Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
BBC's Digital Human
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology
Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming
Frontend Heroes
Metamuse
How to build a digital garden without touching code
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
Data is currently dislocated – our narratives and metaphors around it try to convince us it is immaterial
Notes from my podcast episode Open Source and Gift Economies on Maintainers Anonymous
