I have a made-up band that is on a made-up tour. There are no real songs, there’s no one in the band, but I still track their setslists each night they play and analyse the statistics. It’s a strange and fun concept that you can learn more about here. Let’s…

This launch was a long time coming, so I wrote a little comic explaining why I’m excited about it.

I want to see everything you’re doing in one place — TL;DR Most people’s websites have turned into launching pads that send me to a ton of other services: Twitter, GitHub, Instagram, Medium, Substack, Mastodon, etc. But this isn’t a great experience for readers. Wouldn’t it be great if we could pull everything together into a single page and RSS feed? It…

Some media is inescapable because everyone is talking about it. Causeway is a perfect little film that I haven’t seen anyone talk about. That gave me the joy of discovering the movie on my own without any expectations. Jennifer Lawrence is one of the greatest actresses we have, but I…

An easy trick for getting much better results — The challenge A great assistant learns your tastes so it can get more and more accurate as it learns more things about you. But chatGPT doesn’t know who you are from session to session. …

If you’re reading through the Mongo docs called How to Integrate MongoDB Into Your Next.js App, there’s a moment where they challenge you to work out the next bit on your own. Here’s the code you want to write: import clientPromise from "../../../lib/mongodb"; import { ObjectId } from "mongodb"; export default async…

I was a designer on Windows Phone, and one day we heard that Steve Jobs had sent a note to one of our executives. The email made two quick points: Your team did a great job with the design of Windows Phone. It’s still a v1, so there’s lots to do. Good luck! I think both points are fair. The visual design was striking, and there was a lot of work to do. History showed it was too hard for Microsoft to find a market between luxury Apple on the high end and free/open-source Android competing across the entire market spectrum.

Every single one of my tech friends has come to the same conclusion, some quicker than others: if you write, you need to save your content in a way that can’t be locked into a proprietary format. So we spend time doing everything in Markdown, committing each file to version…