Now
I’m in Coolum Beach, Queensland. It’s summer break. I’m hard at work on the next version of Brown Pages: a website to faciliate local composting of food waste. My current read is Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.
Here
There
Notes
To self, to you, to whomever. What’s been on my mind. RSS
Sidelines
Select items, served on the side.
Ephemera
ephemera.dannywhite.netYou know those scraps of paper and receipts that clog up your wallet and pockets? This is a living, digital archive of that.
Ongoing
Pi Frame
github.comPrint your own changing picture frame using an e-ink display and Raspberry Pi.
2022–2023
68
68.netlify.appKevin Kelly's 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice, one at a time.
2021
Brown Pages
brownpages.orgYour local guide to composting, wherever you are.
Ongoing
Trove
What I’ve found interesting lately from around the web.
dasprogramm shop: Braun design
dasprogramm.co.ukSeasoned - The brand creation kitchen
seasoned.koto.studioDigital Gardening | Chris Armstrong is miscellanious.
armstrong.isDropbox Brand Guidelines
brand.dropbox.comCodingfont
codingfont.comPoline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library
meodai.github.ioNaming your brand, from start to finish
offbrandkoto.substack.comAirport Typeface
airport.revolvertype.comurban design resources
learnurbandesign.comMAX SIEDENTOPF
maxsiedentopf.comWhere have all the websites gone?
fromjason.xyzQuit Your Job
“You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.”
palladiummag.comA peasant woodland | A Working Library
aworkinglibrary.comCalculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
calculatingempires.netDesign ain’t a democracy
robinrendle.comGoogle - The Web Can Do What!?
thewebshowcase.withgoogle.comunderconsideration.com
Globe Explorer
A better way to index and digest information?
explorer.globe.engineerA history of moquette | London Transport Museum
ltmuseum.co.ukitsnicethat.com
Invisible Details of Interaction Design
A nice write-up on interaction/motion design thinking.
rauno.meA Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands
An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.
nan.fyiAmbient Co-presence
What if our experiences on the web were akin to those in physical public spaces?
maggieappleton.comThe Social Life of Forests
“Such reciprocity does not necessitate universal harmony, but it does undermine the dogma of individualism and temper the view of competition as the primary engine of evolution.”
nytimes.comPoor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
I’m less interested in the content and more in the presentation. How could we have this sort of experience on a Kobo?
stripe.pressClimate change: Mapping in 3D where the earth will become uninhabitable
An even better piece of visual, data, storytelling.
interaktiv.morgenpost.deWhole Earth Index
“Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002.”
wholeearth.infoHistorical Trails
“…very few interfaces do a brilliant job of the third need: showing me where I've been and how I got here… Patterns like breadcrumbs help us navigate through website or wiki with lots of subpages, but those don't scale well beyond ~7 steps.”
maggieappleton.comCraft
“The constant tension of shipping faster versus shipping better. Falling into a cycle of "Ship, then iterate" is a trap. It ends up being more shiterate. Things happen and that "fast-follow" V1.1 release or V2.0 you had imagined probably won't.”
paulstamatiou.comvogue.com