Archive

Writing from Lenny Bogdonoff

  1. Thoughts on my 33rd birthday

    Personal Essays

    A few personal updates. Today is my 33rd birthday, and in somewhat abrupt fashion, I am moving to San Francisco. It feels particularly significant for the reasons I’ll...

  2. Second order effects of companies as content creators

    Startups and Work

    TLDR: There’s going to be a shit ton of temporarily useful content; businesses need to have a quick way to make the worthwhile content stand out. (Thanks Joseph) There...

  3. Text rendering stuff most people might not know

    Programming

    I was stuck on a problem that I wanted to write out. The problem I was trying to solve could be simplified to the following: I have a box in the browser with fixed...

  4. Why is video editing so horrible today?

    Media and Publishing

    In the last three months, I have done more video post-production than I have done in the past 12 years. Surprisingly, in these years, nothing seems to have changed....

  5. Making the variable fonts Figma plugin (part 1 – what is variable fonts [simple])

    Design

    See this video summary at the bottom of the post, or by clicking this picture. Important update: The statement that Google Fonts only displays a single variable font axis...

  6. React Figma Plugin – How to get data from the canvas to your app

    Programming

    I had much too hard of a time groking the Figma Plugin’s documentation, and thought I would leave a note for any brave souls to follow. Figma has a great API and...