Feb 3The Great Instagram RunaroundYour IG account got hacked? Good luck with that, bucko! — Let me get one thing straight right from the start: I don’t like Instagram and the fake-it-till-you-fake-it culture it has enabled. From the μinfluencer that brags about their kid’s birth while pushing wheatgrass supplements from the clinic’s bed an hour after a c-section, to the latest mega-popular sensation giving life…Instagram7 min read
Dec 25, 2020Looxie, my flagship Android app, is featured on the Product Hunt front page on Christmas Day!It’s a Christmas miracle. Probably. — Ho, ho, ho, everyone. Santa (or Satan, can’t be sure) got me something special this season. Apparently, I was a good boy (I have to admit that I did brush my teeth twice a day and killed practically no one in 2020) so I deserved it. Here’s how it happened…Android2 min read
Jul 3, 2020The 4 best & free monospace fonts for programming in 2020!Most people don’t know this but ducks have weirdly-shaped dicks. Also, I code. A lot. In fact, my interest in design started not with me wanting to create logos or book covers but, rather, user interfaces for my apps. However, coding day in and day out with Courier can get…Typography3 min read
Jun 12, 2020Amazing free serif typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 4Calendas Plus Let’s get something out of the way: atipo is my favorite foundry but I’m not affiliated with them in any way. Now let’s get something else out of the way: Calendas is not 100% free, but it might as well be. What I mean by that is that you can…Typography2 min read
Jun 11, 2020Amazing free serif typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 3Sorts Mill Goudy My third selection for this week’s Free Serif Fonts feature is Barry Schwarz’s Sorts Mill Goudy. The typeface is inspired by Goudy Old Style and, you know, it kinda shows. This particular variant has found a home on The League of Movable Type and, if you’re like me, ie. distracted…Typography2 min read
Jun 10, 2020Amazing free serif fonts typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 2Butler Fabian De Smet’s (awesome name, bud) Butler is, according to its designer a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family I can definitely see the Bodoni influence in the highly-contrasting strokes of the letterforms. The Dala Floda influence is more apparent in the stencil version of…Typography2 min read
Jun 9, 2020So, Design Cuts just came out with another font bundle.Here are a couple of rules to live your life by: Love thy neighbor. When Design Cuts releases a font bundle, you buy the goddamn font bundle.Typeface3 min read
Jun 8, 2020Amazing free serif typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 1Cormorant Let’s start with a pretty great one. Cormorant claims to be inspired by the Garamond heritage but tweaked for use in large display sizes, while not compromising on legibility at lower sizes. Here’s what the type designer himself has to say about the typeface: Cormorant is characterized by scandalously small…Typography2 min read
Published in NYC Design·Oct 16, 2018Don’t make your app look like somethingMake it feel like something — For the past month or so, I’ve been a tester for an app called Three.do. Three.do is a to-do app with a twist: it aims to make to-do reminder creation a simple, three-step process that doesn’t even need to involve any typing on your part. This is how the app…Android3 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Aug 16, 2018Why I refuse to code Android apps in KotlinI know it’s childish. I don’t care. — Listen. I’m aware that it’s childish but the reason I refuse to code in Kotlin is what I call the Kult of Kotlin. I know Kotlin is a nice language. In fact, I have studied it quite a bit. I bought (and read) books about it, purchased and watched tutorials…Kotlin2 min read