Making things for the web is still fun. No, I don't need a better definition of fun. And still hard to get right.

Snippets of interest

A never-ending stream of distraction devices

• Bad people do the thing you love
  This from Adrian Howard relates to one of my ongoing peeves about design culture - that a design team operates according to a moral impulse that ‘the business’ ignores or rejects. The TL;DR at the bottom of the page captures it perfectly. May 2025
• Wharton Esherick
  Visiting this place in my teens was a memory dredged up by my brain at 3am last night. Thanks brain, please stop freaking me out like that May 2025
• The lure of 'so-so technology,' and how to avoid i
  Bonus interesting paper at the top of the article May 2025
• Using thematic analysis in psychology
  Sam Ladner tells us this is the second-most cited paper of the 21st Century. That's... kind of heartening. Apr 2025
• Good artists borrow, big business steals
  Companies... don’t sell historic materials themselves, just interfaces for finding them. Apr 2025
• A city is not a computer
  Been rummaging through Obsidian. This is a classic from 2017. Apr 2025
• Vibe coding, some thoughts and predictions
  join me in getting antsy about the advent of vibe designing Mar 2025
• Hardle
  Still on the Dles like its 2020 Feb 2025
• The case against travel
  I disagree with chunks of this, but I like the pushback against travel as achievement Mar 2025
• Measuring users’ mental models
  Lawton Pybus is a smart one Feb 2024
• Is your remote job making you lonely?
  It's a rare L for Betteridge's law. Yes, HBR, yes it is. May 2023
• Meetings *are* the work
  What matters in our remote, knowledge economy? When we're together. Hmmm. Feb 2023
• Positivism research philosophy
  I like this explainer. It's the sort of thing chatGPT eats for breakfast these days Mar 2023
• Pharoah Sanders' Izipho Zam
  This is a fantastic album, as long as you like free jazz... Oct 2022
• NASA TLX
  Spot of learning about NASA's Task Load Analysis Oct 2022
• Designing remote ethnography
  Stripe Partners, curious and helpful as ever Oct 2022
• Resource of collaborative learning practices
  Trove of usefulness from Cornell University Oct 2022
• Window Swap
  Rediscovered this after a conversation about maps and travel Sep 2022
• Will the millennial aesthetic ever end?
  Sep 2022
• The Vangelis – ‘Rhythm & Sound – A Burial Mix’ (2005)
  god love Basic Channel Sep 2022
• How to make sense of your design research
  Good article on research synthesis Jul 2022
• Giant Steps as an animation
  Great video of synaethesia Aug 2022
• Joel Sternfeld
  Photography hero Jul 2022
• Dollar Street
  Gapminder's Dollar Street is crazy, a fantastic anthropological resource Jul 2022
• Aave
  Trying to make sense of crypto - not getting very far. I don't know what a liquidity protocol is. And what are dapps? Jul 2022