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My 7 year old strongly prefers to sleep with white noise playing. She’s got a little machine that does it on a timer. Whenever she sleeps somewhere else, if she can’t bring the machine, it’s best to have another solution. YouTube has those 10 hour long videos

I recently tested out live captions, and found a perfect use case for it. Years ago I had a colleague who was hard of hearing. Because I took notes in meetings he asked if he could read along to keep up with the conversation. I was happy to oblige. I’

Google just changed their logo. They’ve moved from a solid color scheme to a gradient running across all their colors. As a designer who worked on several Google projects, I had to use the previous logo as a vector object, and a few times recreated it is from a

New generative AI products mean new higher prices for individual Adobe Creative Cloud customers, unless they downgrade to a version with fewer features. ... But it doesn't end there. In a move evocative of the latest season of Black Mirror, those who don't want to pay more

[…] As jobs push people to be automatons and often offer little in the way of respect, it’s easy to quietly quit. But perhaps, they’re not paying you enough to not care. Spending your days, day after day, not caring is a tragedy. They might not deserve your focus

I don’t like meetings. Not because I don’t like people, or having great conversations. On the contrary, some of my happiest times are chatting about geeky topics, or deep topics, or light topics, with amazing people. Having connections with others, talking to colleagues, meeting with friends, are all

A few weeks ago I wrote about iCloud’s “hide my email”. I’m now using it almost weekly, mostly with Safari’s auto-fill. It gives me a tiny sense of freedom after decades of spam abuse. Chris Coyier shared similar frustrations, and it got me thinking about the

Today, I want to share my complete read-later workflow and tools with you. It has proven itself time and again as a scalable solution that avoids the problem of an ever-growing backlog of things to read. Via marcel.io Though Marcel’s solution is a bit tongue-in-

Yesterday a friend asked me to write for a private newsletter with a very short turnaround time. I said yes. Writing comes in many forms. Personal, to a friend, or on the internet, where the void absorbs and does what it will. The longer you write, and the more time

Justin Jackson is ringing the alarm bells about podcasts. There’s a real chance that they disappear, ala websites and all the rest of the web that so many of us have loved our whole lives. YouTube is fast becoming the podcast king; or at least a bastardized version of