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2025-07-11 20:01:36

Hot innit. Too fucking hot.

Wednesday night we went up Portsdown Hill with the kids for dinner because we couldn't be bothered to cook so we got burgers from Mick's. It also gave Baby Knight the First somewhere to run around like a lunatic to burn off some energy. It didn't work but she did have fun.

My wife wanted an instant printer to print some photos of the kids for her journal and it was Prime Day so we had a look around. I'd decided, as CTO of our house, that the Kodak P300R was perfect for what we wanted but then I noticed for an entire one pound extra, we could have the C300R which is the same thing, but with a camera built-in as well. It's a fun item and it'll make a nice friend for our Instax Mini.

I'm not a designer so I'm not getting frothy knickers to give my hot takes on Liquid Glass, with the exception of this toot, but this Glass3D CSS generator is pretty natty. I used something similar with an initial version of Portal Kombat and looks good when used correctly.

The Death Generator is a collection of game screens with dialog or text that you can edit to make your own. The Pokémon one would have saved me so much time when I did these posts.

Bears will be Boys looks at how animals are gendered in books as well as by people in general.

Macrowave is a fascinating project. "...a native macOS and iOS app that makes it easy to share system audio with friends to listen to music together". And it looks incredible as well.

I've been playing around with using the 8BitDo Micro controller as an automation tool, like John talked about here on MacStories. I won't go into it too much, I'm saving that for Ruminate.

2025-07-08 22:02:53

This is a set of 0.5mm Pilot Juice pens in neon pink, green, and orange. "Planet Labyrinth" is the set name - theres also a set available called "Space Smash". The pink is gorgeous and the orange is wonderfully vibrant. The green is pretty disappointing though and hard to see at some angles (like my photo above). Here's a close up so you can see what it does look like. I think a 0.7mm tip might have been better for the green.

2025-07-08 06:28:42

I said in this post that I ordered the new 2025 Mildliners and they arrived this morning. These are some excellent colours and I'm amazed they've been able to find five new colours that are distinct from the existing 36 (now 41). Iris is particularly nice.

They were already on the Mildliner reference site and I've added them to my test page in the back of my journal:

These still haven't appeared on any of the sites I usually buy from but I assume they'll trickle into stock in the next few months.

2025-07-04 17:22:00

Lots of random things this week, no coherence, just chaos.

This interaction with Zoe made me laugh:

that photo is so you

stickers
marmite jar
monster
pens

the four genders

This isn't for me because I know I won't appreciate the albums it's going to give me, but 1001 Albums Generator looks like a fun project.

I stumbled upon Camp Snap a digital camera with no screen. I'm definitely going to pick one up as a fun thing to use with the kids.

These CSS Pokémon card effects are truly incredible.

I'm always wary of magical new software licenses but Cyber License looks vaguely interesting, if nothing else.

Version two of Mildliner reference led me to learn about preserveAspectRatio for SVGS. I also added support for Colorpeek and made a Mildliner SVG

I learnt from a colleague you can specify which branch to check out from when making a new branch in git. git checkout -b newBranchName main

Pocketcal is a fun project.

I just learnt the phrase Techno Kaigi from this From Carola video:

Loosely translated in Japanese, it is a journaling or planner meeting that you have (with yourself) where you reflect on what you’ve been using and whether you want to continue that into the next year

2025-07-04 03:31:20

It's been six months since my last /now post which is, to paraphrase Dan, really stetching the definition of "now".

In the previous post I said "I'm dipping my toe into bullet journaling" and I'm not just toe in now, I'm up to my neck in it. I was on the Pen Addict, I have a shit load of pens now, and I'm loving it. I'm about to move to a new journal having nearly filled up my current one (a Scribbles that Matter one if you're curious).

The stickers are still arriving in various places including New Zealand this morning but I'm very happy with how the whole thing went. I'm already thinking about doing another pack next year, or even set up a proper online store.

I bought a TRMNL (code robb15 for $15 off) and I love it. So much so I've made five plugins that are in the directory as well as a couple just for me. I wrote about it here.

I started Clarkson's Farm season four yesterday but that's the only thing I've watched in at least a month or so.

Baby Knight II is six months old now so she's onto eating food and moving to her own room this week. I can't wait to get rid of the Chico Next2Me from our bedroom.

I'm working on expanding the usefulness of EchoFeed to include rules which is being tested right now, profiles, and directly posting.

I'm also planning someone other KnightShift-related things but those are secret for now.

2025-07-01 05:48:45

A few days ago I was looking for some new sticky tabs to use in my journal to mark the start of months and some important pages but I wanted something more interesting that the usual crap you can get at any stationery shop.

I'd almost given up, ready to order some boring Post-It branded ones, when I happened upon some from a company called If, who have a range named Bookaroo. Their website says they are a direct-to-retailer company but they do sell direct on Amazon. They have a bunch of stuff, including this list notebook which I'm definitely getting, but I started by ordering these sticky tabs.

There are 40 in a pack, ten of each colour. This particular pack is called "Pastels, White" even though there is no white and they have three other colour packs available. They have a cartoony folder page edge design and they are very sturdy, much thicker than I'd expected.

Having said that I prefer these to the much more flimsy tabs I've been using. I don't feel like I'm going to accidentally rip these out when flipping to a page marked by one. They're £4 for a pack which, given it's going to take me months to get through 40 of them^[1], seems like a pretty decent price.