2022

Desperation-Induced Focus May 21

Kids Jan 16

2021

Optimism and Positivity Oct 19

Write Sentences, Not Too Many, Mostly Active Mar 11

2020

Tuned for the Mac Nov 16

iPad Magic Keyboard Nov 15

Joshua Ginter’s ‘First Impressions’ of the iPhone 12 Pro Nov 9

WFH Aug 2

Medium testing new visual customization Aug 2

On Having Full RSS Feeds Apr 15

Google Spins the Wheel on What to Call Hangouts, Again Apr 9

Mary Dash's Guide to Plain Language Mar 18

2019

Susan Fowler’s Year in Review Dec 16

Indifference Dec 17

Weekend Tweaks Dec 14

Don’t Hide the Date Dec 14

Treat pain points as debt Dec 14

Hierarchy of product team needs Dec 10

NetNewsWire 5.0 Released Sep 2

Replying to Emails Like a CEO Takes the Pain out of Writing Email Aug 31

Genius Claims to Have Proof That Google Is Lifting Lyrics for Its Search Results Jun 17

‘What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns’ Jun 5

Updated App Store Review Guidelines Prohibit Apps in Kids Category From Including Third-Party Ads or Analytics Jun 4

Panic Announces Playdate, Their First Video Game System Set to Launch in 2020 for $149 With 12 Games That Automatically Release on a Weekly Basis May 23

You’re Triggering Alexa More Often Than You Think May 20

Jumbo Is Your Digital Privacy Assistant May 19

‘Typography 2020: A Special Listicle for America’ Apr 19

The 3D Models That Will Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Apr 19

Medium, Seven Years Later Apr 13

The Long, Complicated, and Extremely Frustrating History of Medium Apr 13

‘Letter Boxed’ by The New York Times Feb 9

‘Can a 44-Year-Old Man Cut It in the Premier League?’ Feb 9

Proposed Changes to Chrome Would Hamper Ad Blockers Jan 26

Twitter Begins Rolling out ‘Lite’ Version of Website to Everyone Jan 23

Netflix Says ‘Fortnite’ is a Bigger Competitor Than HBO or Hulu Jan 22

‘Signal v Noise’ Officially Exits Medium Jan 17

Doist Switches From Medium to WordPress Jan 13

Yuibco Releases Lightning Compatible Security Key for iPhone Jan 12

GitHub Now Allows Free Accounts to Have Unlimited Private Repositories Jan 10

TikTok’s ‘Lite’ App Downloaded 12 Million Times Since August Jan 5

2018

‘Nobody Reads’ Dec 27

Microsoft Edge is Coming to MacOS Dec 6

The Dominance of Google Chrome Dec 6

Half of All Phishing Sites Now Use HTTPs Dec 4

Marvin Visions, the Variable Font Dec 4

$130 Million Later, Medium CEO Ev Williams Looking to Raise More Money for Still Unprofitable Medium Nov 28

Ohio First State to Accept Bitcoin for Tax Payments Nov 27

Access by Hawkeye Labs Uses TrueDepth Camera to Navigate Webpages Via Facial Expressions Oct 30

WikiTribune Lays Off Editorial Staffers, Shifts Focus to Community Contributors Oct 30

Amazon Updates Kindle to Support Custom Fonts Oct 17

First Impressions of Project Stream, Google’s Video Game Streaming Service Oct 9

Customers, Not Users Oct 7

Miller Columns Oct 3

Wi-Fi Transitions to Version Numbers, With Wi-Fi 6 Coming Next Year Oct 3

A Very Brief Explanation of How I Choose Between Buying a Physical Book or the Kindle Edition Oct 1

60 Million Steam Players Have Connected Some Type of Controller Sep 25

How to Write a Sentence Sep 25

Path, the ‘Personal’ Social Network, to Shut Down Next Month Sep 22

Telltale Games Hit With Massive Layoffs, Begins ‘Majority Studio Closure’ Sep 21

MacOS Tip: Disable Smart Zoom to Remove Menu Delay When Clicking or Tapping With Two Fingers Sep 13

Google to Shut Down ‘Inbox by Gmail’ App and Website Sep 13

Basecamp to Move Popular ‘Signal v Noise’ Blog Off Medium Sep 6

Polygon Ditches Review Scores In Favor of ‘Recommends’ Labeling and Curated ‘Essentials’ Sep 4

Behavioral Biometrics Are a Cookie You Can’t Clear Aug 24

Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool Aug 22

Slack Leaves Medium for WordPress Aug 21

1Password as a Digital Will Aug 16

The Best Markdown Editor for iOS Aug 8

Designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller‘s Accessible Packaging Jul 26

Who Owns a Scientist‘s Mind? Jul 25

‘Fortnite’ Is a Runaway Success Jul 24

‘Let Companies Do Their Own PR, Even if This Comes at The Cost of Clicks’ Jul 24

Susan Fowler Rigetti Joins NYT Opinion as Technology Editor Jul 23

Josh Ginter’s Visual HomePod Review Jul 22

Nike’s $250 Running Shoes Might Actually Make You Faster Jul 21

Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run Jul 6

Contentedness Jul 4

Instagram Lite Jun 28

‘Pocket-Run Pool’ Jun 22

iOS 12 Will Support All iOS 11 Compatible Devices Jun 20

‘The Back of an Envelope’ Jun 19

‘This Is the Kind of App That Just About Anyone Could Benefit From Using’ Jun 19

Edit Jun 5

Google ReCAPTCHAs Will Occasionally Accept Incorrect Answers Because Real Humans Make Mistakes Jun 1

The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics May 24

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Adaptive Controller May 17

Medium Kills Off Custom Domains May 15

Playing Chess Against Magnus Carlsen Leads to Predictable Outcome May 15

Esports Are Giving America’s Malls An Extra Life May 3

Designing the Next Billion-Dollar Color Apr 29

The Best Text Editor for MacOS Apr 12

Cloudflare Launches Privacy-First Consumer DNS Service Apr 2

MacOS Gains External GPU Support Mar 31

Instructions for Disabling Facebook’s Platform API Sharing Mar 28

IKEA-Style Explanations of Popular Algorithms Mar 28

Facebook’s Apology Tour Continues as Full Page Ads Appear in Major Newspapers Mar 28

Dave Morin Kicks Around Creating a New, ‘Better’ Path Mar 22

A Digital Protection Agency for the United States Mar 21

Telltale Games Lived Long Enough to Become the Villain Mar 20

HTTPS and the Secure Web Mar 11

Strava Update Makes it Easier to Opt-Out of Aggregated Heatmaps Mar 5

‘Alto’s Odyssey’ Now Available on iOS Feb 21

Secure Messaging App Signal Launches ‘The Signal Foundation’ With $50 Million Investment From WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton Feb 21

Your ‘Lite’ App Should Be Your Only App Feb 20

Chrome Enables Automatic Ad Filtering Feb 17

Google Introduces AMP in Email Preview Feb 17

Universities Create New Courses to Address the Ethics of Technology Feb 13

Designing Apple’s Emoji Feb 12

A ‘Walden’ for the YouTube Age Feb 12

The Privacy We Give Away Jan 30

Strava Global ‘Heatmap’ Highlights Military Bases Jan 29

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Jan 26

Baremetrics Leaves Medium and Returns to Self-Published Blog Jan 26

Chemistry Lessons Come to ‘Minecraft’ Jan 22

Image of Screen That Led to Hawaii’s Mistaken Ballistic Missile Alert Jan 16

The Ethical Ambiguities and Legal Complexities of a World Run by Machines We Know Little About Jan 15

‘Regarding the Em Dash’ Jan 8

Start With Words Jan 4

2017

AlphaZero Crushes the Game of Chess Dec 17

Firefox UI Guidelines for Voice and Tone Dec 6

‘Every Frame a Painting’ Ends Dec 3

PR to English Translation for Selected Portions of EA’s Response to Backlash Over ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Microtransactions Nov 16

Dissolvable Pain Reliever Film From University of Akron Could Help Fight Opioid Epidemic Nov 15

Firefox Quantum Nov 14

Apple’s Best Product is Privacy Nov 14

Airplane Mode’s ‘Dance Like You Mean It’, the World’s First Animoji Music Video Nov 3

‘The Suffix That Tells the Story of Modern Science’ Oct 30

The NYT is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service Oct 30

Microsoft Stops Making Kinects, but the Tech Lives On Oct 25

The FBI’s Fight With Encryption Continues Oct 24

‘What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde’ Oct 24

Fixing Extremely Poor or Muffled Call Quality When Using AirPods and MacOS Oct 23

Darbian Sets New ‘The Super Mario Bros.’ Speedrun World Record Oct 23

Activision Patents Using Unbalanced Matchmaking to Promote In-Game Purchases Oct 18

FIFA 18 vs. PES 2018 Oct 18

Advanced Protection by Google Helps Protect Users at Elevated Risk of Online Attack Oct 17

‘How the United States Missed the World Cup, Minute by Minute’ Oct 11

Making Marvin Visions Oct 11

NASA’s Cozmic Qwest Oct 11

Fake iTunes Password Dialogs Look Exactly Like the Real Thing Oct 11

Springboard Gridlock Oct 7

Mario Was Punching Yoshi the Whole Time Oct 7

Twitter Tries 280 Sep 26

Visions, a Literary Science Fiction Magazine Sep 22

iOS 11: The Pixel Envy Review Sep 21

‘All a writer needs is talent & ink.’ Sep 21

The ‘Economic Model’ Is Corrupt Sep 21

Meet Peter Bale, the Launch Editor of WikiTribune Aug 9

‘Thoughts on the Nintendo Switch User Interface’ Jun 27

All Ads Are Equal, but Some Ads Are More Equal Than Others Jun 11

H. Moser & Cie's Swiss Alp Watch Zzzz Jun 9

iOS 11 Tightens Location Privacy, Displays Banner When Location Is Being Accessed in the Background Jun 8

Boutique Smartphones Jun 4

Mario Mandžukić’s Stunning Goal in the Champions League Final Jun 4

AirPods Jun 3

The Wall Street Journal Login (Almost) Every Journalist Knew May 28

Atlassian Design Guidelines May 16

United States Senate Approves Secure Messaging App Signal for Staffer Use, Moves All Sites to HTTPS May 16

Apple Dubai Mall Opens With Unique ‘Solar Wings’ Design Apr 27

Amazon Launches Echo Look, a $200 Camera That Uses Machine Learning to Help You Choose an Outfit Apr 26

‘What Happened to Who?’ Apr 25

Unroll.me, Unravelled Apr 24

‘Breath of the Wild’ for Nintendo Switch Outsells Actual Switch Consoles Apr 23

Facebook Journalism Certification Is Nothing More Than a Guide to Using Facebook Apr 20

Before You Ship Apr 18

Princeton, Stanford Develop Perceptual Ad-Blocking, Which Uses Computer Vision to Block Ads Apr 18

Next AP Stylebook Drops the Hypen, Capital ‘S’ From ‘Esports’ Mar 30

Sketch’s New, Open File Format Mar 14

TypeShift, a New Word-Based Puzzle Game by Zach Gage, Launches March 18th Mar 9

The C.I.A. Didn’t Break Encryption, but They Might Not Need To Mar 8

‘Breath of the Wild’ Reviews Roundup Mar 7

Tweaked Trending Topics Now Show Stories by Region Jan 26

The Facebook Journalism Project Jan 19

Google Goes After Interstitial Ads Jan 19

Malleable, Modifiable, MacOS Jan 9

Courier Prime Code Jan 9

Obama’s Final Year in Photographs Jan 7

2016

A Literary Look at Video Games Dec 13

Human Computer Interaction Dec 13

Tiny Wings for Apple TV Teaser Dec 13

Silicon Valley’s Empathy Vacuum Nov 29

No Man's Sky 1.1: The Foundation Update Nov 29

Reviewing Games You Haven’t Played Nov 22

Keep Angry, Stay Frosty Nov 21

iPhone 7 Nov 7

The Nintendo Switch Oct 20

How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played Oct 20

When it Comes to Security Design, Stop Trying to Fix the User Oct 15

New Logo and Identity for Pandora Oct 15

Tools and Toys’ Joshua Ginter Reviews the iPhone 7 Plus Oct 13

‘When good enough is great’ Oct 5

Sony PlayStation VR Has Comfortable Fit, Palatable Price, but Lacks Compelling Games Oct 5

Amazon Launches Twitch Prime Oct 3

The Résumés of Designer News Oct 1

Blizzard to Transition Away From Battle.net Name Oct 1

Alto’s Adventure Adds Haptic Feedback Oct 1

Campo Santo Teams Up With Good Universe to Create ‘Firewatch’ Film Sep 27

Having Only Missed My Target Publish Date by a Year, Here Are Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on Apple Watch Sep 22

Microsoft: Introducing OpenType Font Variations Sep 15

Introducing OpenType and Variable Fonts Sep 15

Adobe: ‘A New Kind of Font: A Variable Font’ Sep 15

‘What it’s like to be lost inside developing a game’ Sep 11

Warning: This Page Is Not Secure Sep 9

Apple – Don’t Blink Sep 7

What to Expect at Tomorrow’s PlayStation Meeting Sep 6

The Economist Style Guide: Commas Sep 4

Orphaned Words in Headlines Sep 1

No Man’s Sky Is Not the New Destiny Aug 31

PlayStation Plus++ Aug 22

Pour One Out for Vesper Aug 21

NYT Now Is No More Aug 21

NPR.org Ditches Comments Aug 21

No Man’s Sky Review Aug 13

Average U.S. Broadband Download Speeds Pass 50 Mbps for First Time Aug 8

Pro Evolution Soccer Looks to Steal FIFA’s Crown Aug 5

The Next Web’s Review of the Xbox One S Controller Jul 29

Web Design in 4 Minutes Jul 28

The History of the URL Jul 18

Rocket League: The Vinyl Collection Jul 15

World War Tech Jul 7

No Man’s Sky Just Went Gold Jul 7

On Removing the Headphone Jack Jul 2

Elie Wiesel Dies at 87 Jul 2

DuckDuckGo! Jul 1

Shutting Down Facebook Paper Jun 30

Interview: Loren Brichter Jun 28

A Small Exchange With Solebon LLC Jun 28

Not Yet Jun 26

The Legend of ‘Open’ Jun 25

A Look at Pixar’s New Short Film ‘Piper’ Jun 25

NPR’s Text-Only Website Jun 6

Medium Now Supports RSS Jun 5

The Billionaire’s Typewriter Jun 1

Firewatch Review Feb 18

The Guardian’s Review of Firewatch: 4/5 Feb 8

Polygon’s Review of Firewatch: 8.5/10 Feb 8

PCWorld’s Review of Firewatch: 3/5 Feb 8

Letterpress Now Owned by Solebon LLC Feb 8

For $15, Firewatch for PC Will Develop and Ship Your In-Game Photos Feb 8

Firewatch Launches Tomorrow on PS4, Windows, Mac, and Linux for $19.99 Feb 8

‘So is San Francisco really the perfect system font for Apple’s products? It’s complicated.’ Feb 7

Obama Pledges $4 Billion in Funding for Computer Science Education in Schools Feb 6

Amazon Kindle Update Feb 4

Angry, Sad, Wow, Haha, Like and Love Jan 30

Google’s AlphaGo AI Defeats Reigning European Go Champion Jan 26

Web Inspector Turns 10 Jan 16

Alan Rickman Dies at 69 Jan 14

Outsource Your Googling Jan 11

Fitbit HR Review Transcript Jan 9

The Hollywood Reporter’s Hour With Ridley Scott, Tarantino, and More Jan 6

2015

TextEdit Dec 14

Kerbal Space Program: To the Moon Jul 17

Don’t Read More, Read Different Jul 14

2014

On Budgeting Dec 12

Something Audacious Oct 20

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp Mar 18

Front Page Design, Part Two Jan 14

Front Page Design Jan 6