Patrick Marsceill is a software designer, youʼve found his home on the internet.
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Made this site a little easier for agents to read: append
.mdto any page or post URL for a Markdown version. There’s an agent guide and content index for more efficent agent discovery.Introducing Feedster
We have lift off 🚀: The 2024 refresh of This Modern Web is now live on the new domain p.atrick.org.
Deeply feeling this… Desperation-Induced Focus by Ravi Gupta
Processes that feel unnecessary really demotivate and kill creative spirit. One of the main reasons why I went from big tech to startup earlier this year.
Figuring out what’s nextHow I approached looking for my next job
First week at WorkOS is in the books. Really excited to share some of the stuff that we’ve been working on 🚀
Jealousy List 2021Shout-out to all the work that made me jealous this year
After 6.5 years, today is my last day at GitHub. It is truly the best job that I’ve ever had thanks to the people that I got to work with here. I’m proud to have been a small part of GitHub’s impact on the world and forever grateful for opportunities that came with it. 💜
One of my favorite websites now has an iOS app… Check out what the poolside.fm folks have been building over at https://cellular.poolside.fm
The closest thing you can get to drinking Peach Bellinis at your desk. ★★★★★
Nice surprise for a Thursday evening… Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack now on Spotify.
via Kotaku
I love me some internet nostalgia and 98.css does not disappoint.
98.css is a CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98.
A pretty damn faithful recreation of the UI that sent me online curiously building my first web pages, Winamp skins, Visual Basic programs, and pirated copies of PhotoShop.
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Maybe it was chronicles of their life as they got a job teaching in Japan and how it was leaving American for the first time and all the new things there and skateboarding and meeting people and trying to meet girls, or a photographer working for a while in Minorca or some island off Spain when music hit a rock scene period and all the young people were dressing up in leather and tight jeans and going out dancing to dance rock and writing about his thoughts on where he fit into the scene as he was kind of older but not old, or a compilation of weird and unexplained science and gnostic wisdom, or the things some guy was making out of wood or electronics in his garage, or some Japanese girl who posted pictures of herself looking extremely pink and pneumatic and writing little things with them.
Most Thursday nights, I was with three other humans in a too hot (or too cold) room constructed out of hastily framed walls, unfinished drywall, and 200 year old brick. Ah band practice, how I miss you. These days you’ll find me at “band practice” in my home office smashing buttons on my Ableton Push, trying to get the most out of samples, VST instruments, and a lot of trial and error. A different kind of fun.
Hacking from your iOS deviceDeveloping with Siri Shortcuts and more
Gruber’s review of the 2020 iPhone SE showcases the bonkers performance of the A13 Bionic chip:
…a $400 iPhone SE bests a $3,000 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro in single-core CPU performance.
I am very excited to hear that NetNewsWire (my RSS reader of choice) is going to get iCloud syncing support! That was literally the only wishlist feature that I had for this app. Maurice Parker, a developer on the project wrote a nice piece about building the feature and his impressions of CloudKit in general.
ht @manton
Some thoughts I had this week:
- I’ve never been this conscious about what I’m eating every day because we only have a finite supply of staples like eggs, butter, milk, bread, etc…
- I’ve never been this conscious of how I manage my time every day because my wife and I are splitting childcare duties and we need to balance getting work done and not sitting my daughter in front of a screen all day
- I’ve never been this conscious of how often I work out because we all need to get some physical exercise to stay mentally and physically well
Wellness in the time of global un-wellness, I guess.
Gary Hustwit is streaming his documentaries for free during the COVID-19 crisis. Watch this week’s flim Helvetica about the iconic typeface from March 17-24.
I’ve decided to stream my films for free to viewers stuck indoors anywhere in the world. No catch…
Got inspired by Rafa’s Shortcut and whipped my own Apple Shortcut up to automate posting media and books to my Inbox from my iPhone. All I need is to select cover art from my Photos and the shortcut handles everything else (except the merge into
master).🎥 Uncut Gems might be the most stressful and anxiety provoking film I’ve ever seen. Amazing on so many levels and the celebrity cameos were done in a way that I’ve never really seen before — at this scale, anyway.
Popular Science’s DIY hand sanitizer recipe:
1 cup of 99% isopropyl alcohol, 1 tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide, 1 teaspoon of 98% glycerin, ¼ cup, 1 tablespoon, and 1 teaspoon (or 85 milliliters) of sterile distilled or boiled cold water
This web designer gets his wingsMy first impressions of SwiftUI
I hope we see more of this from the tech industry, which actually has the resources to put a dent in the detection effort despite our government’s ineptness:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that it will commit an additional $5 million to help public health agencies in the greater Seattle region enhance their capacity to detect novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in King County, Snohomish County and other surrounding communities.
Three lessons in on Design+Code’s SwiftUI course. SwiftUI’s layout engine feels really similar to auto layout in Figma.
Useful dashboard for viewing the latest quant data for COVID-19 from Johns Hopkins CSSE. Desktop version and Mobile version available. The raw data is also available on GitHub.
Trying out Meng To’s SwiftUI class.
This modern what?A new decade, a new site, and a new name
Kinda love the “build the plane as you fly it” approach to making my personal site. The more things coalesce, the higher it flies.
Some things I did in the 2010sMusic, family, and a career
🤔 Does the long arc of the web bend toward non-bullshit? Link: The Bullshit Web
DIY internet privacyRoll your own VPN for (almost) free
📺 Grand Designs has become my new obsession.
Here we go againIs the future of the web a network of independent sites?
Design GitHub, the productShape the future of software development
Dear Last.fm,It’s been awhile. Seven years, actually
Hacking the font StackExplorations in a modern native fonts on the web
Introducing Tab Lab
Woodshedding
Designing for Yourself
Prototyping Q&A
The Russian Joe
The Difference Between Money and Power
Building My Desk — Part Two: The Top
Building My Desk — Part One: The Frame
How I Setup My Machine for Prototyping
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