Wondering if apps that do date-based versioning are more likely to bloat. Something about fixed release numbers that naturally lend themselves to bundling feature sets together.

At the end of each workday I close all my open tabs and windows, put my computer to sleep, and say out loud, “That’ll do, pig.”

A Room for Notes

Some pages should behave less like dispatches and more like rooms. They should hold a few objects in view at once: an image, a thought, a passage from a book, a link left open for later. Read more

How Notes Travel

A note starts as a private scratch mark. It becomes more useful when it can move without losing its shape. Read more

Small Publishing Systems

The hard part of a personal site is rarely the template. It is the tiny set of rituals around the template: where a thought begins, how it becomes public, what happens after it leaves the house. Read more

I keep thinking that personal websites should feel more like rooms than publications.