Archive
May 2023
- How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
- The Peculiar Case of Japanese Web Design
- Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
- Apple Music Classical (Mostly) Plays the Right Chords
- Evaluating User Interfaces with the Squint Test
April 2023
- Designing for colorblindness
- WebKit Features in Safari 16.4
- The HTML Review
- Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service
- Every New Beginning…
March 2023
- Meet the first-ever accessibility engineer at The Washington Post
- A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece
- Amplify Your UX Research Impact Using Ideation Sessions
- Levels of zoom in Service Design
- Introducing: Emoji Kitchen
- Bicycle
- The blind programmers who created screen readers
- Date and Time Pickers for All
- 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
- Modern Font Stacks
- A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions
- How New York can fight student debt
- Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
- Learners
- Neurodiversity Design System
- “Design for All” Documentary
- Digging through the ashes
- The decisions from user research
- Our web design tools are holding us back
April 2022
March 2021
February 2021
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
- Oreos and the Art of Crossword Puzzle Construction
- Do, pair, share
- Migraines Are a Serious Problem. Employers Can Help.
- Teachers are afraid of hybrid learning
- Byrne’s Euclid
- Progressive Enhancement reading list 2021
- Computer Feedback That Helps Kids Learn About Math and About Themselves
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
- Designing for illiteracy
January 2021
May 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
- The World-Wide Work.
- Charlie Owen on React
- A Short Guide to Building Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills
- Reactive User Interfaces Syllabus
- Mirroring: how to design for Arabic users
- Stéphanie Walter
- SQL Murder Mystery
June 2019
- Anti-Oppressive Facilitation Guide
- Africa’s Lost Kingdoms
- Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career
- A Lovely Letter From Susan
December 2018
- Borges on Life and Death
- Cynicism, Not Gullibility, Will Kill Our Humanity
- Front-end development is not a problem to be solved
- Prototypes and production
- B. F. Skinner: The Most Important Theorist of the 21st Century
- Tobias Rechsteiner’s GT Zirkon
- A boring education
- Lisa’s approach to learning outcomes
- Beyond Digital Ethics
- Mathematics for social good
- Replacing 1 billion-user platforms
- Coney Island Boardwalk
November 2018
July 2018
June 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
- 10 Mostly Easy Steps To Become An Indie Dev
- Crying in Public
- Fraction Frenzy
- My Fellow White People, Here’s One Simple Trick You Can Do About Racism TODAY!
- People and tooling
January 2018
- Legends of the Ancient Web
- Correspondence from Alan Kay
- Amber Wilson on Learning
- No, #MeToo Is Not a Witch Hunt
- People Are Not Talking About Machine Learning Clickbait and Misinformation Nearly Enough
- Rebuilding the social open web
- What’s New in HTML 5.2?
- Robust Client-Side JavaScript
- cgit
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
- The Chef
- Color schemes
- A Look Back at the History of CSS
- NCTM and High School Math
- Web Publications for the Open Web Platform
- A Survey of My Tools in 2017
September 2017
June 2017
May 2017
- Historical Background of Spreadsheets
- Takeaways on Teaching Type
- Seeing Theory
- When It Comes to Student Satisfaction, Faculty Matter Most
- How to take great notes
April 2017
- The Web Standards Project InterAct Curriculum
- 21st Century Skills
- Blogging Principles
- The LMS and the End of Information Literacy
- ‘Technology-Enhanced Retention’ and Other Ed-Tech Interventions
- Making small culture changes
- Ethan Marcotte: “The work I like.”
- How Dan Meyer presents
- A Todo List
August 2016
March 2016
January 2016
August 2015
- And So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism…
- Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe?
- Room Versus Board
- The Birth of Pulp Fiction
- A Dao of Web Design at 15
June 2015
May 2015
- Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE the problem
- Memory Machines: Education Technology Without the Memex
- The Conference Manifesto
- America Will Run Out Of Good Questions By 2050
April 2015
- This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
- Where Are the Female Lit Mag Editors? Here.
- Standardization and the Open Web
- Too Many Books?
- Medieval Technology, Indistinguishable from Magic
- Designing for Disability
- A Comforting Lie
- I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name
- The Illusion of Free
- How to Structure a Video Essay
- Choire Sicha on Jon Ronson’s ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’
March 2015
- Dear Data
- Textures.js
- On Heroes
- Rational Expressions: The End!
- Ferengi
- Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2014
February 2015
- Notes on How the Web Works & Native vs. Web
- Midnight Breakfast Issue 7
- Jan Middendorp on tools for designers
- Python for (typo)graphic designers
- The Newsroom’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode
- Design doing
- The Long Web
January 2015
- Input (the typeface)
- Cooper Hewitt (the typeface)
- Parable of the Polygons
- Making annoying rainbows and other color cycles in Javascript
- “Better” is the enemy of “good”
- Video Games & Making Math More Like Things Students Like
- Of One’s Own
- Penflip
December 2014
November 2014
- A Brief History of Graphics in Video Games
- How To Scroll
- RFC 2397 - The “data” URL scheme
- Unhosted Web Apps
- Week 13: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
- Practical Advice on Interface Design
- “American Homeowner”
- The Skeptic’s Horoscope
- Putting Thought Into Things
- Piles of Ideas
- Horror Vacui
- Letters in Wonderhand
- Your App Is Good And You Should Feel Good
- Why Is American Teaching So Bad?
- Convivial Tools in an Age of Surveillance
- Substitution (…and Continued Fractions)
- Thinking about the math education blogosphere
September 2014
July 2013
November 2009
- “SuperFreakonomics” and Climate Change
- Everybody Loves A Smart Aleck
- Obama-flation
- Incognito Browsing
- So, it has been about a year since I decided to leave Sarah Lawrence…
- David Pogue: Cleaning Up the Clutter Online
- WebKit’s Web Inspector Updates
- Monsters and the Moral Imagination
October 2009
- It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.
- Derek Powazek on “Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists”
- Jessica Hische Typography
- Love Makes You Creative, Sex Not So Much
September 2009
- John Kricfalusi’s Review Of Meatballs
- Debunking Dan Brown
- On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
- Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
- The Guts of a New Machine
- Enhancements to Georgia & Verdana Typeface Families Announced
- Tagged.
August 2009
- Behind the Typedia Logo Design
- Introducing Typedia
- Not Everyone “Got” It
- Catty-corner
- Who Knew Sub-pixel Anti-aliasing Would be Applicable to Analog Rendering?
- “Domain Tasters” Get the Boot from ICANN
- Jack Rosenthal on Soundbites and Language
- Midnight Breakfast is Back
- Gruber on Ninjawords’ Censorship by Apple
- NetNewsWire’s Stinkin’ Synching
- Kernest
- Mad Men Yourself
- Fox and G.E. Reach Deal to End O’Reilly-Olbermann Feud
July 2009
- The War We’d Like to Forget
- Male and female brains are hardwired differently
- Why Are People Waiting to Marry and Have Kids?
- Black & White Clock
- A ‘Cap and Tax’ Road to Economic Disaster
- Strands of American History
June 2009
- Microsoft’s strange new ads for Internet Explorer
- Liev Schreiber Trivia
- Why are There 60 Minutes in an Hour?
- Holy Shit
- The Joy of Less
- George Everet defends “Web Design is 95% Typography”
- Lingering
May 2009
February 2009
January 2009
- Fireball: The John Gruber Story
- Automatic Kottke.org
- Defying Gravity
- Ze Frank’s Voice Drawing
- Mr. Tweet
- Back Issues
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- Wake n’ Bacon
- Textpattern CMS 4.0.8 released
- Authentic Ink
- Obama Signs Executive Order on Gitmo
- Charlie Rose interviews David Foster Wallace
- Greatness
- Government communications should be helpful and clear
- How William Shatner Changed the World
- Oblivious, Eh?
- @whitehouse_gov
- McCain: Obama’s newest advisor?
- Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time
- “No Words That Will Be Quoted In A Hundred Years”
- Let Us Now Set Aside Childish Things
- On Day One, Obama Sets a New Tone
- The country’s new robots.txt file
- Analyzing Obama’s Inaugural Speech
- A Good Start
- The New Gothams
- Welcome to the White House
- MyFonts.com’s Top 10 fonts of 2008
- Gridr Buildrrr
- A List Apart on Writing
- Obama Inauguration, Lego Style
- A Kindle trick changes the reading experience
- The Impossible Project
- What’s That Song in “Wall-e”?
- The Book Cover Archive
- Le Mépris
- We Should Have Paid More Attention
- Jizz In My Pants
- 1.62
- Kottke.org Redesigned
- Episode Two – Garage Band
- Jean-Yves Lemoigne’s Fabrik Project
- Famous Last Nerds
- “Validation”
- HearYa
- The Monsters of “Where The Wild Things Are”
- “The Noises Rest”
- Typecasting
- I’m Waking Up to …
- Earth, observed
- upm_insert_tab
- “Beauty and the Brain”
- Palm Pre Announcement
- Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
- Private Ear Audio Theatre
- Gruber Agrees with Tom Krazit
- Making Modular Layout Systems
- New Google Favicon
- Apple at CES next year?
- Gruber’s Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions
- Pinup
- Richardson Out
- “No! You can go back to your, what do you call it, your Google, and you figure out all that.”
- “Anger”
- Happy New Year
- The Ballmer Peak
December 2008
- Area Woman Becomes Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
- Gel Videos
- Noelani Pantastico
- Dan Rather’s Lawsuit Against CBS
- Ten Rules for Web Startups
- Tabbed Breadcrumb Navigation
- Harold Pinter, 1930 – 2008
- The Education of Robert Kennedy
- The Ten Days of Newton
- “Still”
- Broken Windows
- Literary
- Chyrp Themes
- Darren Aronofsky
- Glad? Well, Yes
- After Credentials
- Is a Netbook a Cheap Laptop?
- Seed Conference
- Bigger Government = More Prosperous Country?
- News You Can Lose
- Not all touchscreen phones are created equal
- Flipped Types
- Consider the Philosopher
- Undrln
- Twistori
- The Response to Newsweek
- Bang
- Philosophy Bites in iTunes Best of 2008
- Textpattern 4.0.7
- Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites?
- Mr. and Mrs. Right
- Ignoring the Market
- A conversation with Tom Friedman
- Not My Gorilla
- Midnight Breakfast
- Google Zeitgeist 2008
- The end of GM?
- Dylan Thomas Reads to Dr. Dre Beat
- The Flowers Personified Illustrations
- Chris Glass
- Kiss of Deaf
- Machines that Almost Fall Over
- Car Genetic Algorithm
- Live Stills from Sleeping Beauty
- Sketchy Comedy
- Pulitzer Prizes Expand to Include Web-Only News Outlets
- Don We Now
- Picturing Business in America
- Narcissus Places a Personal Ad
- Mumbai After the Smoke Has Cleared
- Is the Gender Gap Narrowing?
- Gay Marriage And The GOP
- History in the Making
- The Existential Clown
- The Moment
- It’s Alaska!
- Instapaper Feedback
- Prop 8 The Musical
- Python 3.0 Release
- Super Obama World
- The Grid System
- Give Me Something To Read
- Mathematica Image Processing
- The Black Diamond
- SNL’s Take on Arianna Huffington
November 2008
- Fawkward Podcast Beta
- The Fly and the Eye
- Apparently Since Monday
- Chicken Head Tracking
- Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
- The Wrestler
- Private Ear Audio Theatre
- Joe the Grave Digger
- The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace
October 2008
- The Rove Realignment
- Red Sex, Blue Sex
- Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation
- George Packer on the End of an Era
- Tiny Tim on Fresh Air in 1996
- Is Apple Becoming a Phone Company?
- The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub
- A Boy’s Life
- Powell Backs Obama and Criticizes McCain Tactics
- Quirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Web
- The Final Debate Is Up
- Final Debate Reax
- Book Covers
- Why I Blog
- Twitter Election Coverage
- Brads
- Dr. Horrible in HD
September 2008
August 2008
- The Impending Moustache
- McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate
- Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech
- Transcript of Bill Clinton’s Convention Speech
- Breaking Down the 10-Meter Dive
- The Diver’s View
- Imagining the Tenth Dimension
- My Big Fat Straight Wedding
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- What Makes for a Good Blog?
- Oh, Snap
- Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web?
- Ninjawords
- Blather and Lather
- The Joy of $8 Gas
- Lightning in Slow Motion
- Roger Cheng on the Gap Between Web-based and Desktop Office Software
- Clear Links to Current Page with Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Marvy Le Pen
- Against Anti-Foundationalism
- Top Ten Psychology Videos
- Birthday Type
- Tell Me A Story
- TypeCulture Academic Resource
- Comestible
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili