Nathan Snelgrove

It was an honour to guest on Episode 181 of The Omni Show to share how I use OmniFocus, how to bring your whole self to your work, and what I’m worried we’re all going to lose if we rely on AI instead of our own ingenuity.

Once in a while, Seth Godin spits out a banger.

What a gut punch of an essay (originally published in 1982 in the Christian Century): For when all is said and done, are we Jews not being judged guilty of lack of foresight, of gullibility, of inertia, of cowardice, of irresponsibility, of a defeatism by…

Recommendations for typesetting on the web, from Donnie D’Amato.

Thanks Cyd, because I also nearly missed this.

While I’m talking about Lea Verou, she responded to a debate about user-selectable themes on websites.

The brilliant Lea Verou writes about using CSS masks and variables to make icons function as design tokens in a web UI.

The other night, I was having a couple drinks with some friends who came over to visit.

For one year, I wrote in my design portfolio’s blog almost every week.

The brilliant designer Louie Mantia, writing about a dearth of good design amidst third-party App Store apps, but expressing a sentiment that I think is true about the internet as well: … software engineers have taken over more of the responsibility of de…

An earlier draft of my initial thoughts on the iPhone Duo included a long note describing my curiosity about how Safari would feel and work on the Duo.

You know that XKCD comic about dependency?

This is cool: a screensaver that displays fresh images from sites like BP&O, Siteinspire, Fonts In Use, Dieline, Illustration LOL, designboom, Colossal, and more.

It’s that time of year again: Stack Overflow has published the results from their 2026 Developer Survey.

File this under TIL: Chromium has a new Declarative Partial Updates feature, which uses a new <?

I’ve been working on collecting my own thoughts about AI into an essay for a few weeks now, but I have to admit that Pentagram designer Giorgia Lupi already captured much of what I was going to say in this article for the New York Times.

For something like a year, there have been rumours going around about the new touch-based OLED MacBook Pros.

From Bloomberg: Apple’s John Ternus Has Found a New Design Chief: Himself: [The design arrangement] changed when Williams retired last year.

After her WordPress site was consecutively hacked and scraped by bots, Winnie Lim writes about how running a personal website is not fun anymore: It takes spiritual energy to create, maintain and produce personal projects.

A couple years ago, somebody recommended Carl Pullein’s YouTube channel on the Mac Power Users forum.

Toy Story 4 and Toy Story 5 remind me a lot of Star Trek: Beyond.

Austin Kleon blogs about social media in The Bad Place: Pretty much all social media is The Bad Place, but some social media thinks it’s The Good Place, and that somehow makes it even worse.

I have two thoughts on the iPhone Duo.

A website collecting fantastic film art and posters?

Lex Friedman writes about the origin story of Apple Cards, an app I had completely forgotten about.

From Sarah Perez at TechCrunch: Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave.

Chris Butler’s Design Fiction mood board, largely from sci-fi movies and television, is really fantastic.

This is a really great miniseries, and I’m so grateful it exists.

What a swing and a miss from Spielberg.

One of the least frightening “horror” movies I’ve ever seen.

Michael Bay is so unbelievably tasteless.

Emotionally enthralling, but it is neither as essential as Shawshank or as magical as Life of Chuck.

Rewatched to show my wife, who also thought it was very funny and emblematic of office work.

For my tastes, a nearly flawless movie.

A somewhat bad movie uplifted by its bizarrely accurate prophecy into America’s future.

Easy to enjoy and extremely dumb.

I am a huge fan of the original Ready or Not, and have recommended it to so many people that I almost feel partially reasonable for its current cult status.

Funny.

Genuinely surprising and inventive.

An effective piece of genre filmmaking from a surprising director, with a surprising budget, and a surprising sense of taste and style.

Competent and occasionally fun, but not that interesting either.

This is going on my shortlist for article of the year.

I loved Reeves’ two previous instalments, which gave this world the pathos of Shakespearean drama and the grandeur of Heston-inspired Biblical grandeur.

Dang, this is a real banger.

First one is way better.

Spider-Man for tween girls.

I despise AI writing.

I love the Alien franchise way more than the average person.

I’m glad some people like this, and it works just fine as a TV show, but Disney should be ashamed and embarrassed by the way they’re milking this once-beloved franchise.

Knows exactly what it is: dumb and brainless popcorn entertainment.