Notes

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

Matomo

Rolling out a new website and at the stage where I’d normally set up Google Analytics without a second thought. But what about an alternative where I own the data and my users’ privacy is respected?

Analytics

Rolling out a new website and at the stage where I’d normally set up Google Analytics without a second thought. But what about an alternative where I own the data and my users’ privacy is respected?

Dean Allen

I have to confess I’d never heard of Dean Allen until I saw others mention his passing. What a bittersweet privilege now to read him for the very first time.

Reading Design, by Dean Allen

The Looming Digital Meltdown

“We have built the digital world too rapidly. It was constructed layer upon layer, and many of the early layers were never meant to guard so many valuable things.” Zeynep Tufekci on “The Looming Digital Meltdown”.

Firefox

Made the switch from Chrome to Firefox Quantum and may never look back. So much less of a drag on my laptop, for starters. But I never knew how many damned websites have to be viewed in Chrome! Harmful for all parties.