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.
2025-08-12 21:11:44
Firstly, there were no cursed photos on it. So that's good.
I've been wanting to get a Camp Snap camera for a while but they're kind of pricey for what they are so I'd been holding off. Then I happened upon a listing on Vinted for one for £10 which is much cheaper than the £40-50 they usually go for even second hand and it was the pink one.
Camp Snap is a no-screen digital camera design to "keep you in the moment" or something equally wishy-washy. I wanted it because it looked fun and it's perfect for the kids to use. I'm not sure how much of a beating this thing can take but there's not a lot of moving parts to it so it'll probably be fine.
Despite thinking the premise is a bit wishy-washy, I actually did enjoy the fact that I wasn't checking every photo to make sure it was perfect or that afterwards I couldn't just go in and choose a new frame from the live photo. Live photos are great and I wouldn't do without them but it definitely makes having a spontaneous photo a little bit less spontaneous. "In the moment" you might say. Fuck, they got me.
You can install custom filters either from Camp Snap directly, or by making your own with their custom filter maker. I tried out a couple and I really like their vintage one. There's also a selection of filters available on Camper Snapper and Camp Shades which I've downloaded to try out in the future.
Depending on what model you have depends on how you install the filters - I luckily ended up with 103B, a more recent one but to find out the model everywhere on their site says "check the box" but I didn't have the box so how the hell does one work out which model they have? It's in the photo metadata. Why they don't mention this anywhere is beyond me.
Because of the bargain price I got mine for, I'm loathed to spend the same amount again on their wrist strap/USB C cable but that is a very cool product. If somewhere in the UK is selling those, I might grab one.
I also came across SNPSHT which appears to be basically the same product.
Anyway, I like this camera. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to just take some photos I'll be trying out some more of the filters soon.
2025-08-11 15:49:45
Update 2025-08-11
A Piracy is a Crime sticker is gunna be included as a bonus thanks to Sophie
I went on a bit of a shitposting session on Friday and the end result is I now have new stickers for sale which you can buy here. It's a pack of two for $10 that I will send out in the next couple of weeks.
The sales have been even better than the Don't @ Me ones in a much shorter space of time so much so that I'm buying printable labels for addresses — no way am I writing these ones out by hand.
The font I used is Iglesia and a modified version of the Pirate Bay logo. Talya made it into stickers for Signal which you can install here and send to your friends, enemies, or journalists included in your group chats.
These will be up for sale until the end of the week (Sunday 17th) then I'll start the totally-not-arduous process of packing and sending them out.
