At the Vintage Computer Festival this year, I was purchasing a Power Mac 8500 (as one does), and the person managing the checkout process handed me a business card to promote his business: Vintage…
Responsive Layout: While leftmost, this has +2 Health. While rightmost, this has +2 Attack. Otherwise, it has +1/+1…
There are two habits I want to keep: publishing posts here and uploading photos to Unsplash. Reminders, repeating tasks in Things, and widgets could all help of course. But after recently seeing a…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I recently opened the Google Home app to check a camera feed. Before I could, it wanted to tell me about Google One:…
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…
I recently added a “Currently reading” widget to this site to share the book I’m reading. It includes the book’s title, author, cover image, link, and a progress bar. Here it is running live:…
Your screenshots and recordings deserve a nicer frame than a pixelated rectangle with the wrong rounded corner values and a misplaced Dynamic Island. They should be delicately wrapped in the right…
When I want to write about a product and insert a card component, I don’t manually enter the product’s name, link, and image. I simply paste an Amazon link on its own line, and at build time the card…
Presenting a grid of photos and launching a modal after clicking a photo seems straightforward considering how many decades the capability has existed in the browser, but there are many performance…
I love testing products, tinkering with my home office setup, and, of course, making coffee. I built a proper home for my recommendations: Gear…