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…
Writing
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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
Get Ready for the Color E Ink Monitor That Finally Runs at 60fps - Yanko Design…
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…
iLife innovation
Apple Creator Studio gets smarter, faster, and more connected - Apple…
On designing finger-friendly interactions: An interactive essay by Marcin Wichary
Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna…
Lettera
Introducing Lettera: A Native Markdown Editor for Mac, Now in Beta…
Nintendo's Legal Battles
“Don’t entangle emulators in infringement events that are visible from space.” – Unsung…
Building P3 - Won't Fix — A Designer's Guide to Shipping a Real Web App
P3 – Won't Fix is a public gallery of software bugs that I assume product managers closed as “won't fix.” It's the kind of thing that makes you laugh, groan, and feel seen all at once. Anyone can…
Building QuickTake
When I was 7 years old my parents purchased a Mac LC. I was instantly hooked. Not just hooked on computers in general though. I was hooked on the Mac. I had played with a DOS machine at a friend's…
Reflections on Vibe Coding a macOS App
While exchanging messages with a friend I wrote some thoughts on the experience of building QuickTake:…
Distracting, Disorienting, Disruptive
I read this paragraph last night and it made me think of Apple's approach to refining the design of macOS over the past few years…
Part of the Process
I began reading a design book written in 1995 (31 years ago!) and this quote still rings true:…