Finished reading: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson 📚
I really enjoyed this and definitely recommend it. It’s the first in a new trilogy so I have a bit of a wait for the next one, but once the second half got going I got sucked in. The final 200 pages kept me picking the book back up at every opportunity. If you enjoy a bit of fantasy I think you will enjoy this and worth adding to your wish list.
This is a fascinating look into a combination of two of my favourite things. Typography and the Italian Renaissance. Microsoft and Studiogusto have developed a new typeface based on the handwriting of Michelangelo. Michelangelus will be distributed through the Microsoft 365 apps and will become my new defaults in those apps.
Ouch, the new Apple TV is expensive. Wasn’t expecting it to be that expensive, going to rethink my plan to get one to replace my current one that no longer gets software updates.
Wonderful look back at The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27. For me, peak doc was the Leopard/Snow Leopard era. All those individually shaped icons look messy but added an extra layer of usability and recognition that I think is missing from the dock today.
Today is a dark mode and headphones kind of day. After a solid 5 hours of back to back calls yesterday I need to actually do some work and recharge my batteries.
It’s these kinds of days when I find the idea of living in the remote north very appealing. I, of course, idealise it, but the thought of being in a space that looks out on the wild countryside with a fire burning in the hearth sounds like bliss. Perhaps I am a wannabe hermit? I don’t think so, but sometimes this boy from a small town in Nottinghamshire find the corporate world hard work.
I spent some time in Sketch last night refining the design of my read later app for Micro.blog bookmarks. Today whilst cleaning the kitchen using voice mode I had Codex implement the refined designs. This is bookmarks view in the new dark mode.
Some more of my read later app powered by Micro.blog bookmarks. All the functionality seems to be almost there, but I need to refine the theme colours. This shows the article view in normal and fullscreen modes. From here you can highlight, add tags, and mark as read.
Jim Nielsen is “Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” and I’ll add a hearty me too. My Mum hates technology when it changes and the way she did things no longer works or is possible. The web is definitely harder than it used to be, often in the name of making things easier, which always begs the question… easier for who?
I’ve been having fun experimenting with Codex… I’ve had many ideas for apps over the years but never been able to do anything about them. Finally I’m able to at least try ideas out, this one is a read later app powered by Micro.blog’s bookmarks feature.
a humane interface — or a humane system, even a humane technology — is considerate of human frailties. It acknowledges they exist and works with them, rather than taking advantage of them.
It’s rare that I find something strikes home so early in the day; this did. Much of my job as a designer is spent defending users, a battle of taste over numbers in a dashboard, but this might be how I start framing some of my arguments going forward. Juicing the numbers is the exact opposite of this, the methods used, more often than not, take advantage of human frailties to make them go up.
