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“An Exercise in Humility” 25 Years Later

In 2001, my band Canterbury Effect released a record called An Exercise in Humility. We were a few kids from southern Indiana playing hardcore, punk, and emo before we even knew what to call it. The record eventually came out on a small label called …

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Reviving my recipe website

I started a Git repo eight or nine years ago to store all of the recipes I use regularly. Some of them are my own and some tweaked versions of recipes I've found elsewhere. The very first version of the repo was just a folder full of markdown files. …

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Who gets my fonts?

Is there a way to bequeath your ownership of a collection of digital stuff? I'm defintely not talking about stupid shit like NFTs. I mean useful digital things like fonts and assets that you paid for. I started to look around and the short answer …

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More control over Figma SVG exports

We are in the process of redrawing all of the source artwork for our design system's icon set at work, and he other day we came up against some issues with Figma's default SVG exports. I started googling for articles about how to get cleaner exports …

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Designers and redesigners

I read this article by Dan Mall last week that really nails why it's important to not dwell in the creation phase of a project because it's easier to revise and improve once you get the initial ideas on paper. There are designers that are …

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