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New Jun 7, 2026
Coding Is Designing
Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one. With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see the relationships bet...
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New Jun 2, 2026
An Ode to the Exacting Pedantry of Computers
The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles (it was a C++ course). “You mean, whe...
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New May 21, 2026
Book Notes: “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”
I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove ho...
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New May 18, 2026
Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design
This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s...
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New May 12, 2026
Building Software Requires Digestion
Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It...
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New May 10, 2026
Out With the JS, In With the HTML
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post another e...
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New May 3, 2026
Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions
I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post...
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New Apr 26, 2026
Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we code, b...
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New Apr 19, 2026
Hook It Up to the Machine
In the early 2000’s, my parents took us on a road trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. We made the journey in our new (used) family van: a green Dodge Caravan whose reputation was soon to become...
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New Apr 15, 2026
Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be u...