Blog archive
I’ve written extensively over the years for various blogs and websites, some my own, and some professionally. I’ve spent some time migrating old blog posts, articles, and ebooks from other sites into this new home. This library is still incomplete, but growing as I identify old content I’d like to restore, and I’ve noted any cases where content has been modified since its original publication date.
2025
- Standalone JavaScript to calculate elapsed time from a date
- Representative democracy is worth fighting for, even if we’ve never had one
2024
- Slouching towards Bethlehem
- Erase your digital footprint
- Pioneer plaque
- Bulk update image sizes in a directory
- Update Markdown file creation dates
- First impressions of Apple Vision Pro
- Flyback transformer
2023
2019
2017
- What to expect at WWDC 2017
- Augmented reality is Apple’s next revolution
- Android Wear 2.0 forces developers to rethink their smartwatch UX
- Accessible design in modern app navigation
2016
- What’s new in Android Nougat
- Android Instant Apps will reinvent mobile software
- Pixel and Surface are turning the electronics industry on its head
- Google unifies Android user experience with Pixel
- Designing effective watchOS apps
- Google Assistant will give Android app developers AI superpowers
- watchOS gets less complicated with complications & dock
- Widgets in iOS 10 make iPhone feel like Apple Watch
- Apple’s new design style in iOS 10 is a statement on accessibility
- Designing apps for micro-interactions
- Incentive-based design
2015
- Apple TV, home fitness & the future of the workout video
- Google builds its product empire with Nexus and Chromecast
- Apple TV invites Siri and the App Store to movie night
- Apple Music’s design is broken
- What to expect at WWDC 2015
- Extend iOS app brand experience to Apple Watch
- What’s in a font? Working with San Francisco
- Siri on steroids
- Layer helps any app integrate a chat feature—instantly
- How Google got photos right
- Everything is mobile now
- Google Now introduces app integrations to connect with audiences in new ways
- Native app development is the ebook’s next frontier
- What the “app unbundling” mobile strategy means for consumer brands
- All of the Above podcast episode on ebooks
- Streaming apps take note: Google Cast now supports audio
2014
- Mobile is not enough
- Apps are the new books
- Microsoft Band signals Redmond’s next chapter
- Comparing HealthKit & Core Motion
- Lollipop makes Google’s case for unity
- Google redesigns Android, one app at a time
- iTunes is dead, long live iTunes
- Material Design wipes the slate clean
- Open the podcast doors: how the podcast renaissance came to be
- Two screens are better than one
- Quantify me: digital products for the quantified self
- PhotoKit helps developers call the shots
- End of an era: Microsoft phases out Nokia brand
- iMessage evolves beyond the text message
- More Android than Android
- Metal takes game development to the next level
- What to expect at Apple’s October event
- Extensibility broadens the horizon for third-party apps
- iCloud Drive demystifies backup
- Apple Watch and the Fitness app want to replace your fitness tracker
- Say hello to Apple Pay: Apple’s coming for your wallet
- Touch ID gives developers a sixth sense
- CloudKit makes sense of the cloud
- Apple Pay reinvents shopping—but what will it mean for retailers?
- All banking is mobile banking
- Responsive versus adaptive web design
- How print publishers can adapt to mobile
- Wearables will reinvent theme parks, concerts, event venues
- Microsoft reflects on its website’s 20-year history
- Facebook forever
- Material design for consumer apps
2013
2012
- I’m afraid your god is dead, Dave
- Citizen canon
- Net neutrality and its discontents
- Résumé.pdf, Sent from my iPhone
- Government is the very model of a modern Mrs General
- Portrait of the blogger as a young man
- Gender and its discontents
- Class, warfare
2011
- Nothing is more real than late modernism
- The impact of factory farming
- Minor literature and cultural otherness in The Lonely Londoners
- Malone Dies, but where does he shop?
- All that is solid melts into air
- On rejoicing in death
- Wish list for iOS 5
- On secularism and naturalism
- Modernism and the machine
- Exit through the Gift Shop is an elaborate hoax
- How do you spell Gaddafi anyway?
- Boxers and bullfighters
- Atreyu with a thousand faces
- The next phase — the Masoni Review
- The water’s clear and innocent: Radiohead’s King of Limbs
- Beautiful little fools
- Tablet wars: how iPad is lapping the industry
- Best albums of 2010
- Welcome to the Masoni Review
- Bootleggers and gold-diggers
- His count of enchanted objects
2010
- Free pancakes
- [She obeys.]
- Cultural evangelism and bizarro-enculturation
- Fluorescent snapper!
- James and the giant, looming specter of nuclear annihilation
- Looking past our differences, specifically exoskeletons
- Francis Macomber defines humanity
2009
- Whitman and the American identity
- Secret worlds
- Edgar Allen Poe and Incubus
- “Let me hear both sides”: Radiohead and political discourse
- Space Oddity in 140 characters
- Newport pleasure!
- On Mutilation by Jim Sherry
- The promised land in the age of discovery
- Importance and impact of Duchamp’s Fountain