How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.

Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian.

Rebuild with Xcode 27.1, then let size, Split View, the fold, and system controls decide how your app uses the extra space on iPhone Duo.

Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

The pervasiveness of tools may have implanted the wrong instinct in our heads in a world of AI.

A lightweight library full of beautiful loading indicators for React.

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

Six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product.

A self certification process with a somewhat official blessing.

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?

How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

A short essay on tools, with a working exhibit.

How removing pagination arrows in favor of interactive card stacks solves tight UI spatial constraints.

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.