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📚 Read This: Jarrett Fuller on Simple Tools

The irony of recommending this essay on Interface Café, which is hosted on Ghost, a CMS platform, is not lost on me.

Liam Spradlin Liam Spradlin
• May 07, 2024 • 1 min read
📚 Read This: Jarrett Fuller on Simple Tools

Jarrett Fuller, assistant professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University and host of Scratching the Surface (a podcast and a platform for some pretty interesting essays, if I do say so), recently published an essay in Untapped: “Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence.”

The irony of recommending this essay on Interface Café, which is hosted on Ghost, a CMS platform, is not lost on me. In the essay, Jarrett talks about how the simple tools of the web (HTML and CSS) allow us to build durable artifacts thanks to their accumulative model of evolution.

It’s freeing to think about returning to a site I built in Notepad as a more direct expression; one that’s not only acceptable but more meaningful than posting to a platform.

Read the essay in Untapped.

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