Tagged “links”

• Shōgun’s Visual Style

  The limitations of TV’s style bandwidth.

  Published Apr 09, 2024

• Talking Pictures Podcast

  TCM’s new interview series with filmmakers.

  Published Feb 19, 2024

• Mandy Brown: “A unified theory of fucks”

  Where to give your precious fucks.

  Published Jan 30, 2024

• Mandy Brown: “Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my!”

  Communication modes, power, and ways to build collective understanding.

  Published Sep 27, 2023

• 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

• Mandy Brown: “Energy makes time”

  An argument for putting your art first.

  Published Aug 09, 2023

• Vice: “Goodbye to Netflix DVDs, The Last Good Tech Company”

  Aaron Gordon looks back at Netflix before metrics and the algorithm ate everything.

  Published Apr 24, 2023

• Netflix to Shut Down DVD Service

  Goodbye, red envelopes.

  Published Apr 21, 2023

• NY Times: “What Killed Penmanship?”

  A fading skill.

  Published Apr 03, 2023

• Amazon To Shut Down DPReview.com

  Something something Faustian bargain.

  Published Mar 22, 2023

• Ethan Marcotte: “Tooled”

  Don’t fear the tool, worry about who is swinging it.

  Published Mar 16, 2023

• Slate: “My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along”

  Physical media! It’s good!

  Published Jan 22, 2023

• Vulture: “TV Has Always Disappeared. This Feels Different.”

  Kathryn VanArendonk on Warner Bros. Discovery’s slash-and-burn show reductions at HBO Max.

  Published Dec 21, 2022

• Virginia Sole-Smith: “Perfectionism and the Performance of Organizing”

  How much organizing is too much?

  Published Sep 21, 2022

• A Working Library: “Official Myths”

  Mandy Brown on remote/IRL cultures, supporting junior staff, and the flexibility needed to deal with climate/pandemic effects.

  Published Sep 12, 2022

• The Cut: “Reading is a Competition Now”

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

  Published Feb 07, 2022

• Katie Baker: “The Day the Good Internet Died”

  Katie Baker on Google Reader and internet nostalgia.

  Published Oct 09, 2021

• Rikke Mathiasen’s photographs documenting her scoliosis

  A Washington Post photoessay.

  Published Sep 07, 2021

• Slant Magazine’s Top-20 List of Trip-Hop Albums

  Looking back 20+ years at a musical moment.

  Published May 13, 2021

• RIP iPhone Mini?

  Rumors of the iPhone Mini’s demise.

  Published Apr 15, 2021

• RSS and Email Newsletters using Feedbin

  Forwarding newsletters to Feedbin’s account-level email address.

  Published Feb 22, 2021

• Kill the Newsletter!

  A tool to generate Atom feeds from email newsletters.

  Published Jan 26, 2021

• “25 Best Films of 2020” Video Countdown by David Ehrlich

  Always tightly-edited, always a good source of films I missed.

  Published Jan 14, 2021

• Katy DeCorah’s Automated Reading Log

  Automated reading log entries using Github Actions.

  Published Jan 12, 2021

• Criterion’s Most Anticipated Films of 2021

  Upcoming projects for 2021, featuring some of my favorite filmmakers.

  Published Jan 04, 2021

• The Guardian: “‘People in their 40s were crying’: the sad final days of New York's coolest record store”

  Remembering one of my favorite NYC record stores.

  Published Nov 30, 2020

• 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

• Dave Rupert: “Technical debt as a lack of understanding”

  Metaphors for technical complexity and refactoring.

  Published Nov 13, 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

• Marius Masalar: “iPhone 11 Camera Retrospective”

  Marius Masalar reflects on a year spent shooting with an iPhone 11.

  Published Oct 27, 2020

• The Guardian: “Big oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling”

  Lighting fires as the world burns.

  Published Oct 23, 2020

• NPR: “How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled”

  We’ve been recycling plastic for nothing.

  Published Oct 16, 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

• The Ringer: “The Future of Film Talk Is on Letterboxd”

  The Ringer takes a look at Letterboxd, the social film discovery network.

  Published Sep 18, 2020

• Ethan Marcotte: “The design systems between us”

  Link to Ethan Marcotte’s post about teamwork, communication, design systems, and gaps in process.

  Published Jul 01, 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

• NYT: “‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic”

  Mad Max: Fury Road, in the words of those who created it.

  Published May 15, 2020

• Captain Awkward: “How do I set goals if I don’t want anything?”

  Grappling with career goals in the midst of a pandemic.

  Published May 13, 2020

• The Sweet Setup: “Using an iPad for Photography Workflows”

  The Sweet Setup updates their look at turning the iPad into your go-anywhere photography workstation.

  Published May 06, 2020

• Jeff Chu: “It Is Not Well with My Soul, But I'm Trying (Part 2)”

  Jeff Chu remembers Rachel Held Evans, one year after her death.

  Published Apr 30, 2020

• Emily VanDerWerff: “On editing”

  Notes on editing mixed in with a meditation on narration in Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise”

  Published Apr 27, 2020

• Video Editing Comes to Darkroom

  Embracing video in Darkroom

  Published Apr 23, 2020

• Robin Rendle: “Friendship Homework”

  Robin Rendle on friendship, books, and links.

  Published Apr 15, 2020

• Mandy Brown: “The Hard Way”

  Mandy Brown on leading remote teams in a pandemic.

  Published Apr 13, 2020

• Ethan Marcotte: “Through a design system, darkly.”

  Ethan Marcotte on pattern-led and process-led approaches to design pattern systems.

  Published Apr 03, 2020

• Fancy Keyboard Links

  Ben Brooks’ review of the ALT keyboard, and links to features on custom keyboard builder Tae Ha Kim.

  Published Mar 27, 2020

• Laura Kalbag: “How to Read RSS in 2020”

  Laura Kalbag’s quick overview of RSS, its benefits, and some RSS clients.

  Published Mar 25, 2020

• The Verge: “Emotional Baggage”

  A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.

  Published Dec 06, 2019

• Guido van Rossum on “Cryptic Code”

  Some quotes on clever code and maintainability by Guido van Rossum

  Published Nov 18, 2019

• RogerEbert.com’s “Best Films of the 2010s”

  Published Nov 07, 2019

• Putting in the Work on Personal Sites

  Two folks make the case for investing in personal sites, and a callback to an old Frank Chimero post.

  Published Nov 05, 2019

• Ethan Marcotte: “The World-Wide Work.”

  Ethan Marcotte’s talk about web design, power, ethics, and unionization.

  Published Oct 17, 2019

• Vulture: “The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute Worst”

  I hate the handshake™, too.

  Published Oct 11, 2019

• Cancel culture

  Cancel culture, in two different tweets.

  Published Oct 09, 2019

• How Pencils Are Made

  Kottke.org compiles some recent pencil-making videos.

  Published Oct 07, 2019

• Terseness tension

  Christian Heilmann points out some drawbacks to optimizing for terseness.

  Published Oct 04, 2019

• The Last Video Store

  The Atlantic features Ardmore’s Viva Video.

  Published Oct 03, 2019

• Anne Helen Petersen wants you to take 30 minutes to just read

  AHP on her reading routines.

  Published Sep 27, 2019

• Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers

  Joe Pinsker looks for the factors that create avid readers.

  Published Sep 23, 2019

• How a firefighter’s extremist ties divided Haverford

  A radio segment recapping the Proud Boys/Bon Air Fire Co. controversy in Haverford Township.

  Published Sep 20, 2019

• Sarah Drasner on managing vs coding

  Sarah Drasner on how management doesn’t give you that tight feedback/dopamine cycle that coding does.

  Published Sep 20, 2019

• Liz Phair Looks Back

  Liz Phair releases a memoir, Horror Stories.

  Published Sep 16, 2019

• The Disappearing Philly Accent

  WHYY’s “The WHY” examines the changing Philadelphia accent.

  Published Sep 06, 2019

• Bristol teenager loses sight and hearing due to processed food diet

  Published Sep 03, 2019

• Sony Celebrates 40 Years of Walkman in Tokyo

  Sony Walkman retrospective in Tokyo

  Published Aug 30, 2019

• nvUltra

  Brett Terpstra teases nvUltra, a successor to nvALT.

  Published Jun 24, 2019

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

  Published Jun 17, 2019

• Robin Rendle on Blogging with Eleventy

  Robin Rendle writes about his journey from WordPress to Jekyll to Eleventy.

  Published Jun 05, 2019

• Upgrading From an iPhone SE to an XR

  Michael Tsai on the various tradeoffs between the two models.

  Published Mar 04, 2019

• Jon Hicks on Using an iPad Pro

  Jon Hicks on using the iPad Pro for creative work.

  Published Jan 11, 2019

• Serenity Caldwell’s iPad (2018) Review

  Serenity Caldwell’s awesome new iPad (2018) review.

  Published Apr 22, 2018

• Ethan Marcotte’s Career Advice

  Ethan says write more.

  Published Feb 08, 2018

• Robin Rendle on RSS

  Robin Rendle on RSS and reading the Internet today.

  Published Feb 06, 2018

• iPad Photography Workflows

  A link to The Sweet Setup’s iPad photo workflow post, and some notes on my personal workflows.

  Published Jan 22, 2018

• Susan J. Robertson on “Aging Out” of Tech

  A link to Susan’s post about being a woman in tech.

  Published Jan 12, 2018

• Jorge Arango on Design Artifacts

  Jorge Arango on choosing appropriate design artifacts.

  Published Dec 06, 2017

• Screenshots with Chrome Dev Tools

  Taking full-page screenshots with Chrome’s Dev Tools

  Published Nov 27, 2017

• ESV Illuminated Bible

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

  Published Nov 09, 2017

• Post to Instagram from the Web

  Instagram’s new web app (finally) lets you post images.

  Published May 16, 2017

• Joshua Ginter on Developing a Journaling Habit

  Published Mar 17, 2017

• RIP Popular Photography

  Another venerable print magazine shifts to online-only.

  Published Mar 08, 2017

• RIP TextWrangler

  A classic text editor hits EOL.

  Published Mar 02, 2017

• Spotify Testing the Lossless Waters

  Published Mar 01, 2017

• Matt Gemmell on GoodNotes

  Published Feb 28, 2017

• Marshmallow Run: Girl Scouts San Diego + Design Code Build

  Published Feb 24, 2017

• The Sweet Setup Reviews MarsEdit

  A new look at a long-time blogging app.

  Published Feb 24, 2017

• The State of iBooks in Early 2017

  Link to Michael E. Cohen’s report “The State of iBooks in Early 2017”.

  Published Feb 20, 2017

• MacStories reviews Nebo

  MacStories reviews Nebo, a note-taking app with handwriting recognition

  Published Sep 30, 2016

• Why Would You Do That on Mobile?

  Published Aug 07, 2013

• Band of Outsiders

  Reflecting on Erin Kissane’s graduation-themed essay for The Pastry Box Project.

  Published Jun 13, 2013

• Ode to Kuro

  Published May 22, 2012

• Luminous Landscape on the Fuji X-Pro 1

  Published Mar 21, 2012