Hammer Song
There is a rhythm to this work. It’s a constant peal you don’t hear unless you are on the job site. The peal is sharp, and steady, and familiar. The peal obsesses. The peal frustrates. The peal despairs. But despite…
Author Archives: Colin Williams
Tutankhamun’s Death Mask
The most famous artifact in the world, Tutankhamun's death mask, currently hovers behind bulletproof glass in a grand room in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt. In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter made history by discovering the tomb of…
A Simple Design Study of Common Fate
Quick question. And I promise it's not a trick. Which direction is this line pointing? If read left-to-right, the line has components of both upward and rightward direction. Read the other way, it takes on components of downward and leftward…
Swift-y Javascript with Static Initializers
One language feature I love in Swift, and in Objective-C before it, is how its function signatures include the name of the function and its arguments. In Swift, the functions Image(named: ‘my.image’) and Image(systemName: "multiply.circle.fill") are not the same function…
