R.E. 2026

@aristiles

📚 Print Designer making tech books and other goodies for Smashing Magazine. 📿 Yoga Teacher & Yoga Therapist in training. 💭 Overthinker. Klutzy. Caffeinated.

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R.E. 2026@aristiles· 18d

View from the kitchen window this morning. They’ve been using our (deliberately mostly-wild) backyard as home base since spring. 🥰

Photo through a window screen of a deer family under a low-hanging backyard tree. Mom grazes in the distance, and two speckled fawns are alert in the foreground, looking opposite directions.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Mar 29

From #NoKings in Round Rock, Texas

Protest sign: “it’s giving tiny faux-king dicktator energy” with a crown at the top

Protest sign: “Planet of the Rapes” with Trump’s face modified to look like one of the ape lords from “Planet of the Apes”

Protest sign with a little cardigan drawn in the corner: “Real Strength has to do with helping others” —Mister Rogers.

Protest sign with a photo of Whoopi Goldberg as the psychic from “Ghost” in the corner. In big letters, the sign reads “USA! You in danger Girl!” —Oda Mae Brown

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Feb 24

Also? Happy Birthday, Chris 🙂

Freeze frame from the end of an online conference, Hosts Christopher and Ari signing off.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Jan 29

Anyway. Quittin’ time. Aviation cocktail. Yay.

Cocktail fixins for an aviation, set out on a kitchen counter:

2 parts gin,
1 part crème de violette,
1 part cherry liqueur,
Juice of one lemon.

Shake it up with some ice.
Strain into a glass.
Garnish with cocktail cherries.
Enjoy.

The finished cocktail in an everyday glass. Much more purple in person.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Jan 9

Illustration of giant pigeon staring at a startled cat in the distance.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Nov 25

Working late at night, when all is quiet, makes me miss my office gargoyle. I think he made half a dozen books with me.

Side view of a white cat lying on the corner of a desk. He looks quizzically at the camera.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Sep 18

In the midst of my downsizing I keep finding fun things like this: a sketch note compilation from CSS Dev Conf 2014 by @natalyathree.bsky.social . I’ve always loved this, but now it reads like a time capsule. “Goodbye Floats” “Who uses Sass?”

A square sketch note compilation in black and white with occasional gray shading and orange touches. These are conference highlights from CSS Dev Conf 2014, with cartoons, hand-drawn type, and a few speaker names and social media handles thrown in.

There are lots of references to style-sheet-related topics—Sass, floats, SVG, typography, naming conventions, and more. Also plenty of references to host city New Orleans and some of the conference events, like a parade through the French quarter, rain & beignets afterward, plus banjos, tarot, and a drink&draw competition at the closing party.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Sep 14

References to “The Room” should be rare and well-timed, like @matuzo.at’s random “oh hi Mark” moment at last week’s @smashingconf.com in Freiburg. 🐶🏈🎭💃☕️

Photo of a sticker sheet rom the release of “The Disaster Artist,” a movie (and book) about the production of “The Room.”

Stickers include quotable lines from the movie like “you are tearing me apart Lisa!” And “oh, Hai Mark!”

R.E. 2026@aristiles· May 29

I have a few beloved working-at-the-desk-for-extended-periods playlists, but this set by Flo Dill has been my go-to for this current project: beatsinspace.net/playlists/am...

Screen shot of the set list for the Flo Dill episode of Beats in Space:
1. ID
2. Eurythmics - I Did It Just the Same
3. Chaz Jankel & Bill Brewster - Manon Manon
4. ID2
5. Mike Midnight - No Angels/ICU
6. BEA1991 - My Own Heaven
7. Brittany Dubson - Du Sang
8. Rain Dogs - Perilous Woman
9. Little Annie - I Think of You
10. A Certain Ratio - It's Trippin When I'm Fine
11. Masumi Hara - Your Dream
12. Cruel Santino - Mermaid Aqua
13. ID3
14. The ARC - Something Wonderful
15. Two The Hardway - Who Said?
16. ID4

R.E. 2026@aristiles· May 2

cleaning out some old photos and may have stumbled upon the final boss of T-shirts (from a Crystal Method show at SXSW 2010)

Photo of a man standing over a mixer with heaphones on, performing on stage. His red T-shirt reads "Fuck Your T-shirt"

R.E. 2026@aristiles· May 1

First time a subtitle has made me lol 🏅 #SmashingLibrary #AccessibleUXResearch

Photo of a screen with a page layout open. The prominent subtitle reads “ ‘Is this Accessible? ‘ Is Not a Research Question”

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Mar 31

Starting production on a new book project like

Animated gif file of a herd of ducks running through the frame with the caption “infinite ducks”

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Mar 24

Unexpected side effect of last fall’s ENT surgery:

Screenshot of a chart showing a drop in my overall respiratory rate—from 14.8 breaths per minute down to 12.5 breaths per minute.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Mar 18

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

R.E. 2026@aristiles· Nov 16

Read this in 2022 during my 300-hr yoga teacher training. Rereading this month as I prepare for surgery to *finally* open my airways after a lifetime of breathing issues. The book is amazing—audio version is especially great for long walks or workouts—but it will leave you rethinking your habits.