Greg Wolanski
I’m a designer who can code, but I tell people I’m a full‑stack developer who can design, because the order of those words strongly affects how much money you can make. 15+ years of experience. I work mostly with startups.
I believe in links and serendipity.
Podcasts I enjoy
- Start at the beginning (Everything is Alive)
- Where musicians take apart their songs (Song Exploder)
- The stories behind the world’s most iconic and fascinating sounds (Twenty Thousand Hertz)
- There is a portrait painted on the things we love (Articles of Interest)
- Beautiful nerds (99% Invisible)
- True short stories of the past (The Memory Palace)
- Help desk (HyperFixed)
- No question too big, no question too small (Search Engine)
- Shrimp J*nga Forever (Home Cooking)
- Food through the lens of science and history (Gastropod)
- Terrible things read with enthusiasm (The F Plus)
- Just build websites (ShopTalk)
- Senior web designers (One Footer in The Grave)
- iOS app development (Under the Radar)
Services I can recommend
- Email (Fastmail)
- Backup email (Tuta)
- Domains (Gandi)
- RSS sync (Feedbin)
- Less video, more code (Execute Program)
- Web analytics (Fathom)
- Compliance (iubenda)
Mac apps I enjoy
- Color picker (Sip)
- Vectors (Sketch)
- Rasters (Pixelmator Pro)
- Screencasts (ScreenFlow)
- Screenshots (CleanShot X)
- Magic screenshots (PixelSnap)
- Screen → Canvas (xScope)
- Image optimization (Clop)
- Inspiration (Eagle)
- Wireframes (Balsamiq)
- Automation (Keyboard Maestro)
- Notes (Obsidian)
- Tasks (Todoist)
- Timezones (Menu World Time)
- Apps launcher (Alfred)
- API client (Bruno)
- Backups (Backblaze)
- Browsing email backups (Fast Mbox)
- Cloud storage (Tresorit)
- Firewall (Little Snitch)
- Mic monitoring (Micro Snitch)
- Passwords (1Password)
- RSS (Reeder Classic)
- Web browser (Firefox)
- Web browser picker (Choosy)
- Regular expressions (Patterns)
- Napkin (Code Runner)
- Window management (Rectangle Pro)
- Databases (TablePlus)
- Keeping computer awake (Theine)
- Reading highlights (Readwise)
iPad apps I enjoy
- Reading (LiquidText)
iPhone apps I enjoy
- Weather (Carrot)
- Podcasts (Overcast)
- Audiobooks (Libro.fm)
- Music recognition (Shazam)
- Persistent reminders (Due)
- Countdowns (Up Ahead)
- Experiment (Minutiae)
- Sleep (Oura)
- Authenticaton (Yubico)
Newsletters I enjoy
- Pretty surprises (Nosey Mungo)
- Type in progress (Future Fonts)
- Contemporary collage (Collé)
- The newsletter I open 100% of the time (Dense Discovery)
- My ebook highlights (Readwise)
- Reading on the other side (Radar)
- Studio notes (SimpleBits)
- Nostalgia (The History of the Web)
- New web browser (Ladybird)
- APIs you won’t hate