Maker of web things, sticker merchant, viral toot-based business man, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Human dad.
To start with, both my wife and I have alerts turned off because when they did a test in 2023 we had a one month old baby and didn't want her to be disturbed. Leaving it off because I assumed this would be abused, as I believe it has in this case, was just a bonus. Yesterday the government used the emergency alert system to send an alert to warn people not to start fires because it's hot and dry…
When I posted about my zine I mentioned being surprised that there wasn't any tools for showing zines online like a web component or similar. Turns out there is, web search is just shit now. Andy pointed me to Zine Machine which is a web-based viewer that uses print styles to switch between web and print layouts. Benji is doing something similar with their zine here . Then there's Dirty Little…
“Don’t set fire to stuff it’s hot” does not constitute an emergency and is exactly why we have them off because they can’t be trusted to use them properly
A remake of Back to the Future but the only change is Doc Brown says "When this baby hits 67 miles per hour looks to camera you're gunna see some serious shit"
I announced the shut down EchoFeed which I intend to write more about soon. I shipped Doodle Scan this week which you can read about here . I also made a zine and I was on a podcast . I have a couple of other things I'm working on which should be out soon. I've finally had time to sort through an obscene amount of links I had saved and there was a lot of good stuff in there. Who knew? Chris built…
Baby Knight just asked my wife if it's ever going to rain again and I think we all feel that. Big mood as the kids say.
Happy Bin Day to all those who celebrate. The most candidates for a UK election ever, 34 candidates, and the ballot paper is 90cm long. Farage will still probably win but at least everyone has made him look like the pillock that he is.
🎵 Hotdog on a ring 🎶
I’m convinced most of the R&D cost for the Uni &knot went on this fancy box that holds the carabiner and wraps around the pen
Spacious open plan apartment for rent.
Update This episode was recorded prior to me deciding to shut down EchoFeed James invited me onto his podcast, Web Weaving , to discuss the IndieWeb, EchoFeed ( RIP ), stickers, pens, and some of my other web projects. A full transcript is available on the website. Listen to Web Weaving 14: Robb
While scanning my time travel zine I thought it would be nice to include some drawings I've done as part of my website, similar to how Ana has on her site. Whenever I've tried in the past, removing a background to standard that is good enough to put on another colour background is near impossible without spending a long time in Pixelmator fixing all the edge artifacts. I came across a couple of…
Alan Ritchson (Reacher) doing a song with Connor Price and Nic D was not on my bingo card
Heatwave 5: The Heatwavening
A remake of Bill and Ted but it’s the same movie except when they say “what number am I thinking of?” they say 67 and look down the camera and everyone under 21 goes wild
I've wanted to make a zine for a while — it has a nice combination of drawing, writing, and being a physical item that appeals to me but I couldn't find the right topic to tackle until I realised I'd already done the writing part of it with my post entitled My Favourite Type of Time Travel . The format I've come across most is the eight-page foldable zine which means including the cover there are…
Somewhere a publisher has commissioned a new cover for The Odyssey book that says “now a major motion picture”
HTML stands for Have To Make Lovely Websites #HTMLDay
Stand back everyone I’m learning about luma coefficients and doing maths
TL;DR I'm shutting down EchoFeed within the next 12 months when the final subscriptions expire. It will continue to run as it is until then so if you've already paid you have access until the end of your subscription. Last night, after a few months on and off of problems with EchoFeed from my side and general feed problems I made the decision to shut it down. As of right now, this is what I've…
TIL you can have a sleepover, as an adult, at the Natural History Museum
ebay live is qvc for zoomers
Just did some training related to cyber attacks and it referred to any task to defending against such attacks as "Cyber Tasks" so I will be calling all my tasks cyber tasks from now on
Pink Lemonade TWSBI Eco with a 1.1 stub nib ordered ✅
August cover page ☀️
Hannah the bird lady is the most intense person I’ve ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnm4HgIAVmU
I asked for recommendations for courses and books related to learning drawing techniques and I got a bunch of great suggestions. I've not tried any of these yet (except a single video from Alphonso Dunn but I want to collect these in one place I can refer back to. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards via Kerri and Valrus . There's a few editions of this but I'll pick up a second…
I posted about my June-Boree entries a couple of weeks ago and the winners were announced on episode 167 . Turns out I came second, beaten narrowly by Arcadia king Eric, which means I get one of Jason's famous trophies . After some shenanigans with trying to send it to a pickup location which UPS couldn't do three days in a row, I finally got my hands on it and it's glorious.
I see a lot of Instagram people who offer courses and such for getting better at drawing - the videos I’ve seen seemed good but I’m wary of anything where the videos exists just to promote the course/book ( example ). Anyone have any recs for books (physical or online)/courses/whatever to get a better grasp of drawing techniques and such? Yes “just practice” but I need the structure.
Not For All Mankind level but still pretty good.
I bloody love pizza
Imagine getting tickets to a panel show then you have to listen to Joe fucking Wilkinson
Knowing the difference between “every day” and “everyday” is the grammatical equivalent of knowing what kerning is and spotting mistakes everywhere
Can’t believe my parents raised me without the help of Ms Rachel
I backed this pen Kickstarter despite breaking my rule of no hardware Kickstarters - the company, Antou, seem to know what they're doing but we'll see. They have a lot of nice stuff on their site including this pen rest . The pen should be arriving in August some time. Pica is a new font management app that looks great and it's free. I need to get a handle on all the fonts I have. I'm not a font…
The viscosity of my Marmite has changed significantly in this heatwave
This is what personal blogs were made for. Be weird and obsessive then write about it.
Just like this post resurfacing in popularity, I linked to this Apple refurb tracker 15 years ago and the post on my site has had thousands of visitors over the last week or so.
Ran out of burgers for the kids so we’re pulling a steamed hams Wish us luck
Hard to argue with this.
It seems hard to imagine but there's a world where politicians could be doing things to make life better for their constituents and the country in general but instead we're stuck with a load of fucking career politicians pissing about and wasting everyones time instead of just doing their fucking job https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t He's resigned just so he can run an election, for the…
Noticed in my analytics that this post , a repost of a review I did for AppAdvice in 2010 for a TV app, has had 100s of views over the past 48 hours presumably because that other TV app is shutting down. Look at this glorious UI
While dealing with some finance stuff this morning I noticed just how much there's an obvious, not remotely subtle, push to get people into more debt that they might already be in. Example 1, Monzo. Transferring money out of a savings account, there was a banner suggesting I could withdraw cash from my credit card instead which obviously has fees and interest instead of using money I already have.…
Preamble June-Boree is a reimagining of Arcadia June. June-Boree is " a challenge board spanning the entire month consisting of 30 unique challenges ". I wanted to make a poster for June-Boree and it was a good excuse to use some excellent fonts like Parkly . View the full poster here . The Challenges Day 1 : Create your thread in the forum to track your progress! Your Name - 30 Challenges Easy…
July cover page
How is it the end of June already?! The passage of time comes for us all.
a platform that manages membership and age verification And this is why I will stand firm on never uploading ID documents to an age verification service. I will stop using the internet before I hand that over.
Can’t believe they made a game out of my weekend plans