2021

Oct 19

Optimism and Positivity

Mar 11

Write Sentences, Not Too Many, Mostly Active

2020

Nov 16

Tuned for the Mac

Nov 15

iPad Magic Keyboard

Nov 9

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

Aug 2

WFH

Aug 2

Medium testing new visual customization

Apr 15

On Having Full RSS Feeds

Apr 9

Google Spins the Wheel on What to Call Hangouts, Again

Mar 18

Mary Dash's Guide to Plain Language

2019

Dec 16

Susan Fowler’s Year in Review

Dec 17

Indifference

Dec 14

Weekend Tweaks

Dec 14

Don’t Hide the Date

Dec 14

Treat pain points as debt

Dec 10

Hierarchy of product team needs

Sep 2

NetNewsWire 5.0 Released

Aug 31

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

Jun 17

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

Jun 5

‘What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns’

Jun 4

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

May 23

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 20

You’re Triggering Alexa More Often Than You Think

May 19

Jumbo Is Your Digital Privacy Assistant

Apr 19

‘Typography 2020: A Special Listicle for America’

Apr 19

The 3D Models That Will Help Rebuild Notre-Dame

Apr 13

Medium, Seven Years Later

Apr 13

The Long, Complicated, and Extremely Frustrating History of Medium

Feb 9

‘Letter Boxed’ by The New York Times

Feb 9

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

Jan 26

Proposed Changes to Chrome Would Hamper Ad Blockers

Jan 23

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

Jan 22

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

Jan 17

‘Signal v Noise’ Officially Exits Medium

Jan 13

Doist Switches From Medium to WordPress

Jan 12

Yuibco Releases Lightning Compatible Security Key for iPhone

Jan 10

GitHub Now Allows Free Accounts to Have Unlimited Private Repositories

Jan 5

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

2018

Dec 27

‘Nobody Reads’

Dec 6

Microsoft Edge is Coming to MacOS

Dec 6

The Dominance of Google Chrome

Dec 4

Half of All Phishing Sites Now Use HTTPs

Dec 4

Marvin Visions, the Variable Font

Nov 28

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

Nov 27

Ohio First State to Accept Bitcoin for Tax Payments

Oct 30

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 17

Amazon Updates Kindle to Support Custom Fonts

Oct 9

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

Oct 7

Customers, Not Users

Oct 3

Miller Columns

Oct 3

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

Oct 1

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

Sep 25

60 Million Steam Players Have Connected Some Type of Controller

Sep 25

How to Write a Sentence

Sep 22

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

Sep 21

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

Sep 13

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 6

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

Sep 4

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

Aug 24

Behavioral Biometrics Are a Cookie You Can’t Clear

Aug 22

Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool

Aug 21

Slack Leaves Medium for WordPress

Aug 16

1Password as a Digital Will

Aug 8

The Best Markdown Editor for iOS

Jul 26

Designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller‘s Accessible Packaging

Jul 25

Who Owns a Scientist‘s Mind?

Jul 24

‘Fortnite’ Is a Runaway Success

Jul 24

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

Jul 23

Susan Fowler Rigetti Joins NYT Opinion as Technology Editor

Jul 22

Josh Ginter’s Visual HomePod Review

Jul 21

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

Jul 6

Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run

Jul 4

Contentedness

Jun 28

Instagram Lite

Jun 22

‘Pocket-Run Pool’

Jun 20

iOS 12 Will Support All iOS 11 Compatible Devices

Jun 19

‘The Back of an Envelope’

Jun 19

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

Jun 5

Edit

Jun 1

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

May 24

The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics

May 17

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Adaptive Controller

May 15

Medium Kills Off Custom Domains

May 15

Playing Chess Against Magnus Carlsen Leads to Predictable Outcome

May 3

Esports Are Giving America’s Malls An Extra Life

Apr 29

Designing the Next Billion-Dollar Color

Apr 12

The Best Text Editor for MacOS

Apr 2

Cloudflare Launches Privacy-First Consumer DNS Service

Mar 31

MacOS Gains External GPU Support

Mar 28

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 22

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

Mar 21

A Digital Protection Agency for the United States

Mar 20

Telltale Games Lived Long Enough to Become the Villain

Mar 11

HTTPS and the Secure Web

Mar 5

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

Feb 21

‘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 20

Your ‘Lite’ App Should Be Your Only App

Feb 17

Chrome Enables Automatic Ad Filtering

Feb 17

Google Introduces AMP in Email Preview

Feb 13

Universities Create New Courses to Address the Ethics of Technology

Feb 12

Designing Apple’s Emoji

Feb 12

A ‘Walden’ for the YouTube Age

Jan 30

The Privacy We Give Away

Jan 29

Strava Global ‘Heatmap’ Highlights Military Bases

Jan 26

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

Jan 26

Baremetrics Leaves Medium and Returns to Self-Published Blog

Jan 22

Chemistry Lessons Come to ‘Minecraft’

Jan 16

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

Jan 15

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

Jan 8

‘Regarding the Em Dash’

Jan 4

Start With Words

2017

Dec 17

AlphaZero Crushes the Game of Chess

Dec 6

Firefox UI Guidelines for Voice and Tone

Dec 3

‘Every Frame a Painting’ Ends

Nov 16

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

Nov 15

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

Nov 14

Firefox Quantum

Nov 14

Apple’s Best Product is Privacy

Nov 3

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

Oct 30

‘The Suffix That Tells the Story of Modern Science’

Oct 30

The NYT is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

Oct 25

Microsoft Stops Making Kinects, but the Tech Lives On

Oct 24

The FBI’s Fight With Encryption Continues

Oct 24

‘What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde’

Oct 23

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 18

Activision Patents Using Unbalanced Matchmaking to Promote In-Game Purchases

Oct 18

FIFA 18 vs. PES 2018

Oct 17

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

Oct 11

‘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 7

Springboard Gridlock

Oct 7

Mario Was Punching Yoshi the Whole Time

Sep 26

Twitter Tries 280

Sep 22

Visions, a Literary Science Fiction Magazine

Sep 21

iOS 11: The Pixel Envy Review

Sep 21

‘All a writer needs is talent & ink.’

Sep 21

The ‘Economic Model’ Is Corrupt

Aug 9

Meet Peter Bale, the Launch Editor of WikiTribune

Jun 27

‘Thoughts on the Nintendo Switch User Interface’

Jun 11

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

Jun 9

H. Moser & Cie's Swiss Alp Watch Zzzz

Jun 8

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

Jun 4

Boutique Smartphones

Jun 4

Mario Mandžukić’s Stunning Goal in the Champions League Final

Jun 3

AirPods

May 28

The Wall Street Journal Login (Almost) Every Journalist Knew

May 16

Atlassian Design Guidelines

May 16

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

Apr 27

Apple Dubai Mall Opens With Unique ‘Solar Wings’ Design

Apr 26

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

Apr 25

‘What Happened to Who?’

Apr 24

Unroll.me, Unravelled

Apr 23

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

Apr 20

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

Apr 18

Before You Ship

Apr 18

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

Mar 30

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

Mar 14

Sketch’s New, Open File Format

Mar 9

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

Mar 8

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

Mar 7

‘Breath of the Wild’ Reviews Roundup

Jan 26

Tweaked Trending Topics Now Show Stories by Region

Jan 19

The Facebook Journalism Project

Jan 19

Google Goes After Interstitial Ads

Jan 9

Malleable, Modifiable, MacOS

Jan 9

Courier Prime Code

Jan 7

Obama’s Final Year in Photographs

2016

Dec 13

A Literary Look at Video Games

Dec 13

Human Computer Interaction

Dec 13

Tiny Wings for Apple TV Teaser

Nov 29

Silicon Valley’s Empathy Vacuum

Nov 29

No Man's Sky 1.1: The Foundation Update

Nov 22

Reviewing Games You Haven’t Played

Nov 21

Keep Angry, Stay Frosty

Nov 7

iPhone 7

Oct 20

The Nintendo Switch

Oct 20

How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played

Oct 15

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

Oct 15

New Logo and Identity for Pandora

Oct 13

Tools and Toys’ Joshua Ginter Reviews the iPhone 7 Plus

Oct 5

‘When good enough is great’

Oct 5

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

Oct 3

Amazon Launches Twitch Prime

Oct 1

The Résumés of Designer News

Oct 1

Blizzard to Transition Away From Battle.net Name

Oct 1

Alto’s Adventure Adds Haptic Feedback

Sep 27

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

Sep 22

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

Sep 15

Microsoft: Introducing OpenType Font Variations

Sep 15

Introducing OpenType and Variable Fonts

Sep 15

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

Sep 11

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

Sep 9

Warning: This Page Is Not Secure

Sep 7

Apple – Don’t Blink

Sep 6

What to Expect at Tomorrow’s PlayStation Meeting

Sep 4

The Economist Style Guide: Commas

Sep 1

Orphaned Words in Headlines

Aug 31

No Man’s Sky Is Not the New Destiny

Aug 22

PlayStation Plus++

Aug 21

Pour One Out for Vesper

Aug 21

NYT Now Is No More

Aug 21

NPR.org Ditches Comments

Aug 13

No Man’s Sky Review

Aug 8

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

Aug 5

Pro Evolution Soccer Looks to Steal FIFA’s Crown

Jul 29

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

Jul 28

Web Design in 4 Minutes

Jul 18

The History of the URL

Jul 15

Rocket League: The Vinyl Collection

Jul 7

World War Tech

Jul 7

No Man’s Sky Just Went Gold

Jul 2

On Removing the Headphone Jack

Jul 2

Elie Wiesel Dies at 87

Jul 1

DuckDuckGo!

Jun 30

Shutting Down Facebook Paper

Jun 28

Interview: Loren Brichter

Jun 28

A Small Exchange With Solebon LLC

Jun 26

Not Yet

Jun 25

The Legend of ‘Open’

Jun 25

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

Jun 6

NPR’s Text-Only Website

Jun 5

Medium Now Supports RSS

Jun 1

The Billionaire’s Typewriter

Feb 18

Firewatch Review

Feb 8

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 7

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

Feb 6

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

Feb 4

Amazon Kindle Update

Jan 30

Angry, Sad, Wow, Haha, Like and Love

Jan 26

Google’s AlphaGo AI Defeats Reigning European Go Champion

Jan 16

Web Inspector Turns 10

Jan 14

Alan Rickman Dies at 69

Jan 11

Outsource Your Googling

Jan 9

Fitbit HR Review Transcript

Jan 6

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

2015

Dec 14

TextEdit

Jul 17

Kerbal Space Program: To the Moon

Jul 14

Don’t Read More, Read Different

2014

Dec 12

On Budgeting

Oct 20

Something Audacious

Mar 18

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp

Jan 14

Front Page Design, Part Two

Jan 6

Front Page Design