• The Longmen Grottoes are truly spectacular. So many sculptures ranging from 2cm to several metres tall. It’d be an incredible feat to construct them today with modern tools, let alone 1,500 years ago!

  • Arrived in Zhengzhou and checked into our hotel. Initial impressions of the city: modern, clean, and illuminated. So many lights!

  • Hurtling through China at 300km/h towards Zhengzhou, the first destination of our National Week trip.

  • [Chile unveils Patagonian Route of Parks hiking trail](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45663960) Yes, yes, YES!

  • How to Build a Low-tech Website? (LOW←TECH MAGAZINE)

    Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

  • Can Google make the web faster without taking over the web? by Nilay Patel (The Verge)

    Google’s Malte Ubl on The Vergecast

  • My favorite design tool. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com)

    What if someone doesn’t browse the web like I do? Or like you do?

  • Charging ALL THE DEVICES in excited anticipation of our trip to the north west of China for National Day Golden Week.

  • China’s hunger for soybeans is a window into an encroaching environmental crisis by Jeff Nesbit (Fast Company)

    How China’s desperate efforts to source soybeans from all over the world is explained by the country’s fear of running out of water.

  • Preparing a conference talk (adactio.com)

    I gave a talk at the State Of The Browser conference in London earlier this month. It was a 25 minute spiel called The Web Is Agreement.
    While I was putting the talk together, I posted some pictures of my talk preparation process. People seemed to be quite interested in that peek behind the curtain,…