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https://robinrendle.com/notes/be-kind-be-cool/ Be kind, be cool • Robin Rendle A few notes on design principles. kindcoolrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-details-element-is-amazing/ The details element is amazing • Robin Rendle The fifth planet in the solar system. detailselementamazingrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/email-is-the-magic-key/ Email is the Magic Key • Robin Rendle It’s a lovely, wondrous, and utterly frustrating thing. emailmagickeyrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/making-charts-with-css/ Making charts with CSS • Robin Rendle Over on CSS-Tricks I take a look at a few interesting ways to make bar charts, sparklines and pie charts without resorting to a JavaScript framework. makingchartscssrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/start-with-the-drama/ Start with the drama • Robin Rendle The only writing tip worth paying attention to. startdramarobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/elevator-test/ The Elevator Test • Robin Rendle Baby thuds of progress. elevatortestrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/everything-that-books-ought-to-be/ Everything that books ought to be • Robin Rendle Hardcover books suck. There, I said it. everythingbooksoughtrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/two-years-of-mass-driver/ Two Years of Mass-Driver • Robin Rendle Rutherford Craze breaks down the last two years of his type foundry. two yearsmassdriverrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/moving-is-not-failure/ Moving is not failure • Robin Rendle Everything is in boxes now. movingfailurerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/likes/ RSS favorites • Robin Rendle How to make a list of your favorites from Feedbin. rssfavoritesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/redesign-content-migration/ Redesign: Content Migration • Robin Rendle content migrationredesignrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/browser-engineering/ browser.engineering • Robin Rendle And a book about browsers. browserengineeringrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/seraph/ Seraph • Robin Rendle A variable font family from Bernd Volmer. seraphrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/good-taste/ Good Taste • Robin Rendle “Find your taste; everyone else will catch up eventually.” good tasterobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/here-i-am-king/ Here, I am king • Robin Rendle A shockingly beautiful thing by Jason Farago. kingrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/tktktk/ TKTKTK • Robin Rendle How to write like the wind. robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/parallax/ Parallax • Robin Rendle A thousand galaxies, drifting by. parallaxrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2023/in/ in.jpg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. jpgrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-annosphere/ The Annosphere • Robin Rendle A sundial that works without the sun. robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/agile-as-trauma/ Agile as Trauma • Robin Rendle Dorain Taylor on software development. agiletraumarobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/newsletter/build-the-archive/ Build the Archive • Robin Rendle Or go to the damn library. buildarchiverobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/cool-gray-city-of-type/ Cool Gray City of Type • Robin Rendle Okay so I have an idea for a book. cool graycitytyperobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/style-queries-are-mind-boggling/ Style Queries are Mind Boggling • Robin Rendle CSS is getting weird now. mind bogglingstylequeriesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/twelve-months/ Twelve months • Robin Rendle This time last year I was a pup. I had never used Sass before, I didn’t know what the shell was and the DOM was a ghostly, nightmarish thing that infiltrated... twelvemonthsrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/begin-again/ Begin Again • Robin Rendle Eddie Glaude’s excellent book about James Baldwin and who we really are. beginrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/how-not-to-be-a-jerk/ How Not To Be A Jerk • Robin Rendle jerkrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2025/heyo/ heyo.jpg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. jpgrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/semicolon/ ; • Robin Rendle I was sent from hell to ruin their lives. robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/ Take Care of Your Blog • Robin Rendle Everything is worthy of your blog. take careblogrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/to-move-wihtout-latency/ To Move Without Latency • Robin Rendle Performance is not a feature. move withoutlatencyrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/humiliation/ Humiliation • Robin Rendle humiliationrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/open-source-gardener/ How to be an open source gardener • Robin Rendle And how to care for the community. open sourcegardenerrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/mercure/ Mercure • Robin Rendle A typeface designed by Charles Mazé. mercurerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-internet-got-shrinkwrapped/ The Internet Got Shrinkwrapped • Robin Rendle “It’s over. The notion of having to do the heavy-lifting is gone. Everything is shrinkwrapped.” internetgotrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/less-homework-more-fun/ Less homework! More fun! • Robin Rendle And the art of writing a newsletter. lesshomeworkfunrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/people-process/ People Process • Robin Rendle Paul Robert Lloyd on improving the software building process. people processrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/1940s-nyc/ 1940s.nyc • Robin Rendle A remarkable website. nycrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/blute-gerust/ Blüte, Gerüst • Robin Rendle ‘I gave a fifty minute concert in two halves. They poured me a drink in the middle. Dunya asked how I found them. I said I just walked past. She smiled and... robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/rebellion/ That Feeling of Rebellion • Robin Rendle And the inability to say yes. feelingrebellionrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/week-notes-4/ Week Notes #4 • Robin Rendle “Typography hits us on two different levels: by the look of it, telling us if this is something we may like or should be interested in, and by the necessity to... week notesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/if-it-doesnt-ship-then-it-doesnt-count/ If it doesn’t ship, then it doesn’t count • Robin Rendle They have a job to do. shipcountrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/a-rendezvous-of-secrets/ A rendezvous of secrets • Robin Rendle Reading is designed to alleviate our curiosity. We all want to know what’s in our neighbors’ pockets, how they style their hair, how much time they spent on... rendezvoussecretsrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-next-great-impasse/ The Next Great Impasse • Robin Rendle The Next Great Impasse is always just as big and as terrifying as the last one. next greatimpasserobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/with-teeth-of-metal-and-glass/ With teeth of metal and glass • Robin Rendle My excitement for a holiday to NYC was of paramount importance then: as someone that comes from a rural area, would I enjoy it? Would I want to emigrate to New... teethmetalglassrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2022/rain-roof/ rain-roof.webp • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. rainroofwebprobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/drawing-words-and-writing-pictures-an-appreciation-of-maira-kalman/ Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: An Appreciation of Maira Kalman • Robin Rendle Go take a look at your bookshelf: most books are seas of text without pictures. When a book does have imagery, they are marooned onto their own page, or the... drawingwordswritingpicturesappreciation https://robinrendle.com/notes/how-not-to-write-a-book/ How Not to Write a Book • Robin Rendle An experimental newsletter. writebookrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/on-the-design-systems-between-us/ On the design systems between us • Robin Rendle And avoiding the rabbit holes. design systemsusrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/newsletter/maintenance-and-care/ Maintenance and Care • Robin Rendle Endless potential kindness. maintenancecarerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/keeping-track/ Keeping Track • Robin Rendle Spreadsheets and publishing. keeping trackrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/gardens-not-graves/ Gardens, not graves • Robin Rendle “...for years, we’ve neglected the disciplines of stewardship—the invisible and unglamorous work of collecting, restoring, safekeeping, and preservation. Maybe... gardensgravesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/stories/ Stories • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. storiesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/trot/?ref=feedle.world trot • Robin Rendle This is the research. This is the work. trotrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2025/hills/ hills.jpg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. hillsjpgrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/maps-and-spreadsheets/ Maps and Spreadsheets • Robin Rendle And how to work on a design systems project. mapsspreadsheetsrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/fraidycat/ fraidycat • Robin Rendle Kicks Condor has made a new tool to read the web. fraidycatrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/1-percent-better/ 1% Better • Robin Rendle And gathering momentum. betterrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/i-website/ I, Website • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/cushion/ Cushion • Robin Rendle For the last year I’ve been trying to get my freelance business off the ground and thanks to Cushion it’s been an awful lot less stressful and terrifying than... cushionrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/in-defense-of-webfonts/ In Defense of Webfonts • Robin Rendle A web font, just like any other visual stimulus, has work to accomplish and it has a value and a position in the designer’s toolkit which is one of the most... defensewebfontsrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/prop-22/ Prop 22 • Robin Rendle And why it’s devastating. proprobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/some-unsolicited-newsletter-advice/ Some Unsolicited Newsletter Advice • Robin Rendle Punctuation and grammar be damned. unsolicitednewsletteradvicerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/mighty-fine-content-that-i-am-consuming-online/ Mighty Fine Content that I am Consuming Online™ • Robin Rendle I’ve been reading a lot of great things on the web lately and just wanted to quickly jot everything down as best I could. I hope you enjoy reading this lot as... mighty finecontentconsumingrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/roadside-picnic/ Roadside Picnic • Robin Rendle Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s weird and wonderful novel. roadsidepicnicrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/stab-a-book/ Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die • Robin Rendle And why our attention is precious. stabbookdierobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/big-apple-blues/ Big Apple Blues • Robin Rendle In the bowels of a giant machine. big applebluesrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2023/highlands/ highlands.jpg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. highlandsjpgrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-past-is-not-dead-and-can-never-die/ The Past is Not Dead and Can Never Die • Robin Rendle Clint Smith’s journey to Talbot County, Maryland. never diepastdeadrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2025/plymouth-hoe/ plymouth-hoe.jpeg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. plymouthhoejpegrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/cut-the-intro/ Cut the Intro • Robin Rendle We don’t need a manifesto. cutintrorobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/leaving-facebook/ Leaving Facebook • Robin Rendle “Facebook turns a necessary labor of love into a profitable business.” leavingfacebookrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-great-bonfire-at-the-end-of-time/ The Great Bonfire at the End of Time • Robin Rendle greatbonfireendtimerobin https://robinrendle.com/notes/footer.design-/ footer.design • Robin Rendle So many opportunities! footerdesignrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/design-system/ Design, system. • Robin Rendle And fighting for the middle ground. design systemrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/redesign-measure-once/ Redesign: Measure Once • Robin Rendle Let’s talk about the measure. redesignmeasurerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/delirious-in-london/ Delirious in London • Robin Rendle deliriouslondonrobinrendle https://www.rendlecompany.com/ The Rendle Company | Business Sense™ | Brad Rendle Brad Rendle Systems thinking Leadership support company businessrendlebrad https://robinrendle.com/notes/green-to-me/ Green to Me • Robin Rendle Helena Fitzgerald on the color green. greenrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/how-i-created-175-fonts-using-rust/ How I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust • Robin Rendle Chevy Ray on their work creating pixel fonts. using rustcreatedfontsrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/jazz-musician-lettering/ Jazz Musician Lettering • Robin Rendle Reagan Ray’s lettering work is lovely. jazz musicianletteringrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/performance-monitoring/ Performance Monitoring • Robin Rendle A new feature from Sentry. performance monitoringrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/feedback/ Feedback • Robin Rendle How do I become a great designer without becoming a giant asshole? feedbackrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/inconsistencies-and-productivity/ Inconsistencies and productivity • Robin Rendle Talking with Jules about design systems and how to incentivize good systems work across an organization. inconsistenciesproductivityrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/deep-breaths-in-st-pauls-cathedral/ Deep breaths in St Paul’s cathedral • Robin Rendle The weeks leading up to a speaking event my nerves will inevitably begin to shake; I bite my lip uncontrollably, my mood swings from ecstatic to horrified and... deepbreathsstcathedralrobin https://robinrendle.com/notes/all-i-want/ All I Want • Robin Rendle wantrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2022/bub/ bub.webp • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. bubwebprobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/on-writing/ On Writing • Robin Rendle Stephen King is a jerk. writingrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2022/albert-tronc/ albert-tronc.webp • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. alberttroncwebprobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/autonomy/ Autonomy and Hong Kong • Robin Rendle And the promise made. hong kongautonomyrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2023/novel-g/ novel-g.jpg • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. noveljpgrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/anxious-punk-rock-web-design/ Anxious punk rock web design • Robin Rendle Eff the footer, and eff the clicks. punk rockweb designanxiousrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/demisemihemidemisemiquaver/ Demisemihemidemisemiquaver • Robin Rendle Words fail to do the sound justice. robinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/read-books,-write-books.-that%E2%80%99s-the-deal./ Notes from a decade in publishing • Robin Rendle “Read books, write books, repeat. That’s the deal.” notesdecadepublishingrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/photos/2022/railing/ railing.webp • Robin Rendle Designer, writer, developer. railingwebprobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/okay-sue-me/ Okay, sue me! • Robin Rendle Sentence by sentence. okaysuerobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/everyone-in-the-world-is-just-an-email-away/ Everyone in the world is just an email away • Robin Rendle And figuring out the web. everyoneworldemailawayrobin https://robinrendle.com/notes/the-history-of-the-web/ The History of the Web • Robin Rendle This little newsletter reminds me that the web is an exciting, wondrous, unfinished place. historywebrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/novelist-as-a-vocation-/ Novelist as a Vocation • Robin Rendle And letting time pass over your work. novelistvocationrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/how-to-read-the-internet/ How to Read the Internet • Robin Rendle A love letter to RSS the community and RSS the technology. readinternetrobinrendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/signals/ Signals • Robin Rendle And how I might help. signalsrobinrendle