Tom MacWright
What’s notable: Tom MacWright’s personal blog — a textbook practitioner-restraint design. Single narrow prose column, transitional serif body type (a Charter-family face), warm-neutral background, almost no chrome. Posts include code blocks, diagrams, and footnotes. The site has barely changed in years because it doesn’t need to — it’s optimized for one thing: a reader settling in to read.
Why this matters as a reference: the gold standard for “practitioner blog” — what RDCO’s longform reading view should aspire to feel like.
Related
- ia.net — adjacent practitioner-essay aesthetic
- Substack — platform equivalent
- The Atlantic — institutional version
- narrow prose
- measure
- warm neutrals