Love this little kerning game.
Love this little kerning game.
Once in a while the internet pops up a great little typography game. This time around it’s called Kern Type and is an addictive challenge to correct the kerning of random words.
The constantly changing weather conditions we have in the UK at the moment are starting to play havoc with my asthma.
I can’t help but coming back to read this post about how our digital calendars could be so much more powerful. I keep looking at ways of integrating my tasks with my calendar but nothing out there does it that well at the moment.
I think my brain is done for the day. Couldn’t find a way to create a subdomain on Hover, even a cursory google didn’t uncover the mystery.
I really like blog posts that give a behind the scenes for design changes. I’ve just written an internal post for my work on the reasoning I’ve made changes to a key part of our user experience.
This is an interesting look at the effect of a new icon design for Foodnoms has increased downloads. I wish more developers and designers would be this transparent about their work. It’s great evidence that shows how important the users are in our design considerations. No matter how well you know your users you don’t know what’s the most effective design until you speak to them.
This is a rather concerning piece of research. I hadn't considered this angle of decentralised social media services. One thing that the large corps have is resources and urgency to tackle things like this.
When I started this site, I was just a 19-year-old looking to have fun on the internet. After all the twists and turns, I’ve come back around to a very similar place. Now, I’m a 31-year-old who’s still looking to have fun on the internet, share my thoughts and experiences, and make friends. That’s what this blog is for, and I’m really happy with where it’s landed.
Devon Dundee posting about his journey with his blog tells a similar tale to the story of my blog. Mine started when I was 20 and has been through many different iterations since. I recently switched back to WordPress in an effort to return to an easy way to post, have fun, and have a place to share that’s mine and no one else’s.
Very tempted by the public betas for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS this year…
It still baffles me that in both Outlook and Apple Mail there is no built in button to create a task from an email…
This is a fascinating read that presents the idea that calendars should be multi layered.
We tend to think of calendars as 2D grids with mutually exclusive blocks of time, but as this example shows, not all events automatically cancel each other out. Depending on their characteristics, they can be layered on top of each other. This means we manage time in three, not two, dimensions.
Think of a meeting you need to travel to. In your calendar will be an event for the actual meeting, but you need to block off time before and after so that no one else schedules something in that time. So really the unavailable time covers when you start travelling, the meeting itself, and the time travelling back. The total time makes one layer, the meeting is a second layer, and perhaps some tasks you need to accomplish in the meeting are a third layer. It’s a great concept and one I would love to see someone build an app based on it.
Back on Wordpress. It’s been a few years and many attempts to revitalise my blog, but I’ve decided to move back to Wordpress. The ease of posting from any device using apps has trumped everything else. Things will be a bit rough over the next few days and weeks as I get old posts back but stay tuned for more.
This mornings coffee is brought to you by the ends of two different bags… I call it frankenfilter… ☕️
My use of Threads has dropped dramatically this week, it’s become really clear that all I want is them to enable Activity Pub so that I can follow a few friends from Micro.blog or Mastodon.
As much as it pains me to say this. Bard is proving to be better for me than ChatGTP lately and it’s all because of one thing. It looks at the internet.
A night of natural wine tasting with these two 🍷
I love seeing behind the scenes look at new logos for things that have been around a while. Really like the new Thunderbird logo.
Just saw a a post on Threads from Figma… describe your creative process in three words or less.
My attempt: Steal, splice, iterate.
Maybe I should elaborate?
Steal: Be inspired. Steal ideas from others, but also from your past. At the start, or even in the middle of, a project I tend to ask myself two questions. Have I solved a similar problem in the past and has someone else solved it? If the answer to either of those questions is yes or maybe, then I look at those projects through he lens of the one I’m working on.
Splice: This is where I take what I’ve discovered when looking back at what has been done before and splice in new thoughts and ideas.
Iterate: This is pretty self explanatory, but essentially I spend the rest of the time repeating the process until I come to a point where I have something that is hitting the problem head on and the design is coming to a resolution.
Starting to think I want a smaller bag for than my back pack. Want one that’s comfortable to wear, can fit my iPad Pro 11 inch and a general assortment of “stuff” like inhaler, phone, and keys… any recommendations out there?
Plus these two that are going to a local coffee shop for them to cup.
I’ve got some seriously good coffees in the house at the moment… the red bourbon is especially 😚👌🏻 ☕️
Threads is intriguing but feels like the wild west. Mastodon has the best apps but discovery of people is really hard. Micro.blog is comfortable, like sitting in the lounge of an old pub. The problem is there are people I want to follow on all of the networks but I can’t do it from one app.
In all honesty I would like an app with the polish of Ivory to follow people from, keep up with the timeline in, and post to my own self hosted blog that looks and is structured exactly how I want it to be. I feel like that is a possibility but one that is always slightly out of reach.
Now that Apple has done interactive widgets. I want them to bring back interactive notifications on the Mac.
I hate DNS.
Just discovered this Security Checkliston Brian Lovin’s personal site. What a great resource and way to share knowledge.