The life & works of Joshua Bartz

Cubs beat the Diamondbacks for their 11th consecutive win this season.

Tinkering in progress This is a prototype for future photography posts.

The first eBay haul: 30 well-curated cassettes, a Walkman WM-FX277, and a Maxell MXCP-P100.

Fresh deli color vibes, typography with extra wonk on a bed of digital garden, and served in a parchment-lined red plastic basket, and a tangy dill pickle spear on the side: Welcome to version 6.

Regex is so powerful, but I’ve learned that learning Regex is the part of using Regex that you have to be into, because actually using Regex is seldom what you get to do with it.

Since January 2026, I’ve been printing emergency whistles with a Bambu Lab P1S.

A note from Future Bartz This was originally written and posted to Instagram in 2023.

It’s version 5 of this kind of career-forward website for me, certainly not the fifth canonical version of my website.

[Fig. 1] Cloud in the sky over Charlotte.

Editor's note In my off hours, I field requests for writing prompts and mail off typewritten letters to the requesters.

Editor's note Sometime in 2024, a change either to the CSS spec (unlikely) or my own CSS (100% what happened) invalidated the interaction behaviors described below.

§ Performative social impact capitalism There is a rise of organizations choosing to use Pride and Black Lives Matter logo variations on their websites, while leaving their power to enact real positive change on the table.

While we should always pick the right tool for the job, probably, these are the apps and hardware I’m using this year. § Design Sketch The first design tool since Photoshop CS that really stole my heart.

It’s officially warm out.

From Twitter During the rise of the Nazi party, one corner of the German populace was indoctrinated in a form of irrational fear that dictates that the only solution to the demands of the common people is to create a greater, authoritarian fear in response

A good father figure (heteronormatively speaking)… Doesn’t use his mother, sister, wife, girlfriend, or daughter as shields for his sexist fodder Fucking shows up early and stays late Listens and waits to speak Normalizes women’s reproductive health Doesn…

A boarded up store front in Minneapolis, a common site during the uprisings.

Despite the language barrier, we found a lovely conversation.

The conservatory at Como Zoo in St.

The man from Rotterdam sitting at the window seat on the plane with a view of the Netherland countryside below.

As a designer, few things pain me more than being told to “think blue sky” or “think big.”

§ Part 1 - Introduction & Discontent I’m what the industry calls a “junior.”

After a lifetime obsession with design and any number of detours, I’ve finally jumped over to the world of UX, and it’s very good to be here. § About Me I’m Joshua Bartz: a lifelong learner and tinkerer.

We lost the headphone jack on iPhones and all but USB-C and a headphone jack on Mac laptops.