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I’m on the road somewhere on the east coast of Australia, where it’s currently 3:04am on Thursday the 3rd of April .Peels and Attie on my mind. My current read is The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr, about automation.
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Notes
To self, to you, to whomever. What’s been on my mind. RSS
Sidelines
Select items, served on the side.
Peels
peels.appFind a home for your food scraps, wherever you are.
Ongoing
Attie
attie.appAnswers the age-old question “who played overnight?” without revealing the scores.
Ongoing
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
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68.netlify.appKevin Kelly's 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice, one at a time.
2021
Trove
What I’ve found interesting lately from around the web.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs
”What’s being performed, more than anything, is ambivalence: the most protective emotional position in a profession that demands passion but punishes vulnerability.”
itsnicethat.comQuit 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.comThe magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
”...vision and engineering are often deeply intertwined and mutually informative rather than linear. The magic of both software and software organizations comes from those moments where insight into how something works sparks entirely new ideas about what it could become.”
moxie.orgThe Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella
annievella.comIndependent Days
daringfireball.netAvoid the nightmare bicycle
> Good designs expose systematic structure; they lean on their users’ ability to understand this structure and apply it to new situations. We were born for this. > Bad designs paper over the structure with superficial labels that hide the underlying system, inhibiting their users’ ability to actually build a clear model in their heads.
geoffreylitt.compermacomputing
permacomputing.netELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot
machinelearning.apple.comThe hardest working font in Manhattan
aresluna.orgdasprogramm 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.xyzA 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.fyi