Reflections on the advantages of plain text and why it matters when working with LLMs.

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.

What do tea, Fabulous app, Stravinsky, Italian pasta, and Grammarly have in common? Awkward English.

A free guide to help everyone tell better stories.

How do you do, fellow kids?

Why UX writing is not just about being a professional writer.

AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths.

I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments.

Here are things other people have written that have helped to shape who I am. Enjoy!

How writing reframes our knowledge and drives our decisions.

Thoughts on making our documentation as reusable as our code.

I have a lot of nostalgia for the era of blogging that I grew up with during the first decade or so of the 2000s.

Feeling stuck? Here’s how to keep moving forward.

In the twilight of Twitter, we’re running an experiment. Can we all bring back blogging, together?

An archive of critical writing about design. From architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphic and beyond.

When I think about editing images, a vast array of options come to mind: contrast, saturation, sharpen, blur, airbrush, clone stamp, etc.

When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport.

Large language models and the future of computing.

How a Ph.D. candidate and UX designer turns the blank page into an opportunity.

Helping students is a lot like helping users.