Jan 2026

Making repetitive things less tedious
Book review: Enshittification
“A lot of nice little touches in UI design go unnoticed”
“Everything possible to make this website as fast as they can”
“All comes down to one pixel”
“A gesture that feels unnatural and unintuitive”
“The only way to win was to cheat”
“An email to the wrong Larry”
Sins of our Finders, pt. 3
Amiga Pointer Archive
TV show review: Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office
In stereo, where available
“Every time user pressed Enter at a frozen interface screen”
Fonts have bugs, too
A new (old) kind of keyboard
“It’s hard to do a drive-by on your feet”
A clever disambiguation detail
Fav tech museums
“And they can’t even agree on the direction of an arrow”
Fun interface on my bike
“Just 3 days before the deadline, I discovered something horrible…
Remember me?
Book review: Laws of UX (2nd ed.)
Sins of our Finders, pt. 2
“I was inspired by the Comic Sans typeface”
“Christmas lights diarrhea”
A tale of two import windows
“Accidents dropped to zero overnight”

Dec 2025

“Confusing, distracting, and aesthetically upsetting”
Got your back, pt. 2
A tiny bit old Windows got right
A nice moment in screenshotting on iOS
“And waited for the rest of the world to catch up. And waited.”
Sins of our Finders, pt. 1
“Moms talking like demons, tough guys talking like little girls”
“Type is not rubber”
Buoyant, Dreamer, Reflected
“The chance was just 1 in 85”
Book review: Pilgrim in the microworld
“Because it didn’t look crappy enough”
Fitts’s Law at 20
“More or less turned Windows into a carnival”
“Strangely primitive against the backdrop of the slick user interface…
Fav error message
“Expressed in a single picture”
The original loading state
Got your back
“In my greatest hour of need, where were you”
“The focus on optimization was a time-limited social fact”
“They’re just ugly fonts”
“Kinda love this error message on the bus”
“It was fun and I learned a lot”
“The internet is wrong, and I am here to set it right”
“This cognitive load is invisible and rarely discussed”
Really into keyboards
“Every aspect of the machine operates as quickly as the user can move…
“Apple abandons its own guidance”
“How can I delete and add to library at the same time”
“Ugly in a way that’s pretty”
⌘-P ⌘-S
“OK cool now we can ship the game phew. But why did this EVER work…
“Especially helpful during live shows”
“And then the system crashes”
“Never criminalize pride in craft”
“More nuanced, more expert, interaction design skills”
“Fight my way through it all again”