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Writer and comedian Zach Mander took quotes from Karl Marx and paired them with illustrations from books by Richard Scarry like What Do People Do All Day? and Cars and Trucks and Things Tha…

A lot of robots read my website. Probably yours, too. It feels weird, doesn’t it? But maybe it shouldn’t. Bots have been reading our websites for a long time, and for most of that time, we’ve b…

Deeply enjoyed this conversation between Adam Grant and Rich Roll.…

I haven’t driven a car in decades (New Yorker). But from my pre-New York life, I remember how sun glare could turn a pleasant road trip into a blinding gauntlet. Enter “Sunward,” a uniquely spec…

Testing a hotfix is a real test of your skills as a quality professional. A hotfix usually comes with a little bit of urgency. Something is broken in production, someone found the problem, the develop…

Helping people in a large org understand what a design system is is still one of the key challenges behind adoption. That’s why we built the NYS Design System Playground. Think of it like Google Sli…

I’m on a slow background mission to reverse the othering in my worldview. De-othering: sive.rs/deothering…

I’ve been ill with a cold for the past couple of days. I’m not great at it. So, whilst getting distracted by this damn phone whilst trying to watch films, I embarked on scratching an itch…

A wave builds into a tsunami. I went for a run just over two years ago. Then, it was to shake out the results of the 2024 election. A deep disappointment, but also acceptanc…

🎬 Added to the film diary:Vampyros LesbosJesús Franco, 1971, ★★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PABlade RunnerRidley Scott, 1982, ★★★★FlowGints Zilbalodis, 2024, ★★★★Fear CityAbe…

I used Nathan Clark's CleanFrame project to make my 2021 Samsung TV work and feel better!…