Sean Voisen

Writing about designing and making software, mostly.
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2024 year-in-review
2 Jan 2025 | original ↗

A recap of my year and a brief look at trajectories for 2025.

The three best books I read in 2024
23 Dec 2024 | original ↗

A quick roundup of my favorite reading from the past year.

We need more hybrid tools
13 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Bridging design and engineering in the age of generative AI.

Reading at Whim
3 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Choosing what to read isn't always easy. Alan Jacobs recommends reading for pleasure and indulging your Whim.

CSS masonry takes time, and that’s just fine
24 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Reflections on CSS masonry's early origins and the slow evolution of the web.

Why make software?
14 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A brief, personal reflection on why I choose to do this thing.

In praise of randomness
15 Sept 2024 | original ↗

James Bridle on the value of randomness, and how modern computing is fundamentally incompatible with the very idea of it.

Wendell Berry on the benefits of writing without a computer
13 Sept 2024 | original ↗

What do we lose when we default to crafting our written words using purely digital tools?

Ivan Illich on how technologies create radical monopolies
9 Sept 2024 | original ↗

From smartphones to cars, some technologies can exert exclusive control over entire aspects of daily life, and not always for the better.

Lessons from my kids on how to feel alive
17 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A few things we can remember just by watching kids at play in the natural world.

Recently, April/May 2024
9 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Favorite reading, listens and miscellanea from April and May.

Design engineering writing and resources
14 Apr 2024 | original ↗

A growing collection of articles, books, blog posts and other resources about design engineering.

Design engineering, a working definition
4 Apr 2024 | original ↗

A few thoughts on how we define the role of design engineer in the tech industry.

Recently, March 2024
29 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Favorite reading and miscellanea from the month of March.

On being a ‹insert favorite technology here› “guy”
5 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of identifying too strongly with a technology or framework.

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