Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?” Signal president Meredith Whittaker: “Look, I know social media wants this. I know you guys want this little clip. But…

In which I explore why I ranked what I did for Interop 2027.…

Gina Trapani Recently at a community gathering I was asked to give a 5-minute lightning talk about somethin…

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Read the book, Typographic Firsts Stefan Hattenbach was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1961. Although he’s moved around a lot, with longer stays in Budapest (1993–94) and San Francisco (2005–06),…

I genuinely enjoyed being part of Head in the Cloud by mittwald this year. Now they released the video of my talk (it’s in German, sorry), which wa…

If you are not visually impaired, chances are you may never have come across a screen reader or text-to-speech tool. So in this post, I’ll explain how they work. How they sound, as you will find it…

The term “no-brainer” refers to a suggestion that is so compelling that it would be foolish to even consider not doing it. I came across a no-brainer recently, thanks to Matt Hobbs: Make al…

I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets, not replies or retweets) into this WordPress site as a proper Custom Post Type: https://chriscoyier.…

I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the…

My Fujica with the wide-angle lens on Wells beach. Following our evening with The Hu, we woke early-ish in a Premier Inn off the A47. We grabbed some bad coffee and drov…

When I first heard about Secretary of War Defense and human tribal tattoo Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the jihadist mass-murderer Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and it would be…

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…