Explore David Jonathan Ross’ type design, one letter at a time.

A collection of optical illusions and optical toys by Toms Toys.

I put a post-mortem in your post-mortem.

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

When was the last time you truly thought hard?

Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can’t do. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments.

How they are different, what purpose they serve, and how to choose the right one.

Whenever logical processes of thought are employed there is an opportunity for the machine.

A single natural language prompt that runs parallel agents, captures visual regression screenshots, and creates reusable skills in Claude Code.

Maybe if we repeat this every day, we'll eventually internalize it.

Photographer Arthur Petrillo (they/them) traces a poetic cartography of belonging across the UK, Brasil, and Japan.

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

Obscure tape finds and their stories.

We all need a good reminder.

An opinion on why we shouldn’t switch to the smallest design too early.

This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that’s doing to us.

Create and share mathematical tiling patterns.

What happens with purpose when AI automates our labor.

The best designed ecommerce websites in one place.

Open source diagram rendering library built for the AI era. Ultra-fast, fully themeable, outputs to SVG and ASCII.

With certain skills you have to "use it or lose it" seems intuitively and empirically sound.

What does “analogue” actually mean when most things are made, shared, and consumed digitally?

A manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history.

Font ligatures are a subtle yet powerful typographic feature that can elevate your design work.

Set your audience free to think for themselves.