Archive

2024

July

When an app update wipes all your data
The Grizzlies make a big bet

February

Fatherhood

2023

October

2023 AGI Open Aotearoa

September

Life with voice assistants

July

Who pre-orders books anyway?
Deleting my account should be easy

April

The Grey Man — Mark Greaney

March

Tracking no more

January

New year, new me
The Lies of Locke Lamora — Scott Lynch

2022

December

I Am Pilgrim — Terry Hayes

October

An extension of the real world

September

A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson

August

Mindful habits

July

Man, Fuck This House — Brian Asman

May

A Man Called Ove — Frederik Backman

April

My most used apps
Recursion — Blake Crouch

March

Done is better than perfect
Lord of the Flies — William Golding

February

Girl Gone Mad – Avery Bishop

2021

October

Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline

September

Roguelikes and the UX design process

August

Deep Listening — Oscar Trimboli
Taking safety for granted

July

On Writing Well – William Zinsser
Making money with your side projects
Selective news

June

Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
The best blogging platform
Relearning how to breathe
Why the Kindle Paperwhite is one of my favourite objects

May

Anxious People — Frederik Backman

2018

August

Subform is probably the last Kickstarter I backed

July

Books read – June 2018

June

Weekend getaway to the Far North of New Zealand

May

GDPR and cluttered inboxes

April

My recent social media diet

2017

September

My impressions of Semi Permanent 2017
Books read — August 2017

August

Recipe videos in the style of famous directors

July

Ready Player One trailer
Books read — June 2017

June

IKEA makes cooking easy with “Cook This Page” recipes
First look at BioWare’s next game Anthem
Books read – May 2017

May

The importance of words and empathy in customer support
Learning music with Ableton’s interactive lessons
Boa Mistura bring poetry and magic to São Paulo

April

Generating design elements from code with React Sketch.app
The 100 Days Project
Thoughts on the Destiny UI

2016

June

Drawit, a drawable user interface

January

MediaSquare: Samsung’s shared media experience

2015

August

Android is shying away from the side navigation
Spotify’s new discovery channel

July

Is Adobe improving the wrong software?

March

The future of touch screens is in good hands

February

Benefits of prototyping

2014

November

Random Link Bundle
Snippets from the Glug event in Auckland

September

Create great case studies with Semplice

April

Making your redesigns matter

March

Get your field guide for typography

2013

December

Bohemian Coding released Fonts and I’m not convinced

November

Just start doing stuff