Thoughts on 2015’s most iconic product design, plus more on the Sept 2020 Apple Event — In These Unusual Times®, I’m flat out grateful to Apple for giving us a product launch event focused on their three most stable — I’m tempted to say basic—product lines: Apple Watch, iPad, and “Services.” The world outside may be dark and full of terrors, but you can go to…

Why and how to change your Git repo’s default branch. — In my book Git for Humans, published in 2016, I made a lot of references to master - naturally, as it's been the default branch name in Git for a long time. Like many people, I simply accepted that master meant "master copy" and didn't look at it too closely. …

Years ago, during one of my first big presentations to execs, my director interrupted my presentation multiple times, and eventually just took over the presentation entirely, grabbing my laptop in front of a room of 20 people. We’d spent multiple hours preparing for this presentation and I’d flown to SF…

There’s a reason we all moved to platforms like Twitter and Medium — A project of mine to start a “simple” WordPress blog is now on what feels like its ninth or tenth week of total bikeshedding. I tweeted about this the other day: I mean, seriously, think about all that goes into making a personal blog on one’s own domain. You…

22 February 2011 was my first day on the Typekit team. 23 February 2018 will be my last one. After seven years, I’m moving on from Adobe to do something new. — I’ve accepted a new job as a product manager at a small company you may have heard of who are doing very interesting thing in the search space, and the advertising space, and also the cloud-based office documents space, the mobile operating systems space, not to mention the hardware, fiber…

Jake Giltsoff with the giant box of his beloved Swedish Fish, sent by our awesome teammate Liz Galle

Sometimes, someone is wrong on the Internet and, in my self-appointed role as Twitter Batman, I seek justice by countering one wrong link or tweet with several (I would say) right ones. …

Earlier today I played with iPad Pro at the mall (super briefly because I had a bored toddler waiting for me). These are my impressions: It’s a very big iPad. In that regard, it’s exactly what you’d expect. Not surprisingly, the weight and balance are just right for the size…

It’s such a rare pleasure these days to read about a new Apple product in the morning — one which was a total surprise, unspoiled by supply chain leaks or Apple’s rigid iOS product cycle — and carry one out of an Apple Store that afternoon. The new iMacs announced…