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tyler @tylergaw.com · 11/08/2026

The latest Ta-Nehisi Coates piece in Vanity Fair is, of course, excellent.

This resonance was not appreciated in 2024. A party that was deeply identified with destroying apartheid within its borders attempted to win by ignoring apartheid abroad. It did not work. "There was an underestimation of what was really afoot and how much it meant to so many people from many different walks of life," says Pressley. "And I would say especially the younger generation. And I do believe it is why so many young people just did not participate and stayed home."
There is another way.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 08/08/2026

type of shit you see when you’re trying to peacefully bleed out by the river

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 06/08/2026

This is 100% valid CSS I just used. The supports is because color-typed attr doesn't have quite the browser support I need right now. Pretty cool.

@supports (x: attr(x type(*))) {
a {
background-color: attr(
data-bg type(<color>),
var(--color-accent)
);
}
}

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 05/08/2026

This is 1000% accurate. We’ve failed at this.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 05/08/2026

This is completely cooked brain shit right here. Imagine thinking creative expression should be "efficient".

Text that reads: "Ideogram - A generative AI startup on a mission to make creative expression universally accessible, fun, and efficient."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 22/07/2026

Just got the Odyssey 3LP soundtrack in the mail. It’s lovely.

The Odyssey soundtrack vinyl box set — three translucent gold/amber marbled LPs spread out above the gatefold sleeve, which shows the film's Trojan Horse beach scene. Music by Ludwig Goransson, film by Christopher Nolan. Laid out on a colorful quilt.

tyler @tylergaw.com · 22/07/2026

Working on a refresh of my personal site, making some fun hover/focus styles with animated svg filter effects

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 13/07/2026

This era is producing some of the all time best bullshit marketing messages. This one on Figma's site is light speed bad.

A headline on Figma's website that reads; "Ideas no longer have to wait their turn"

tyler @tylergaw.com · 30/06/2026

Feels like lots of folks could use hearing Leela sing the song of her people today

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 22/06/2026

Me over here chuckling while liking your post like this email isn't at the top of my inbox right now

Email notification from Steam reading "You have joined the list for Steam Machine 2TB with Controller."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 21/06/2026

Rewatching Boardwalk Empire. Gonna get a lot of use of this

Still from Boardwalk Empire showing Steve Buscemi in 1920s attire with the caption "Read a fucking book."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 17/06/2026

I snagged one of these limited run signs. THANKS MAMDANI

An official NYC street sign, green with white letters that reads “Knickerbocker Avenue”

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 17/06/2026

There's no reason we have to keep spelling it "comptroller" (this is an extremely NY politics thing)

The Norman Rockwell, standing up man meme

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 02/06/2026

Have they considered skipping lattes and making coffee at home instead?

Newspaper headline by Katherine Miller, Kristen Soltis Anderson, and Adrian J. Rivera: "These 14 Baby Boomers Worry the Math on Retirement Might Not Work Out."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 01/06/2026

linkedin having another normal one today

LinkedIn post by Jason L. Baptiste announcing he cloned his wife, an executive coach, with AI. Attached graphic shows speech bubbles reading "I Cloned My Wife with AI."

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 25/05/2026

Still the most fun easter egg is how the team changes position on narrow screens

Responsive Web Design Issue No. 306. Black and white illustration of a team forming a tall human tower while a guy photographs them from the side.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 19/05/2026

Yikes. My site (on there) completely bricked right.

Screenshot tylergaw.com returning an error page with the text: Error - Request ID: 01KS139YDNMESB162CMPH71H9B

tyler @tylergaw.com · 14/05/2026

by far the most common thing I type into llm chat bots

A Claude chat bubble where I've typed; "don't prompt me bitch"

tyler @tylergaw.com · 13/05/2026

lol same, my preferred podcast for this is Plain English with Derek Thompson. from www.theredhandfiles.com/how-do-you-s...

A snippet from a Red Hand File that reads; "I go to bed around midnight, but before I have time for any blue glow, dwelling on fragments of memory, or lyrical musings, I put on a podcast, which keeps intrusive late-night thinking at bay. This podcast generally amounts to one person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about, talking to another person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about, about something I know absolutely nothing about, and this triumvirate of stupidity generally lulls me into some approximation of sleep (the first sleep)."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 12/05/2026

well shit, I can't let that very important domain expire

An email subject line that reads: "Tyler, trailingslash.lol will expire in 15 days - renew now"

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 10/05/2026

Just got tickets to this. Stoked for it, but if these two bands would have toured together in like 2015 my brain would have melted from excitement.

The Menzingers "Everything I Ever Saw" North America 2026 tour poster. Lists dates from September 24 through November 22 across US and Canadian cities, with special guests Hot Water Music and Weakened Friends. Photo of a person standing on a concrete barrier by a waterfront.

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we were promised power laces

a screengrab from Back to the Future 2 where Marty is putting on his Nikes with power laces

Doing some branding exploration for @thedistance.app. Leaning closer to; "1972 MLB team", which feels right for what I'm going for.

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@pezzos.app officially made its first revenue today (came in a while ago, but just landed in the bank) #indiedev #ios

Mercury bank notification email showing a $56.08 ACH deposit received from Apple Inc.

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🤫I joined @simplebits.com's secret club

Can’t wait for their version of

A picture of David “Shingy” Shing. He’s got wild black hair sticking up everywhere, glasses, and is gesturing with his right hand, god knows what he’s gesticulating about

tyler @tylergaw.com · 29/04/2026

A lot of times when I'm stuck and/or sick of a design I'm working on I like to make a copy and just start making changes that I know likely won't stick. Things that are unreadable/messy. Just to try to knock things loose.

Side-by-side comparison of two homepage banner/hero redesign concepts for tylergaw.com, both featuring bold hand-lettered display type over a collaged hero image.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 26/04/2026

I finally subscribed to @theverge.com because they do great work, but it’s so disappointing that trying to read an article is still like this. How much can I pay to turn off the sticky header and enormous ads?

Screenshot of a The Verge article page, majority of the visible area occupied by a Capital One advertisement and the site’s sticky header

tyler @tylergaw.com · 24/04/2026

Just came across a very well designed website, but was immediately taken out of it because throughout it they're using dumb quotes where they should be using smart quotes. This is one example (top is theirs, bottom is what it should be). smartquotesforsmartpeople.com

A typography example contrasting incorrect use of straight quotation marks with correct use of curly (typographic) quotation marks, using the sentence "Probably right" is not "provably right."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 23/04/2026

Had my first real need for the new #CSS holy trinity; popover, anchor positioning, and starting-style. Everyone was right, these are all so good. Nothing here that couldn't be done without them, but it's so much easier and less brittle with.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 22/04/2026

It’s benches all the way down

Me holding the book open to same page as Kyle is showing in a Bluesky post

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 20/04/2026

I, a serious design professional, will not be put out to pasture

That's a sketch in Claude Design (the Napkin/design files feature) showing hand-drawn text that reads "MOOSE KNUCKLES" in large letters, with "FART!" in a box below it. There are some small scribble marks in the upper right corner. The prompt in the left panel says "Turn this sketch into an illustrative homepage" with tags for "Hi-fi design" and "Interactive prototype."

tyler @tylergaw.com · 14/04/2026

Americans will use anything but metric 🦞

A screenshot of a New York Times article excerpt with the phrase “a proposed lobster-shaped jurisdiction” highlighted in blue. The full sentence reads: “On Tuesday, Ms. Troye jumped into the race for Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District, a proposed lobster-shaped jurisdiction that juts from the heavily Democratic suburbs of Washington to conservative rural reaches of the western and central parts of the state.“

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 05/04/2026

Trying out @sifa.id. Did not expect to see my WIP strava-like ATProto records show up in there. Pretty cool!

ATProto feed showing a mix of posts: a Parseword #63 game result, two "Afternoon Ride" activity posts and a "1,000 miles" milestone from app.thedistance, and a partial post about building on ATProto.

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 04/04/2026

stopped the screen recording, but kept going with it. won't use it for anything, but will use some of the techniques

Four-panel timestamped sequence showing a heavily processed or glitched solar image, with orange and blue concentric arcs and a horizontal light streak. The fourth panel at 13:47:55 shows a large olive-green circle against a red background.

tyler @tylergaw.com · 04/04/2026

Getting started on designs is tough. Lot of times I do little throw away exercises just to get moving. Found this cool photo panel of the sun on flickr commons. Design exercise this morning was doing a lil recreation of it into an abstract graphic. #design

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tyler @tylergaw.com · 25/03/2026

I updated the post with links to both your posts and a link to @jim-nielsen.com post. 🤦‍♂️I swear I Googled before writing this!

Update: Even though I thought I’d done an extensive search for existing posts on this, my searching didn’t turn up any posts on the topic. But knew there had to be already. And of course, there already is. I swear I know how to Google, I think? Bramus has already written about this, and more. Jim too. You should read those.