2025-12-09 06:12:01
Things are in motion to get a proper sticker shop online early in the new year - I have a new sticker I'm excited to make plus I'm going to keep stock of some that people always ask for.
And more sticker news, the St Jude campaign stickers are on their way to everyone not in the UK. If you're in the UK, I have them in hand and will get them posted as soon as I can.
Advent of Code has nuked the global leaderboard and dropped down the 12 days instead of 24. Maybe I'll give it a go again next year.
The Aston Martin Cygnet is adorable and I love it. Also it's £40k second hand so perhaps not.
This internet scrapbook idea from Alex is great.
Clues by Sam is a new daily game that I enjoyed once but won't play because I know I'll stress myself out needing to do it every day.
This post reminded me I want to make my own handwriting font. I should get on that.
Public Transport Card Designs is exactly what the internet was made for.
This post about Culdesac, "Arizona's car-free neighborhood", is fascinating - one shop for every 14.5 residents. Don't miss their website with more photos, floorplans, and info on it.
Victorian Christmas cards are something else entirely. Tag yourself, I'm mutant parsnip man.
Intertapes is a collection of found cassettes and their contents. There's some gorgeous SVGs on the formats page. RSS feed please.
This fork of Streetpass but for RSS is handy. Chrome and Firefox only right now.
2025-12-05 05:09:14
When I was on The Pen Addict a few weeks ago, I mentioned I was looking for the hottest pink ink the world has to offer to go with my Estie Funky Town. I got loads of suggestions and I eventually stumbled on an ink that I think is perfect for what I wanted - Octopus Fluids Neon Pink.
I ordered a bunch of inks during Black Friday day/week/month and Ben sent me a sample of Robert Oster Hot Pink. It wasn't until after I got all these inks that I then realised I already owned a very similar ink that was also what I was looking for, Diamine Hope Pink, but I had misremembered and didn't think it was as bright as it was. Some of these I knew wouldn't be the winner but I wanted anyway because they're nice colours - Wearingeul Cheshire Cat for example. Nevertheless, here's the samples:
There are more than I don't have from the suggestions including:
There are a shedload of lovely pinks and purples here (and in general, look at this list on Mountain of Ink) and I can see myself using all of the ones I bought at different times. Although Hope Pink and Neon Pink look similar in the sample, Neon Pink definitely has a slight edge over the Diamine for me but I suspect if they weren't next to each other I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
2025-11-18 20:25:06
Now the dust has settled on the piracy stickers, I checked how many I had left and it was a few more than I thought so I'm putting them back up for sale until they run out. Here's what I have available:
I will do another run of the Sparkly Websites stickers very soon — I don't have any of those left right now. As always, the shop page has all the links as well, at least until I decide on a better system for selling stickers.
2025-11-17 20:35:04
I've narrowed down the inks I'm going to try for finding my perfect pink ink to a handful. I'm planing on ordered Taccia Momo first because this is the one that's been recommended to me the most. I also updated my ink list on FPC.
I've added some more pens to my wanted list including the Diplomat Viper, the Monteverde MP1, and the new TWSBI Eco Cosmos Blue with Onyx. I also found somewhere selling the discontinued Pink Eco at retail price so I might need to buy that first.
I managed to find the time to go to the Analog Tools meetup where I got to talk to some wonderful people and also said something very silly.
I've backed Bonfire on IndieGoGo because I'm fascinated by what they're trying to do.
Despite not being an iOS developer (nor do I have any intention of becoming one), Everything but the Code is 50% off for Black Friday and aside from some app-specific things, seems like it'll have a lot of useful stuff in it.
Flare is a new unified app for connecting to multiple social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. I don't I need this but it's interesting nonetheless.
Grila is a keyboard-driven calendar app for MacOS which reminds me a lot of Godspeed.
Taking stock of my tools by Britney Winthrope is a great post with an new (to me) way of categorising tools you use (the CODE framework - Capture, Organize, Distill, Express).
The Ollee watch is back in stock but I resisted for the time being.
These Japanese firework illustrations are gorgeous. This also led to me to find Affinities which is a book by The Public Domain Review. Right onto my wishlist that goes.
Mutant Standard emoji is a fun new emoji set.
2025-11-09 04:53:53
I'm hunting for the best pink ink to match with my Funky Town Estie. As always, Mountain of Ink is an incredible resource for such things and there was some good suggestions on episode 690 of the Pen Addict.
We're organising Baby Knight II's first birthday party because the passage of time comes for us all and she's nearly a year old somehow which means it's nearly Christmas. wtf.
Perpetually thinking about redoing my website, but I want to find the perfect body font before I start.
I'm trying out Bloom as a Finder replacement and I want to find some time to see how Affinity works for vector work now it's free. Pixelmator is good, but isn't really built for it.
We've been rewatching a bunch of Marvel movies while we're a bit short on new shows to watch but we did start Pluribus today.
Finally, I'm full steam ahead on a new KnightShift project - Project Rumble. No information for you, just the code name.
2025-11-07 05:30:26
It's been a while since my last weeknote and it's fine - this is why I'm not committing to doing them weekly.
We are hurtling towards the end of the year and I realised I haven't been taking notes for my year in review post so I've hastily thrown some notes together but I'm sure I will miss something important when I eventually write it.
I don't have McDonald's all that often but I tried the garlic & black pepper nuggets last week - they were pretty good. I also had the Sakura Cherry Blossom × Sprite which was delicious.
On a note of better food, I've been trying to branch out a bit from the ten or so meals we always cook. I've been watching a bunch of Sip and Feast videos and tried out a couple of recipes, the first of which was this garlic butter chicken. The videos on Sip and Feast are really good, easy to follow and all the recipes are also on their website which is handy.
This has led me to assess my saucepans, frying pans, and other kitchen stuff and I am ready to replace everything with stainless steel - most of what we have is fairly cheap and some of it is falling apart. Pro Cook is the top candidate right now but I'm going to their shop at some point to have a proper look at it before I buy anything.
A few interesting videos I watched while on this food kick:
I have a big list of EchoFeed features and bugs to deal with that I will get to as soon as I have time so if you're waiting for a response from me, I apologise.
Les goddams is "an obsolete ethnic slur historically used by the French to refer to the English, based on their frequent profanities". History is fun.
Multipotentiality is a new word I learnt. Not sure when I'd ever use it though.
This collection of Hair Band letterings and logos is great.
Visconti Maze fountain pen is bonkers and I love it.
This pizza sticker is amazing via Nic
Top 80 Greatest Guitar Intros. Best or not, this is an impressive show of skill by this guy.
Little Link is "an open source DIY Linktree alternative". Handy.
This story about a snail "farmer" is wild.
I don't know how I'm going resist this font duo. Just look at it.
