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Alan Dye may have left for a more lucrative offer from Meta, but this is absolutely a good thing for Apple, which also benefitted from “losing” Jony Ive.

Luka and I FaceTime a fair bit, and while most of it is about work and personal projects, we also sometimes chat a bit about where the tech industry is artistically.

The pastel palette of “it’s a small world” in Tokyo Disneyland is unlike other iterations of the attraction throughout the world.

The word “culture” is shorthand for a society’s way of life, its traditions, its values.

MacOS 9 shipped with a very 3D, Platinum-tinted Quantum Foam wallpaper, which was later Aqua-tinted for Mac OS X.

I think for a park like EPCOT to be truly incredible, it must constantly be an example of the better world we’re not living in.

I’ve made it my mission for LMNT to be comprehensive.

I read a statistic that 72% of Americans think violence is never justified, with only 11% saying violence is sometimes be justified.

Today I spent all morning drawing uncial-style lettering on my iPad.

Tell me again how it’s not okay to “celebrate” the death of Charlie Kirk, but it is okay for Brian Kilmeade to literally wish death on thousands of human beings via “involuntary lethal injection” for merely being victims of circumstance?

Just two years ago, Charlie Kirk said, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of—unfortunately—some* gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.

Feets In an online world where constant, droning noise is prized, what kinds of interactions do you favour and why?

Matt Do you stay pretty busy as an indie designer… is the work consistent or sporadic?

Juande What do you find more difficult on the one hand, and what do you find more rewarding, of living in Japan?

Sean What were your most formative web experiences, in terms of sites you enjoyed and thought were absolutely special in some way?

I really love this part of Manuel Moreale’s blog, which hosts interviews with people about their blogs.

We don't have many painted manhole covers in Tokyo, so I was pretty excited to see some in Lake Akan this week!

For the first time since I moved to Japan two years ago, a couple of Japanese people initiated conversation with me.

At the moment I begin to write this, I have very little energy to properly convey what happened today, but I did not think I would ever meet someone who was socially liberal, but culturally imperialist. * * In this post, I’m using this term similarly to “…

Download wallpapers from LMNT You gotta respect the classics.

Download icons from LMNT Donkey Kong Bananza is so fun and rich with detail, color, and iconography.

I’m worried people don’t know what a good app is even like anymore.

On the latest episode of The Talk Show, John and I talked for three hours about hoagies, light mode, dark mode, vintage MacOS, NeXT, Mac OS X, modern macOS, perceived stability, Aqua, and—of course—Liquid Glass.

Here’s a third recent project to round out this little mini series of “What has Louie been up to?”

Also last year, Marcel sent me a build of Buddies, an app I had comped up and shared online.

In October last year, I started working on a new version of Pixadex with Johannes.

Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste.

Last year I was spending a lot of time drawing downloadable icons for LMNT, but I’ve taken a little bit of a break away from that to focus on a different project really dear to me, Junior.

The web is so cool.

Last week, when I posted my Finder icon suggestion on Mastodon, I mentioned how I don’t really like spending my time talking about this kind of stuff.

For how many news cycles that plastic straws garnered, there is virtually no critique of companies that produce significantly higher volumes of plastic.

Nob got me「るい」千社札 (senjafuda, votive slips) recently.

At a yōshoku restaurant with the fami, I ordered a classic: ketchup-fried spaghetti.

This could’ve easily been 12 blog posts, but I opted for one that comprehensively captures how I feel about design on Apple platforms right now.

A small mushroom because mushrooms are cute even if you don’t like them.

A symbol for a secret society.

It’s summer in Japan, and that means it’s matsuri season.

Remember The Good Place?

Last week, I had a specific daydream.

It’s now been two complete years since I moved to Tokyo.

Well, it’s finally here, the dystopian dream team.

News agencies have a responsibility to the entire population of the planet to differentiate Israel from Jewish people.

It’s that time of year again.

Jack Stratton Artists want to come home.

Download wallpapers from LMNT Gromit is not just Wallace’s pet; he’s more a roommate.

Download wallpaper from LMNT A twee Death Star pattern made from Womprat icons.

For me, Star Wars went hand-in-hand with customizing my computer.

Download wallpaper from LMNT The Resistance was reborn from the spirit of the Rebel Alliance.

Download wallpaper from LMNT The Sith Eternal was a cult working toward a new Sith Empire.

Download wallpaper from LMNT The First Order rose from the remnants of the Galactic Empire as the New Republic demilitarized.