Words that would otherwise be coming out of my mouth

I absolutely love this from the brilliant Brendan Dawes: After a recording session on one of those large mixing desks, after you’ve twiddled countless knobs and push around many faders you do something called zeroing the desk. This is were […]

These are simple and beautiful.

I absolutely love this clip of Paul McCartney showing how to play the bass part for Ever Present Past. He’s just so casual explaining it all (speaking of casual, it’s weird to see him dressed in a t-shirt). Here’s the things I […]

Josh wrote about social buttons, and I agree. I always had a hunch that social buttons weren’t super effective, and when asked for my opinion, I’d say that I thought they’re crufty, probably don’t get interacted with all that much, and don’t […]

I got the new MacBook Pro (13″, fully maxed-out version) several months ago. My older MacBook Pro was (and is!) in good working order, but when I hired my brother last year he ended up using my ancient MacBook Air. Every […]

This graphic from xkcd is brilliant (as is always the case). “Every mobile app attempts to expand until it includes chat.” Luke Wroblewski Luke wrote that in 2013 and it certainly continues to ring true today. The explosion of applications […]

“Command line for non-techies.” Yes please. Remy Sharp just released a series for learning the command line. As someone who’s limped through terminal commands for most of my career, this looks like a fantastic opportunity to level up and get […]

PSA: this series on Netflix is really good. Each episode highlights a designer in a particular field (illustration, architecture, set design, etc). The subject talks about their work, their process, and their journey, and the whole thing is incredibly well produced. I […]

Dust of Firefox. Fire up Rachel Andrew‘s grid demo to see this: Install browser update. Reload to see this: Neat! Well, guess it’s time to really learn grid. I’ve been in so many of Rachel Andrew’s and Jen Simmon‘s conference talks, […]

It’s always great to hear Ethan’s super smart thoughts, and his thoughts on container queries are of course on point. I’ve been rounding up resources on element/container queries on This Is Responsive for years now, and hope that words from prominent […]

A fantastic and comprehensive roundup of logos from around the world. It looks like lot of work went into this!

Wes Bos wrote a great post about how he deals with email. I especially I love his advice about getting to the source of why you’re getting so many emails. If you get the same email more than three times, […]

On January 20th, 2017, the accessibility and Spanish translations of the White House website were removed. This goes against the open and inclusive nature of the web. Thankfully, there are grassroots efforts in place to translate the White House site into […]

Look at the flag of the United States of America: What comes to mind? Maybe words like “freedom”, “liberty”, and “pride” pop into your head. But I’m guessing for a lot of people, concepts like militarism, conservatism, and ‘murica also spring to […]

Ian wrote up some thoughts about how he came into the web industry. By way of being my brother, he had the concepts of modularity and atomic design beaten into him from Day 1 on the job. Perhaps he has […]

I was not aware of this site, but it’s been floating around in light of the recent awful news that Betsy DeVos made it in as Secretary of Education. Here’s what Donors Choose is about: We make it easy for anyone […]

Here’s a nice roundup of a bunch of ways to get more involved in politics and activism.

I had a great time chatting with my pal Christopher Schmitt about atomic design principles, my book, and a bunch of other stuff. Give it a listen!

Every day we, the people who help make the web, benefit from the free flow of information and from the open, collaborative spirit of the community. We know what amazing things can be accomplished when people (from all nations, religions, races, sexual […]

There’s a reason why offices don’t have gigantic screens blasting 24-hour cable news all day. No one would get anything done, fist fights would break out, and there’d be an uptick in the number of heart attacks happening around the office. For a whole […]