Robin Rendle

Designer + writer + hypertext nerd.

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Last Notes

2024-09-18 19:24:34

Your UX is bad? Your UI looks old?
Accessibility sucks? Perf is bad? Design team can’t ship stuff? Customers annoyed by tons of bugs? Everything takes too long to build? No time for small usability improvements?
Hire. HTML. And. CSS. People.

2024-09-18 19:20:48

Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS”

2024-08-13 17:36:31

Wrote a thing about ~ideas~, man https://robinrendle.com/notes/ideas-are-vulnerable/

2024-08-08 15:35:09

New website day! Now with USB-C and 50% less clicking, and under the hood is powered by the new brand new Robin (R3) chip https://robinrendle.com/

2024-07-27 17:12:41

The story is a codebase: https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-story-is-a-codebase/
(Some notes about why @npub14dl…a40d’s graph view rules for writing stories.)

2024-06-28 00:22:24

There was life before Google search. There will be life after Google search. https://adactio.com/journal/21241

2024-06-21 14:52:59

You owe them nothing because that’s what the money is for. https://robinrendle.com/notes/job-hoppin/

2024-06-16 16:51:51

No, *you* redesigned the @npub168u…wh5e three times in a single month because *you’re* anxious and *you* deal with that by endless tinkering instead of going outside. https://csscade.com/

2024-06-15 23:43:48

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2024-05-28 21:49:25

There are two types of designers: Goths and DJs. It’s an endless, bloody war between the two and we are *this* close to winning.

2024-05-19 18:43:40

Man, I had totally forgotten how much The Web’s Grain just completely and utterly slaps https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/

2024-05-14 01:14:51

@npub1xed…yg9w switching a side project to 11ty and holy smokes is it significantly better to make a site than the last time I started from scratch.

2024-04-24 00:31:27

Man remember when websites were fun and punk and ~weird~?

2024-02-21 16:10:42

Here’s a fun little mini-manifesto about my frustrations with the web in 2024, Hypercard, and why making things on the www is still the best feeling in the world: https://robinrendle.com

2024-02-13 18:53:00

Happy to announce that I’ve been bought by Monotype! My face, body, and soul cannot wait to merge with the soft warm embrace of every font ever made.

2024-01-15 05:21:26

There is only one way to love something: https://robinrendle.com/notes/be-loud-about-the-things-you-love/

2023-11-12 00:28:25

I think the reason why some folks are so into a future of AI and UI-less computing is because most UIs just suck so utterly and completely. Not in a “wow those fonts suck” way but in a “this is entirely broken” way.

2023-10-06 20:51:55

New side project alert! I’m starting a newsletter called The Cascade which is all about the past, present, and future of CSS.
First one is out tomorrow: https://robinrendle.com/the-cascade/

2023-08-20 00:08:59

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@npub1qmc…v6gx sorry sorry sorry. I am a brave knight on my blog and a teeny tiny scared boy on the socials
(This toot will self destruct in 3…2..)

2023-08-19 23:48:47

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@npub1qmc…v6gx hah, this was my bad since I deleted the toot.
(Also thank you thank you)

2023-06-15 10:17:49

The lamest thing about modern social media is that it encourages specialization/industrialization of interests. Ya have to be Weird Drum Chap or Extreme Excel Person or Absolute Cringe Corporate Joke Maker.
But what if you wanna drum and make spreadsheets and say “laughs in corporate” at the same time, huh? Huh?

2023-05-14 15:19:53

The fancy-as-heck Q and wonky-but-brilliant lowercase A of GT Alpina are maybe in my top ten letters of all time — I got a Kobo yesterday and immediately switched the fonts out for Alpina and now reading is 1000x more pleasant.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/110/367/577/054/431/229/original/cc5012a78c6b0165.png