2025-10-23 20:40:00
On my desk right now I have:
All of these are made by cool people on the internet and I think that's pretty cool.
2025-10-14 05:26:12
Of all the things parents can annoy you with the clichés are the worst. "You won't know until you try". Okay mum, whatever you say. I think you know where this is going.
I've always thought I wasn't any good at drawing but what had actually happened is I never tried. Like really, sat down with a pencil and paper and tried to draw something. Maybe with a reference image. It turns out, if you actually try a little bit you might be okay at a thing.
Near the start of the St Jude campaign I noticed I had some spare stamps so I figured why not use them on something interesting like...do a drawing and I'll send it to someone. Initially I intended them to be my usual "I haven't tried that hard" ones but then people actually donated for one and I panicked. I can't send something crap to someone who has donated, it had to be at least a little bit good. So I actually sat down and tried. Those came out pretty well so I offered a few more. And some more. By the end of the campaign I had sent out 26 unique animal drawings and one London bus (Hi Joe 👋). Turns out, I was okay at drawing.
These requests led me to ask some curious questions like do snails have nostrils? Whats the different between a tortoise and a turtle? What the fuck is an opossum? What is an ionic column? If a hotdog horse had a hot dog bun body, would the legs also be made of bun?[1]
Doing these added somewhere in the region of $1000 to the total we raised this year and has introduced me to a new hobby I'm enjoying and doesn't cost lots of money. I've been doing Inktober and plan to continue through the rest of the month. I also seemed to have stumbled upon a character who is yet to be named, but he is a dinosaur with little stubby hands and feet. Here he is on his way to comic con, lil' cutie.
Sort of. The latter lives in water. It's a marsupial, proper weird looking. They are the tallest, thinnest, and most ornate out of all three ancient Greek orders. I decided that yes, it would. ⤾
2025-10-02 21:02:12
It's the 2nd of October, AKA Bonus September which means Relay's St Jude campaign is more-or-less over, having blown past the $700k target. Adam and I fell short of our target but still raised over $15k, putting us just shy of $49k raised over the past three years.
As we tend to do, we added additional stickers during the campaign. Everyone who donated for stickers is getting five stickers instead of the original two which are being ordered and posted very soon.
On a whim, I added an incentive to get an animal drawing from me. These turned out to be quite popular so I ended up doing 27 of them in total and the final ones went into the post yesterday. I'll have a separate post up about that soon but here's one I did for Kevin:
Like I did last year, I bought a roast from JD who destroyed my website with his youthful venom:
Alright, Robb, it’s your turn. rknight.me, what a digital masterpiece. I mean, in the same way a Facebook marketplace listing with a few blurry photos is a masterpiece. Your website looks like the cool indie blog your friend built in the mid-2010s… except slower. That 4.56s LCP time means I could’ve walked my pet dinosaur before I saw an image appear. Listen, I’m not a web dev, but good thing you didn’t ask that before telling me to roast your website. I went to the Eleventy leaderboards and man do you have a lot of ⚠️ and 🚫 icons everywhere! Do I understand what most of the abbreviations mean? Heck no, but it’s a good thing Eleventy uses icons. Well, not for you, I suppose…
Ok, but the typography. It feels like it was chosen by closing your eyes and spinning the Google Fonts wheel. And no capitalization on the proper nouns? Is that what they teach in schools across the pond, right after your multiple math classes? The color scheme is straight out of a disco, which is certainly a vibe.
Robb, you certainly love your links. Your website is a choose your own adventure book, where every choice leads to another hallway of sub-links, dropdowns, ‘more here’, and ‘check this out’ pages. You can't just visit rknight.me, you get lost in it, just like in Ikea. At least at Ikea they give you meatballs when you’re trapped, though. Click one link, and you’re suddenly three levels deep in a subsection that exists solely to link to more subsections. It’s the Russian nesting dolls of websites.
So, yeah, your website is a maze of slow-loading pages and questionable design. But hey, at least it’s memorable! Not because it’s good, but because it’s the only website where I can both roast it and see my name immortalized in /uses. Without that part? Just another personal blog site on the internet.
I donated to have my name, and those of my friends Robbb and Robbbb, on Brad's board:
I'm a sucker for incentives so I donated for stickers and a coin holder from MVO, a postcard from Lisa which arrived this morning, the Brad pack from Kaleidocraft, stickers from Ste, and a pin from the Lovely Devs.
The newly updated Donation Daddy site worked perfectly throughout the month and I already have some fun ideas for next year.
Thank you to everyone who donated or shared the campaign. It makes a difference.
2025-09-17 19:12:14
We've raised over ten thousand dollars for St Jude as of right now, with a couple of weeks left of September to go. You can still get stickers and I've been having a lot of fun doing animal drawings - I will open at least a few more slots before the end of the campaign. You can donate at stjude.omg.lol.
This is a lovely knob and I want one.
Ollee Watch turns your classic Casio watch into a smartwatch. This is fascinating and I could see this being a replacement for my Apple Watch.
I must have a teeny tiny Kodak Charmera. Just need to find somewhere to buy one.
Speaking of weird cameras, Camp Snap have a new pro version coming which looks very cool.
Life is Strange is getting a TV adaptation. I swear to god if Amazon mess this up I'm gunna flip a table.
Letter Club is an interesting concept - a newsletter that everyone on the newsletter contributes to.
While looking for redacted I came across this site that has dimensions for various things including Pokemon like Ditto as well as how they compare to other objects (or in this case, a Jigglypuff).
roughViz is a library for creating hand-drawn styled charts in the browser. I reckon I can find a use for this soon.
This friendly introduction to SVG is a masterclass in writing technical posts.
HomeBox is some nice looking home inventory management software. Do I need this? Probably not but nothing says fun like home inventory.
This isn't news to anyone even vaguely familiar with map distortions but the African Union is pushing to start using more accurate maps. I'm all for it.
sveltia-cms is a Netlify/Decap CMS successor and has been written from scratch. Need to try this out soon.
Finally this toot is way too real:
We really need to start pushing the truth about AI.
The easiest job for AI to replace would be Management.
Uses the most resources, while offering the least amount of actual productivity.
Reads something by some idiot on the internet, and bases their Management Style around it.
Makes decisions without context.
2025-08-27 23:04:41
tl;dr: Donate to our campaign here
For the third year me and Adam are raising money for St Jude as part of Relay's annual event and podcastathon. You can read Stephen's post about it here.
This year, we've set our goal at $16,850.80 which will put us at $50k lifetime raised. Our previous final totals were $12,590.57 and $20,558.63 so that goal is definitely within reach.
To help us reach our goal for just $20 you can donate, help kids with cancer, and we'll send you a pair of exclusive Ruminate and omg.lol stickers which will be revealed at $1500 and $3000 raised.
You can also show your support by using the St Jude theme on your omg.lol profile and keep an eye on bids.lol for some lifetime addresses and other goodies.
The Donation Daddy website has been completely rewritten:
I'm sure we'll have some other things going on as well which I'll be sure to post about.
Donate at stjude.omg.lol, for the kids.
2025-08-26 20:44:12
It's nearly effectively September, everything is ready and standing by for the start of Relay's annual podcastathon and fundraising event. We have some excellent stickers this year.
I'm not one for music videos unless it's OK Go but Apple Music on my TV kept showing me a preview of the video for Cliche by mgk so I gave it a watch. Not only is the song a banger, the video is just so good. I can't pinpoint what it is but I love it. mgk seems like a complete ding dong of a person but he is stupidly talented.
Throwing a tire in a sand dune is lovely.
One Million Screenshots is a lot of screenshots of websites and my site is there so that's fun.
This video, how to document your life with your camera (via Maaike]) is making me want to do more photography. Do I have the time for a new hobby? Do I bollocks but that's never stopped me before. Time to charge the DSLR.
It's great to have Pebble back.
This toot is 👌
asbestos is the future, asbestos is a modern material of science. if you aren't using asbestos in everything you are going to be left behind
Nic pointed me towards the Savannah Bananas which led me to this Party Animals hat which I want, but don't want to double the price once you add shipping in.
This album cover is the most British thing ever and I want it. (via Ben)
Brian Butterfield was on 8 out of 10 Cats and someone put all his parts up on YouTube.
Reason #123 to get a 3D printer: these Legend of Zelda key hangers.
