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From Big Think and Pop Charts, A Literary Map of America that “highlights the real and imagined settings of hundreds of books”. Frank Jacobs takes a closer look at some of the imagina…

Link: The Color of Sky After Rain: Ru Celadon (via) My favorite calm YouTube channel these days is Shan…

There’s a community standard out there called Conventional Commit for structured git-commit messages. If you don’t know about it already, it recommends a strict type(scope?): description format fo…

👻 I mentioned ghost signs last week, and a kind reader wrote in to share their book, London’s Ghost Signs, which looks to have turned into a larger project with updates, tours, and ar…

RZA of Wu-Tang Clan has invested in AYO Music Group, the music copyright company co-founded by Tracklib’s Pär Almqvist and clearance veteran Deborah Mannis-Gardner. AYO helps rightsholders get…

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…

Read the book, Typographic Firsts I have a theory about letterforms that I’d like to share. It may be relevant or not; I’ll let you be the judge: Selecting a specific typeface to employ in the des…

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

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…