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Waking up to big F1 news. Christian Horner out at ...

SbB Emote: A colorful faux emoji set built in Fontstruct

Adobe's Project Indigo a home run in tough lighting

Fireflies baseball. A beautiful night to catch a m...
My dad randomly asked me if I wanted the typewrite...
Watched the entire Cubs game today… 8 home ...
Watching Cubs v. Cardinals on Apple’s Friday...
We’ve reached the part of summer break where one o...

Embracing old tools in new ways + two new Fontstruct designs

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Yep, the Mets are still p...
This restaurant doesn’t look crowded, but the numb...
Playing around with Adobe’s Project Indigo camera ...
If you want to watch two of the best teams in base...
Switching my blog into summer mode. My fish logo i...
Google Scholar is blocking searches from my comput...
Working in a Starbucks that’s just been renovated....
Dr. Annie Andrews is running for Senate in SC. She...
Rewatching Arrow Season 1. So delightfully over th...
Everyone is excited about Apple renumbering the op...
Sixteen years ago today, I shared my first Fontstr...
Some creations are foundational. If you design a t...
Remember the hype leading up to the introduction o...
Wrapped up a really long middle school lacrosse se...
I’m taking a six-week summer grad school class for...
Spending the morning at the Subaru dealership whil...
Did some grad school work after watching the Andor...
Loved this: Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids. ...
I have no tolerance for people who preach compassi...
Leo XIV is notably the first person named Bob to b...
I’m writing a paper for class and I’ve...
I know that students love the food delivery robots...

Is it unusual that Columbia doesn’t have an Apple Store?

📺 Watching Drive to Survive Season 7. Ready for th...

I love Iconfactory’s Tapestry – a unified timeline for my iPhone

It’s an early beta, but I really like where Iconfa...
So tonight, I’ve learned that Lego is releas...
According to Facebook Memories, 13 years ago, I wa...
I’m taking (and sharing) a lot fewer pictures this...
What an exciting British Grand Prix. As a new F1 f...
I’ve decided to publish a Now page again. I&...
My 12-year-old tried again to watch the Lord of th...
Rok-Tahk on Star Trek Prodigy is one of my favorit...
Holding down the fort with a skeleton crew at the ...
Happy Fourth of July, designers. 🇺🇸 The red, white...
I had numerous captions on some of my old posts ov...
I missed that Lego released a refined visual ident...

SbB Fonts: My new two-color type design site hosted on Micro.Blog

I’ve never really watched any car racing, but out ...
Watching F1 with my daughter, who keeps surprising...
I took tomorrow off from work to have a “ret...
While I think most designers overreacted to the ch...
Here’s the other one I’m finishing up:...
I’ve been working on a couple of variable ty...
Working on a typeface design tonight and I’m...
Enjoyed the first two episodes of The Acolyte. Loo...
Watching old episodes of Eureka tonight. Forgot ho...
My wife’s car was totaled in a particularly horrif...
School’s out and I don’t have to take ...
I tried to help my wife with an issue on her work-...
Pretty much the only reason we have an Alexa in ou...
A neighbor has built a custom motorcycle sidecar f...
I have yard work to do… so obviously, I&rsq...
Today, I was surprised to learn that my 16-year-ol...
Just a reminder on Memorial Day that using the Sta...
A designer on Threads asked what tool he should us...
Finally got around to finishing X-Men 97 on Disney...

Project Repost: Moving select posts from Squarespace to Micro.Blog

A former coworker was arrested two years ago on a ...

Reading back over 14 years of blog posts... and deciding what to do with them.

Web pages are disappearing. Links are broken. This...
When I was in high school in 1992, an alternative ...
So I ended up in the Threads test group with Tweet...
Jay Kuo dissects the NY Times Battleground Poll: ...
I’ve got an old Squarespace site with over a...
Does social media content become popular because p...
CNN has an article about how Victorinox might crea...
My wife is about to start a PhD program. She has a...
Just had a fun conversation with my girls about ho...
I’ve always picked up wiper blades from my l...
Now that the semester is over and I’m not te...
Connections Puzzle #329 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 I have...
Strands #61 “A shade envious?” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 I’ve been ...
Bad Batch finale was wonderful. Loved every moment...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, and Gill Sans: Separating work from their creator?

📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #7: Wellbeing. ...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #6: Windy. Stea...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #5: Serene. Cal...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #4: Foliage. Th...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #3: Card. Ace o...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #2: Flowers. My...
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #1: Toy. A vint...

That time my 89-year-old grandmother “helped someone old”

The end of the Apple Car: This isn’t the revolution they thought it was…

The Church Sign Problem: An extended metaphor for many things in business and life.

I’m at a local coffee shop that’s normally packed ...

We’ve always had independent media. Why should social media be any different?

When we got married, Liz wasn’t planning on being ...
According to Facebook Memories, 12 years ago, peop...
Threads arrival shows social media is fragmenting ...
Billboard companies always give me PSD (Photoshop)...
Predictably, the mass media narrative about Instag...
Just plotted out a walking loop inside our new off...
So there are lots of rough edges on Threads, and i...
So I got access to Bluesky about 5 minutes after I...

The Instagram Threads launch and media effects theory

I don’t know much about how wine is made, bu...
This article on the The Verge about the changing s...

Three questions ahead of the release of Instagram's Threads

My son lost his AirPods a few weeks ago. (These we...
Walking across campus today and saw South Carolina...
Made a batch of boiled peanuts tonight. So good. Y...
With the July 4 holiday falling on a Tuesday, pret...
Made the jump to using the Tiny Theme. Still a lot...
Just took a walk on the trails behind our house fo...
Finally got a chance to watch the keynote and read...
Months ago, I scheduled my daughter’s colleg...
Spending some time tonight thinking about my disse...
One of my favorite bakeries closed after a long su...
I’ve been to a lot of high school graduation...
Our oldest graduated from high school today. Next ...
Hanging out on my deck after a long weekend of hom...
I’m really intrigued by Adobe’s approa...
Just submitted my revised journal article. I was p...
My 11-year-old’s orchestra teacher is retiri...
RE: Paywalls. I want writers and publications to m...
My favorite new coffee shop is in a restored Victo...
After being sick last week, my sleep schedule is a...
I have to pack up my cube to move to a new office ...
When I see people arguing about Mastodon vs. Blues...
I’ve been sick for the past few days. Pretty minor...
Taylor Swift put on an amazing show last night in ...
Tomorrow, I’ll be at Augusta National, but I can’t...
📷 March Photo Challenge #12. Shiny. “Holographic” ...
📷 March Photo Challenge #9: Together. Our son’s la...
📷 March Photo Challenge #8. Walk. Lunchtime stroll...
📷 March Photo Challenge #7: Whole. Rings closed. C...
📷 March Photo Challenge #6: Engineering. Backup ge...
📷 March Photo Challenge #5: Tile. The entrance to ...
📷 March Photo Challenge #4: Zip. The accessory poc...
📷 March Photo Challenge #3: Solitude. Just me in t...
📷 March Photo Challenge #2: Weather. Raindrops on ...
📷 March Photo Challenge #1: Secure. Main Street, C...
I finally got around to setting up Universal Contr...
I helped my high schooler study for her Spanish ex...
I took today off for a personal “retreat.&rd...
I’m glad my kids love lacrosse, but I’m really exc...
📷 #7: Park. At a park today for the last 10U lacro...
📷 #6: Silhouette. Elton’s down there somewhere… fr...
📷 #4: Thorny. A little bit literal with this one. ...
📷 #3: Experimental. This week, I’ve been exp...
Interesting study on sleep finds that for middle a...
Second attempt at using our new charcoal grill. 🔥 ...
📷 #2: Photo. The cover of a 1970s photo album.
📸 #1: Switch. Keychron K2 with red hot swappable s...

I made a red velvet cake. And learned an important lesson about fear.

Evolving Screen Design: Star Trek and the Viewscreen