Stories by bobbiechen

Legibility of Effort

Seth Larson on Making Things

Morry Kolman on making things: "Keep it stupid"

Uniba Embodied Virtuality

Nolen Royalty (One Million Chessboards) on Making Things

SF MUNI Worm: the worm becomes the map

Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things

Making things: interview series on creativity

N-Tier Services and Systems Complexity

Good Careers at Bad Companies

CrankGPT is an offline and off-the-grid AI box

Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Interfaces for Representing Uncertainty (2025)

Staybl, the browser that adjusts for tremors in real time (2022)

"This was a user-friendly computer."

Laws of UX

The Gypsy document editor: celebrating 50 years

Lighter, Not Faster

There is no escape from Ashby's law (2020)

Clashes of Tech and the US Government

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