Bots
On the boredom and misogyny of gendered bots.
Hypertext for all
What is hypertext for?
The whole of work
The competitive advantage of the de-industrialized workplace.
Kool-Aid
On being a woman in tech.
Hypertext as an agent of change
A talk presented at the 10th annual dConstruct conference in Brighton, England.
Making remote teams work
Observations about what makes for a good remote culture, and why it’s likely here to stay.
Index cards
Publishing the hard way.
Legalese
Thoughts on GitHub, discrimination, and language.
You keep using that word
A close look at the origins and evolution of the word “meritocracy,” and the politics that our language reveals.
Back
A responsive redesign.
Editorially
Introducing Editorially
Starts
Today marks my last day with Typekit.
Deploy
On publishing as the beginning, not the end; the third and final part in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Issue No. 1 of Contents.
Markup
Why editors need to know HTML; part two in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Issue No. 1 of Contents.
Represent
The first in a series of articles that expand upon my essay in Issue No. 1 of Contents.
Babies and the bathwater
From Issue No. 1 of Contents Magazine.
Change
On the occasion of the release of the fourth book from A Book Apart.
On the news
How we read is breaking ranks with how the news is made.
A web designed for reading
My thoughts on the new Readability.
Three
On building a publishing house, and loving great content.
Modes of writing
Of blogs and books
Forever
On the length of forever, and our role as caretakers.
I wrote you a short letter
Short is not a synonym for cheap.
The company of others
On the release of A Book Apart’s second title, CSS3 for Web Designers from the inimitable Dan Cederholm.
Roots
On getting back to the words, and joining Typekit.
On audience
More on the new publishing, and how A Book Apart is older than it seems.
Good design is long lasting
On Dieter Rams, and how long is long enough.
Announcing A Book Apart
A new publishing venture from the people who bring you A List Apart and An Event Apart.
Ways of writing
Of books and pens
The form of the book
A call for book designers to migrate to the screen.
On publishing
Three announcements about the future of publishing.
On craft
On my decision to leave Norton—my home for nearly a decade— and join the ranks at Etsy.
Ways of reading
Things I’ve learned about the act of reading.
On work
“Work” can mean toil or slog, but it can also mean creation, opus, oeuvre.
Three definitions of “reader”
How the name of a thing can guide you towards its use.
Some thoughts on the anthology
A suggestion that reading distractedly sometimes has its merits.
On the library
I wonder if the promise of an ebook isn’t the book but the library.
Beginnings
The relaunch of A Working Library, and what I’ve come to think of as a new beginning.
On feeding
As I write this, I am baking bread. Or, at least, I am trying to bake bread.
On advertising
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy.
In defense of readers
From issue 278 of A List Apart.
On reading with a theme
How to read voraciously, without slipping through the looking glass.
By any other name
A meditation on how the name of a text prefigures its form.
On memory
To remember is to forget.
By design
By design, a text makes a statement as to how it should be read—or if it should be read at all.
Unreadable?
A response to Joe Clark’s article in Scroll Magazine on reading long on the web.
Reading as shared experience
Can the conversation around a book replace the act of reading it?
First things first
It is impossible to write an effective first post on a blog.