Tag: Blogs

Majestic Casual, now on Apple Music

It’s 2012.

I’m late for my 8am marketing class. I’m running out the door of my tiny apartment, scrambling along the the sidewalk to campus. I’m 10 minutes away. Can I grab a coffee before class? Surely I can make it. I pull out my shiny new iPhone 5. Pull up YouTube. The wired headphones slowly untangle as I saunter into the student union building. I search for “majestic casual”. I hit play. Full send, volume up. Every step seems softer with music flowing out of the headphones.

Majestic was my daily driver for so long. This was a lo-fi, trip-hop, chillwave firehose of music for so long that my entire catalog of playlists came directly from Majestic for years. That is until there was a brief hiatus because of copyright drama.

My electronic roots demanded reflection today. Lo and behold, after digging up old playlists, I discovered that Majestic is a listed Curator on Apple Music!

It doesn’t look like there’s much activity, but maybe that will change? Check out some of the playlists here:

https://music.apple.com/us/curator/majestic-casual/1173595537

July 30, 2026
A handy list of design sites, design news and newsletters
Sacha Greif, the owner and creator of the popular design newsletter, Sidebar has made the decision to pause operations:

“Design content seems to have either dried up, or else been driven to platforms like Medium and Substack.”

In his post, he shares a list of design sites to follow
I’ll add a few of my own bookmarks here below. Some of these are more communication design focused than others.
- In-house In-focus
- Logo Archive | @logoarchive on Threads
- NetGuru
- Behance Blog
- Poster House
- Chris Coyier’s Blog
- The Web Witch’s Blog
- MIT D-Lab Blog
- Pixelgrade’s Upstairs Blog
- ustwo Blog
- Work & Co
- bookmarks.design (Honestly, probably one of the best resources out there)
- Typomonday
- Rebrand Gallery
June 11, 2024
brr.fyi

Brr.fyi – an anonymous blogger documenting their life on a research station in Antarctica. Easily one of the coolest and most interesting blogs I’ve come across in a while. They document the processes, systems and ind-and-outs at the southernmost point under jurisdiction of the United States, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

An anonymous blogger documenting their life on a research station in Antarctica. Easily one of the coolest and most interesting blogs I’ve come across in a while. They document the processes, systems and ind-and-outs at the southernmost point under jurisdiction of the United States, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

brr.fyi

January 10, 2024
Verizon Sells Tumblr to Automattic, the Home of WordPress

The WSJ reports:

Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to sell its blogging website Tumblr to the owner of popular online-publishing tool WordPress, unloading for a nominal amount a site that once fetched a purchase price of more than $1 billion.
Automattic Inc. will buy Tumblr for an undisclosed sum and take on about 200 staffers, the companies said. Tumblr is a free service that hosts millions of blogs where users can upload photos, music and art, but it has been dwarfed by Facebook, Reddit and other services.

This is a shocking acquisition. No doubt, this a good move for the preservation of blogs. I firmly believe Automattic will be a better steward of creators than Verizon (or was it called Oath?) would’ve been. I have long awaited the day where Tumblr and WordPress have publication parity. This has to be really excited for everyone at Tumblr. I mean this even has Tumblr veteran Marco Arment pumped:

Edit: it appears that Marco Arment deleted this tweet:

This is pretty cool. Can’t think of a better owner today than Automattic for Tumblr’s huge creative publishing community.
Marco Arment

Now the hard question — what about the adult content ban? For now, it seems the ban stays in place. But, it’s really unclear if Matt will ever changed the policy. Regardless, the blogs at Tumblr will live on under the safe and profitable umbrella of Automattic.

August 12, 2019