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.
2025-11-07 05:30:26
It's been a while since my last weeknote and it's fine - this is why I'm not committing to doing them weekly.
We are hurtling towards the end of the year and I realised I haven't been taking notes for my year in review post so I've hastily thrown some notes together but I'm sure I will miss something important when I eventually write it.
I don't have McDonald's all that often but I tried the garlic & black pepper nuggets last week - they were pretty good. I also had the Sakura Cherry Blossom × Sprite which was delicious.
On a note of better food, I've been trying to branch out a bit from the ten or so meals we always cook. I've been watching a bunch of Sip and Feast videos and tried out a couple of recipes, the first of which was this garlic butter chicken. The videos on Sip and Feast are really good, easy to follow and all the recipes are also on their website which is handy.
This has led me to assess my saucepans, frying pans, and other kitchen stuff and I am ready to replace everything with stainless steel - most of what we have is fairly cheap and some of it is falling apart. Pro Cook is the top candidate right now but I'm going to their shop at some point to have a proper look at it before I buy anything.
A few interesting videos I watched while on this food kick:
I have a big list of EchoFeed features and bugs to deal with that I will get to as soon as I have time so if you're waiting for a response from me, I apologise.
Les goddams is "an obsolete ethnic slur historically used by the French to refer to the English, based on their frequent profanities". History is fun.
Multipotentiality is a new word I learnt. Not sure when I'd ever use it though.
This collection of Hair Band letterings and logos is great.
Visconti Maze fountain pen is bonkers and I love it.
This pizza sticker is amazing via Nic
Top 80 Greatest Guitar Intros. Best or not, this is an impressive show of skill by this guy.
Little Link is "an open source DIY Linktree alternative". Handy.
This story about a snail "farmer" is wild.
I don't know how I'm going resist this font duo. Just look at it.
2025-10-31 20:29:32
After my adventures with getting okay at drawing I decided to have a go at participating in Inktober - one drawing every day for 31 days based on a prompt, the full list of which you can see here.
I did the first two prompts (mustache and weave) and then on the third day I stumbled upon a dinosaur character I quite liked, who I have named Jeff. He appeared in the next few drawings so I went back and redid them to feature Jeff. I love Jeff.
I love all my inky children equally but these are some of my favourites. I find it notable these are all after the halfway point of the month.
My John McClane one for day 15 "ragged" got a lot of traction and birthed this glorious "screenshot" from Die Hard:
Did I learn anything about myself or drawing or whatever? Yeah I did:
Now I've finished I feel a bit lost because I have no prompts but I have had an idea I want to try - Lost Americana has a logo for each track so I think I'm going to try and do the same thing for a different album, probably Meteora.
This also isn't the last of Jeff, he's featured in the November cover page of my journal:
And I'm working on a sticker based on the Sinclair Oil Corporation logo:
You can see all my inktober entries here. I guess I'm somewhat of an artist myself now.
2025-10-30 22:49:48
Myke was off this week so Brad asked me to fill in on episode 689 of The Pen Addict.
We caught up on what I've been up to since the last time I was on in March, how pens led me indirectly into drawing for St Jude and then Inktober. To wrap up toptober we did our top five stationery items of this year which included a discussion of our handwriting styles.
Listen to The Pen Addict 689: A Platypus Riding A Bicycle
Since recording I have ordered Diamine Claret, Brad is sending me a sample of Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsuji and Ben is sending me a sample of Robert Oster Hot Pink to try out in my Funky Town.
