When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gae…

NoMeansNo, 1989, ★★★★★ Look, I’m not a conspiracy-minded guy, but a carefully coordinated effort by the international punk intelligentsia to keep me in the dark is the only ex…

Summer Greetings, Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🦈 A group of friends in Quincy, Massachusetts recreated the entire…

Link: Diddit — A simple, shareable logbook for iPhone I’ll always be a sucker for great software to…

Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run. “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is bur…

Read the book, Typographic Firsts The legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger once described an epiphany he had: “When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added, but rather the white sheet…

I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed t…

It’s 2026 and I’m running a BBS* like it’s 1991. To avoid burying the lede on this: ssh yulbbs.via.sc (telnet also works); or https://yulbbs.via.sc/ in your browser. (I mentioned this on Mastod…

Instead of our real launch blog post, my little “I should probably mention this on my personal website” post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I l…

Handling user authentication and making sure the many different scenarios work as planned can be a significant challenge for many development teams. Especially considering that the authentication laye…

At first glance, grade might seem very much like weight. But where weight serves to differentiate, grade’s purpose is to unify, allowing designers to adjust type precisely so…

Just You Wait, by Chris Shiflett is a fantastic read. While I'm slightly younger than Chris, his description of the journey of growing and evolving with technology feels very familiar. The whole artic…