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2023

Inter version 4 released  Nov 20

A eulogy for coding in the age of GPTs  Nov 16

Archive your old projects  Nov 13

Google kills Gmail Basic  Sep 28

Go Direct  Sep 18

Intel One Mono, a new monospaced font family designed by Frere-Jones Type  Jun 25

2022

‘The Case for Bad Coffee’  Nov 20

Leaders Leave Last  Oct 12

The Screenshots Page  Jun 28

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

The 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

Apple 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

The 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

The Apple Watch (1st Generation)  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 for PS4  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 for PS4  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

The Fitbit HR (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

The GORUCK GR1 (26L)  Apr 23

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp  Mar 18

Front Page Design, Part Two  Jan 14

Front Page Design  Jan 6

2013

Mom  Nov 12