Shōgun’s Visual Style
The limitations of TV’s style bandwidth.
The limitations of TV’s style bandwidth.
TCM’s new interview series with filmmakers.
Where to give your precious fucks.
Communication modes, power, and ways to build collective understanding.
A look at the college value proposition.
An argument for putting your art first.
Aaron Gordon looks back at Netflix before metrics and the algorithm ate everything.
Goodbye, red envelopes.
A fading skill.
Something something Faustian bargain.
Don’t fear the tool, worry about who is swinging it.
Physical media! It’s good!
Kathryn VanArendonk on Warner Bros. Discovery’s slash-and-burn show reductions at HBO Max.
How much organizing is too much?
Mandy Brown on remote/IRL cultures, supporting junior staff, and the flexibility needed to deal with climate/pandemic effects.
Jess Thomson, reflecting on the effect Goodreads has had on her reading hobby.
Katie Baker on Google Reader and internet nostalgia.
A Washington Post photoessay.
Looking back 20+ years at a musical moment.
Rumors of the iPhone Mini’s demise.
Forwarding newsletters to Feedbin’s account-level email address.
A tool to generate Atom feeds from email newsletters.
Always tightly-edited, always a good source of films I missed.
Automated reading log entries using Github Actions.
Upcoming projects for 2021, featuring some of my favorite filmmakers.
Remembering one of my favorite NYC record stores.
Indie bookstores and how they’re coping with the pandemic, illustrated by Bob Eckstein
Metaphors for technical complexity and refactoring.
Louis Menand on interpreting the politics of Jane Austen and her work.
Marius Masalar reflects on a year spent shooting with an iPhone 11.
Lighting fires as the world burns.
We’ve been recycling plastic for nothing.
A meditation on how books rewire our brains and give us shelter so we can flourish.
Nimit Shah on how they visualized their history of reading.
The Ringer takes a look at Letterboxd, the social film discovery network.
Link to Ethan Marcotte’s post about teamwork, communication, design systems, and gaps in process.
Sally Rooney’s short story prequel for Normal People.
Austin Kleon’s advice for reading during this pandemic.
Mad Max: Fury Road, in the words of those who created it.
Grappling with career goals in the midst of a pandemic.
The Sweet Setup updates their look at turning the iPad into your go-anywhere photography workstation.
Jeff Chu remembers Rachel Held Evans, one year after her death.
Notes on editing mixed in with a meditation on narration in Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise”
Embracing video in Darkroom
Robin Rendle on friendship, books, and links.
Mandy Brown on leading remote teams in a pandemic.
Ethan Marcotte on pattern-led and process-led approaches to design pattern systems.
Ben Brooks’ review of the ALT keyboard, and links to features on custom keyboard builder Tae Ha Kim.
Laura Kalbag’s quick overview of RSS, its benefits, and some RSS clients.
A story about the toxic work culture at luggage/lifestyle startup Away.
Some quotes on clever code and maintainability by Guido van Rossum
Two folks make the case for investing in personal sites, and a callback to an old Frank Chimero post.
Ethan Marcotte’s talk about web design, power, ethics, and unionization.
I hate the handshake™, too.
Cancel culture, in two different tweets.
Kottke.org compiles some recent pencil-making videos.
Christian Heilmann points out some drawbacks to optimizing for terseness.
The Atlantic features Ardmore’s Viva Video.
AHP on her reading routines.
Joe Pinsker looks for the factors that create avid readers.
A radio segment recapping the Proud Boys/Bon Air Fire Co. controversy in Haverford Township.
Sarah Drasner on how management doesn’t give you that tight feedback/dopamine cycle that coding does.
Liz Phair releases a memoir, Horror Stories.
WHYY’s “The WHY” examines the changing Philadelphia accent.
Sony Walkman retrospective in Tokyo
Brett Terpstra teases nvUltra, a successor to nvALT.
Robin Rendle writes about his journey from WordPress to Jekyll to Eleventy.
Michael Tsai on the various tradeoffs between the two models.
Jon Hicks on using the iPad Pro for creative work.
Serenity Caldwell’s awesome new iPad (2018) review.
Ethan says write more.
Robin Rendle on RSS and reading the Internet today.
A link to The Sweet Setup’s iPad photo workflow post, and some notes on my personal workflows.
A link to Susan’s post about being a woman in tech.
Jorge Arango on choosing appropriate design artifacts.
Taking full-page screenshots with Chrome’s Dev Tools
A new illuminated version of the ESV, with illustrations by Dana Tanamachi.
Instagram’s new web app (finally) lets you post images.
Another venerable print magazine shifts to online-only.
A classic text editor hits EOL.
A new look at a long-time blogging app.
Link to Michael E. Cohen’s report “The State of iBooks in Early 2017”.
MacStories reviews Nebo, a note-taking app with handwriting recognition
Reflecting on Erin Kissane’s graduation-themed essay for The Pastry Box Project.