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2025
November 2025
- The updates formula, being more agentic, recommended creators, and Clair Obscur soundtrack
October 2025
- AI for truth, spooky season faves, Dexter, and Bloodlines 2
September 2025
- Web design system guide, spooky season movies, Misfits, and new David Byrne album
August 2025
- Creator discovery, alcohol, Minecraft, and TV
July 2025
- Web page components, Superman, and Mythwrecked
June 2025
- Distinctive Quality design, cults, altruism, and Squid Game
May 2025
- Good Internet Magazine, guide to the indie web, The Rehearsal, and Skream
April 2025
- Web forms, walking, meditation, and Talos Principle
March 2025
- Blocks Edit for websites, self-driving car tech, Wu-Tang series, and Avowed conclusion
February 2025
- Editable forms, email newsletter list, Gotham, and Avowed
January 2025
- 2024 year in review, Flipside, Bobby Fingers, and Carol Doda
2024
November 2024
- Design systems, guide to social media platforms, Apple's AI failures, and The Penguin series
October 2024
- Voting, spooky season movies, McDonald's artist, and Deep Web
September 2024
- Indie Aisle background, statistically living longer, and the Casa Bonita story
August 2024
- Indie Aisle guides, free will, deepfakes, and Barry
July 2024
- Looking for work, new web theme, problem-solving, and Oppenheimer
June 2024
- Indie Aisle simple stats, my design background, AI interfaces, and the new Riven
May 2024
- Blocks Edit for landing pages, AI hype, Baby Reindeer, and X-Men '97
April 2024
- The first Indie Aisle service, Distinctive Quality services, The Gentlemen, and Boxes: Lost Fragments
March 2024
- Web design techniques, Blocks Edit template format, Indie Aisle on email, and Slow Horses
February 2024
- New Blocks Edit pricing, pages for your personal site, Apple Vision Pro, and The Curse
January 2024
- 2023 year in review, ChatGPT harm, internet will get weird again, and fixing climate change
2023
November 2023
- RSS feeds, blog post highlights, CSS for design, Harriet the Spy
October 2023
- Distinctive Quality blog, spooky season, spooky movies, and Castlevania
September 2023
- Email types, open source code, Legend of Korra, Cypher 007
August 2023
- Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, on taking advice, Last Airbender RPG, Twisted Metal
July 2023
- Why I got a cheap, used electric car, Blocks Edit how to's, competing, CSS grid layout
June 2023
- Mysterium, car stolen, Nissan Leaf
May 2023
- Best of Blocks Edit articles, Firmament, a coule of overdue concerts
April 2023
- Website articles reorganized, Outlook for Windows, make something wonderful, The 100
March 2023
- Blocks Edit website revamp, social authoritarianism, Neil Gaiman library, Smile
February 2023
- Crazy weather, product positioning, Tar, The Blacklist
January 2023
- Year in review, history of the web, psychonauts, board games
2022
November 2022
- Indie Aisle progress, AI generated art, City on a Hill, happy holidays
October 2022
- More spooky season movies, the longer, our capcity for fretting is endless, Riven 25th anniversary
September 2022
- Blocks Edit fifth anniversary, spooky season movies, Moon Knight, The Rescue
August 2022
- Starting an email list, authenticity online, Sandman, Ash vs Evil Dead
July 2022
- Product design, hand tracking, Invincible, The Munsters
June 2022
- New computer, theater organ, censorship, lobbying
May 2022
- Brain machine interfaces, Vangelis, Marvel movies, Better Call Saul
April 2022
- Movie night, Gilbert Gottfried, The Tourist, Minx
March 2022
- Blocks Edit content, Amazing Jonathan, Werewolves Within
February 2022
- Blocks Edit customer stories, Station Eleven, The Investigation
January 2022
- South Park's Covid series, Kenny G, Clickbait
2021
November 2021
- Blocks Edit redesign, cancel culture, new shows
October 2021
- Halloween, How to Live, Blinkist
September 2021
- Rework reread, You, Inc, The Mauritanian
August 2021
- Email design template, The Forgotten City, Suicide Squad
July 2021
- Another pandemic, Blocks Edit progress, Sliders
June 2021
- Trip to Romania, Mass Effect Datapad, Last Airbender comics
May 2021
- Blocks Edit features, Indie Aisle upgrade, Mass Effect rerelease
April 2021
- Managing emails, coming back out, more 80's horror movies
March 2021
- Secret project, business is not a sport, and 80's horror movies
February 2021
- RSS feed, Synchronic, Carrion, In and Of Itself
January 2021
- 2021 is coming hot! How 2020 went for me
2020
November 2020
- Indoor holidays, the Blacklist, and Homeland
October 2020
- Voting during a pandemic, and the horror season
September 2020
- Blocks Edit free
August 2020
- Quarantine distractions and reading
July 2020
- Learnings on the pandemic, design systems, and inspiring people
June 2020
- 30 years in the USA, Chernobyl, and cartoons
May 2020
- Stay safe, watch more TV
April 2020
- My internal, external outlook
March 2020
- Tips on working from home, and writing good content
February 2020
- Learning and processing, the work you're good at
January 2020
- Bye 2019, hello 2020 and a new decade
2019
November 2019
- Things to eat, think about, and watch during the holidays
October 2019
- Open source tool, thinking guide, comic farewell, new music
September 2019
- Conference, jobs-to-be-done, being lazy
August 2019
- Email editors, on writing, new show, and old show
July 2019
- Moving, Blocks Edit update, recommended standup specials
June 2019
- Privacy online and why you should start an email newsletter
May 2019
- Mobile email editing, traction in marketing, finding freedom
April 2019
- Information overload, deep work, and owning a niche
March 2019
- Finding others like you, my all-time favorite stuff
February 2019
- Losing attention, cheap comics, startups, publishing, and ego
January 2019
- A guide to spending time and energy
2018
November 2018
- Up the hill
October 2018
- Dev talk, comics sale, and business reads
September 2018
- How I stopped eating meat and dairy and why
August 2018
- My approach to eating and living healthier
July 2018
- Blocks Edit Product Hunt launch
June 2018
- New short story with a downloadable soundtrack
May 2018
- Myst, an email marketing guide, and my favorite Electric Six songs
April 2018
- From marketing to selling
March 2018
- Writing articles and stories
February 2018
- Joining the startup community, learning to promote my stuff
January 2018
- Something finished and something started