Google.com complexity
Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called…
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A quick way to measure distances
using ⌘⇧4 with the intention not to take a screenshot, but just to (roughly) measure a distance between two objects, and then pressing Esc to abort…
Apple unveils iPhone Duo
Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone. Opened, it is the thinnest iPhone ever, with a 7.6-inch inner display that provides a large canvas for viewing content, gaming, and…
Separate writing and formatting
The solution to staying focused while writing sounds trivial: When you type, just type. When you structure, just structure. When you format, just format. Why is that so hard? We’ve been trained to…
8 transparent tech gadgets with retro appeal
Aesthetically, the market is pushing back against the uniformity of modern smartphones that conceal everything behind sleek, opaque shells. In contrast, the resurgence of transparent and…
Yeongkyu Yoo
cac collection began, as I mentioned earlier, from a desire to explore what a more fully resolved form of minimalism might look like. At the same time, I have long felt that as products become more…
My Claude Code skill stack
I spent a day running this site through UI skills, a “collection of design-engineering skills to help humans and agents create better interfaces.” Naturally, I kept a ledger…
The Casio F-B100W-1A adds a step-tracker to its retro design
This is the new F-B100W-1A, a watch that blends the style of the F-91W with the addition of Bluetooth and an accelerometer. The latter makes the new watch a low-tech way of tracking steps and setting…
EP-2350 FX-MIC
Re-introducing EP-2350 FX-MIC. The performance microphone, now in a new colorway, Sharing the same features as Ting, with built-in FX, 4 new samples, shake sensor and a modulation lever. Load your…
Introducing Intake for Obsidian
I have been quietly building a lightweight blogging system. Not a platform, not a CMS. My goal was to make publishing to this site feel like taking a note. Obsidian is the writing environment, the…
Copy is for users, not stakeholders
I recently opened the Google Home app to check a camera feed. Before I could, it wanted to tell me about Google One:…
The icon reset
This started as a quick documentation chore. I wanted every icon on this site collected in a Figma file, so I finally had one place to see the whole set. Then I started counting…
Currently reading widget
My homepage has a new “Currently reading” widget including the cover of the book I’m reading, the title and author beside it, and a thin red progress bar hanging under the cover. The bar is updated…
Introducing DKBezeler
Every framed iPhone capture on this site takes the same path: I drop a screenshot or a screen recording into a folder and it comes out baked into a device bezel. I never open an image editor. I never…
Introducing DKProductCard
My favorite trick on this site is invisible. When I write a gear page, I don’t write product cards. I paste an Amazon link on its own line, and at build time a remark plugin turns it into a card with…
Introducing DKMediaViewer
Of everything I have built for this site, the photos page is the part I fussed over most. Click a photo and it flies into place. Tap an arrow key and the next one glides in. I spent an unreasonable…
Introducing Gear
I love testing products, tinkering with my home office setup, and, of course, making coffee. Until now my answers lived in scattered DMs and old tweets, so I built a proper home for them: Gear. Two…
Introducing design details
This site is built on small decisions: how a heading breaks its lines, what red means, why exits never bounce, and more. I collected all of them on a new page called design details…
Color E Ink displays
E Ink displays have earned a devoted following among people who spend long hours reading or writing. The technology produces virtually no flicker, doesn’t use the same harsh backlight as a typical…
Friends and family day at Apple Park
On June 27, 2026 I was fortunate to attend Apple’s first friends and family day in years thanks to a good friend who works at the company. Considering my not too subtle passion for Apple, one can…