This is the blog of Jay Springett.
There are many feed‘s like this one, but this one is mine.
Issue #014 of SSRZ is about my firm belief that ‘you can just do things’.
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. There are very few bits of software that have achieved such lasting cultural immortality as Clippy.
JMW Turner Wasn’t wrong about the skies over Thanet.
Photo 365 2025. Year 4 Month 7. Photo-a-day for the month of Jul 2025.
Last week Coinbase launched a new marketing effort in the UK, a satirical piece of musical theatre called Everything Is Fine.
I realised on Thursday this week that I was experiencing ‘Phantom Podcast Syndrome’ a little nagging feeling I needed to write a script.
Some of my favourite writers have published absolute bangers about turning 40 but I realise that I don’t have much to say
Begun at age 32, completed today, the day after I turned 40: one fifth of a lifetime distilled into a body of work.
I feel like I’ve done my 40 years in the desert, and whilst I still don’t know what I want to do, In the last decade I have…
This show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me.
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. Petz (1995), desktop buddies, and the design choices that shaped today’s agent interfaces.
I was down in Brighton this week for Develop Conference.
The glowing screen does not possess the king of mind. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll.
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