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  <title>Daniël van der Winden • All posts</title>
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  <updated>2026-11-03T17:00:00Z</updated>
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  <author>
    <name>Daniël van der Winden</name>
    <email>d.vanderwinden@gmail.com</email>
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  <entry>
    <title>Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack</title>
    <link href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qwxe5T2_uA&amp;ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-11-03T17:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/fred-dibnah-steeplejack/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qwxe5T2_uA&amp;ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qwxe5T2_uA&amp;ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;relative w-full pb-[56.25%] mt-7 overflow-hidden&quot;&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Good old Fred. Well worth fifty minutes of your time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Inside the Nakashima Workshop</title>
    <link href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkUiNpKwyM&amp;ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-27T17:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/nakashima-workshop/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkUiNpKwyM&amp;ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkUiNpKwyM&amp;ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;relative w-full pb-[56.25%] mt-7 overflow-hidden&quot;&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRkUiNpKwyM&amp;amp;ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Inside the Nakashima Workshop&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Architectural Digest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; visited the workshop and private wood collection of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nakashimawoodworkers.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;George Nakashima Woodworkers&quot;&gt;George Nakashima Woodworkers&lt;/a&gt;. In its barns, they’ve stored types of wood that are near-impossible to source today: East Indian rosewood, Persian walnut, and many more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beautiful to see the care and respect they have for the trees they fell and craft into furniture or art pieces.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Hono’s flipbook labels for Temper</title>
    <link href="https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studio-hono-temper-branding-project-261026?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-27T13:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/hono-temper-cider/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studio-hono-temper-branding-project-261026?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studio-hono-temper-branding-project-261026?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
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    Temper sparkling pear cider labels flipping by in sequence, the ball moving across a purple-and-green court as the rally plays out.
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    Via &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studio-hono-temper-branding-project-261026?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Hono’s flipbook labels for Temper&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;external&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s Nice That&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I’ve &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/temper-studio/&quot; title=&quot;Temper Studio&quot;&gt;written about Temper before&lt;/a&gt;; they’re a sports brand for tennis objects and experiences, and their visual language stood out to me from the start. Strong typography, eye-catching photography. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/studio-hono-temper-branding-project-261026?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Hono’s flipbook labels for Temper&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s Nice That&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; featured their one-off collaboration with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hono.at/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Hono&quot;&gt;Hono&lt;/a&gt;, who designed flipbook-like labels for their cider that represent a rally between Federer and Nadal at Wimbledon in 2008 (are you still with me?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each of the 60 hand-numbered bottles carries one frame of the final four seconds, and the ball is punched out of the label. They were printed by a Risograph studio in Munich and finished by hand. Lovely attention to detail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Why I made Proza, a typographic theme for Ghost</title>
    <link href="https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/proza-ghost-theme/"/>
    <updated>2026-10-20T08:20:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/proza-ghost-theme/</id>
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&lt;p&gt;Last year, after spending a few years establishing the habit of writing and sending out a post every month, I designed and built a theme of its own for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.trema.website/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Trema&quot;&gt;Trema&lt;/a&gt;, which I publish with &lt;a href=&quot;https://ghost.org/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Ghost&quot;&gt;Ghost&lt;/a&gt;. I wrote about it at the time:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/trema-ghost-theme/&quot;&gt;A fresh coat of paint for Trema&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After over two years of writing a book recommendation per month, it was time to design a new and improved reading experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After I launched it, people started asking whether they could use the theme, too, and every time I said no. Not because I’m precious about the code, but because Trema’s theme is the manifestation of a very particular set of decisions for a very particular publication. The article page is built around a photograph of a paper book I took myself; the tags, and how they’re organised, influence the page’s layout; the typefaces, &lt;a href=&quot;https://ohnotype.co/fonts/degular?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Degular by Oh No Type Co&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Degular&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fostertype.com/retail-type/blanco?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Blanco by Foster Type&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, are ones I bought licences for, for my own two sites—I can’t hand them out in a zip file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Strip all that away and what’s left isn’t really the Trema theme any more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Looking for a typographic theme&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The question kept nagging at me, though. When I looked again at what people said they liked, it was the reading. The premium typefaces, the size of the text, the length of the lines. What they were asking for, I think, wasn’t &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; theme. It was a theme that took the writing on the page seriously.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scrolling through &lt;a href=&quot;https://ghost.org/themes/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Ghost’s themes&quot;&gt;Ghost’s marketplace&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed nearly all its themes start from the picture: a magazine grid, a big feature image, cards in rows, with the text filling the space between. I couldn’t really find great themes that worked their way outwards from the writing and typography. That seemed like a gap worth plugging.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;span class=&quot;device-dots&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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          &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-light-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-light-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1340px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-dark-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-dark-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-dark-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-page-dark-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1340px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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        &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza on a desktop, scrolling through the essay On reading slowly, and on a phone&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-light-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-light-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza in dark mode on a desktop, scrolling through the essay On reading slowly, and on a phone&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-dark-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-dark-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-dark-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-phone-dark-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza on two phones: the home page and a post&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-mobile-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza on two phones in dark mode: the home page and a post&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-hero-mobile-dark-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;A simple layout, beautifully set&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started with the typeface, and set the theme in &lt;a href=&quot;https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Literata?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Literata on Google Fonts&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Literata&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.type-together.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;TypeTogether&quot;&gt;TypeTogether&lt;/a&gt;, a serif originally made for Google Play Books in 2014 and completely re-engineered years later. It’s open source, so it can ship with the theme, and it has the technical qualities a book face needs: real italics, ligatures, small caps, old-style figures, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_size&quot; title=&quot;Optical size, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;optical sizes&lt;/a&gt; that tighten up for headlines and open up for body text. It looks distinctive and refined, and it reads very well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.type-together.com/literata-font?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Literata by TypeTogether&quot;&gt;Literata 3&lt;/a&gt; is a typeface conceived for intensive editorial use, especially on screens of all sorts. Its main potential is in digital publishing, whether on the Web, electronic press, or mobile applications. You can set entire books, magazines, apps, and newspapers in this one typeface, all while using less bandwidth than you’d ever dreamed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;To balance the serif, the smaller parts of the page—navigation, dates, captions—are set in &lt;a href=&quot;https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+3?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Source Sans 3 on Google Fonts&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source Sans 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Paul D. Hunt’s open-source sans for Adobe. Both are bundled with the theme, so they’re served from the publication’s own domain, not from Google.&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;Literata’s weights, from extralight to black italic, in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/literata-weights-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;Literata’s Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, figures and punctuation&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/literata-character-set-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0&quot;&gt;Literata’s weights, and part of its character set. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.type-together.com/literata-font?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Literata by TypeTogether&quot;&gt;Literata 3 specimen&lt;/a&gt; by TypeTogether.&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Most of the time I spent building the theme went into small decisions you only notice when they’re wrong. A few I enjoyed making:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bold at 600, not 700.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Literata&lt;/em&gt;’s bold is heavy enough to punch a hole in a paragraph. One step lighter, it still stands out but stays part of the text.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paragraphs like a book.&lt;/strong&gt; A first-line indent instead of a blank line, justified and hyphenated. On phones the text goes ragged right, because a narrow justified column opens up &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)&quot; title=&quot;River, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;rivers&lt;/a&gt; between the words.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Figures that fit.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures&quot; title=&quot;Text figures, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Old-style numbers&lt;/a&gt; in running text, so a year sits among lowercase letters instead of standing above them (just as they do here, on my website), and lining numbers in dates and tables, where they need to line up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps&quot; title=&quot;Small caps, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Small caps&lt;/a&gt; for acronyms&lt;/strong&gt;, so a word like &lt;span class=&quot;smallcaps&quot;&gt;NASA&lt;/span&gt; doesn’t shout in the middle of a sentence.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A small square to end a post&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(typography)&quot; title=&quot;Tombstone, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;tombstone&lt;/a&gt; that magazines use, instead of an ornament. I tried a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleuron_(typography)&quot; title=&quot;Fleuron, on Wikipedia&quot;&gt;fleuron&lt;/a&gt; first, but it was much too pleased with itself.&lt;/li&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;Running text in Proza: justified, hyphenated, with indented paragraphs&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-text-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;The same typesetting in dark mode&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-text-dark-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0&quot;&gt;Book-style paragraphs, in light and dark. Readers get whichever their device prefers, unless the owner of the publication chooses one specifically.&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Not everyone wants their publication to look like a novel, so the book settings are switches, not rules. In Ghost’s design settings you can choose spaced paragraphs or ragged text, &lt;em&gt;Times New Roman&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;Literata&lt;/em&gt;, and a fixed light or dark scheme. The defaults are opinionated, but they can be turned off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Plain Text → Proza&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plain Text&lt;/em&gt; was the working title I had for the theme, but the theme soon outgrew it. As my friend &lt;a href=&quot;https://djordje.work/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Đorđe’s website&quot;&gt;Đorđe&lt;/a&gt; pointed out, the name seemed to promise a brutalist site set in &lt;em&gt;Times New Roman&lt;/em&gt; with bright blue hyperlinks, and what I’d made was going in the opposite direction: quieter, more refined, much closer to a well-set book than a nostalgic website. I renamed it &lt;a href=&quot;https://proza.site/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Proza&quot;&gt;Proza&lt;/a&gt;: Dutch for “prose”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://proza.site/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;The Proza demo&quot;&gt;demo site&lt;/a&gt; is set up like a small literary-ish publication, with essays, notes and pictures, so you can see the theme handle real reading rather than lorem ipsum. The pictures are all taken from the public domain: a reading wheel from an 1883 book of scientific amusements, hands from a book printed in Nuremberg in 1491, a children’s book from 1824 in which the commas have feelings. The sample essays are &lt;span class=&quot;smallcaps&quot;&gt;AI&lt;/span&gt;-generated, which the site states plainly; they’re there to show how the type behaves, not to pass for my writing, or anyone else’s.&lt;/p&gt;
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      &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza on three phones: the home page, a post, and the same post in dark mode, scrolling&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-light-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-light-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza on three phones in dark mode: the home page, a post, and the same post in light mode, scrolling&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-dark-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-dark-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-dark-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-static-dark-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;div class=&quot;device-screen is-inverted&quot; style=&quot;left: 70.477%; top: 0; width: 29.523%; height: 100%; border-radius: 3.134cqw&quot;&gt;
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  &lt;div class=&quot;device-stagger sm:hidden&quot;&gt;
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      &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Proza’s home page on a phone&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-home-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-home-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-home-light-1200.webp 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;415px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A post in Proza on a phone&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-post-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-post-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phone-post-light-1200.webp 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;415px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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    &lt;div class=&quot;device-stage&quot; style=&quot;aspect-ratio: 1247 / 2700&quot;&gt;
      &lt;div class=&quot;device-screen is-inverted&quot; style=&quot;inset: 0; border-radius: 10.615cqw&quot;&gt;
        &lt;span class=&quot;device-topfade&quot; style=&quot;height: 15.439cqw&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class=&quot;device-island&quot; style=&quot;width: 32.063cqw; height: 9.416cqw; top: 2.798cqw&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;div class=&quot;device-page&quot; style=&quot;--distance: -59.09%&quot;&gt;
          &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The same post in dark mode, scrolling&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-light-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-light-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-light-1200.webp 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;415px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;The same post in light mode, scrolling&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-dark-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-dark-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/proza-phones-page-dark-1200.webp 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;415px&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0&quot;&gt;How Proza behaves on a phone&lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;w-full max-w-lg ml-auto prose prose-lg font-serif sm:mt-24 mt-16 dark:prose-invert&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Proza costs $99 (or €89), once, for one publication, with updates and email support included. You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://proza.site/buy/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Buy Proza&quot;&gt;buy it on proza.site&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://proza.site/docs/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Proza’s documentation&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt; is there too, if you’d like to read it first. This is the first time I’ve built a theme and made it available to the wider public, so if you notice any room for improvement in how I’ve explained things, please feel free to reach out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Trema remains Trema&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trema keeps its own theme, and it hasn’t stood still since that first post. In May I gave it another overhaul: larger book covers on the homepage, a more realistic shading system, different colour settings for fiction and non-fiction books, and a more immersive article page. It’s still tailored to my use case; Proza represents what I learned from making it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;sm:mt-32 mt-16 mb-16&quot;&gt;
&lt;figure class=&quot;w-full&quot;&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;hidden sm:block&quot;&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Trema on a laptop and a phone: the page for Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman, with its cover, and the opening of the recommendation&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/trema-light-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Trema in dark mode on a laptop and a phone: the page for Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman, with its cover, and the opening of the recommendation&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/trema-dark-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;sm:hidden&quot; style=&quot;margin: -9.307%&quot;&gt;
    &lt;div class=&quot;dark:hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Trema on two phones: the page for Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman, with its cover, and the opening of the recommendation&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/trema-mobile-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;div class=&quot;hidden dark:block&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Trema on two phones in dark mode: the page for Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman, with its cover, and the opening of the recommendation&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/trema-mobile-dark-1200.webp&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;900&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;w-full max-w-lg ml-auto prose prose-lg font-serif sm:mt-24 mt-16 dark:prose-invert&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you’ve asked me for Trema’s theme in the past year: this one’s for you. And if you end up using it, I’d love to see what you write.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Obsidian Smart Typography</title>
    <link href="https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-19T21:04:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/obsidian-smart-typography/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you’ve been following this website for a while, you’ll know I’m a stickler for typographic details. So I was relieved to find &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Obsidian Smart Typography&quot;&gt;Smart Typography&lt;/a&gt;, an Obsidian plugin that does to typography what any app should when you’re writing prose.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since I &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/decoder-obsidian-kepano/&quot; title=&quot;How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO&quot;&gt;started using Obsidian&lt;/a&gt;, its straight quotes and apostrophes have been nagging me. This plugin by Matthew Meyers fixes them as you type:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; becomes “curly double quotes”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#39;&#39;&lt;/code&gt; becomes ‘curly single quotes’, and apostrophes are no longer straight&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt; becomes an ellipsis…&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;--&lt;/code&gt; becomes an en dash (–), and one more hyphen turns it into an em dash (—)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;-&lt;/code&gt; become arrows (→ and ←), and &lt;code&gt;1/2&lt;/code&gt; becomes ½&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any change can be undone with a single backspace, so it stays out of the way when you actually need a straight quote or two hyphens. Your Markdown files keep the proper characters, too—wherever you take them next.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize, and Everyone Is Happy</title>
    <link href="https://artreview.com/anne-carson-wins-the-nobel-prize-and-everyone-is-happy?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-18T10:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/anne-carson-nobel-artreview/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://artreview.com/anne-carson-wins-the-nobel-prize-and-everyone-is-happy?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://artreview.com/anne-carson-wins-the-nobel-prize-and-everyone-is-happy?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Anne Carson in 2021, photographed by Christopher Sherman&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/anne-carson-nobel-artreview-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Anne Carson, 2021. Photo by Christopher Sherman
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One more on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/new-directions-nobel/&quot; title=&quot;Anne Carson’s Publisher Has Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Two Years&quot;&gt;Anne Carson&lt;/a&gt;, this time by Ella Frears, who I am proud previously wrote for &lt;a href=&quot;https://transcriptmag.store/&quot; title=&quot;TRANSCRIPT&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;TRANSCRIPT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. She &lt;a href=&quot;https://artreview.com/anne-carson-wins-the-nobel-prize-and-everyone-is-happy?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize, and Everyone Is Happy&quot;&gt;makes the case in &lt;em&gt;ArtReview&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for Carson as a Laureate for our times: endlessly curious, irreverent, easily bored.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When asked what drives Carson to change form with every book, she answered:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Boredom, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frears covers Carson’s range beautifully, and ends on a reading in a London bookshop in 2013:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no such thing as highbrow or lowbrow in Carson’s oeuvre – there is only interest and language; boredom and brilliance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>‘East of Eden’ Changed Hoon Lee Forever. And Vice Versa.</title>
    <link href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a74070315/hoon-lee-east-of-eden-interview/?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-11T08:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/hoon-lee-east-of-eden/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a74070315/hoon-lee-east-of-eden-interview/?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a74070315/hoon-lee-east-of-eden-interview/?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Hoon Lee as Lee in East of Eden, in a dark shirt against rolling hills, a white sheet billowing behind him&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/hoon-lee-east-of-eden-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Hoon Lee as Lee in &lt;em&gt;East of Eden&lt;/em&gt;. Image courtesy of Netflix
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Over the last two days my partner and I started and finished &lt;em&gt;East of Eden&lt;/em&gt;, Zoe Kazan’s adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, which I haven’t read. It engulfed us from the first episode. I much prefer a limited series to one built to run for seasons: its makers have to be precise, because there is no time to waste.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Hoon Lee as Lee, holding a book, and Ciarán Hinds as Sam Hamilton, in a wide-brimmed hat, standing either side of a horse at a ranch fence at dusk&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/hoon-lee-ciaran-hinds-east-of-eden-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Hoon Lee as Lee and Ciarán Hinds as Sam Hamilton. Image courtesy of Netflix
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kazan delivered a fantastic piece of work, and Florence Pugh is great as Cathy Ames, but it’s Ciarán Hinds as Sam Hamilton and Hoon Lee as Lee, the Chinese American caretaker of the Trask family, I will remember most. Lee stole the show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a74070315/hoon-lee-east-of-eden-interview/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;‘East of Eden’ Changed Hoon Lee Forever. And Vice Versa.&quot;&gt;Here he is talking to &lt;em&gt;Esquire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about what the book and the show did to him. He hadn’t read the novel either, until the audition scenes arrived. He finished it in a weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No matter what happened with the audition, I felt the book had come to me as a gift. When I went into that audition, it was almost to thank them for bringing me the book.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Anne Carson’s Publisher Has Won the Nobel Prize Twice in Two Years</title>
    <link href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/books/new-directions-nobel-anne-carson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlE.T-Up.TmPvmEI8uNf9&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share"/>
    <updated>2026-10-10T21:30:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/new-directions-nobel/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/books/new-directions-nobel-anne-carson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlE.T-Up.TmPvmEI8uNf9&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share"&gt;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/books/new-directions-nobel-anne-carson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HlE.T-Up.TmPvmEI8uNf9&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Declan Spring, Mieke Chew and Barbara Epler of New Directions, standing in a doorway of their book-stacked office&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/new-directions-nobel-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Declan Spring, Mieke Chew and Barbara Epler of New Directions. Photo by Vincent Alban for &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt;
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In light of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/anne-carson-life-is-not-fair/&quot; title=&quot;Anne Carson: Life is Not Fair&quot;&gt;Anne Carson&lt;/a&gt; winning the Nobel Prize for Literature (so very much deserved), I was hoping for profiles to hit the internet and found this one, on &lt;em&gt;New Directions&lt;/em&gt;, Carson’s publisher. They keep winning Nobels (much like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/fitzcarraldo/&quot; title=&quot;How a Tiny British Publisher Became the Home of Nobel Laureates&quot;&gt;Fitzcarraldo&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>In Defense of the Detour</title>
    <link href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/27/opinion/ai-art-creativity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.PdOw.T1Q2fHi9Zco8&amp;smid=url-share"/>
    <updated>2026-10-02T11:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/in-defense-of-the-detour/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/27/opinion/ai-art-creativity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.PdOw.T1Q2fHi9Zco8&amp;smid=url-share"&gt;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/27/opinion/ai-art-creativity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.PdOw.T1Q2fHi9Zco8&amp;smid=url-share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;A hand-painted map of looping arrows from “a brief” to “the kind of thing that people remember”, via detours like “take the wrong direction”, “sleep on it” and “happy accidents”&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/in-defense-of-the-detour-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Illustration by Giorgia Lupi
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Giorgia Lupi, whose &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/1374-days-life-with-long-covid/&quot; title=&quot;1,374 Days: My Life with Long Covid&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;1,374 Days&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I shared last year, is back in &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; with a visual essay on craft and AI. AI is useful when the problem is well-defined, but design and art are about getting lost along the way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You immerse yourself in the world of the people you’re designing for, look for visual metaphors, stumble onto something unexpected, and push things around until they break, or until they make sense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. No shortcut gets you there: the process leaves a trace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She doesn’t dismiss the tools; her team uses AI too, but only once the design is done, to help carry it out at scale. The design is in the detour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Making of Cursor’s Icons</title>
    <link href="https://www.minoradventures.co/blog/the-making-of-cursors-icons?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-02T07:35:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/making-of-cursors-icons/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.minoradventures.co/blog/the-making-of-cursors-icons?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.minoradventures.co/blog/the-making-of-cursors-icons?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;A grid of Cursor’s new line icons, from a car and binoculars to a bell and a speaker&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/cursor-icons-overview-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Images courtesy of Marek Minor
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve worked with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.minoradventures.co/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Marek Minor’s Minor Adventures&quot;&gt;Marek&lt;/a&gt; for years, on projects for &lt;span class=&quot;smallcaps&quot;&gt;IKEA&lt;/span&gt; and AutoStore among others, and have always admired his system-level thinking, his craft, and his attention to detail. This project for &lt;a href=&quot;https://cursor.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;Cursor&lt;/a&gt; is the perfect showcase for all of those abilities. The case study is lengthy, but anything shorter wouldn’t do the work justice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At 1px the icons felt too thin next to text. It’s hard to say exactly why – they just didn’t hold their own. At 1.5px they felt too heavy. At 1.25px a 16px icon sits beside 16px &lt;em&gt;Cursor Gothic&lt;/em&gt;, their custom typeface, and looks just right. You follow your eye on decisions like this. At some point the number is a record of a decision the eye already made.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Cursor’s icons set inline with words in Cursor Gothic: click, talk, learn, store, record, mention, snap, upload, like and more&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/cursor-icons-rebus-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    The icons set inline with &lt;em&gt;Cursor Gothic&lt;/em&gt;
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The icons sit perfectly next to &lt;em&gt;Cursor Gothic&lt;/em&gt;, and I love seeing this level of craft get prioritised in a product and company like theirs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marek walks through the explorations, the dead ends and the reasoning behind every decision, and with this case study he’s created a generous resource for anyone learning the craft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;A context menu in Cursor with icons for split, pin, rename, mark as unread, copy, export, fork, move and archive&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/cursor-icons-menu-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    The icons in one of Cursor’s context menus
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Agentic Systems Are the Future of Brands</title>
    <link href="https://agentic.littleplains.com/?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-10-01T10:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/agentic-brand-systems-little-plains/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://agentic.littleplains.com/?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://agentic.littleplains.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Diagram of the Agentic Brand System: ten inputs, from strategy to examples, flow into one folder that feeds decks, websites, products, campaigns, emails and social posts, with Claude, Codex, a designer and a marketer each working on one piece&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/little-plains-agentic-brand-system-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Image courtesy of Little Plains
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://littleplains.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Little Plains, brand and product studio&quot;&gt;Little Plains&lt;/a&gt; makes the case for &lt;em&gt;Agentic Brand Systems&lt;/em&gt;: kits of visual rules, voice guidelines and working code that guide people and agents alike, so a brand doesn’t drift as it spreads across more tools and teams.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Give the same assignment to an agent and it guesses at a much higher rate. The result may look completely competent. However, each unsupported choice moves the work a little closer to what a generic product would do. It’s not slop, it’s just…mid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interesting times for brand studios, and for those commissioning them. Scaling a (re)brand is becoming (unavoidably) more agentic. Rolling out and levelling up a company’s brand expression is technically easier than ever, but the surface area you need to cover has grown quite a bit. We’re going to need to grow a few extra pairs of eyes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>McLaren. Our brand world.</title>
    <link href="https://youtu.be/nRR6yla8vus?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-09-22T12:24:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/mclaren-our-brand-world/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/nRR6yla8vus?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://youtu.be/nRR6yla8vus?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mt-7 relative w-full pb-[56.25%] overflow-hidden&quot;&gt;
  &lt;iframe class=&quot;absolute top-0 left-0 w-full h-full&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nRR6yla8vus?si=&amp;amp;controls=0&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;
  &lt;/iframe&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;McLaren &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mclaren.com/racing/2026/mclaren-announces-evolved-identity/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;revealed an evolved identity&lt;/a&gt; this month, the road cars and the racing team now sharing the same voice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Speedmark&lt;/em&gt; stays, and so does the Papaya colour. What’s new is the wordmark, sourced from the service station that Bruce McLaren’s parents, Les and Ruth, ran in Remuera, Auckland. That’s where Bruce McLaren built the car that won him his first race.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;The McLaren family service station at night in black and white, the McLaren’s sign lit above a row of petrol pumps&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-remuera-service-station-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;The new McLaren Racing lockup in white over a motion-blurred pit stop, the crew in papaya overalls lifting a tyre&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-racing-lockup-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    The service station in Remuera, and the new &lt;em&gt;McLaren Racing&lt;/em&gt; lockup, images courtesy of McLaren
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure how I feel about the new &lt;em&gt;McLaren Racing&lt;/em&gt; lockup—the previous logo, still featured in the navigation bar on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mclaren.com/racing/news/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;McLaren Racing&lt;/a&gt; website, felt more… race-y? The production quality of the film itself, though, is extraordinary. The storytelling is very well done. Restrained, but crackling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Apple opens Apple Music Hall in London</title>
    <link href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-opens-apple-music-hall-a-state-of-the-art-live-music-venue-in-london/?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-09-22T09:45:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/apple-music-hall/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-opens-apple-music-hall-a-state-of-the-art-live-music-venue-in-london/?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-opens-apple-music-hall-a-state-of-the-art-live-music-venue-in-london/?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;Battersea Power Station seen from across the Thames, its four white chimneys against a cloudy sky&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/apple-music-hall01-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apple opened a 600-capacity venue inside Battersea Power Station yesterday. The room borrows from the power station it sits in—heritage brickwork, fluted arches, bronze balconies. In an age where concert venues are usually not much more than a black box with a logo over its door, this looks beautifully done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;The hall seen from the side, with bronze balconies cantilevered over the floor&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/apple-music-hall02-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;A greenroom in the Apple Music Radio studios: red sofas on a red rug, brick walls, a turntable on the sideboard&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/apple-music-hall03-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
  &lt;img alt=&quot;The foyer of Apple Music Hall: a red velvet sofa and a staircase under exposed brick and steel&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/apple-music-hall04-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
  &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0 font-sans tracking-wide&quot;&gt;
    Apple Music Hall and the new Apple Music Radio studios, images courtesy of Apple
  &lt;/figcaption&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are two mix studios, a 48-speaker spatial system around the audience, and sixteen-odd hardwired cameras feeding a broadcast control room. An artist can play one intimate show and leave with a finished Spatial Audio recording, a broadcast mix and multicamera video.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Very clever, and a very expensive way of funneling listeners to an Apple Music subscription. (I guess this explains the push notification I received for a new two-month trial.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Nicholas Payton + Butcher Brown: Resolution</title>
    <link href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIVRSkCvHc"/>
    <updated>2026-09-21T20:18:38Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/nicholas-payton-butcher-brown-resolution/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIVRSkCvHc"&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIVRSkCvHc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mt-7 relative w-full pb-[56.25%] overflow-hidden&quot;&gt;
  &lt;iframe class=&quot;absolute top-0 left-0 w-full h-full&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0AIVRSkCvHc?si=&amp;amp;controls=0&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Resolution” is the second movement of &lt;em&gt;A Love Supreme&lt;/em&gt;, the 1965 Coltrane album, and Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown make playing their rendition look like a walk in the park.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This one’s taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://butcherbrownmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-supreme-blue?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;A Supreme Blue on Bandcamp&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Supreme Blue&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a reimagining of that album alongside Miles Davis’ &lt;em&gt;Kind of Blue&lt;/em&gt;. The first five tracks follow the Davis album in order, then come Coltrane’s four parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Jack Kenny puts it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-supreme-blue-nicholas-payton-butcher-brown-concord-jazz?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Jack Kenny on A Supreme Blue&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;All About Jazz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Supreme Blue&lt;/em&gt; is not a museum piece but a translation. It reframes two landmark statements through a contemporary sonic language that privileges groove, texture, and atmosphere. House rhythms, electric keyboards, and layered production reshape the modal and spiritual frameworks of the originals, rendering them less austere and more rhythmically grounded.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Butterick’s Practical Typography</title>
    <link href="https://practicaltypography.com/?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-09-21T14:42:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/butterick-practical-typography/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://practicaltypography.com/?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://practicaltypography.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matthew Butterick’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://practicaltypography.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Butterick’s Practical Typography&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Practical Typography&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;—reader-supported, ad-free, and still one of the most useful things to read on typography I know. Published on the web since 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start with &lt;a href=&quot;https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;“Typography in ten minutes”&lt;/a&gt;, five rules that will, as he puts it, make you “a better typographer than nearly every writer—and even most graphic designers”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My personal favourites to nerd out on: &lt;a href=&quot;https://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;straight and curly quotes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://practicaltypography.com/ampersands.html?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;ampersands&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://practicaltypography.com/paragraph-and-section-marks.html?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;paragraph and section marks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>On building a home on the web (III)</title>
    <link href="https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/building-home-web-iii/"/>
    <updated>2026-09-07T22:05:23Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/building-home-web-iii/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;div class=&quot;w-full max-w-lg ml-auto prose prose-lg font-serif pt-[12.5vh] dark:prose-invert&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In June of last year, over the course of nine or ten days, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/building-home-web-ii/&quot; title=&quot;On building a home on the web (II)&quot;&gt;built the first version of the site you’re reading now&lt;/a&gt;. I moved it off &lt;a href=&quot;https://framer.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Framer&quot;&gt;Framer&lt;/a&gt; because I wanted to be in the code again; the canvas is great for design, but it puts a layer between you and what you’re building. (I started my career as a front-end developer, and no-code tools still feel to me the way Dreamweaver did back then.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fifteen months on, I’ve taken stock.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;A quiet Journal, a busier Links page&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/&quot; title=&quot;My Journal&quot;&gt;Journal&lt;/a&gt;, which I assumed would be the heart of it, has been quiet: I’ve published a dozen posts or so, six of them written in a single week at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/camp-france/&quot; title=&quot;A residency in the Pyrenees&quot;&gt;a writing residency in the Pyrenees&lt;/a&gt;. Some of that I’ll blame on the year I’ve had—a stretch of contracting, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/next-chapter-at-enode/&quot; title=&quot;The next chapter of my career&quot;&gt;joining Enode full-time&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/nogood-book/&quot; title=&quot;Writing the NoGood book&quot;&gt;an art book to write and edit&lt;/a&gt;. With so many projects going on, writing about the work tends to lose out to &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt; the work. But, I’d still like to lower my bar for publishing, and train that muscle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/camp-day-one/&quot;&gt;Aulus-les-Bains (I)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first day of my weeklong writing residency at Camp, in Aulus-les-Bains.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/links/&quot; title=&quot;My Links&quot;&gt;Links page&lt;/a&gt;, my blog of sorts, I’ve published eighty-five new links since the launch, on top of the fifty-five that were already there. The page had lain dormant for five months before that; then sixteen appeared in August alone. Having a new space I enjoyed working in restarted the habit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I spent most of the year extending what I’d started. I built a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/library/&quot; title=&quot;My Library&quot;&gt;Library&lt;/a&gt; for the books I’ve read, and wired it up to my monthly recommendations on &lt;a href=&quot;https://trema.website/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Trema&quot;&gt;Trema&lt;/a&gt;, narrowing the gap between my two sites. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/returning-to-rss/&quot; title=&quot;Returning to RSS&quot;&gt;found my way back to RSS&lt;/a&gt; for reading the authors I follow online, and made sure my own site had &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/merging-my-rss-feeds/&quot; title=&quot;Merging my RSS feeds&quot;&gt;one cohesive feed&lt;/a&gt; on offer, too. Less visibly, I regrouped the Journal by year, moved to the variable cut of &lt;a href=&quot;https://ohnotype.co/fonts/degular?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Degular by Oh No Type Co&quot;&gt;Degular&lt;/a&gt; for proper italics, and rebuilt the image processing, so the site now weighs well under half what it did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this week I added a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/photos/&quot; title=&quot;Photos&quot;&gt;Photos page&lt;/a&gt;, as my photos were the last thing I still handed over to somebody else’s feed (Instagram). I’d rather they lived here, in an order I chose. More on that soon, in a separate post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/photos/&quot;&gt;Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken with an Olympus AF-10 and an AF-10 Super, usually on Kodak Ultramax, and never edited.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/&quot; title=&quot;Daniël van der Winden&quot;&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt; got a rebuild, too. Where previously it focused primarily on my efforts as a designer, it now presents a bit of a broader picture of what I do, folding in my reading and writing habits, too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Publishing without a feed’s demands&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I keep coming back to the links I published, though. After the August peak the pace settled: two or three a month since the new year, sometimes just one. I read that as a failure of discipline at first, then decided it’s a realistic rate—how often I come across something worth keeping or sharing. Four a week was the enthusiasm of a new toy. Two or three a month I could keep doing for a decade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And that, I think, is the appeal. A timeline on social media asks you to keep talking at the speed of everyone else’s attention, but nobody has all that many thoughts worth sharing. A page you own doesn’t punish you for going quiet through February, and it doesn’t reward you for posting eleven times on a Tuesday. It just holds whatever you put there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of the older links I’ve put up date back to 2022. They’re still sitting at the same addresses—while nothing I posted to Twitter survived, and not only because of the platform’s demise. Even at the platform’s healthiest, a post had a useful life of a few hours before it fell through the floor of the feed. My archive was technically present, but practically unreachable, even for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The links as connective tissue&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, this spring, an email arrived. A teacher who runs a graphic design and coding bootcamp had three students putting together a beginner’s guide to web design for the rest of their group. Somewhere in their research they’d landed on my Links page, and found it useful enough to ask her to write and say thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s the whole point, really. It’s one thing to drop a resource into a social feed; it’s another to have a page where it stays, where three students can find it months later and pass it on in a guide of their own. I learned most of my trade the same way, twenty-odd years ago—browsing from website to website, day after day. It’s good to remember the web can still work like that, if you let it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Matthias Ott made a version of this argument in 2019, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; title=&quot;Matthias Ott on the personal web&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Into the Personal-Website-Verse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and has kept making it since. His case isn’t only that you should own your corner of the web; it’s that these corners should point to one another. That the acknowledging, and arguing, and building-upon we outsourced to timelines can happen between sites instead, one link at a time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;Into the Personal-Website-Verse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthias Ott on why personal websites matter, and why they should point to one another.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He suggests keeping a links section for exactly this reason: find a good thought on somebody else’s site, write about it, link to it, and over the years you’ve built an archive for yourself and for anyone who wanders in.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For a while I thought of my links as the filler between real posts. Matthias is right that they’re the connective tissue. Roughly five hundred people read the things I collect every month, and now and again I find a link back from somebody else’s site. My activity on the site ebbs and flows, but the pages stay put—and every so often somebody follows a link to the corner I keep on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>95 reasons for having your own website</title>
    <link href="https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-08-05T09:04:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/95-reasons-for-having-your-own-website/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;My favourites? &lt;a href=&quot;https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html?reason=28?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;Too many&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Related reading from 2018, Laurel Schwulst’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;“My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Dying Art of Hand-Made Restaurant Signs</title>
    <link href="https://youtu.be/4cAt2CAptkw?si=Ci0Mk_Q33ejwa6rS"/>
    <updated>2026-07-20T19:59:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/noble-signs/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/4cAt2CAptkw?si=Ci0Mk_Q33ejwa6rS"&gt;https://youtu.be/4cAt2CAptkw?si=Ci0Mk_Q33ejwa6rS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mt-7 relative w-full pb-[56.25%] overflow-hidden&quot;&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A 26-minute documentary by &lt;em&gt;NYT Cooking&lt;/em&gt; on what makes a good restaurant sign, and what they mean to a business. They look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/4cAt2CAptkw?si=Ci0Mk_Q33ejwa6rS&quot;&gt;New York City’s iconic lettering&lt;/a&gt; with the artists behind &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.noblesigns.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;Noble Signs&lt;/a&gt;, who hand-painted signs all over the city. Wonderful work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Writing the NoGood book</title>
    <link href="https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/nogood-book/"/>
    <updated>2026-07-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/journal/nogood-book/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;div class=&quot;w-full max-w-lg ml-auto prose prose-lg font-serif pt-[12.5vh] dark:prose-invert&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some twenty-odd years ago I’d spend hours on end in my bedroom, in the attic of our house, my big, boxy, self-built computer humming reassuringly on the floor beside my feet. I hung out on forums, wrote reviews about music, and built little websites about everything that interested me—chucking them out after two weeks to pursue new ways of building things, writing things. I’d spend evenings scrolling other people’s sites too, clicking my way from one to the next and inspecting the code to work out how its creators had pulled something off: the typographic details, the shadows and gradients, the textures. I loved that version of the web, and my time on it.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood01-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood01-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood01-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood01-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;figcaption class=&quot;pl-8 sm:pl-0&quot;&gt;The &lt;em&gt;NoGood&lt;/em&gt; book. All photography by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lilialuganskaia.com/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Lilia Luganskaia-Kuilder&quot;&gt;Lilia Luganskaia-Kuilder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/figcaption&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The illustrations by my friend &lt;a href=&quot;https://nogood.studio/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;Thomas&lt;/a&gt; are reminiscent of those days. They’re rooted in a world of rickety hardware, flickering lights, and precariously wired contraptions. They have a tactile quality, and carry the same mindset I felt back then: of independence, and a novel kind of community. A kinship with those building things out in the open.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When he told me he was designing &lt;a href=&quot;https://nogood.studio/book/announcement/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;a book of his work&lt;/a&gt; and asked me to write it, I was immediately excited, and looked forward to putting the story behind his work to paper. The assignment seemed simple enough: &lt;em&gt;here are hundreds of pages of visual work, let’s introduce them to the world&lt;/em&gt;. But initially, every sentence I added got in the way of the images. Slowly, the writing became a study in what &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to say.&lt;/p&gt;
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        &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood03-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood03-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood03-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood03-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
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      &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood02-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood02-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood02-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood02-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
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Thomas is a humble fellow and doesn’t feel the need to speak to his work all that much, so working together meant first building an all-encompassing outline, then taking away as much as we possibly could. Through hours of conversation, many texts, and shared references, we inched closer to what drives him, and what he’d like to get across to his readers.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What’s left, I think, is a gentle introduction to his moniker, &lt;a href=&quot;https://nogood.studio/about?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;NoGood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: a foreword and a few chapters covering how it came to be, why it’s the perfect place for him to experiment and grow his practice, and where it might be headed next.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood04-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood04-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood04-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood04-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
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    &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood05-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood05-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood05-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood05-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
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    &lt;img alt=&quot;The NoGood book&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood06-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;1800&quot; height=&quot;1350&quot; srcset=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood06-800.webp 800w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood06-1200.webp 1200w, https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/journal/nogood06-1800.webp 1800w&quot; sizes=&quot;1400px&quot; /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;loved&lt;/em&gt; doing this—the whole thing was an exercise in restraint, which turned out to be the truest way to introduce someone who lets the work speak for itself. Many thanks to Thomas for trusting me with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can buy the book now, over on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://nogood.studio/the-nogood-book/?ref=daniel.pizza&quot;&gt;NoGood website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you’re sitting on a body of work that’s looking for writing to accompany it, I’d love to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com&quot;&gt;hear from you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for reading my RSS feed. If you’d like to respond, you can &lt;a href="mailto:d.vanderwinden@gmail.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; or seek me out on &lt;a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daniel.pizza"&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>McLaren M6GT</title>
    <link href="https://www.mclaren.com/cars/gl_en/m6gt-mclaren-special-operations?ref=daniel.pizza"/>
    <updated>2026-07-06T20:58:00Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.daniel.pizza/links/mclaren-m6gt/</id>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.mclaren.com/cars/gl_en/m6gt-mclaren-special-operations?ref=daniel.pizza"&gt;https://www.mclaren.com/cars/gl_en/m6gt-mclaren-special-operations?ref=daniel.pizza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Special Operations&lt;/em&gt; team at McLaren restored the McLaren M6GT, a car designed in 1967 by Bruce McLaren, yet never made it past the prototype phase.&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;(The rear of the McLaren M6GT)&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-m6gt-rear-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;(The engine of the McLaren M6GT)&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-m6gt-engine-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
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  &lt;img src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-m6gt-speedometer-715.webp&quot; alt=&quot;(The speedometer of the McLaren M6GT)&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; width=&quot;715&quot; height=&quot;944&quot; /&gt;
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  &lt;img alt=&quot;(The dashboard of the McLaren M6GT)&quot; loading=&quot;lazy&quot; decoding=&quot;async&quot; src=&quot;https://www.daniel.pizza/assets/links/mclaren-m6gt-dashboard-800.webp&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;
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    Details of the &lt;em&gt;McLaren M6GT&lt;/em&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This was never going to be a simple rebuild. We took it as an act of custodianship, with an immense responsibility to stay true to the original vision. The goal wasn’t merely to imitate the M6GT, but to bring it back. Honestly. Faithfully. With the same obsession that Bruce channelled into the original.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There’s a short video of it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CXz5u6vaRA&quot;&gt;on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;, too. Gorgeous machinery.&lt;/p&gt;
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