2026-10-30 19:06:00
This is fun. Put in a postcode or area and Local Wikipedia shows you articles local to you.
Postmark make games that are printable and just need common game components like cards or dice to play. Neat.
Wonders of Web Weaving, a podcast I was a guest on back in August, has just published it's 25th and final episode. James has some behind the scenes info here about the show.
Shep, a prolific maker of web things, posted about Instant Fail which is a soundboard of fail sounds and that led me to find his F16 Bit project — "Real Formula 1 race data, redrawn as a 16-bit arcade broadcast". So good.
Stupid game trailer made me feel things.
Lou reminded me I needed to do my llms.txt. So I did.
The trailer for the new Jumanji dropped and it looks as stupid as ever. I can't wait.
I learned about Psalty and I can never unsee it.
2026-10-30 03:38:11
If you've visited my site recently you might have noticed some illustrations I've done appear on some pages, notably the home page and my 404 page. I wanted to use this brick drawing I did for Inktober but on the dark mode background is doesn't look good:
My first thought was to just get rid of dark mode completely and just have light mode. I spoke to a handful of people about it and came to the conclusion that this was an extreme solution. Also, I like dark mode in general so it seems stupid to nuke it just for this.
I tried a handful of different things like changing the line colour to white and just loading the correct version depending on the theme. This worked, but still looked shit on dark mode. I tried some other things like adding an outline or even a thicker line like a sticker might have but all of them had the same problem — I would need to make two versions of every drawing which I really didn't want to do.
I had a vague recollection of being able to do a drop shadow on transparent PNGs and after some digging I found it can be done with filter and drop-shadow. Stacking two drop shadows give the best outline for what I wanted.
filter: drop-shadow(0 0 1px #ececec) drop-shadow(0 0 1px #ececec);It's not perfect but it does the job, especially on drawings that have a more defined outline like the hats.
Now I can start adding some more illustrations I've got lined up for the site.
2026-10-25 22:41:00
Warning: boring homeowner awning post.
The valance on my awning had come off the runner and was hanging out the end of the awning casing so I need to get the endcaps off. The instructions that came with it don’t mention the valance or end caps at all, and everything I saw online suggested there should be screws holding them in but there wasn’t.
I extended the awning slightly and shoved my phone camera in there to see what was going on and it turns out on full cassette awnings, the endcaps are held on with a 10mm bolt from the inside. Once I loosened the bolt, I was able to get the end cap off and rethread the valance.
2026-10-23 18:56:15
I've started work on a card game and I have no idea what I'm doing so if anyone has any good articles to check out, send them my way.
I was personally attacked at the weekend while driving through Basingstoke and saw a sign for a museum exhibit entitled "I Grew Up 90s". Given the 90s were only 10 years ago[1], this seems premature.
DNS Museum is a reference for the odd, inventive, and always impractical things people have done with DNS. Maths over DNS anyone?.
Speaking of DNS, Record Relay is an experiment to see how long a chain can be made with TXT records. I'm number two. And a few others.
Sophie wrote a great post about storing recipes including this incredible line "originally storing them in Evernote, which is what we did in the 2010s". Remember Evernote? I'm trying out Mealie at the moment and I like that it costs me nothing but I could make my life easier with a more advanced app like Paprika.
I tooted at Dan because we were both listening to Ms Rachel's album and he posted back this eldritch horror of an image featuring me, him, and Ry.
Keenan wrote a great post[2] about their adventures moving to Poland and buying lemons, among other things.
I really like this analog defaults post.
XKCD was on point on Wednesday morning.
This is my favourite Inktober I've done so far.
Everhand is a handwriting font that has three versions of every letter so no two letters are the same next to each other. Incredible stuff.
2026-10-23 16:30:23
I recently bought my wife a new Kindle so I grabbed her old one to sign into my account. I put my username and password in, then it would ask for my 2FA code which I would enter and it would always go back to the sign in screen again. I did this thrice before moving onto other fixes.
I tried all the usual troubleshooting like updating it, checking the time and date was correct, and nothing worked. Then I recalled my old Xbox not being able to sign in if 2FA was on I turned it off and it worked. Why it's prompting for a 2FA code if it doesn't support it I'll never know.
Anyway, back to never finding time to read and yes, I turned 2FA back on.
2026-10-17 14:12:00
X is bad. Obviously.
Davey hits the nail on the head here:
People return to X just want followers in the strictest sense of the word. Sycophants that will just click like and subscribe on their posts without calling them out on anything. Much like the companies they cover, they just want to see number go up.
Couple of interesting game projects. The first, PS2 games in the browser with WebAssembly. Secondly, someone ported a bunch of N64 games to Miyoo Mini and a there was asecond project just for Mario Kart released around the same time. I'm going to have some fun with these.
This video about sketching was interesting even if it is trying to sell a course which, as best I can tell, everyone doing art on YouTube is.
CMFs new speakers look great — I'm sad I have no use for such a thing.
Converse have a new Hello Kitty range and I want them all.
Donald Faison jumped did an impromptu rendition of "Everything comes down to poo" in this interview.
Matt of Unch fame wrote up the financials for a year of running a cryptic crossword magazine (of which I've bought each issue even though I do not enjoy such things I've since learnt). Postage to anywhere outside the UK as usual becomes the most expensive thing to handle.
A 1692 guide to colour. This is cool.
I was looking at buying another pink AL Star (I did of course, vibrant pink to be specific) but I wanted to see how the colour compared to the other pink Safaris and AL Stars I had. This comparison was the most complete list I could find.
Two HTML boilerplate posts to keep for reference — one from Vale and one from Manuel.
Ioskeley Mono is a "monospace font crafted to match Berkeley Mono's aesthetic. Built by configuring Iosevka". I've switched to this everywhere I can.
Bunny have updated their CLI for better deployments of static sites. Nice.
Tiny Little Office is the kind of stuff we need more. No logins, no bullshit.
These pencil cases by Yup! are incredible and I want them all.
