Daniël van der Winden

Daniël van der Winden

@daniel.pizza

Head of Design at Enode. Writer, reader.

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Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

I built a @ghost.org theme. It’s called Proza, and it’s for people who write: blogs, essays, notes, newsletters. Prioritising great typography, it’s set the way a printed page would, with first-line indents, old-style figures, real quotation marks, and small capitals for acronyms. → proza.site

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

An unordered list of the things I’ve called our dog lately. Pumpkin Pie Chunk o’ change Foggy bottom Mr. Pickles Fuzzy two-poops Triangle of madness Crumpet trumpet Funhouse mirror man Little legend Funkmaster Snacks

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

Wrote a few words about the how and why of this @ghost.org theme ✌️ www.daniel.pizza/journal/proz...

daniel.pizzaWhy I made Proza, a typographic theme for Ghost · Daniël van der WindenWhat I learned designing Trema, my book publication, turned into Proza: a typographic theme for anyone on Ghost who cares about how their writing reads.
Daniël van der Winden@daniel.pizza

I built a @ghost.org theme. It’s called Proza, and it’s for people who write: blogs, essays, notes, newsletters. Prioritising great typography, it’s set the way a printed page would, with first-line indents, old-style figures, real quotation marks, and small capitals for acronyms. → proza.site

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

I built a @ghost.org theme. It’s called Proza, and it’s for people who write: blogs, essays, notes, newsletters. Prioritising great typography, it’s set the way a printed page would, with first-line indents, old-style figures, real quotation marks, and small capitals for acronyms. → proza.site

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Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

Light and dark follow each reader’s device settings. The dark mode isn’t simply an inverted light mode: the text is warmer, greys are rebalanced, and the accent colour you set is lightened just enough to stay readable.

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

I built a @ghost.org theme. It’s called Proza, and it’s for people who write: blogs, essays, notes, newsletters. Prioritising great typography, it’s set the way a printed page would, with first-line indents, old-style figures, real quotation marks, and small capitals for acronyms. → proza.site

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

Paragraphs can be hyphenated like a book, or ragged right. One setting in the theme, and every post follows. (When read on a phone, text always reverts to its ragged setting, because a narrow column can’t justify gracefully 🤓)

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

I’ve designed and built a theme for @ghost.org called Plain Text, made for writers who want a quiet, typographically refined reading experience. Before I submit it to the marketplace I’d love to find a tester or two. If you run a Ghost site (or know someone who does) and want to try, let me know?

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽
@noscoredraws.com

Replying to @noscoredraws.com

I think I would like a cartoonishly enormous points deduction, like six hundred points. Like when people get sentenced to a hundred and seventy years in prison, just meaninglessly big numbers.

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

These examples! Who wrote this, Don Draper?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

I photograph every book myself (just a handful outstanding, still), but don’t have a good photography/lighting setup. So this combination of trial and error in Figma and code will do!

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

When we’re close to finishing our evening walk, I often tell my dog “come on, let’s go home and hang out”. He doesn’t really have a choice (he doesn’t know this), but he’s always *stoked*.

Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

🎯 Als je enkel bestseller non-fictie leest (“The 4-Hour Workweek”, “Atomic Habits”, “Never Split the Difference”) kun je tekst alleen begrijpen als middel tot informatieoverdracht. Tech bro's lezen geen fictie: “zonde van de tijd”. Je haalt er geen vinkjes uit waar je productiever mee wordt.

Thomas Heerma van Voss@thomashvv.bsky.social

Toch nog even over AI en Alexander Klöpping. En over Adri van Der Heijden. Nieuwe column voor Lage Landen.

de-lage-landen.com‘Alleen luie schrijvers gebruiken geen AI’Kunstmatige intelligentie zou proza alleen maar beter maken, zegt Alexander Klöpping. Heeft hij weleens een roman van A.F.Th. van der Heijden gelezen?

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NoGood ✌️
@nogood.studio

I started a Patreon. I’ve been growing tired of posting bits and pieces across different social platforms. I need one place where I can collect and share my thoughts, and slow things down. While I gather ideas and figure out what I want it to become, everything I share will be free to access.

patreon.comNoGood ✌️ — I draw and share my processGet more from NoGood ✌️ on Patreon. I draw and share my process. Support NoGood ✌️ and get exclusive access to their work.
Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

Taking stock. And, a nod to @matthiasott.com’s personal website-verse 🫡 www.daniel.pizza/journal/buil...

daniel.pizzaOn building a home on the web (III) · Daniël van der WindenFifteen months after rebuilding my site, a look at what I’ve actually done with it—and why a page you own beats a timeline you don’t.
Daniël van der Winden@daniel.pizza

Today marks one year since I launched my current personal website. I’ve really enjoyed keeping up with it since. Much more than I have keeping up with social media. Might write a little post on that. Next project is going to be a revamp of its homepage. www.daniel.pizza

daniel.pizzaDaniël van der Winden | Software & web designer; writer · Daniël van der WindenAmsterdam-based software & web designer, and writer. Former CDO at Bakken & Bæck and Senior Designer at Ghost. Currently contracting, and available for new opportunities (contract or permanent).
Daniël van der Winden
@daniel.pizza

The annoying truth is that nearly every service/piece of software these days has some gobbledygook involved with it.

Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com

So it turns out I'm not happy with any of the popular options 😂. Proton's CEO made a weirdly pro-Trump statement earlier this year, and Bitwarden is US-based. I think they're all better than 1Password though.