Eno on starting without knowing where you're going www.instagram.com/reel/DLSgQUT... via bsky.app/profile/unde...

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

In our first episode of the new year, Jarrett is joined by @ghostlyint.bsky.social founder Sam Valenti IV to talk about how music and design shape culture. 🎧 Listen to the conversation: scratchingthesurface.fm/280-sam-vale...

sysadmin hits different now

New post – December learning log: A family celebration that started with the Titanic and ended in a castle, building tiny but useful tools, reading, and collecting visual inspiration. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...

I've been busy making just-for-me projects and wrote about a few of my favorites kyleio.com/p/tools-i-us...

New project! When you need a break from doomscrolling, scroll cats: endlessmewscroller.pages.dev

Inspired by RSS readers like Hindsight, created a automated daily email digest of the RSS feeds I follow, all powered by GitHub Actions github.com/kylejohnston... This was my first test of Claude Code superpowers by @s.ly – seriously impressive!

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Amazing. youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

Someone at work had a great prompt to share the earliest example of your design work you can find. I learned the Wayback Machine supports Flash, so I was able to see one of my first portfolio sites from 2002 which included an ad I designed as a student

Wrote a review of a great new book, Creative Intelligence, by @brilliantcrank.bsky.social tl;dr - buy it, you won't regret it! kyleio.com/p/creative-i... #designsky

Wrote a post on how Liquid Glass in iOS 26 could be improved by borrowing design cues public bathrooms. #designsky kyleio.com/p/public-bat...

I scored 12/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

If you've ever wondered what a slug on a hamster wheel looks like, you'll love this story

Really liked this post from @carlyayres.com on how the design market is evolving (again). Hybrid thinking and skills combined with curiosity are superpowers. carly.substack.com/p/designers-...

Posted a roundup of visual inspiration that’s caught my eye lately → kyleio.com/p/2025-aug-m... Plus! A new links page powered by raindrop.io with a dedicated RSS feed

At least one thing I have in common with Neil Armstrong, Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, and Christian Dior mikefisher.substack.com/p/imposter-s...

Still thinking about this quote from @alexmorris.bsky.social most recent newsletter: "Bad creative ideas aren’t born, they are beaten into existence from something more pure."

I built a weird little site in an afternoon: Halucidations. It serves up inspirational ideas that seem profound… until they don’t. It's mostly confusing but also somehow comforting: halucidations.kyleio.com

Launched a new thing! kyleio.com, a creative journal of things that spark my curiosity, including projects, posts, and discoveries. Built with @astro.build

Via Gabriellus Landsbergis, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania: "This is Rango. Rango was rescued from our back yard and immediately promoted to Official Cat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania."

Go Chiefs

You have been sentenced to death by ginger gooch

Many people don't understand what a high level of community spread means, so it's very helpful to translate wastewater data into estimated infections like this. 1 in 55 works out to roughly 2-4 people with an active COVID infection in every crowded subway car. Wear a mask.

Facts.

Users will find a way

Feels like Ska bands are like cicadas – they emerge from the underground every few years, make a lot of noise, and disappear after mating

Let he who hasn't pushed a breaking change to prod cast the first stone

Our wild and crappy now/near-future – this site is entirely generated by AI, seemingly to address any question you might Google. And it churns out gems like this: https://www.lihpao.com/what-is-the-humpty-dance/

RIP Google Domains, we hardly knew ye https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

Tuesday going on Friday

TIL if you use Google's .new URLs and you have multiple accounts, you can choose which account is used for new files like so: docs.new/1, docs.new/2, etc.

Tbh we could do worse

On a lark, I searched for a glass AeroPress, and was excited to learn a premium version is coming soon

Might just take a ride into the

More UX in the real world (well, Boston) – scan a QR code at the bus stop to check out a book from the library, no app or library card required. https://www.universalhub.com/2023/you-cant-book-ride-t-bus-you-can-now-ride-t-bus-e

New traffic light tech encourages people to follow speed limits in school zones with traffic lights that turn green if you aren't speeding. If you speed, you wait at a red light. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/