A Plan to Rescue the Web
An optimistic take on the future of the Web: A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet, by André Staltz
Notes
DHSI
Just registered for a week-long course on creating digital editions at #dhsi18!
New Website
My revamped personal website is live with a new look and a number of recent projects. I even started a blog! 😱
Watching My iPad’s Slow Death
“It’s the exact opposite of a baseball mitt in its resistance to sentiment and nostalgia.” What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death, by John Herrman
Analytics
Update on my search for an alternative to Google Analytics: in the end, I decided to scrap tracking altogether. It’s for a small, personal project with an emphasis on simple design. And honestly I just don’t care about the numbers.
Skolar Devanagari
Great to see that Rosetta’s Skolar Devanagari is now up on Typekit. There are so few well-designed typefaces out there for Indic scripts. Can’t wait to use it in a project!
Nagari
I would love to know if there’s historically any discourse in South Asia on the aesthetics of Nagari. I got a blank stare the one time I mentioned it in grad school, and never pursued it further.
Yesterday’s Bake
Yesterday’s bake was definitely an improvement but still denser than I’d like. Maybe 100% whole wheat loaves will only open up so much. Still tastes great though!
Whole Wheat
Revisiting the hundo-hundo whole wheat sourdough formula today. This time gonna try autolysing overnight, plus an ambient proof rather than overnight retard to try to prevent over-development of the dough.
Sapper
“Sapper lived with multitudes and made multitudes, and his idea of the future didn’t involve getting rid of everything past, whether personal or visual. Technology, in his world, could co-exist with sentiment and age.” Richard Sapper’s dark, alternate universe of tech design - Curbed