Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online. “The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslave…

I remember working in digital prepress decades ago that .eps files were just kinda weird, and I didn’t love it when I had to deal with them. Like, what even made this? Why? I assumed it was some…

Lord, but I’m tired of recommendation engines. Tired in my bones. I watched a video of a musician I listened to obsessively in high school, but not much since then. He was playing an old favo…

Keir and Craig once more did a fantastic job in organising and running Craft & Work 2026 in London. A great day with lots of good conversations.…

Hello, My Friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🪡 Came across Valeria Duque’s series of embroidered photographs and…

The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Str…

The Firefox team just launched a website that allows users to rank the Interop 2027 proposals that they care about. And I care about things - for selfish reasons and for work. And that's a challenge.…