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Let a website be a worry stone. — Ethan Marcotte

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I restarted my design practice back in January. A month or so later, I realized it was high time I spruced up things around here. I loved the old design (and still do), but it was starting to creak a bit. So I set to making this place feel a bit more modern: revisiting the type, changing up the layout, and sanding down some of the rougher edges I’d noticed over the years. While I worked, things were changing. My world’s gotten smaller recently, and I’ll bet yours has too. I’m indoors much more than I’m used to, leaving the house only for supplies, or for my daily runs. (Don’t worry, I try to be cautious about running: I stick to quiet side streets, which are disconcertingly surprisingly easy to find these days.) And while things are objectively fine inside my house right now, they currently feel, well, less than fine at levels both national and global. While things were changing, I kept working. After a few weeks tinkering with this redesign, I realized I wasn’t working on a website, n

I restarted my design practice back in January. A month or so later, I realized it was high time I spruced up things around here. I loved the old design (and still do), but it was starting to creak a bit. So I set to making this place feel a bit more modern: revisiting the type, changing up the layout, and sanding down some of the rougher edges I’d noticed over the years. While I worked, things were changing. My world’s gotten smaller recently , and I’ll bet yours has too. I’m indoors much more than I’m used to, leaving the house only for supplies, or for my daily runs. (Don’t worry, I try to

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