I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst tha…

Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise Books: our very own ebook store and app. In simple terms, you can think of it as a cross between the Kindle and Goodreads apps,…

🎬 Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, ★★★★½ The very definition of lean and mean. 🖤 Tagged: November 2026, film diary, film and television, review, Edgar G. Ulmer Reply via…

I’m playing at The Grove in Nottingham soon, supporting Foule, with Oiseaux also on the bill. It’s on Thursday 26th November. Tickets via Gigantic. It’ll be my fi…

I joined Nathan Puls on his Jobs Podcast: A conversation about making stuff, making a living, and making a little room for weirdness on the web. What if you had to be Chris? Nathan opens with a strang…

Howdy, Fine Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 👻 Light Capsules is an incredible project that uses light projection to br…

When production friction went down, our opportunity for productive friction went down with it.…

If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week.” The post The Day the Focus Died appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

Sir Patrick Stewart has died. I don’t really know what to say — words really are failing me right now. So I’ll start here: I grew up on Star Trek. When I call up fond memories from my…