I added 30 new jobs for designers, copywriters, and PMs who want to work on health, climate, education, and public services to the Hard Problems job board today: www.hardproblems.com/jobs

Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net

Amazing idea: crankgpt.com – like a steampunk version of the matrix ~ via Robin Sloan's pop-up newsletter, www.robinsloan.com/winter-garde...

🤯 today I learned about the Taco Bell 50k… racketmn.com/my-top-2-str...

New post ~ ~ April learning log: hit a major running goal, made it through a busy, busy month at work, and read two great books. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...

Should you stay or should you go? I wrote a little post about how the job description for designers is changing and what you can about it. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

To all the #UX peeps looking to figure out a path forward through a time of deep career ambiguity: This is a thread of five things I'm doing for senior and staff designers in the next few months. All are online. Some are free, some are paid.

@ftrain.bsky.social 👋 hey, in the last two episodes of the podcast, the intro music plays again about halfway through. This week, it starts at 14:53.

Wrote a TIL* on Claude.md files. Mostly documenting it for future me, but thought others might find it useful: kyleio.com/p/til-claude... *really, it's more of a 'this weekend I wrapped my head around', but: TWIWMHA… yikes).

New post—February learning log: launched an ambient drone generator and a 2000's-era blog archive. Read two great sci-fi-ish books. And as always, new visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...

Launched a project I've been crafting since January. Massive Bloom is a browser-based tool for creating evolving, atmospheric drone sounds and textures. Every composition generates a unique URL you can share or save. Turn it on and listen to it evolve: massivebloomsound.com?p=covers-lit...

Stumbled on a classic version of liquid glass on an old apple domain… clean up the border radii and bring it back, tbh #designsky

New post—January learning log: building an ambient drone generator inspired by Fred again, refining my workflows for @mikker.dev's LeaderKey app, and visual inspiration from my swipe file. kyleio.com/p/learning-l...

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