Registered for Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention hosted by jamesg on Jan. 15. I hope the IndieWeb continues to gain momentum in …
Dec 30, 2022: Finished reading: They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior 📚
Dec 28, 2022: On the fourth day of Christmas, I am still hoping to capture that warm, inside a Jan Brett picture book feeling. It hasn’t been a bad holiday (it is …
Dec 27, 2022: More balloons.
Dec 27, 2022: Petroglyphs and balloons. 📍Piedras Marcadas Canyon Trail (near Albuquerque, NM)
Dec 26, 2022: There are other games I enjoy more and play year round, but something about playing dominoes in late December feels just right.
Dec 26, 2022: Three posts in January. I think that’s doable. Bring Back Blogging is an initiative (and directory of participants) to kick of the newww year …
Dec 21, 2022: 🎵 New music from The Ordinary Things! This track is called Live in Love 🎶
Dec 20, 2022: 🔗 Rice University: ‘Carol of the Bells’ wasn’t originally a Christmas song🎵 “Very few people realize that the composition ‘Shchedryk’ was composed …
Dec 20, 2022: 🔗 Library of Congress: Is it “Four Calling Birds” or “Four Colly Birds”? A “Twelve Days of Christmas” Debate🎵 An important Yuletide investigation.
Dec 19, 2022: Neat little dark mode UI feature: The Vivaldi browser (in dark mode) will highlight the favicon on your active tab with a tiny white outline. Looks …
Dec 19, 2022: 🎧 Listened to four part podcast series My Year in Mensa this weekend. 🎙️ Content warnings: toxic, culty behavior; online harassment; IRL gaslighting; …
Dec 17, 2022: Started reading: They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior 📚
Dec 17, 2022: Arc, Firefox and Vivaldi are all fighting to be my default browser this week. 🌹
Dec 16, 2022: Found an excellent remastered bootleg of Thelonious Monk and his band at Maison De La Radio, Paris, France from February 1964. 🎵🎶 Lineup: - Thelonious …
Dec 15, 2022: Finished reading: Detail In Typography by Jost Hochuli 📚
Dec 15, 2022: To read: Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization, published by the Urban Institute. “The authors explore why and how to create accessible …
Dec 12, 2022: Is Keybase a thing anymore? Or did Zoom effectively kill it with the acquisition? Anyone out there still use this app?
Dec 12, 2022: I’m no longer syndicating my microblog to Twitter. Also removed links to Twitter from my personal website. Hoping there’s a brighter …
Dec 10, 2022: Started reading Long Walk to Freedom, the Autobiography of Nelson Mandela 📚
Dec 6, 2022: Michael Scharnagl: AI Writing Code Writing actual code is, at least for me, a very small part of my job as a frontend developer, and I would even …
Dec 4, 2022: Jonas Degrave: Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT ChatGPT told me a couple times it can’t browse the internet. With a few very specific …
Dec 2, 2022: I read Matthias Ott’s interesting conversation with ChatGPT last night. AI chat bots always feel like a parlor trick, but one that keeps getting more …
Dec 1, 2022: Lara Aigmüller: How to transfigure wireframes into HTML This year’s HTMHell Advent Calendar is off to a great start!
Nov 30, 2022: Now playing: I Was Real by 75 Dollar Bill 🎵
Nov 30, 2022: A happy Blue Beanie Day to everyone out there today. You can read this message thanks to Web Standards. I keep a list of links to my favorite …
Nov 29, 2022: Today is Giving Tuesday, a global holiday for charitable giving initiated ten years ago. These days I try to support smaller, local organizations …
Nov 28, 2022: Urban birding: we spotted an Eastern towhee in our yard this evening. This is the sparrow whose song sounds like “Drink! your teeee-e-e-e-ea”
Nov 27, 2022: Watched Tutankhamun: Allies and Enemies 📺 My household could not escape politics this holiday weekend. Thankfully it was the politics of ancient …
Nov 26, 2022: 🥧 One thing I discovered this Thanksgiving: if a holiday dessert (cheesecakes) calls for graham cracker crust, buy the cinnamon graham crackers (or …
Nov 21, 2022: Crystal Preston-Watson: On to The Next One – The Alternative Twitter Instead of looking for a Twitter clone, this time would be better focused on …
Nov 21, 2022: No Depression: Sam Bush performs John Hartford’s ‘In Tall Buildings’ 🎵📺 A faithful version of one of my favorite songs. Sam Bush was the mandolinist …
Nov 17, 2022: Now playing on the turntable: “Out” by White Heaven 🎵🎶 A friend ordered this and two copies were shipped to him, so I was the lucky beneficiary of the …
Nov 11, 2022: Matthias Ott: Shitty Code Prototypes Prototyping with code is my favorite way to build prototypes whenever I want to work with the real material of …
Nov 10, 2022: Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my father’s unexpected death. I don’t have dreams about my father often, but last night I dreamed the two of …
Nov 1, 2022: The New York Times: The Troubling and Humane Photography of Baldwin Lee On every possible level, this is an extraordinary body of work: moving, …
Oct 25, 2022: working from gnome Day two at my new (fully remote!) job. Costumes were “highly encouraged”. Update: I won the costume contest!
Oct 21, 2022: Oh, no! This iconic album was released 40 years ago today. 🎵 That’s good!
Oct 17, 2022: Mandy Brown: No one is “non-technical” When we talk about the makeup of our teams, there’s often an impulse to break people down into “technical” and …
Oct 14, 2022: Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza: Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power There is a certain point when turns of phrase are so out …
Oct 13, 2022: Bloomberg: The Unsung Art of Office Design An interview with architects and designers LeeAnn Suen and Florian Idenburg on their new book about office …
Oct 10, 2022: Currently listening to: The Langley Schools Music Project – Innocence & Despair 🎵 A strange compilation of youth choruses singing pop songs of the …
Sep 30, 2022: Text Cleaner Link: Text Cleaner When you copy text from a word processor, PDF, web page, or client brief, you usually copy all the formatting and unwanted …
Sep 25, 2022: Finished reading: The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes 📚
Sep 24, 2022: Started reading: The Fifties: An Underground History by James R. Gaines 📚
Sep 24, 2022: Finished reading: Severance by Ling Ma 📚
Sep 20, 2022: Started reading: Severance by Ling Ma 📚 Digging into this contemporary apocalyptic zombie novel about a mysterious pathogen and a small group of …
Sep 19, 2022: Finished reading: Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City by Andrew Ross 📚
Sep 19, 2022: I got early access to a managed version of Equalify, an open source accessibility platform by Blake Bertuccelli. Right now, the main integration is …
Sep 17, 2022: Today I learned that Bert has an identical twin brother, Bart. Based on this image, I assume Bart has a media studies degree and brews his own …
Sep 15, 2022: The Checkup is a promising new email newsletter from MIT Technology Review. Every week I’ll be covering what I think are the most exciting, …
Sep 12, 2022: Know Your Enemy (podcast): On Barbara Ehrenreich (w/ Alex Press & Gabriel Winant) 🎙️ This episode was unplanned, but when Barbara Ehrenreich died …
Sep 12, 2022: Celebrating an anniversary: 15 years this week since my spouse and I went on our first date!
Sep 5, 2022: Started reading: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow 📚
Sep 5, 2022: Finished reading: Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman 📚
Sep 1, 2022: Started reading: Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman 📚
Aug 21, 2022: Video: Dinosaurs, the Sitcom Before Time 📺 I remember watching this series as a little kid (we were an ABC TGIF household) in the early 1990s, but I …
Aug 17, 2022: Started reading: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 📚
Aug 16, 2022: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Aug 9, 2022: Started reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
Aug 8, 2022: Indra Kupferschmid: Evaluating the quality of a typeface I have long been thinking about ways to better assess the quality of different …
Aug 6, 2022: Current Affairs podcast: Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism 🎙
Aug 3, 2022: Todd Libby: Use Firefox for accessibility testing, featured on the A11y Project. A terrific overview of the built-in accessibility dev tools in the …
Aug 1, 2022: Seven years since we brought this little buddy home. 🐶
Jul 31, 2022: Today I learned that Lowly Worm’s birthday is in November. Not sure the exact date. If more experienced parents (and kids) out there know the …
Jul 29, 2022: Jason Li: Alternatives to Amazon: Online booksellers that support local and/or offer free shipping worldwide 📚
Jul 27, 2022: Intention vs. Drift Jason Lengstorf: Intention vs. Drift — Let’s Learn Design Systems, Part 1 Since design systems happen whether we want them to or not, our task is not …
Jul 26, 2022: Emily Campbell: Design and Motherhood This was a hard time in my life. I felt tired, undervalued, and anxious about my visibility in the company. …
Jul 24, 2022: ‘Knoxville, Tennessee’ is a poem written by Nikki Giovanni about the summers of her youth spent in East Tennessee with her grandparents. It was …
Jul 24, 2022: Registered for PWA Summit, happening in October this year. A free, online, single-track conference focused on helping everyone succeed with …
Jul 23, 2022: I love this business concept: Overnight Website: Hassle-free websites built while you sleep Not for everybody, but I imagine there are lots of people …
Jul 22, 2022: Security Checklist from brianlovin.com Just some really great tips for staying safe on the Internet. Use a password manager!
Jul 22, 2022: staff.design Brian Lovin’s Staff Design project contains interviews with eight designers whose careers have taken them on the individual contributor (IC) track to …
Jul 22, 2022: Got a request at work to take down an outdated site. It was actually one I have been after for years (Hadn’t been updated since 2016). It felt …
Jul 21, 2022: Dwayne Monroe: How to Interpret Tech Propaganda (the case of the machine gun toting robot dog) – Computational Impacts So, we should agree there is a …
Jul 21, 2022: Finished reading: The Shame Machine by Cathy O’Neil 📚
Jul 20, 2022: Currently listening to Madvillainy by Doom and Madlib (2004, Stones Throw Records) 🎵 My local library has a great vinyl collection!
Jul 20, 2022: Zoltan Hawryluk: Understanding Success Criterion 6.1.1: Give a Shit (parody, not a real W3C Draft…but I wish this was real)
Jul 19, 2022: New York Times: For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws Last year, more than 400 companies with an accessibility widget or …
Jul 18, 2022: Want to read Included: Redefining Accessibility for the World Wide Web by Molly E. Holzschlag 📚 In Included: Redefining Accessibility for the World …
Jul 18, 2022: Currently reading: The Shame Machine by Cathy O’Neil 📚 I picked up O’Neil’s last book ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’ when it came out and it left …
Jul 18, 2022: Finished reading: The Idiot by Elif Batuman 📚
Jul 17, 2022: Happy National Ice Cream Day (U.S.A.) to all who celebrate.🍦
Jul 16, 2022: Listening to Nevada Jukebox by 60,000,000 Buffalo🎵 A great 50 year old album by a shortlived band fronted by the legendary Judy Roderick.
Jul 16, 2022: Hyper allergic: The Met Hosts an Exhibition of Employees’ Art, Open to the Public for the First Time Every other year since 1935, New York’s …
Jul 15, 2022: Once in a while you stumble on a site not using webfonts, just good old Georgia or Verdana. Those Matthew Carter designs sure hold up well after all …
Jul 14, 2022: Finished reading South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 📚 The American South is a …
Jul 13, 2022: A wonderful picture book for kids (and adults too): The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess by Tom Gauld 📚 I was familiar with some of Tom …
Jul 12, 2022: We’ve been hosting family visits for several weeks this summer, most recently with my wife’s sister and her family. The visit is winding down, and …
Jul 8, 2022: Fontshare Link: Fontshare, by Indian Type Foundry Over on my macro blog last week I wrote about switching from Google Fonts to self-hosting my webfonts. …
Jul 8, 2022: Andy Bell: Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager This is an excellent presentation and accompanying website about designing with progressive …
Jul 7, 2022: Anne Helen Petersen: So You’ve Decided to Bungle Your Company’s Flexible Work Plan Just so we’re clear: providing a link to a LinkedIn …
Jul 7, 2022: Let’s Make a Design System! Frontend Stampede: Let’s Make a Design System! I bookmarked this to watch a while ago and I’m glad I took the time to watch it. This is a replay of a …
Jul 6, 2022: Here’s a majestic photo of Zelda, taken by my brother-in-law earlier this week. 🐶
Jun 23, 2022: I was reminded today that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was passed 50 years ago today. This was a simple mark I created a few years ago …
Jun 21, 2022: My mom is visiting this week. She asked the concierge at her hotel about discounted admission to our local zoo. This is what the hotel gave her. Maybe …
Jun 19, 2022: Listening to The Essential Paul Robeson, a double LP featuring several selections from Robeson’s 1958 “Farewell” performance at Carnegie Hall 🎵
Jun 17, 2022: Started reading: The Idiot by Elif Batuman 📚
Jun 17, 2022: Fifty Years After the Watergate Break-in Stuart Streichler, Boston Review: Watergate’s Ironic Legacy Looking back at how Watergate progressed, it remains unclear how much we can attribute …
Jun 16, 2022: Finished reading: Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash by Michael Stewart Foley 📚 I enjoyed this book, particularly the chapter …
Jun 10, 2022: Started reading: The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War by James Oakes 📚
Jun 6, 2022: Started reading: Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash by Michael Stewart Foley 📚
Jun 5, 2022: For all the reimaginings of Netflix, Amazon, and even Craigslist, I’ve never seen an unsolicited redesign of the Berkshire Hathaway website. I guess …
Jun 5, 2022: Finished reading: Freedom of Choice by Evie Nagy 📚 This is (I’m pretty sure) the only authorized book about the band DEVO (or Devo), published by …
May 30, 2022: I spent a little time this weekend adding an accessibility statement to my personal website. This is important to me for a few reasons. I tried to …
May 30, 2022: Andy Bell: The tech tool carousel I can relate to Andy’s feelings here. I am not always on the lookout for the latest front end tooling. Tools are …
May 27, 2022: The favorite band of everyone under 9 months old—The Ramones! 🎵
May 26, 2022: Sergey - the little static site generator Sergey is a no-configuration SSG that will render your HTML, include partials, and render out slots. …
May 23, 2022: Started reading: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 📚 I picked up this title after …
May 23, 2022: Listening to Simple Songs by Jim O’Rourke (Drag City 2015) 🎵
May 22, 2022: Finished reading: Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser 📚 Fascinating global examination of the social and labor history of clothing …
May 21, 2022: Some of the bright spring blooms in our yard 🌱
May 18, 2022: West Virginia University: A User-Focused Process for Building University Websites A great content strategy resource from WVU. Using a university …
May 18, 2022: New favorite crypto news source: Web3 is going just great
May 16, 2022: Ryan Bateman: A Guide to Writing About Digital Accessibility …If you’re considering writing something to help bring attention to this sorely …
May 14, 2022: Finished reading: Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin 📚 I laughed and cringed my way through this memoir of growing up in an eccentric family in a …
May 14, 2022: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. Original tweet by Martin LeBlanc Lewis Wake: Flaws in UX design …
May 13, 2022: Started reading Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser 📚
May 12, 2022: Tranquility🐶 This is my phone’s Lock Screen (when it’s “asleep”)
May 12, 2022: Quite possibly the best contact page I have ever encountered on the internet. Via Susan
May 11, 2022: Jeremy Keith: Declarative design Thinking about web design tools and approaches on a spectrum between declarative and imperative is helpful when …
May 10, 2022: Finished reading: The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives by Adolph L. Reed, Jr. 📚 A good, brief book that is memoir, history, and polemic all at once.
May 10, 2022: In 2007, when I was still a design student, I signed up to get Emigre’s font catalogues sent in the mail. This was before Adobe Fonts, or more …
May 9, 2022: Jamelle Bouie: Why Republicans Are So Angry About the Supreme Court Leak When McConnell led the Senate Republican caucus in a blockade of President …
May 7, 2022: 🎵 Listening to Shadow Planet, by The Cotton Modules
May 2, 2022: Word Wrap Podcast: Does valid and semantic HTML still matter?🎙 Great discussion with Ben Myers. Our mission is to make the most usable user …
May 2, 2022: Want to read: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff 📚 Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the …
Apr 30, 2022: Someone in the neighborhood left this out on the curb. The miniature dresser will be a great addition to the kid’s room. Sure enough it’s stamped …
Apr 30, 2022: I’m canceling Spotify Premium next month. 🎵 I have been buying more of my favorite albums on vinyl, and I still have some of my CDs from the 90s and …
Apr 29, 2022: Reading the pacifier Wikipedia entry. An invention I didn’t give much thought to before having a child of my own. It’s interesting to read what people …
Apr 26, 2022: This week seems like as good as any for re-reading Erin Kissane’s ‘Ditching Twitter’ from 7+ years ago.
Apr 26, 2022: Just setting up my microblog.
Mar 4, 2022: I’m a dad! Eleanor and I welcomed the arrival of our daughter this morning.
Nov 11, 2021: Me with Dad at my cousin’s wedding in 2019. Dad died early Tuesday morning at his home in Arizona. I wrote a little about who he was: …
Oct 9, 2021: IndieWeb Create Day I’m currently participating in my first IndieWeb Create Day: Join us in the IndieWeb chat and in our Zoom room. Share ideas, create & …
Sep 25, 2021: What it's like to be the target of a COVID conspiracy This one really pissed me off. Three pretty ordinary people (a prop artist, a molecular biology professor and a physician) had their names, images and …
Sep 19, 2021: You’re not so terrific and that’s OK Not sure if it was all the 20th anniversary coverage of Sept. 11, but I felt like watching the 2004 documentary I Like Killing Flies this week. The …
Sep 11, 2021: My first theme.json It’s very strange to poke around at a piece of software that you have used daily for near 16 years and be lost and confused about what you’re actually …
Sep 11, 2021: Open UI: Solving a Multi-Decade Problem This presentation by Melanie Edwards and Greg Whitworth is a great introduction to the Open UI project and its goals. Today, component frameworks and …
Sep 9, 2021: We found rage in a hopeless place With the sheer connectivity and externalization of interior emotion in the 21st century, there’s probably a sharper awareness of the grand totality of …
Sep 8, 2021: How we win our readers (and help them too) How we win our readers (and help them too) → Bookmarking this slide deck as a helpful resource for anyone who finds themselves in a content strategist …
Sep 8, 2021: Log off. I also think the oft bandied about trope that: to disengage with social media is to retreat to some bourgeoisie bubble of privileged …
Sep 6, 2021: Different realities 🔗 When You’ve Lost Someone to QAnon→ I’m still hoping to convince my parents to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but these conversations are …
Sep 5, 2021: The Ordinary Things TheOrdinaryThings.com→ This was a fun one to work on. And it went relatively quick. It started with Jackie, Eleanor and I catching up over lunch in …
Nov 7, 2020: James Turrell American, b. 1943 Blue Pesher, 1997-99 Cheekwood (Nashville, Tenn.)
Nov 7, 2020: Jenny Holzer American, b. 1950 Survival Series: In a Dream You Saw a Way, 1997 Cheekwood (Nashville, Tenn.)
Oct 24, 2020: OK OK OK OK
Dec 18, 2017: It Is What It Is (Lookeba, Oklahoma)
Dec 17, 2017: Lookeba, OK
Dec 17, 2017: Lookeba, Oklahoma Cactus Rescue
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