It’s a wonderful feeling when a small piece of open source software you’ve written helps a friend with their work.

Oh no. I didn’t consider when I purchased my Apple Watch that I’d have to upgrade my phone from 12.4.1 to 13.3.1. From what I’ve heard, this is the first version of iOS 13 that maybe, just maybe, won’t make me want to rip my beard out. God, I hope.

I just bought an Apple Watch in an Apple Store and was served by a deaf customer care rep. Communicating to her through lip reading and the Notes app brought me back to when I was in a band with a singer who had a speech impediment and would type what he wanted to say using T9 on his flip phone. Just a gentle reminder that sometimes, tech lives up to the ideal.

Enjoying an evening at Fission HQ talking with @bmann about his new IndieWeb find, IndieKit. Giving it a try now to post this from Quill.

Speaking of typography, check out this article by Oliver Reichenstein titled Web Design is 95% Typography: How to Use Type on the Web. It was written way back in 2006 when our only option for using non-web-safe fonts was sIFR and we were still 3 years from the launch of Typekit and yet the argument that web designers should have a deep understanding of typography is as true today as it ever was.

Frank Chimero continues his redesign series with a look at how “the design of individual letters exponentially accumulate to create the voice of a typeface.”

Patrick Rhone is blogging about renovating the house he recently purchased on his new awesomely named blog, Whoa to Wow. This is what blogging is good for.

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While on the topic of Frank Chimero, I just learned that his book, The Shape of Design, is now available to read for free online. I was one of the early backers of the book back when it launched on Kickstarter and have read it several times since. Highly recommended.