Robin Rendle / v19.1.1

README

Notes

Small things like these
Cybernetics and Ghosts
The day of small things
Reading matters deeply
Show me the work
Sinistral Hands
EP-1320 Medieval
Several short sentences about writing
Make Believe
Indian Street Lettering
fragcoord.xyz
The Wave
Sustained attention/revision
Misery is not wisdom
Uncertainty is healthy
Software is a feeling
Landslide; a ghost story
Reading without reading
Kind eyes
The Song of LinkedIn
The world is still so full of dinosaurs
pointer-box-offset
Strange Pictures
People not people
v19
This is just a place
So Many Websites
Monumental and Important Artifacts
An Abundance of Inspiration
The Drifter
A Few Nice Words about Viewfinder
Ditch those words!
Poverty, By America
Fix the Signal
Book notes
The End of Everything
item-flow
Humiliation
Abandon all keyboards
trot
Notes on blogging
Change and risk
Work is just work
Learnable by default
Digital gardening
Design artifacts
This Glorious Machine
2024 in music
text-box
Code shufflin’
Frameworkism
The eras of CSS
Safety and stability
into the wreck
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
Big Apple Blues
Coming home
Hire HTML and CSS people
Every webpage deserves to be a place
Notes on font licensing
No one’s ready for this
A message in binary
Departure Mono
Moonbound
Ideas are vulnerable
How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
Guess who’s back
We don’t need a boss, we need a process
Trust the vibes
Closed in England
Struggle and process
Chase the product, not the data
When in doubt, use Roslindale
Design ain’t a democracy
The story is a codebase
The computer is a feeling
Stop calling yourself an IC
Book Tour Simulator 2024
Creativity is the byproduct of work
Piranesi
Instability
Job Hoppin’
The New Alt Media
A prototype of the future
Against Landlords
Design interviews
Sleepless in San Francisco
Designing The Cascade
Longboarding
Good and useful writing
E-essays
Indoor Kid
Design is a process of getting stuck
Good Taste
The Other Side
:has roundup
One endless meeting
Keyboard-first apps
Is there a sane way to use the internet?
The Murderbot Diaries
Be kind, be cool
The Elevator Test
Mini Manifesto
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
A unified theory of fucks
If it doesn’t ship, then it doesn’t count
Be loud about the things you love
Resolutions are dumb
Hitched
22 panels
Jusant
I am a poem I am not software
Figure it out
Stop Using AI-Generated Images
People and Blogs
Nuform Type
Help is just help
Cut the Intro
Design systems, color spaces, and CSS
The Cascade
footer.design
Typographic Malaise
Meta in Myanmar
Meh
Metra Ticket Gallery
Kobo Libra 2
v13
A lot of stuff is just fine.
Processing painful work exits
Why are websites embarrassing?
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Type Revival for Film & TV
Where the gaps are
Marmite Defontes
Shufflin’
brr
Dark mode in the ancient world
On successor states and websites
Writing Tools
Guide Guide
What’s Next?
These Handsome Young Men
Parallax
Seven Gigabytes
Update
Typography is a service, not an art
The Risks of Staying Put
The Linotype Book Project
To-do
Offsite
View Transitions API
Handwriting Fonts For Lo-Fi Design
Layers
The Next Great Impasse
The details element is amazing
Syntax × Sentry
Counter-space
The Mountain in the Sea
Time Control
1,799
Your reading should be messy
The venture capitalist’s dilemma
Artificial Guessing
Tech-last
An end to typographic widows on the web
I don’t want to log in to your website
Investing in RSS
The Brink
The Writing of the Gods
Vibe Driven Development
Notes from a decade in publishing
The Curse of Academy Engraved LET
CSS Nesting
“These Don’t Shuffle”
The best time to own a domain
Shift Happens Livestream
Notes On Hypertext
Container Queries and Typography
The Book Cover Review
Grumble Time
The Case of the Golden Idol
labour of love
Fragments
Shift Happens
The Year in Words
How to Distort Text with SVG Filters
Moving Timelines
Style Queries are Mind Boggling
;
IndieKit
Novelist as a Vocation
An Internet of Zines
The Last Walk
Design is Politics
Typographica Turns 20
Late Night Tinkering
2,392 days
Moving is not failure
Aegir
The Art of Passive Aggressive Copywriting
The Timeline is the Problem
Food and Sleep: III
Music for a Plague
Strategic and necessary
Fake Work
Monarch
The Right Kind of Attention
Take a Break You Idiot
Prototyping, prototyping, prototyping
The Other Internet
The Food Issue
Take Care of Your Blog
The Tale of the Third Finger Scan
How Not To Make A Book
TKTKTK
Magnet
I Don’t Believe in Sprints
Comparing Book-Printing Services
Alphabettes
MD System
My home on the web
Work ethics
Close-looking
Snark Pass
All the things a blog post can be
About the Redesign
Fairy Tales
Olympus
Media Query Ranges
TypeMedia 2021
Livewired
Happy in the Second
Every Photograph from Shadows
The Great Fiction of AI
The Future
In Praise of Shadows
A playground, a wellspring
We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe
Late night website work
The Smallest CSS
Framer CMS
The Week of Too Many Things
Optical Size And Variable Fonts
Interconnected
Infamy
Typeface 3
I wish I could control CSS scroll-snap with Javascript
Trust
Attention and Email
Taking Shortcuts
Church Going
Blogging and the heat death of the universe
Home Sweet Homepage
Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint
Ego and Design
Black Mesa
Thanks Doc
An Ode to CSS-Tricks
36 Days of Type
The Sound I Left Behind
Draft no.4
Two Years of Mass-Driver
The Parthenon Sculptures
An incoherent rant about design systems
Return
Webster’s 1913
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
The Sandwich
Promotion
I Trawl the Megahertz
The difference between correct-ness and useful-ness in a design system
Like Clockwork
British & Exotic Mineralogy
Escape
My anti-resume
Software is a Gift
A New Thing
CSS and Momentum
The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive
Care for the Text
The Sexism of CSS
End of Year Thoughts 2021
Vectro Type
browser.engineering
The Writers We Thought We Were
Type Specimen As Essay
I Love Typography
Teranoptia
The Crane Wife
Tilt
Books, Money, and Accessibility
Who is web3 for?
Design Systems Metrics
What Does a Good Design System Feel Like?
A Web Browser Built for Me
This House of Lovely Secrets
Unlimited Sand and Money Still Won’t Save the Hamptons
Occupant Oldstyle
Spacing and Sci-Fi
Weird Browsers
White Tears and the OP-1
The Manual of Diacritics
Punctuation in novels
Things Learned Blogging
Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?
Experimental Variable Fonts
From the distance of this website
Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble
Packing My Library
Keeping Track
Epicene design information
Money Stuff
MÖRK BORG
Blunder
Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical
Moiré no more
Ugh
Bay Curious
The Power of a Link
Our Impatience Is Worth Billions
Mars After Midnight
An Ode to BART
The Healing Power of JavaScript
MD Nichrome
Text on a Curve
Sentry Hackweek 2021
The Annosphere
How Not To Be A Jerk
Redesign: The Source of Truth
Redesign: Everything Broke
Stress Systems.
Does this work?
Back to the Future with RSS
Crease
Redesign: Content Migration
Why is file manipulation so hard?
Redesign: Moving to Astro
Redesign: Measure Once
Designing in Public
Omens
Timefulness
Just link!
The web is too damn complex
It’s a beautiful day to stay inside
The Secret (and Very Important) History of the U.S. Solar Industry
Old Place, New Place, Reef
Invincible
Everything that books ought to be
Be a Big Fan
From way out here
Animal Crossing
Marvel Superhero Lettering
The Cage
Power and the workplace
The Return of the Blogroll
Is CSS a Programming Language?
Sentry Alerts
Anti-SEO
Mercure
What the Redesign
One of those photographs
Don’t think like a database
Everyone in the world is just an email away
Puffin and Puffin Arcade
How To Be Hopeless
Monitor 404s with Sentry
world@hey.com
Fonts in Focus: Louche
Neglect and the Shepard-Risset glissando
Okay, sue me!
The Art of Typewriting
Here, I am king
All I Want
The Loves of Achilles
Patterned
Style Check
How Not to Write a Book
The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo
The Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing
A Year Without Books
Every website is a gift
The Great Bonfire at the End of Time
Blogging and Dimly Lit Bars
Did you know about the :has CSS selector?
Join the Sentry Design Team
Hookshot
Building Dark Mode
Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999
RSS, Focus, and Attention
The American Rescue Plan
Putting Landsat 8’s Bands to Work
Click, click, click
Websites? Wobsites. Wibsits!
Tulip Mania
Crypto art
Escape Bias
The Arch of Honor
Inheritance
New CSS Tricks and Design Engineers
Pointing at things
Exquisite kestrels disappear
Why I still use RSS
Carry Yourself Lightly
How lucky we are
The new reading stack
Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time
The Hardest Thing to Measure
Foundation
Running a Successful Membership Program
Indeterminacy
The Arrow Type Blog
What is Bigotry?
The Art of Whaling
Hijack
The Unknown Sea
Season 3
Descript
Accessibility Weekly
...and by islands I mean paragraphs
Katy’s Book Bloggin’ Setup
Peak Bullshit
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
Etna
The Catalogue of Broken Hearts
Books for Winter
The Iliad and the Odyssey
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge
We’re looking for a designer
Ice Breaker
Why the web is such a mess
The literary life of Octavia E. Butler
It’s Time to Hunker Down
I Was Tough, Now I’m Needy
The Bad-Yet-Daring Things We Do
Front-end Bloggin’
Begin Again
Impress Yourself
Voting is Not Enough
Prop 22
Random Button
Writing about Typography
The Weekly Planet
Some Things I Have Consumed This Week
Night Owl
Accessibility is for Everyone
Cool +1
Signals
The Future of Frontend
Why does this design crit hurt?
Verifying Large Refactors
People Problems
The least interesting thing
The case for rereading
Good work doesn’t look good
Autonomy and Hong Kong
On the design systems between us
Web Apps Are Not A Thing, Please Stop
Everything is a Story
Jazz Musician Lettering
Less homework! More fun!
Blot
Organizing as a Machine
RBG
Don’t Be A Hero
Huh
Retweet but do not read
Fighting with a Smile
Design Vlogs
Pop Music / False B-Sides II
The Money-Bail System is Racist
Subnautica
The Phone of the Wind
Risk
Foghorn
Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority
The Right Number
The Thing with Leading in CSS
The Radium Craze
Signs of a Toxic Workplace
A Rocket-Powered Jumbo Jet
Cover stars
An Astronomical Clunk
A Lighthouse, A Man, A City
The DNC
Oh! What a Joyous Thing
1940s.nyc
Hypercards
Aglet Mono
The Past is Not Dead and Can Never Die
How would I improve RSS?
Profits ≠ Economy
That Blessed Destination
Tokyo Train Station Stamps
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
A Problem of Trust
A website is an essay
No one is above grief
The Color of Law
Capacity
LfA Aluminia
Bias is Inevitable
Performance Monitoring
Colorful Headings
Wear a Mask
Reply links in RSS feeds
The Strange Cultural Force of the Book Deal
A feature, not a bug
Momentum
Design is not about solving problems
Everything is the thing
Sloanstarter
Nichrome
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Variable Fonts Experiments
How I Became a Police Abolitionist
War is a force that gives us meaning
Confronting yourself
Maps and Spreadsheets
Women In Music Pt.III
Design Is [Multicultural]
Being vulnerable in public
Raiders
Utopia for Realists
Volume A
The Punk Rock Essay Machine
So You Want to Talk About Race
Out of Reach
In Praise of the Walking Coffee
Homesick
Remember My Song
Dream Wiki
The Lonely City
Subtle Optical Phenomenons
Shout shout shout
8 minutes and 46 seconds
2D Websites
Between the Third and Fifth Apology
8 to Abolition
This Extraordinary Being
41 Shots
Growing and Learning
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
The Apparatus
Wanted everyone to feel welcome
Newsletters vs. Ye Olde Blog
Text for Proofing Fonts
Lubalin’s Logotypes
Another use case for variable fonts
Blogging should be easy
Notes about product design
Unlearning the UI
Everything Is Embarrassing
The Myth of No Effort
Hyperbolic Time Chamber v.3
Seraph
Hyperbolic Time Chamber v.2
Let’s all wear a mask
Planet Hearth
An interview with Ted Chiang
Visa acquired!
I need a hobby, do not read this one
Hyperbolic Time Chamber v.1
Ghosts V–VI
GT Type catalogue
Norse Mythology
The world’s copyright system is broken
Further than we’ve ever walked
Dept. of Enthusiasm
The one about the thing
Anxious punk rock web design
Why is CSS frustrating?
Things we left in the old web
Castlevania
Writing and lightness
On Writing
fraidycat
H Is for Hawk
The Inertia of Bad Ideas
Who the fuck is Guy Debord?
RSS favorites
Agile as Trauma
Craig Mod on Membership
People > Process
Why Software is Slow and Shitty
Redesigning in public
CWRU2K
How to be an open source gardener
The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
Start with the drama
“Link in Bio” is a Slow Knife
The Birth of a Nation
The Measure of Success
The Hiding Place
Teaching CSS
The Quiet Redesign
End of year optimism
O
The Smallest Difference
Improving my workflow
Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die
Start a newsletter
Chip on your shoulder
The Dashboard Problem
Quitting Analytics
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
Getting the easy stuff right
Products and platforms
Take your broken heart and blog
Food and Sleep: II
Source code
Resistant to data
Imposter syndrome
Sick systems
Irony doesn’t scale
The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations
The Box
Sticks and Ropes
Owning the Archive
Baseline
What do you wish you had known about engineering before getting started?
A Vacuum of Courage
To Move Without Latency
The Success of Many Days
That Feeling of Rebellion
Confidence and Berry Glen
Vulf Sans
Partners in Crime
A Vacancy Has Been Detected
Census Stories
Every Layout
The New Wilderness
Nobody really owns product work
The Rise and Demise of RSS
The Careful Work
The World Wide Work
Eleventy and Netlify
In Defense of a Difficult Industry
Hey
Wait, what is my job again?
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
End of an Era
To hell, to hell...
Design, system.
Getting to the bottom of line height in Figma
Pairing is the key to evangelizing your design system
Isolationism
Some Unsolicited Newsletter Advice
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Performance and Behavior
Delirious in London
You need front-end engineers
This One Technology Will Solve All of Your Problems
The Harmony of the System
1% Better
Building a UI Kit in Figma
Roadside Picnic
Invisible Cities
The Black Triangle
The hardest thing about design systems
The Design System You Already Have
Type Choice, Political Choice
Good is better than perfect
Amazon Chronicles
The Boring Designer
Consensus in design systems
Gregor
A Thousand Ships
Pedantry
The Least Harm
The Argument against Centrism
Arguing in Public
The Allusionist
20,000 Days on Earth
The Best Debugging Story I’ve Ever Heard
The Great Divide
The Slip
The Sisters Brothers
Writing software together
Women and Power
Christmas in LA
Hate Inc. and the Serial Book
You Need a Budget
Switchin’ to Firefox
Potential and Loss
Searching the Creative Internet
On the web not of the web
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Design Systems is Easy
The Victorian Internet
Front-end development is not a problem to be solved
Cool Gray City of Type
Why can’t we use functional and regular CSS at the same time?
The Red Hand Files
Summerland
What do you want to do when you grow up, kid?
And Introducing: The Kickstarter
Design Systems at Gusto: Part II
Areas of Concern
Nesting Classes in Sass
The 2nd Trip to Portland
A Rant after a Day
iA Writer
Songs for a Writer’s Cabin
Break the Browser
Saving Zelda
Spelunky
And Introducing
The History of the Web
10,000 Original Copies
Growing Up Jobs
My Increasing Wariness of Dogmatism
The Late Muscle
From San Francisco to Los Angeles
The Vietnam War
Networks of New York
Jack and the Magic Key
The Ends of the World
An Archipelago Man
I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
How Long Can Our Content Last?
Bourdain
On Beauty
11am
Gardens and Systems
AMPstinction
Yay Computers
Good Writing and Analytics Don’t Mix
backdrop-filter
How to Take Criticism
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
To Oregon!
Leaving Facebook
Email is the Magic Key
Seven Days in the Life of the Late, Great John McCain
A City of Letters
Jagannath
The Three Body Problem
Dictionary Stories
The Triumph Street Triple
10 Timeframes
Design Systems at Gusto
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
Advice for a young systems designer
The Internet Got Shrinkwrapped
Tigerman
Spineless
Isle of Dogs
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
The Missing Building Blocks of the Web
Demisemihemidemisemiquaver
We Long to Move the Stars to Pity
Tahoe
Stars and Gardens
Artful
What writers really do when they write
We can only chart what we can see
Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems
Reading Design
How to Read the Internet
Making the Music of the Mazg
Bond
The Ledger
Inconsistencies and productivity
Buttondown
CSS is Awesome
Art at Scale
On Track
Ubiquity and consistency
Who Goes Nazi?
Now I Am Going to Write a Book
Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It)
China’s Selfie Obsession
Why Write Fiction in 2017?
Dora
Where the GOP’s Tax Extremism Comes From
The Elements of Eloquence
A Responsive Spreadsheet
Setting a Typographic Scale with Sass Maps
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
How to be both
Find the Beginning
Feedback
Songs of San Francisco
Green to Me
Making the Clackity Noise
Notes on Adventures
Books as Work
Ways of Reading
Sourdough
The Fire Next Time
The Lost Cause Rides Again
The Sutro Tower
You Say Data, I Say System
Cassandra Plays the Stock Market
An Incomplete List of Mistakes
With New Browser Tech, Apple Preserves Privacy and Google Preserves Trackers
Berlin, indefinitely
Between Trident Lakes and Technology Drive
Blüte, Gerüst
How Google Book Search Got Lost
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: An Appreciation of Maira Kalman
Regarding Gnomon
Letter from a Drowned Canyon
Mighty Fine Content that I am Consuming Online™
How to ride a motorcycle in California
The CSS-Tricks Newsletter
In Praise of Green Light
Flee
Blogging and Atrophy
Gimlet
Strawberries and Cheese
The Fire in the Smoke
One Thousand Days in America
Nothing is where you think it is
What would happen if we just gave people money?
I, Website
Now Available for Freelance Work
Learning in public
In Defense of Webfonts
The Outpost
object-fit and object-position
On File Formats, Very Briefly
Cushion
Putting thought into things
Longform
A New Responsive Font Format for the Web
Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You.
Loading fonts with the Web Font Loader
Ampersand 2015
A pointable we
Big data, no thanks
Six
On Writing Well
A Book of Sand
Food and Sleep
Viewsources podcast
XOXO 2015
Making charts with CSS
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan & Derelict
With teeth of metal and glass
Chaining blend-modes
Week notes #12
Week notes #11
Week notes #10
Week notes #9
Week notes #8
Week notes #7
Week notes #6
You
Week notes #5
Week Notes #4
Week notes #3
Week notes #2
Week notes #1
The Glut is Good
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Welcome to the club
Tourist
A crowd of sorrows
The Great Unbundling
The great future of video games
Medieval desktops
An interview with Italo Calvino
Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation
Writing is thinking
Trouble at the Koolaid Point
Scrambled eggs and serifs
Here comes everybody
What we talk about when we talk about what we talk about when we talk about making
What we see when we read
Resources for learning how to JavaScript
Practical typography
You’re not welcome here
Interface Writing
Bird by Bird
Gardens, not graves
A rendezvous of secrets
Act in earnest
Chloe
Goodbye Erskine
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Do justice and let the skies fall
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Death by Black Hole
Future of Web Design 2014
Deep breaths in St Paul’s cathedral
Dust jackets and snark
Setting type with Sass maps
Our favourite typefaces of 2013
Inside Paragraphs
The Library at Night
The Solid Form of Language
Quickness and Detours
The Bug
Empty Libraries
The first floor
Twelve months
Scrolljacking
The daydreams of a book designer
Purdy
Notes on public speaking
Intrinsic Ratios and SVGs
dConstruct
Front-end Maintenance and the Ladder of Abstraction
The Comforts of the Siren
Quarks, Atoms and Molecules
Mistaking the tool for the practice
The Float
Counterpunch
Between Shelves
The Dream Sponge
Modern Typography
Setting up a default type stylesheet

Stories

This Glorious Machine
Hypercard
In Praise of Shadows
Newsletters
The Arc of Design
Dartmoor, Death Stranding, and me
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
The Futures of Typography
In Search of the Long Wow
The New Web Typography
A Visual Lexicon
The Other Interface
Bookmarking
Call Me Interactivity
Book design and emotional information

Newsletter

A Devastating Nope
The Browser is a Printing Press
A Crowd of Sorrows
A Maker of Programs
The Book Club of California
Notes on Job Hunting
What makes a website cool?
The sound is part of the meaning
Where has England gone?
The Prize Of All The Oceans
Maintenance and Care
The Staggering Frontiers of CSS
The Next Wild Thing
Build the Archive
Thud
In the Land of Invented Languages

Adventures in Typography

Behold the Glorious FAQ
Blackletter type
8 × 8
Foundry websites
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
First you notice the letter
Treasures in progress
The projects we risk everything for
All things brighter
This must be the place
Rekindling the Ampersand
Damn everything but the circus
𝘾Ǭ𝐅𝗙ē⒠, 𝘾Ǭ𝐅𝗙ē⒠, 𝘾Ǭ𝐅𝗙ē⒠
Cardigan Sci-fi
A New Home
Smaller Things
The Berlin Handshake
Typographic scales
Notes from the Field
The Smallest Possible Bit
Discipline
The Four Kinds of Space
The Victorian Internet
Cool Gray City of Type
IBM Plex
What do you want to be when you grow up, kid?
Working in Public
The San Francisco Map Fair
Ghost Town
Flexible Typesetting
Machines for Building Machines
Morris Fuller Benton
Type Journal
California as an Island
Jack and the Magic Key
Videogames and WiggleTech™️
The Mark of Sincerity
Reforma
Gold Rush
The Secretary of Foreign Tongues
Email is the Magic Key
Potential Typography and the Oulipo
The National Geographic
Let’s talk about fonts
Honor the Lexicographers
Hangul Fonts
A Deadly Lowercase y
Typography is a Form of Kindness
Serif Francisco
Nostalgia
Fonts as Software
Hyperobjects and the Black Triangle
Typographic perambulations
Wild and Kinder Things
Ronnia
Ampersand
A short note on Conductor
Take care of the margins
Small improvements in the right direction
Blogs, revivals, and workshops

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