The Verge: “Emotional Baggage”
A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.
A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.
Folding myself into nested template literals, and then unfurling again.
Some quotes on clever code and maintainability by Guido van Rossum
Apple actually listened?
A few notes on the Studio Neat Mark One pen.
The kids school us on Greek mythology.
Two folks make the case for investing in personal sites, and a callback to an old Frank Chimero post.
Lisa Maria Martin wrote a book that should be required reading for all folks who build the web.
Rian Johnson looks back at Brick.
Ethan Marcotte’s talk about web design, power, ethics, and unionization.
I hate the handshake™, too.
Cancel culture, in two different tweets.
Kottke.org compiles some recent pencil-making videos.
Christian Heilmann points out some drawbacks to optimizing for terseness.
The Atlantic features Ardmore’s Viva Video.
AHP on her reading routines.
Joe Pinsker looks for the factors that create avid readers.
A radio segment recapping the Proud Boys/Bon Air Fire Co. controversy in Haverford Township.
Sarah Drasner on how management doesn’t give you that tight feedback/dopamine cycle that coding does.
Liz Phair releases a memoir, Horror Stories.
WHYY’s “The WHY” examines the changing Philadelphia accent.
Validate to save a life.
Sony Walkman retrospective in Tokyo
The Strong Feelings folks interview author R.O. Kwon.
Brett Terpstra teases nvUltra, a successor to nvALT.
CloudApp hijacks the default screenshot behavior on MacOS Mojave.
M & D finally release a noise-canceling headphone.
RIP, Rachel Held Evans.
Robin Rendle writes about his journey from WordPress to Jekyll to Eleventy.
Override Node Options module for Drupal 8.
Kicking WordPress ACF fields in the pants to force a sync.
Configuring Lando for offline work.
Trying out Lou Boquila’s new restaurant in Fishtown.
Michael Tsai on the various tradeoffs between the two models.
Playing Whac-a-Mole with Docker, lando, and my aging Macbook.
Daisy chaining to a vintage monitor.
Jon Hicks on using the iPad Pro for creative work.
Rum puns.
Em picks out a watch.
Books I finished in 2018.