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So far my "Best of 2026" Spotify playlist has two hip-hop albums on it, and they couldn't be further apart in style.

Snow.

I just got back from organising and hosting a Design+AI mini-conference at work -- a three-track, one day event for our design community.

One of my favourite recent YouTube discoveries is the Track Star* channel.

The newest thing that one should be using is Standard.site, a shared lexicon for long-form publishing on AT Protocol, making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

I decided the warm weather and light winds this weekend justified my first bike ride of 2026, up to the historic pilgrimage site of Walsingham and back.

A few weeks ago I purchased a Raspberry Pi 5, and I've been spending my weekends slowly expanding the roster of tiny services running on the tiny computer sitting on my windowsill.

I've "vibe coded" two web applications now.

The necessity of imperfection: Designing for distributed ownership in BackstageImagine an internal engineering platform — tooling that is accessed by thousands of developers every day — where every new feature, every piece of critical functionality, is de…

I recently found out that Google's Gmail service is dropping support for third-party account connections.

Slowly, in fits and starts over the last few years, I've rediscovered my love for a sport that I honestly haven't followed with any passion for over 20 years.

I didn’t play Detroit: Become Human when it was first released in May 2018 on PlayStation 4, or when the PC version came out a year and a half later.

It's certainly been a year.

For the nineteenth year in a row - literally the only consistent part of this website at this point - here is my annual look back at almost everything I read, watched, or listened to over the last twelve months.

Giant of the Attic Fantastically painstaking trawl through the life and (to a lesser extent) work of the great Alan Moore.

Just about eight weeks ago now, I decided that I wanted to be more deliberate about the ways in which I spent my spare time.

“If a society improves, the experience of growing up in that society should be less taxing and more comfortable; if technology advances and efficiency increases, emerging generations should rationally expect to work less.

Back in March I published a post about the thought process and technology behind this newly rebuilt personal aggregation site.

More and more frequently these days, I feel as though I'm rushing through the things I consume in order to reach a goal that does not actually exist.

This last week I've been trying out the minimalist phone, a custom launcher for Android that is supposed to turn your smartphone into a significantly dumber one, all in the name of productivity and reclaiming those wasted hours we apparently all now spend…

When I sat down to write this article, I assumed the question I needed to answer was straightforward: "Why don’t I ever feel like blogging anymore?"

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.

For my 50th birthday, a family friend gifted me a framed set of comic book covers all of which were released during the week in 1974 that I was born, together with copies of the original comics themselves.

You tend to discover your musical tribe around the time you enter your teenage years.

I've written about my personal productivity process before.

transhuman-priestess:if you’ve never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into “the groove” to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical…