2025-12-10 16:59:41
Since I updated to MacOS Tahoe 26.1 the open/save dialog of Finder became unbearably slow, like five seconds for every navigation step. I found this thread on Reddit that suggested turning off iCloud Drive documents and desktop syncing but I've never had that turned on. It also suggested turning off iCloud drive all together but I was not about to do that.
Someone in that thread linked to this solution which is an easy one: delete the plist file that keeps track of recent folder locations.
I deleted
com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService.plistand restarted, now the Open/Save panel opens quickly.
To delete this file navigate to ~/Library/Preferences/ in Finder (⌘ ⇧ + G or Go > Go to Folder) then delete com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService.plist. I didn't even need to restart like the person on Reddit did and this immediately fixed it.
Why am I making a blog post with the same information as the Reddit thread? The reasons are twofold:
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.
