Tagged “books”

• NY Times: “Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?”

  A look at the college value proposition.

  Published Sep 06, 2023

• Reading Log, 2022

  Time traveling.

  Published Jan 10, 2023

• The Cut: “Reading is a Competition Now”

  Jess Thomson, reflecting on the effect Goodreads has had on her reading hobby.

  Published Feb 07, 2022

• Reading Log, 2021

  A look back at 2021 through books.

  Published Jan 18, 2022

• Katy DeCorah’s Automated Reading Log

  Automated reading log entries using Github Actions.

  Published Jan 12, 2021

• NY Times: “Spare a Thought for the Indies”

  Indie bookstores and how they’re coping with the pandemic, illustrated by Bob Eckstein

  Published Nov 19, 2020

• The New Yorker: “How to Misread Jane Austen”

  Louis Menand on interpreting the politics of Jane Austen and her work.

  Published Nov 05, 2020

• Mandy Brown: “The case for rereading”

  A meditation on how books rewire our brains and give us shelter so we can flourish.

  Published Oct 05, 2020

• Nimit Shah: “My Landscape of Literature”

  Nimit Shah on how they visualized their history of reading.

  Published Sep 22, 2020

• Sally Rooney: At the Clinic

  Sally Rooney’s short story prequel for Normal People.

  Published May 26, 2020

• Austin Kleon: “If you are having trouble reading…”

  Austin Kleon’s advice for reading during this pandemic.

  Published May 18, 2020

• Visualizing my Reading with Semiotic

  Notes from my experiments with the Semiotic dataviz library.

  Published Apr 17, 2020

• Reading Log, 2019

  (Almost) everything I read in 2019.

  Published Jan 14, 2020

• Everyday Information Architecture

  Lisa Maria Martin wrote a book that should be required reading for all folks who build the web.

  Published Oct 30, 2019

• Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers

  Joe Pinsker looks for the factors that create avid readers.

  Published Sep 23, 2019

• R.O. Kwon on the Strong Feelings Podcast

  The Strong Feelings folks interview author R.O. Kwon.

  Published Aug 07, 2019

• Kottke.org’s Best Books of 2019 List of Lists

  Published Jun 17, 2019

• Rachel Held Evans

  RIP, Rachel Held Evans.

  Published Jun 10, 2019

• Reading Log, 2018

  Books I finished in 2018.

  Published Jan 02, 2019

• A New(ish) Kindle

  Observations on a late-model Kindle Paperwhite.

  Published Nov 13, 2018

• Anne Lamott on the Library as Shelter

  A quote from Anne Lamott’s “Good Friday World”.

  Published Oct 19, 2018

• Recovering the Classics

  Rediscovering “Recovering the Classics”.

  Published Mar 26, 2018

• The Woman Who Smashed Codes

  A few thoughts on Jason Fagone’s book, The Woman Who Smashed Codes.

  Published Mar 19, 2018

• Reading Log, 2017

  Books I finished in 2017

  Published Dec 31, 2017

• ESV Illuminated Bible

  A new illuminated version of the ESV, with illustrations by Dana Tanamachi.

  Published Nov 09, 2017

• Responsive Web Design: Patterns & Principles

  My thoughts on Ethan Marcotte’s new book.

  Published Jan 06, 2016

• On Web Typography

  Some notes on Jason Santa Maria’s book.

  Published Nov 12, 2014

• Nicely Said

  Notes on the new book from Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee.

  Published Jun 11, 2014

• Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson

  A book review for a web design classic.

  Published Aug 02, 2011

• Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

  My notes on Ethan Marcotte’s new book.

  Published Jun 08, 2011