Browser tabs
In the summer of 2016 I tried doing a weekly thing where I published links to all the browser tabs left open on my work computer. It lasted all of 16 weeks. As I’m migrating my website from one publishing engine to another, I thought it might be interesting to revive the project.
And while I’m spending a lot of time thinking about web publishing more broadly, this also could be an interesting experiment: Of all these hypertext links from 2016, how many remained accessible?
No. 17 / July 8, 2022
- The Collector’s Fallacy
- How I knew I was done with my company
- I’m a very slow thinker
- Smart people don’t think others are stupid
- Singing the counter-melody
- Why I left America
- Writing daily, but posting when ready
- Living according to your hierarchy of values
- Monthly self-expansion project
- Use the tricks that woked on you
- A curious answer to the most common question
- Proudly exclude most people
- An Invitation — Roden Explorers
- The Digital-Physical
No. 16 / September 30, 2016
- A genius design trick to protect products from shipping damage
- With robots, is a life without work one we’d want to live?
- New research shows there’s one big change when cops wear cameras
- Alex Schleifer: Designing the Perfect In-House Partnerships
- 101 small ways you can improve your city
- What’s Left After the Logo Steals the Glory?
- Preserving the Quietest Places
- That vs. Which
- What reply-all emails feel like
- Researchers have finally discovered the key to naturally stripping sugar from all our foods
- Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
- Danny Meyer Just Single-Handedly Made the Apple Watch Relevant to the Hospitality Industry
- Designing Chat Interfaces
- Depero Futurista The Bolted Book – A New Facsimile
- Stupefied
- The Age of the Wordless Logo
No. 15 / September 23, 2016
- Rob Janoff on his logo for Apple
- Successful projects begin with a great kickoff message.
- The Minimalist’s Guide To Productivity
- The Beginner’s Guide To Scrum And Agile Project Management
- What can a technologist do about climate change? (A personal view)
- Metafizzy – Delightful web UI
- Logo Pizza – Hot & Ready Logos for Sale
No. 14 / September 17, 2016
- Ikea Forever
- The Perfect Company on Quartz
- An airport parking lot is an improvised village
- The Links Between Creativity and Depression, and how the design industry can tackle mental health
- Jason Fried: Make “Creative Destruction” a Regular Part of Your Routine
- Norma Jeanne Maloney: From Truck Driver to Complete Creative Control
- Nick Cave’s gift: a skeleton key that unlocks the source of songwriting
- Why You Should Be Optimizing
- How To Eliminate Organizational Debt
No. 13 / September 10, 2016
- Bureau of Betterment – Flags of Portland Part 2
- Bitter Renter, an interactive guide for first-time renters in NYC
- Heftwerk
- Hybrid Urbanism, Strelka Institute final student projects 2015/16
- Send Thanks To
- Claudio Guglieri: The Secrets of Design Leadership
- Travelocity Destination Watcher Getting Started Guide
- The Best Moments From The North American Parkour Championship
- Louise Fili’s Newest NYC Subway Poster Will Make Your Mouth Water
- Visit Mordor on Threadless
- The adjective word order we all follow without realizing it
- Tattly PETTING ZOO SET by Christoph Niemann
- A Good Pan is Hard to Find
No. 12 / September 4, 2016
- Type Hike: A typographic exploration of America’s National Parks
- As Far As Your Brain Is Concerned, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’
- Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lonely job’
- Fuck the Banks, I’ll Build My Own Damn House, or; How I Learned To Stop Worrying, and Build a Custom Camper Van
- Giovanni Pintori Research
- Discrimination By Design
- Ramsophone
- Out of Pocket: What Teachers Across the Country Spend on Supplies
- The Joys—and Unexpected Perils—of Sleeping in a Tiny House
- The New Question for 21st Century Cities
- Elon Musk’s Unbelievably Simple 12-minute Killer Break Down on Climate Change
- What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet
- Someone took the music out of Dancing in the Street
No. 11 / August 26, 2016
This week, among other things, I fell back in love with the folks at 37signals Basecamp.
- Memorials for the Future
- Hunting for great names in programming
- It’s urgent! (Really?)
- How to make firing people suck less for them and suck more for you
- Reminder: Design is still about words
- Taking CarPlay for a Spin
- Graphic Sensibilities with Politicized Undertones in Zsofia Schweger’s Unusual Image-making
- What Makes Great Collage-based Design?
- Dan Mall Shares His Design Trade Secrets
- Digital Sharecropping: The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Content Marketing Strategy
- Why I Hate My Dog
No. 10 / August 19, 2016
- Bōru by Folklore on Behance
- Craft Beer Branding Guide
- VoteGif
- The Family Living Inside A Farmhouse, Which Is Inside An Airplane Hangar
- Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people
- Work versus Life. Greatness versus Family.
- A 3-step process for naming a project/product. (And some resources)
- Don’t Call It That: A Naming Workbook
- What Design Can Do on Issuu
- 10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money
- Tsunami Stones: Ancient Japanese Markers Warn Builders of High Water
- McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
- List of generic and genericized trademarks on Wikipedia
- Usain Bolt and the Fastest Men in the World Since 1896 – on the Same Track
- Images in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons
- The beers of Omnipollo
No. 9 / August 12, 2016
- How Did the First People Populate North America?
- Dan Mall: Replace the Internship with the Apprenticeship
- Withering Heights
- SEQUENCE on Instagram
- The Deadly Results Of Flawed Design
- Playing The Long Game Inside Tim Cook’s Apple
- Designers:Watch
- Revision Path
- How Type Can Tell the History of Your City
- Designer Sam Coldy on the Perks of Building a Diverse Portfolio
- What Do Designers Have To Do With Sexism, Plagiarism + Colonialism?
- Businessweek’s Newest Designer is Turning “Big Adult” Chores into Exciting Visuals
No. 8 / August 5, 2016
- Here’s Why National Parks Maps Are Some of the Best
- The design of coins, banknotes and money-related artifacts around the world
- Milton Glaser Still Hearts New York
- How to Collect the Images and Meta Tags from a Webpage with PHP
- The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply
- Top 10 least-loved emojis
- Michael Bierut on The Great Discontent
No. 7 / July 29, 2016
Lucky number seven.
- Brainstorming Is Dumb
- The Relentless Pleasure of Little
- 55 Quotes To Inspire Creativity, Innovation and Action
- How Default Settings Rule The World
- SamsungOne Design Story
- Herbert Matter: Shaping a new design vocabulary
- Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing
- The New Paris Metro Map
- The BBC’s detailed plans for nuclear war
- Questions to Ask Yourself When Reading About Design
- Real Life Volcano Human Sacrifice
- An Illustrated History of the Philadelphia Cheesesteak
- Brexit: How design made the difference
- Letter of Recommendation: ‘How It’s Made’
No. 6 / July 22, 2016
Looks like we’ve got maps, design, movies, food. Should be some good stuff in there. After all, I did click on them.
- The true size of things on world maps
- 4K video of Norway’s stunningly beautiful fjords
- The 50 Best Animated Films Of The 21st Century So Far
- An appreciation of The Darjeeling Limited (via)
- Least Creative Thing Of The Day: Zara Rips Off Indie Designer Tuesday Bassen’s Work
- An open letter to design students: What I wish I could tell everyone who’s just starting out.
- On the Importance of Coworkers
- Metric Maps
- This Is How To Be Productive: 5 New Secrets Proven By Research
- David Kelley speaks about the growing importance of design to the world
- What do you think about machines that think?
- Sparrow™ for Knoll by Antenna Design, 2014
- Antenna Design
- The Worldbuilding In ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Is Really, Really Good
- David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness
- Are walkers smarter than drivers?
No. 5 / July 15, 2016
- 100 Years of National Parks Service
- A Manifesto for Atheists: Ten Virtues for the Modern Age by Alain de Botton
- Lance Wyman
- Michael Bierut on Tough Design Assignments + What it’s Like to be Publicly Scrutinized
- What France Can Teach U.S. Cities About Transit Design
- The City That Embraced Its Decline
- Really Good Emails
- Gun Deaths In America
- The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
- DesignStudio shares its favourite tomes in a transatlantic bookshelf
- A 100-year-old Japanese stationery store lets customers design the perfect, custom notebook
- HAY and IKEA Revamp the Frakta Bag
- Illustrated Cross-Sections of Major Train Stations in Tokyo by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Ryan Carson: Begin With the End in Mind
- Subway Deserts v2
- Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View
- The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
- Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019
No. 4 / July 8, 2016
Got a little tab-happy this week and bit off way more than I could chew. Sure hope you’re hungry.
- Millennials Don’t Want Fun; They Want You To Lead Better
- The empty brain
- Are Branding Agencies Still Relevant?
- Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture
- Ghost Boxes: Reusing Abandoned Big-Box Superstores Across America
- H-Day
- Merlin’s FAQs > Merlin, Connectedness, and the So-Called Social Graph > Why do you hate PR people so much?
- Merlin’s FAQs > Hiring Merlin > Do you charge money to do things?
- Talent Isn’t Fixed and Other Mindsets That Lead to Greatness
- Tobias Frere-Jones: Break Things Deliberatly
- 6 Questions to Weigh When at a Career Crossroads
- Career-Propelling Money Advice for Creatives
- Get Noticed in a Crowded Marketplace By Challenging the Design Tropes
- Do You Have to Be a Jerk to Be Successful?
- How to Fight Through Intellectual Discomfort
- Celebrate Unusual Holidays With Poland’s Youngest Stamp Designer
- The New York Times Magazine Design Director Gail Bichler on Staying Impartial and Politically Charged Covers
- Do Templates Make Good Design Accessible to All or Diminish the Role of the Designer?
- Updating a Famous Type Anomaly from AIGA Medalists Alvin Lustig + Elaine Lustig Cohen
- Italy’s Friendliest Graphic Design Studio on How to Reinvent a Hit
- Jean Jullien’s New Book is a Dark Journey Into the Modern Condition
- Illustrator Tiago Galo Finds Inspiration in the Dullest Places
- The First Thing I Ever Designed: How Alexander Isley Helped Analog Designers Embrace Digital
- Why Default Fonts Lead to Default Work for Everyone
- Project Bloks
- Why It’s Time to Kill Advertising as We Know It and Start Building ‘Storyworlds’
- Tour a Tiny Home at GreenLife July 8-10th
- A shopper’s manifesto: These three simple questions are the key to quitting fast fashion
- In Siberia in 1908, a huge explosion came out of nowhere
- Here’s How I Can Tell If Someone Read My Email
- The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Tiny Library
- To Surprise a Voice
- Atlas
- To Get Happier, Focus on What Makes You Miserable
- All That Jazz: Posters by Niklaus Troxler
- When Design Is Too Good: Stunning Border Signage Is Deemed a Threat
- Misleading Thumbnails
- More bonkers and surreal selfies from Izumi Miyazaki
- #Badgehunting: Flour Bag Heaven
- Japanese Matchbox Labels
- Unread Messages
- How Flight of the Conchords outlasted the hipster
- Outstanding Chinese Typography Design Exhibition
- Letterform Archive
PS. This is probably way too many links, at once don’t you think? I do really like the concept of sharing, for the most part, unabridged lists. But maybe I should do more to curate each week’s list, or have a limit?
No. 3 / June 23, 2016
Thursday edition. Heading out of town until after the 4th, so no tabs next week. If a tab closes in a browser and no one is around, did it really ever exist?
- How to listen to Apple Music offline
- A minimal and harmless way to display posters and photos
- Ciao, Massimo
- The Legendary Creator of Metal Gear Solid on His Weird New Game
- Britain Votes To Leave The EU — Here’s What To Read
- Working in the Age of Distraction
- SosoTasty
- Zig Zag City Guides
- The Dangers of Being Too Hard On Yourself (via)
- RAMS: The First Feature Documentary About Dieter Rams
- Derek Jeter’s Conversation With President Obama
- Watch Japanese Workers Build A Wooden House — Without Nails Or Screws
- Deconstructing The Genre-Bending Magic Of ‘Gorillaz’
- The creative’s secret to career longevity
- 2005 AIGA Medalist: Meredith Davis
- Design feedback made simple: 4 steps to better collaboration
No. 2 / June 17, 2016
Here they are. This week’s browser tabs. Orphaned, afraid. Will you adopt one?
- ‘SimCity 2000’ Teaches 2016 Urban Planners to Reconsider Rebuilding, Alien Attacks
- Ikea Museum set to open in Sweden
- The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
- Comma Queen: Whichcraft—That vs. Which
- Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps
- This former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox has a lesson for Americans
- On Icons
No. 1 / June 3, 2016
PRE-S: For quite a while I had been thinking about doing something on a weekly basis. I finally feel like I found the right construct: listing all my open, unread browser tabs at the end of the week. I’ve made a habit of emailing them to myself anyways, so why not share them with you?
These are all the links that, for whatever reason, I didn’t get to this past week. Tabs left waiting patiently in my browser. A snapshot of what piqued my interest. I wanted to read them, watch them, listen to them — I really did. But perhaps you will instead. And maybe someday I’ll get around to them. Just not today.
- Declarative Design Tools
- The Ideal Design Workflow
- Articulating Design Decisions
- Has Design Become Too Hard?
- Caminhos Film Festival
- North
- The Making Of A Mural
- The Little Prince
- Look-See
- The Design Legacy Of Dieter Rams
- Want to be more productive? Don’t go paperless.
- Tofino: Eight weights of “West Coast Swiss,” designed for the screen.
- The Perks Are Great. Just Don’t Ask Us What We Do.
- When New York City tried to ban cars
- GE’s Predix Design System
- Why you don’t need design like Apple
- How to apply a design thinking, HCD, UX or any creative process from scratch
- State of the Digital Nation 2016
- Fuck All
- Font Management in OS X, by Kurt Lang
- The idiocy of traffic studies
- City Observatory