They don’t get much snow in Southern California. Wait for it... https://t.co/cPJWLpdTD4

Ring out the Old, Ring in the New. Never seen this video... fun stuff.

finally got around to watching this. not a huge fan of the song tbh but the video is both fascinating and terrifying. technology sees so much.

"bizarro electronic, freak folk, and ambient smoothness" suggested by Frank Chimero

anyone that says Tumblr is dead isn't looking in the right places

you will not find a cooler looking Kindergarten

... i was proud of a lot this year. but never prouder than when we clicked publish on this. please enjoy & share. happy new year! https://t.co/t4jAWTdsVK

This one sure took a turn I wasn’t expecting... https://t.co/X4agwn3SIl

Over the course of 2019 I slowly picked away at redesigning yewknee.com. Twenty minutes here and there plucking away at markup, styles and backend configuration. If you're reading via RSS, come check it out. I'm happy with the results but wanted to give a little insight on why the change in format.

I've been running this site since 2001 and a lot has changed in terms of the "blog" landscape in that time. Once upon time, you had a slew of bookmarks or a robust group of RSS feeds to help facilitate finding something interesting to look at. This site has always served as a repository of my findings along the way, hoping that others had shared interest. With the rise of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, podcasts, apps, games, etc - the traditional blog has become less necessary. I'm not implying they are obsolete, I'm just saying they require a little more effort to keep up with in 2019 than they did two decades ago.

I've always admired the likes of Waxy, Kottke, Anil Dash, Daring Fireball, Austin Kleon and Frank Chimero for their ability to document parts of the web, then frame it, augment it and eloquently contextualize it into something bigger yet still keep it personal. My site has never been that. That's not pessimism or self-deprecation talking, that's just not what I do here. Unsurprisingly, I get a lot of my updates from all of them via Twitter now.

Furthermore, I love peeking in on the works of (version) industries, Mark Weaver, Will Bryant and Caroline Bowman - they're consistently providing inspiring design styles and execution techniques. Here again, I get my fill from all of them via Instagram these days.

In addition to all that, I really don't find myself with near as much time these days as I used to. I have a full-time job at Vimeo and I try to consistently post updates for my little indie label, yk records, and my podcast network project We Own This Town. Striving to write 2-3 blog posts a day on top of all that has proven to be difficult at best.

So, taking all that into account, here we are with Version 11 of this site. It's a single feed of distractions culled from my day-to-day experiences around the web. It largely consists of three post "types" - a regular blog entry like this one, a Quicklink that points to some website / YouTube video or a Favorited Tweet from @yewknee. Hopefully the tweets don't get overbearing but that's where I see the most of the web, so I suspect there will be plenty.

I'm certainly not quitting this site, I'm just attempting to evolve it a bit. The Internet is a different place now than it was in 2001 and this site should be too. I've got plans to write some longer form content (even if it's not up to the bar of those aforementioned) and I'll continue to post about inspiring projects, designs and images I encounter. As we head into 2020 it was time for something different. I hope you like it.

R.I.P. 2019 (2019 - 2019)

@edgarwright here is the youtube music playlist. https://t.co/ZbruxriAp3

this is how bjork texts mfs https://t.co/BQCRjXEmaE

The days between Christmas and New Years are liminal spaces, much like airport layovers. They aren’t real. Nothing matters. Get high at 10am. Watch all 3 Lord of the Ringses. You are your own god

im was a typical all-American farmer (uncut) forced to grow soy by the government. every day i toiled in the fields i grew new breast tissue. now i have to haul around the biggest naturals youve ever seen in a wheelbarrow stop eating impossible burgers u dont want this life

I was going to work on my style and fashion sense in 2020, but perhaps I will just solve this with machine learning :) https://t.co/WitYuWkKyu https://t.co/5IWnm1IxNc

The most upsetting thing about #TheRiseOfSkywalker, and this whole trilogy, is that we don’t get to see the Final Order travel the galaxy searchin for them Palpatine horcruxes.

Best 2019 roundup tweet. https://t.co/MltyrOB1sA

I was forcibly removed from the 8:45 AM screening of Uncut Gems after saying “That’s the uncut gem” I guess a little too loud during the opening scene in the opal mine

enjoying these beats but, damn, wish they were longer.

unsurprising but this is absolutely bonkers