# a5 (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover a5. Page: Feed: --- ## [Way less fountain pens in rotation](https://stationery.pizza/2026/08/17/way-less-fountain-pens-in-rotation) _2026-08-17 · Stationery🍕_ I’ve been cleaning and putting away a lot of pens as they run out of ink lately. Now I’m at a point I think is a good place. My three metal Kaweco Sports pens Lamy 2000 Pilot Custom 823 TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR FC Pocket 66 ## [CAINE HEMMINGWAY - BELIEVE IN NOTHING](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/caine-hemmingway-believe-in-nothing) _2026-08-16 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ On fear, mortality, spite, anger and fists full of worms. ## [QUICK ONES: NIAMH MCMANUS / TOM PITCALL](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-niamh-mcmanus-tom-pitcall) _2026-08-16 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [Getting really low on inks](https://stationery.pizza/2026/08/15/getting-really-low-on-inks) _2026-08-15 · Stationery🍕_ I have cut down a lot on how much bottled inks I have. Mostly by using up what I have over buying anything new. Currently I have seven bottles. One almost empty, one close to empty. Three half full. Two full or more or less full. Funny how I always go in these cycles of buying loads of ink over some months. And then it goes years before I buy any more. ## [QUICK ONES: Marley Perez / Joel Riddington](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-marley-perez-joel-riddington) _2026-08-08 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's. ## [QUICK ONES: JOE WAG / PAUL COLLIER](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-joe-wag-paul-collier) _2026-08-04 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [QUICK ONES: DJ JAFFA / TONY MADDOCKS](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-dj-jaffa-tony-maddocks) _2026-08-01 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's. A couple of real torchbearers of a whole sound / era / genre from back in the day, both of whom are still musically active and doing great shit in 2026! ## [Less pens inked up?](https://stationery.pizza/2026/07/30/less-pens-inked-up) _2026-07-30 · Stationery🍕_ At the moment I have more pens inked up than I have had in a long time. But my plan is to clean up and put away a bunch of pens as they run out ink. A big part of the reason is that most of the time I use a few pens. So why keep all of them inked up? I’ll keep a few more inked up. But not the current madness. ## [QUICK ONES: KAT SULLIVAN / SHWIN BHANDARI](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-kat-sullivan-shwin-bhandari) _2026-07-29 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [QUICK ONES: GRIM WARD / KYE PHILLIPS](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-grim-ward-kye-phillips) _2026-07-28 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sTgqdaO3mhBE) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [QUICK ONES: VAE VICTUS TAKEOVER - DUGGAN & JESSE](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-vae-victus-takeover-duggan) _2026-07-27 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [QUICK ONES: CHRIS ANDREWS / KIERAN PALMER](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-chris-andrews-kieran-palmer) _2026-07-25 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [Currently inked up](https://stationery.pizza/2026/07/25/currently-inked-up) _2026-07-25 · Stationery🍕_ It’s been a while since I took a look over the pens I have inked up. As of mid July, the pens I have inked up: Pilot 823 Lamy 2000 FC Pocket 66 TWSBI Eco EF TWSBI Eco Stub TWSBI Eco B TWSBI Diamond 580AL Kaweco Sport Brass Kaweco Sport Steel Kaweco Sport Purple Al Lamy Safari The biggest change is that I felt like inking up some TWSBI Eco’s, and that I have cleaned up and put away the Vanishing… ## [QUICK ONES: ZOË SMITH / MARIANNE HAYES](https://mercysignal.substack.com/p/quick-ones-zoe-smith-marianne-hayes) _2026-07-24 · Mercy Signal · Mercy Signal_ Top 3's from a couple of the G's ## [Plotter: has it worked out?](https://stationery.pizza/2026/07/13/plotter-has-it-worked-out) _2026-07-13 · Stationery🍕_ By the time this post is out I have had my Plotter for over two months, and it has been more or less the only notebook I have used since I got it. It has worked out perfectly based on why I decided to get one. The biggest win for me with it is in how the hit list / day plan setup I use flows. On one side I have the plan for the day. I usually one use one page for that per day, sometimes two and… ## [Plotter: flipping order of my daily plans](https://stationery.pizza/2026/07/6/plotter-flipping-order-of-my-daily-plans) _2026-07-06 · Stationery🍕_ For my daily plan and hit-list setup I found myself at a spot where I had a big pile of pages only used on one side; the one at the right. This is because I keep my daily plan on the left and the hit-list on the right. And on most days I have to set up new hit lists way more often than the daily plan. On a super busy day I might run through 2-3 daily plan pages. While 4 pages of daily plans is… ## [Plotter: changes to setup](https://stationery.pizza/2026/06/29/plotter-changes-to-setup) _2026-06-29 · Stationery🍕_ At first I didn’t really do much setup. I just kind of started to use it. Here are the setup a few week in Before the first lifter I have an index page telling what I have in each of the organizers After the lifter and before all the organizers I have a bunch of plank dot grid pages I removed about half of the empty pages I first put in. Split what I have in two. One bunch at the start and one at… ## [Plotter: details I missed at first](https://stationery.pizza/2026/06/22/plotter-details-i-missed-at-first) _2026-06-22 · Stationery🍕_ I think I used it for a week before I figure out that you can press the metal thingy below the rings to open them. Made it a lot easier to open and close them without fucking up my nails and nail polish. It works a lot better in general if you have less stuff in it. ## [The Coming Enshittification of AI](https://www.damianmr.com/posts/the-coming-enshittification-of-ai/) _2026-06-19 · Damian M. R._ How AI tools may follow the same monetization path as social networks, search engines, streaming platforms, and other enshittified services. ## [Plotter: how I set mine up at first](https://stationery.pizza/2026/06/15/plotter-how-i-set-mine-up-at-first) _2026-06-15 · Stationery🍕_ This is how I initially set mine up. I put the fastener case in first, then the band lifter on the left side and the regular lifter on the right side, all the organizers on the left side and a full pack of dot grid paper after that. There is also more or less always a pen in the right side lifter. ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0NSEiN5Qmhho) _2026-06-14 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Plotter: initial impression](https://stationery.pizza/2026/06/8/plotter-initial-impression) _2026-06-08 · Stationery🍕_ When I first got it I just kind of unpacked everything. Put things together kind of how I had imagined it and started to use it. My first thoughts were It’s so fucking nice This works how I imagined it would I kind of wish the rings were bigger but not too much ## [Plotter: what I ordered](https://stationery.pizza/2026/06/1/plotter-what-i-ordered) _2026-06-01 · Stationery🍕_ So I decided to go with the narrow size, because it is close to what my large Travelers Notebook is, and it is the largest size that is more easily portable than the A5 version. I compared if I should get the Brown Pueblo or the Orange Shrink like a 100 times over the years. Preferred the general aesthetic of the former but the orange of the Shrink is amazing. In the end I went with the former.… ## [Plotter: getting to where I ordered one](https://stationery.pizza/2026/05/27/plotter-getting-to-where-i-ordered-one) _2026-05-27 · Stationery🍕_ I guess I’ll be writing a lot of posts related to the Plotter binder I finally ordered over the new few weeks. We’ll see how long I have things to write about. Might be a while. I first started to look at binders and play around with them together with notebooks with removable pages etc during the summer of 2023. And have tried a bunch of things other than Plotter over the months and years that… ## [Finally ordered a Plotter](https://stationery.pizza/2026/05/18/finally-ordered-a-plotter) _2026-05-18 · Stationery🍕_ I finally ordered a Plotter. Because of various money related reasons over the years it has taken forever. But I’ll recieve a Narrow Pueblo Plotter in the mail fairly soon. Can’t wait. ## [Funny when you always use the same shit](https://stationery.pizza/2026/05/11/funny-when-you-always-use-the-same-shit) _2026-05-11 · Stationery🍕_ I use the same pens and ink brands and notebooks month after month most of the time. So it’s always funny when I read a list of recommendations or listen to it on a podcast. And I have to check out like 90% of the products. I should really get into trying more stuff soon. ## [Hitlist setup April 2026](https://stationery.pizza/2026/04/20/hitlist-setup-april-2026) _2026-04-20 · Stationery🍕_ This is how I use my Hitlist as of April 2026 as I’ve just moved back to full size TN refills after using the smaller PP for a while. I draw a vertical line in the middle of each page in a double paged spread, giving me four “ sections” or “ pages”. Earlier in the day I’ll typically complete one or two of these an hour, but I usually move a lot slower as things move on. The right most section are… ## [Back to using full sized TN](https://stationery.pizza/2026/04/13/back-to-using-full-sized-tn) _2026-04-13 · Stationery🍕_ After doing an experiment of just using the passport / pocket sized Travelers Notebooks for a while, I’m back to using the regular size or actually I’m using both. For some things the small ones are much better. But for my hit lists I think having roughly twice the room makes the planning much more efficient. It’s funny when you’ve been testing out something for a while and then you go back to… ## [Do I need to have 11 fountain pens in rotation?](https://stationery.pizza/2026/03/16/do-i-need-to-have-11-fountain-pens-in-rotation) _2026-03-16 · Stationery🍕_ I don’t need to but it is convenient. My pens can be put into three categories. The Kaweco Sports: very useful to put in pen holders on notebooks. Pens with broader nibs. Great for drawing likes and scribbling out stuff. Pens with finer nibs. My current preference for general writing Having this many pens in rotation makes it easy to just rotating out pens that are dry and in new ones from my desk… ## [Why do I try to make paper clips last?](https://stationery.pizza/2026/03/9/why-do-i-try-to-make-paper-clips-last) _2026-03-09 · Stationery🍕_ This is really dumb. So if you use regular paper clips to stick pages together, you’re probably used to them being slightly bent out of shape after using them a few times. Then I try to make them last longer or using them while they’re not really that useful anymore. Why am I doing this? They are cheap as fuck. And there is still like 2/3 of them in the box of 100 I bought six months ago ## [My Travelers Notebook Passport setup](https://stationery.pizza/2026/03/5/my-travelers-notebook-passport-setup) _2026-03-05 · Stationery🍕_ Not sure if I have written about this before. But my current passport TN setup is fairly simple. One dot grid refill in it. I use a lot of paper clips to keep things easier to manage. For example to stick together pages that I’m done with etc. And I use both of my big Travelers brass clips a lot. Great for making the pages stay open etc. I have recently put a pen holder back on it. And there is… ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LG8sgpVXSHi6) _2026-03-04 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Adjust prices on a regular basis](https://stationery.pizza/2026/02/23/adjust-prices-on-a-regular-basis) _2026-02-23 · Stationery🍕_ In light of the recent ridiculous price increases my some Japanese pen makers I’d like to say my perspective as a customer on price increases. As a customer I don’t mind prices going up, I prefer if they don’t, but if they have to I’d rather see minor predictable increases every year, half year, quarter or whatever makes sense for your business. What I really hate is that you suddenly have to… ## [Activate (2025)](/creations/artwork/2025-activate/) _2026-02-18 · Home on 4o4:_ Activate 2025, digital painting I have so much love for those trying to make a better world for everyone in it. Better is hard, it takes continual practise, but it’s worth the fight. ## [Artwork](/creations/artwork/) _2026-02-18 · Home on 4o4:_ In my artwork, I explore themes of otherness with muted or no colours across various mediums such as ink, watercolour, sculpture, collage, and digital art. These pages host a portfolio of some select works. ## [The Personal Web Utopia](/blog/2022-07-02-the-personal-web-utopia/) _2026-02-18 · Home on 4o4:_ We can create ideal perfection at a far lower cost and effort than in any other construction we could obtain. That is the beauty of the web: the accessibility of it and the strength of its core. ## [I still think of them as pens](https://stationery.pizza/2026/02/18/i-still-think-of-them-as-pens) _2026-02-18 · Stationery🍕_ Funny thing. When I bought my first “ fancy” fountain pens, the Lamy 2000 and the Pilot Vanishing Point they were both priced at . In my head they are still , and every time I see them listed at a store and I see the current price I’m shocked my how much more expensive they are. And a few days later I forget and it repeats itself a few months later. ## [Currently in use](https://stationery.pizza/2026/02/9/currently-in-use) _2026-02-09 · Stationery🍕_ I don’t think I’ve written about what I currently use in a while. So I was going to get a Hobonichi Weeks this year, but by the time I had money and focus to order one I could not find one anywhere local so I just decided not to. Notebooks I still use the Remarkable Paper Pro Move (jeez I fucking hate how verbose that name is) for my daily plan and other notes in the gym or when it is easier than… ## [Using the small Travelers notebook as my daily driver](https://stationery.pizza/2026/02/7/using-the-small-travelers-notebook-as-my-daily-driver) _2026-02-07 · Stationery🍕_ I ran out of my go to dotted refills for my regular sized travelers notebook a few weeks ago and decided to just use up some of my smaller notebooks before getting more of the large refills. Probably also some of the lined Travelers Notebooks I have for some reason. The only big disadvantage of using smaller notebooks for my current use is that I run through them very fast. There isn’t much of a… ## [Pen Addict pocket notebooks](https://stationery.pizza/2026/01/26/pen-addict-pocket-notebooks) _2026-01-26 · Stationery🍕_ I think I’ve written about these before. Not sure if they had the same paper back then. Anyways. I really like these. They are different from the Travelers notebook paper than I’ve used most of the going on over a year now. A bit more grit and feedback. This is something I really like. I want at least some feedback on my paper, but there are times where I accept super smooth paper. Either because… ## [Changelog](/about/changelog/) _2026-01-18 · Home on 4o4:_ Contents: About \[Unreleased\] \[1.6\] - 2026-01-18 \[1.5\] - 2025-11-23 \[1.4.9\] - 2025-11-21 \[1.4.8\] - 2025-11-11 \[1.4.7\] - 2025-11-10 \[1.4.6\] - 2025-11-01 \[1.4.5\] - 2025-10-27 \[1.4.4\] - 2025-05-19 \[1.4.3\] - 2025-04-12 \[1.4.2\] - 2025-04-05 \[1.4.1\] - 2025-03-23 \[1.3\] - 2025-02-23 \[1.2\] - 2024-11-30 \[1.1\] - 2024-11-23 \[1.0\] - 2024-11-09 About All notable changes to this website will be documented here.… ## [Links](/links/) _2026-01-18 · Home on 4o4:_ This page contains links to many sites across the web. ## [Daily plan](https://stationery.pizza/2026/01/12/daily-plan) _2026-01-12 · Stationery🍕_ How I do my daily plans change a lot over a year, as I need to manage different ways my ADHD manifests in fucking up my plans. At the moment I do it on my Remarkable Paper Pro Move, and it works well. I like to do it there because then it’s always visible. I’ve done it with using a dedicated notebook for it in the past. The way I do it is that I start by zooming to 1.0x moving all the way to the… ## [Remarkable wish list](https://stationery.pizza/2026/01/5/remarkable-wish-list) _2026-01-05 · Stationery🍕_ Here are few things I’d like to have for my remarkable after using it for a few months. Orientation setting per notebook: I’d like to lock it differently per notebook. Like if I’m in my week plan notebook I want it to be horizontal, but in the rest I want it to be vertical. Zoom levels. I’d love to be able to configure it. Because I want to it stick to 1.0x always unless I zoom out to something… ## [Blooming (2020)](/creations/artwork/2020-blooming/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Blooming 2020, ink and watercolour ## [Circus (2021)](/creations/artwork/2021-circus/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Mosstober 2021 – Day 26: Circus (Scarlet Gum 48) 2021, Watercolour and ink, A6 ## [Crown (2020)](/creations/artwork/2020-crown/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Crown 2020, ink ## [Enchanted (2019)](/creations/artwork/2019-enchanted/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Inktober 2019 – Day 7: Enchanted 2019, Ink on watercolour paper, 105 x 148 mm (A6) ## [Exhausted (2018)](/creations/artwork/2018-exhausted/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Inktober 2018 – Day 7: Exhausted 2018, Ink and watercolour, 148 x 210 mm (A5) ## [Fairytale (2021)](/creations/artwork/2021-fairytale/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Mosstober 2021 – Day 22: Fairytale (Deathcap 88) 2021, Ink, A6 ## [Fish (2020)](/creations/artwork/2020-fish/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Inktober 2020 – Day 1: Fish 2020, Ink on hot pressed Arches paper, 148 x 210 mm (A5) ## [Gift (2020)](/creations/artwork/2020-gift/) _2026-01-04 · Home on 4o4:_ Gift 2020, ink, A4