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New Jul 29, 2026
The AI Aesthetic
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of existing software interaction pa...
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New Jul 27, 2026
Can the Tide of AI Investment Lift All Boats on the Web?
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistiv...
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New Jul 24, 2026
Podcast Notes: Ed Catmull on David Senra
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the interview, you should read his book...
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New Jul 18, 2026
Make It Work vs. Make It Good
There are two wolves inside of me, lol. Some days I want to be a “designer”. Other days I want to be a “developer”. On the days I find myself wanting to feed the developer, it’s often because making s...
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New Jul 16, 2026
Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on “The Great Simplification”
I wish I could remember how this podcast came across my radar so I could give credit where it’s due. But alas, I cannot. It’s episode 217...
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New Jul 12, 2026
What’s an Icon in 2026?
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. Wha...
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New Jul 8, 2026
Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes...
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New Jul 5, 2026
Making a Shuffle Button
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of this writing, I have 974 “n...
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New Jul 2, 2026
This Page Left Intentionally Blank
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive): In former tim...
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New Jun 28, 2026
Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough”
I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide. Some of the problems they ran into were bugs....