This article is everything that’s wrong with places like The Verge. It’s full of links, but all to their own articles with not one link to product the article is about. It’s lazy.

Out of Office is on, notifications turned off, a week in South Wales begins!

Dribbble has really descended in to a bunch of pretty work. Does anyone have other recommendations of where to look for people doing effective UI design?

I think I like the idea of vertical tabs in a browser, but apart from Arc all the implementations don’t feel right.

For the first time in years I’m actually on track to hit my reading goal for the year. It’s modest but it’s great to be reading more.

Finished reading: The Mother by T. M. Logan 📚

Parker Ortolani hits on something I’ve been thinking about with regard to liquid glass. Every time I come across critiques of the design language I wonder why Apple isn’t adding colour to the glass as a solution to some of the problems. They can even call it stained glass.

I love this idea from Louie Mantia for a new app called Buddies.

In the transition from services like AOL Instant Messenger to services like iMessage, I think we lost the intentionality of chatting with friends. Weirdly, I also feel like I lost a very specific buddy-list shaped window on the left side of my screen.

A few weeks ago I found myself searching for an old favourite of mine, Adium. It was this same line of thought that lead me to look for it. I miss having the casual chat with friends on the side of my screen.

My friend and very talented artist Ellie won an award recently. She’s been interviewed please give it a read.

The last few days I’ve seen a few links shared that go to substack, every single time I’ve seen the url and turned away from clicking through. Same with Medium. Each time I say to myself, why don’t they have their own blog I’d much rather visit that.