"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?
Good behaviour matters more than good code
Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
Atomic design got us from thinking about pages to thinking about components, but we don't need to keep carrying the periodic table around.
The Atmosphere needs a distinct brand identify, better tools for builders, a new UX for users, and a small empowered group willing to build it all.
On building software, vibe coding, and what happens to market prices when the barriers fall
Building a simple design system and website with Figma MCP and ClaudeCode
Starting a design publication about AI, and figuring out how to keep this human in the loop
How Balsamiq's recent redesign broke rapid wire-framing.
How AI may quietly dismantle the feedback loop that turns inexperienced people into competent ones, and why my work matters to me.
Dub sound has occurred
People's opinions about themselves and the things they use rarely match real behaviour.
An experimental approach to designing and implementing Lexicons with TypeScript + Next.js
Why is all of this free? What's the plan here? Cui Bono?
What is it? Why should researchers care about it?
A guide to using your 'everything account' on the AT protocol as your own personal CMS
A Day for Celebration at The Thomas Kuhn Foundation.
How to make research more open, continuous, and collaborative, while preserving ownership, credit, and integrity.
Putting out a public call to explore how researchers can publish, share, and collaborate transparently while retaining ownership for their work.
Design systems will fail when we build them for designers.
Machines can’t make sense of the world for us. Generating content that looks like knowledge isn't the same as producing it. We lose everything by confusing the two.
Fidelity in design isn’t about how finished something looks — it’s about knowing when something is ready to be finished.
AI is breaking the simple act of getting a job.
Yo DAWG I heard you like feeds about feeds
The what, why and how of Bluesky feed goodness
When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivise outputs over outcomes.
A simple silly and powerful drawing exercise that unlocks creative thinking instantly in workshops about complex things
How UX design’s quest for more influence led to its quiet subordination
Or why your boss was probably right not to support your design ideas.
How short-term sales culture destroys product strategy, and what founders can do to stop it.
Exits are low probability events and don't offer real value to workers.
Why high-fidelity mockups create cognitive lock-in that prevents real growth
Behind the glossy branding and false authority, wrappers hide the same flawed systems — eroding trust, distorting methods, and putting academic knowledge at risk.
Investors embraced AI not for its genius, but for its promise to cut people, cut costs, and boost portfolios.
A draft evaluation framework to assess risks, trade-offs, and practices in scholarly communication.