4yo: Dada can we go to Timportance?

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Wanna see the best "back to top" webpage functionality I've ever seen? Go here, scroll to bottom, click button. city-the-animation.com/bddvd/

A Github commit with 3,280 files changed; 5,400 lines added; and a staggering 181,736 lines removed.

I bet this feels so good if you’re a repo

Startup swag has tragically ignored the commemorative plate

Every app’s release notes: Bug fixes and improvements

Release notes before they stopped me from writing them: Y’all remember being a baby? Yeah me neither but I bet you five AMERICAN dollars that this release is like the gentle touch of a loving parent upon your newborn brow

4yo: Dada can you play the song that goes 🎵 Jealous oats
Me: … I don’t know if I know that one. Can you sing more of it?
4yo: [long pause] 🎵 Jealous oats

Cracked pepper implies the existence of mid pepper

Quite! It’s a different type of workflow. (I’ve already thrown out a bunch of work and started over, so nothing’s fixed in stone at this point)

Great question! Short answer: it’s easier and faster to build.

I’m currently rebuilding Pageboy as a more capable web app, so: sure, why not?

If you want to add some whimsy to your web projects I dropped two very small JS libraries for you: Hologram (scroll-driven color shifting) and Line Boil (hand-drawn-animation-style wigglies). github.com/tomcreighton... github.com/tomcreighton... Please enjoy!

BSOD

A door with a large black triangle on it

I found the room where they keep Vercel

I wasn’t aware until this very moment that ‘pencil crayons’ was a Canadianism

3yo: I want to colour, can you get my pretzel crayons?

A terrible accident – my body pinned by twisted metal, blood pooling beneath my cheek, the wind blowing shattered glass and the stink of spilled gasoline into my face. In the distance, I hear a cheerful voice calling “Just yelp for help”
[Paw Patrol theme plays]

"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue"
Four-factor authentication is now activated for your wedding

Atmospheric doesn’t have to be an app You can just build features into the websites you've already got!

It's Atmosyear not app...mos... hang on

3yo: can I watch Spongebob Squarehead

2015: Should designers code
2025: Should developers code

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

An email subject that says “Discover new projects waiting for you in Jira!”

Email subject lines with threatening auras

A screen the looks very much like a touchscreen with a larger banner across the top reading “NOT A TOUCHSCREEN”

UX

Here’s The Architect’s Newspaper with a withering review of Joe Gebbia’s “National Design Studio”, and what it really stands for: www.archpaper.com/2025/12/nati...

As design critiques go, this is one of the best ones I’ve read in some time.

3yo: can I step on the scale?
Me: sure
3yo: [peering at the number] is that how much I cost?

"What is the ROI of UX?" is shaped like a question, but it is actually two hostile premises:

1) that UX is sufficiently marginal for its value to be openly questioned

2) that the asker has the authority to judge this question, and practitioners are merely consulted on it, as a matter of courtesy

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

The first two hours this morning

A fun thing about building software is taking UX patterns like this entirely for granted, then building your own version and immediately smashing headlong into an iceberg of hidden complexity

Beyond the Digital Detox - frequency social Why willpower can't beat manipulative design

Unpopular opinion: you don't need more willpower. You need better designed apps.

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