David Sleight

Twenty-five years in, and I still love user interviews.

Parenting can be a beautiful, profound journey, but there are moments when it possesses all the grace of having a salad spoon slowly shoved up your nose.

“Remember when Pharrell’s hat had its own Twitter account? Those were the days.”

Still stand by this (and no, I’m not going back). stuntbox.com/blog/leaving...

Absolutely disgusting. Regardless what you think of the punishment, turning it into a public show is grotesque and morally repugnant. wapo.st/4yElwyB

Her, watching me drop a fourth scotch bonnet into the pan: “It’s time like this I think you’re an alien trying to pass as human.”

Tonight’s edition of Big Questions With the Five-Year-Old: Do snakes have butts, and if so, where are they?

Just saw Na Hong-jin’s Hope. Honest review? Act 1: Wow wow wow top 10 monster movie setup OMG these sets; Act 2: Okay, I’ll roll with it; Act 3: WHAT HOW WHY WHO WAAAAAAT. (That said, I’m glad this brand of banana-pants exists, and I’ll take it over Hollywood’s focus-grouped crap every time.)

imagine having to do this forensic investigation on an algae infested paint peeling smelly reflecting pool merely because the president of the united states is a fuckin habitual liar

Took a quick walk. Came back with a nose full of 2023. And 2022. And 2021. And… stuntbox.com/blog/nyc-wil...

The five-year-old, while drawing: “Yellow oranges invented lamination in 1990. Then they died out in 1997. You can repeat after me for the song.” (Yes, there was a song.)

Whoever at Adobe patched the “too many symlinks” Lightroom bug in the iOS/iPadOS 27 developer betas has my grateful thanks. (Seriously, that was fast!)

You go into fatherhood hoping it will feel like a George Harrison song. But it’s actually a polka band falling down the stairs mid-Tom Waits cover.

Launched the macOS 27 beta and immediately breathed a happy sigh of relief to see edge-to-edge sidebars are back.

“The worms talk. They talk quietly. We can’t hear them.” These preschoolers have achieved a level of zen I’ve spent decades chasing.🐛🤫

It finally happened: Spotted a civilian (i.e., not a ProPublica staffer) on the street wearing one of the ProPublica t-shirts I designed years ago. (I know because I chased them down to ask how they got it… then thanked them for donating.)

Thanks to the little guy’s upcoming pre-K graduation, my next public breakdown into a bawling wreck has been conveniently calendared for me.

OH: “Grown-ups aren’t supposed to be naked in public, except under special circumstances, like a parade at Coney Island.”

You want to scream into the void but you can’t scream and there is no void.

Would love to give someone on the Google iOS design team a gentle nudge about optical alignment. This new Drive icon is making my eye twitch. (A triangle at a given height reads smaller than a square, and its visual center isn't its mathematical center. Gotta use your eye.)

Went to the park and finished @davidenrich.bsky.social’s Murder the Truth. An excellent, well reported account of the years-long conservative legal campaign to dismantle NY Times v. Sullivan, and why it matters for journalism. Highly recommend.

Fred Trump couldn’t love his sons and now it’s everyone’s problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We've been doing a little tidying up at 18f.org—a good opportunity to remind folks that the 18F guides and blog are archived on the site for anyone to use. After all, they belong to you!

Imagine living on a timeline so stupid that the thing that’s cleaner, more efficient, cheaper to run and objectively better for the planet gets dragged out for a witch trial by people who think progress is suspicious elitist sorcery. Oh right—we’re already there. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

“So there are these things called ‘laws’…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

The accuracy of MLB’s captions is highly questionable, but their entertainment value is off the charts.

Meanwhile, in today’s installment of Yes This Is Fascism…

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They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

[screaming externally]

The church down the street understands the assignment.

Pretty sure I missed the Sunday school session about papal crime fighting. Must’ve been after the one about the CompStat on the Mount sermon.

Literally Taco Tuesday.

I’m sure future generations will take great comfort in knowing how much time and effort we devoted to telling people which bathroom to use while the planet slowly burned.

Reminder: Congress retains the constitutional authority to stop this careening executive branch dumpster fire any time it wants, pending the highly unlikely growth of a spine.

The man pleaded guilty—twice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Insurance rep on phone: “To be honest with you…” Me: “What were you before?!”

Faced with the entire universe of aesthetic options, this administration manages to consistently find the single tackiest option and slam into it like a heat-seeking missile of bad taste. wapo.st/4bruqFi

“We don’t mean no harm but we truly mean all the disrespect.” Top 10. Favorite. Lyric.

In case you want to see more than a screenshot of the cover: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

New life goal: Experience fewer than three genres of corporate on-hold music in a single day.

TIL there’s an emergency room in Brooklyn that’s now named after Home Depot. That’s one way to corner both sides of the nail gun market. 🔨😲

Woke 2? That’s cute. I’m already on Woke 5. We skipped doing a Woke 4 because of conclusions reached during Woke 3. I was there, for all of it. Awake. Increasingly awake. Frighteningly awake. Always awake. I never sleep. I can’t. There’s no time. Woke 6 is coming.

Budgeting by vibes. wapo.st/4cIMEnI