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Visit mighil.com/degoogle tycrek/degoogle sat in my bookmarks for a long time. Whenever I got annoyed at some Google product I'd open it, skim until I found something that looked decent, and move on. Nothing fancy about it -- just a big list someone cared

The film follows a mother and son on the run from their past, and it wears that premise beautifully. The cinematography is earthy, warm, and specific -- every frame feels lived-in rather than staged. What stayed with me most is how boldly the film handles

A couple of months ago, I flew back to China through Kuala Lumpur -- Kozhikode to Kuala Lumpur, then Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu. Nothing unusual about the route, except for one detail: it was on AirAsia, which had briefly started flying out of Kozhikode. Tha

Georgia is a timeless typeface that comes free on almost every computer. No CDN, no @font-face, no extra requests. At the defaults it's soft and classy -- the kind of look that still holds up. A little negative tracking and a slight vertical stretch go a

A while back I shared a small tool for styling Bear blogs without wrestling with DevTools overrides: bear.css.observer. I've improved the UI a bit since then. The panel is cleaner, the editor is easier to live with, and the overall flow feels less like a

I'm by no means a designer. I just love experimenting with this sort of thing. There are plenty of courses and articles about animations and micro-interactions online, but I've never really followed any of them. This is simply me playing around and buildi

He stood in the dust of the market road and looked at the blood drying on his knuckles. The crowd had drawn back from him in a wide and silent ring. He could see it in their eyes. They did not see the boy he was but a thing of violence and rust. They had

Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm a generalist. I design, I code, I end up in a lot of places where typography matters but isn't really the job. Reviewing a client's staging site. Onboarding to a codebase I didn't write. Wondering if a page

I don't think about this much anymore, but it came back to me recently while I was thinking back on second grade. It's the only time in my life a dog has truly scared me, and I figured it was worth writing down. My parents both worked, so one of them woul

Just, out of nowhere, a flash. Her face. The tree. The white saree. And then everything came flooding back at once. Achamma. That's what we called her. My dad's mother. By the time I really knew her, she was already old. My grandfather -- Achachan -- had