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Jun 28, 2025: The only problem with catching up on RSS feeds over the weekend is the amount of “wow cool, let’s check that out Monday” tabs it generates 😎

Jun 24, 2025:

Jun 21, 2025: So after a year off I’ve reactivated my micro.blog account. I really want to redo my personal site, and “I’ll do that this week” hasn’t panned out. I …

Apr 16, 2024: Seriously loving Obsidian Canvas this week. Had a couple of things to fix, and it’s been a great place to throw things around. Think it’s a keeper.

Mar 26, 2024: Kirby CMS, day 1 Well it’s not really day one. I bought Kirby v3 back in 2020 according to the license hub, but so far I haven’t managed to build anything. The real …

Feb 17, 2024: Thinking next week might be the time to try making something small with HTMX 🤔

Sep 27, 2023: Never underestimate the way that making something work can make the day brighter. Also in related news, take notes 🤣

Sep 12, 2023: Shaking off the Groundhog Day vibes with Astro Creep on the stereo, and some new code stuff later on.

Sep 6, 2023: Finally snagged myself a Newton 📷

Sep 5, 2023: So, it's been a while Time for an overhaul. I probably won't get to it until early next year the way work is at the moment, but it's time to consolidate a few things, maybe …

Jul 11, 2023: Sorting out a new Trello account tomorrow for the business, and making sure I schedule in training time - so much I want to try out. More padding is …

Jun 30, 2023: Silo, episode 10. Going in.

May 19, 2023: Considering it’s been a short week, I’ve got a lot done. Time for a beer.

Apr 20, 2023: Finally getting round to watching the 2003 cut of Alien 3 📽

Apr 12, 2023: Watching Top Gun Maverick before work. Looks good in 4k 📽

Mar 22, 2023: Starting the day with Extrapolations episode 2 📺

Mar 21, 2023: Goals for the week: move the new brandedPixels site along, try out Eleventy, play with some Flutter code…

Feb 23, 2023: Finally started watching “The Neon Demon”. Recorded from Film4 nearly two years ago, strange to see the “stay safe, stay home, save lives” lockdown …

Feb 21, 2023: Nothing like half remembering something you read last night, then being unsure if it was on micro.blog, RSS, Mastodon, or a newsletter. Found it in …

Feb 14, 2023: Watched Titanic at the cinema for the first time this century last night. The 4k transfer was perfect, and the 3D worked well. Still an amazing film. …

Jan 17, 2023: Sometimes it’s just a Bon Jovi “Slippery When Wet” turned up kind of morning 🎵

Jan 8, 2023: Giving Clone Wars a go.

Jan 6, 2023: Arc browser invite has arrived. Time for a test drive 😎

Jan 1, 2023: Started watching Yellowstone 📺

Dec 30, 2022: Finally watched Lightyear. That was fun 😎📽

Dec 26, 2022: While I enjoy AAA games, I miss the simplicity of pick up and play. None of this “do the load out”, or “you’ve unlocked a celebration move” crap.

Dec 17, 2022: Thinking 2023 might be the year to do some gunpla builds 🤔

Dec 9, 2022: Just tried ChatGPT for the first time. That’s seriously cool.

Dec 4, 2022: Keep thinking about spinning up my own Mastodon instance. Handy guide over here Host your own Mastodon instance on a Raspberry Pi

Dec 3, 2022: Watched Gaz Brookfield at The Bodega in Nottingham last night. Great gig, he really puts on a show.🎵

Nov 24, 2022: Finally watching Contagion.

Nov 24, 2022: Depeche Mode playing, JavaScript to be written, and a ton of maths to implement. That’ll do 😎

Nov 20, 2022: New day, new book. Love the film, thought it was about time I read it.

Nov 8, 2022: Lunchtime viewing, “First Contact: An Alien Encounter”. Dramatisation and discussion on what discovering alien life might be like.

Oct 29, 2022: Well, hello 😎📷

Oct 28, 2022: Just started The Peripheral on Prime.

Oct 26, 2022: Starting the day with Hidden Figures 🚀

Oct 14, 2022: Getting deeper into the Flutter learning path on raywenderlich.com today 😎

Sep 14, 2022: Started watching “The Conversation” starring Gene Hackman. Definitely can see the connection to “Enemy Of The State”. 📽

Aug 31, 2022: Usual long trip around the streaming services for pre-work entertainment. Settled on Doom (again).

Aug 29, 2022: Installing the Flutter SDK and IntelliJ on the MBP, playing a bit of Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels, but mostly just waiting for the Artemis launch 🚀

Aug 11, 2022: First album of the day: “Some Girls Wander By Mistake” by The Sisters Of Mercy 🎵

Aug 5, 2022: Finally worked out why I think lyric videos are shit and make my brain itch. Or at least this is the way forward. Watch an ABBA video. Depth of field. …

Aug 1, 2022: Switched from Sketch to Figma at the end of last week. Haven’t had chance to kick the tyres properly yet, but looks good.

Jul 24, 2022: Giving the new Resident Evil series a go 📺

Jul 12, 2022: Taking time out to watch the @nasa JWST live stream.

Jun 28, 2022: Watching Halo on Paramount+, enjoying it so far 📺

Jun 25, 2022: Almost Famous was on the TV when we got home. One of those films I can watch from any point until the end 😎

Jun 23, 2022: Just finished watching the first episode of “Strange New Worlds”. Wow 🚀

Jun 20, 2022: Watching The Martian again 📽

Jun 8, 2022: Just finished Night Sky season 1 on Prime. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I really enjoyed it 📺

Jun 6, 2022: Time to finish my brew and make some new things.

May 24, 2022: Rewatching some General Magic over lunchtime for some inspiration 📽

May 21, 2022: “Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers” was everything I hoped and more. Highly recommended 😎

May 20, 2022: Starting the day with the Blade Runner soundtrack 😔

May 16, 2022: Watching Das Boot season 3. I should really get round to watching the film sometime.

May 14, 2022: Bryan Adams kicked ass tonight 😎

May 14, 2022: Bettleship on the TV, noodling with some JS in CodePen

May 14, 2022: Apparently I’ve been an Adobe Creative Cloud customer for 10 years now.

May 10, 2022: Latest edition of the Kirby newsletter has dropped. Always good content, whether you work with @getkirby CMS or not.

May 10, 2022: Started watching Foundation this morning. I haven’t read the books, one episode in and I’m enjoying it.

May 7, 2022: Took a couple of days, but the new Mac Studio is all set for some hard work next week.

May 4, 2022: 8 hours into migration with 10+ hours estimated to go, I really wish I’d thought ahead and bought a Thunderbolt cable. Still, it’s been nice to work …

Apr 29, 2022: Mac delivery postponed until Tuesday. Ah well, bit more time to sort the HD out.

Apr 29, 2022: New desktop Mac should be arriving today, and it’s my first desktop since 1999 that isn’t an iMac. Ever since I replaced my first Mac …

Apr 29, 2022: Long overdue iMac archive and delete session. This might take a while.

Apr 21, 2022: Using @microsoftedge for the first time in a while - web select is a great new feature!

Apr 16, 2022: “Let’s go back to the rock at see it at 440” 📽 The Andromeda Strain

Apr 15, 2022:

Apr 13, 2022: Started lunchtime with Star Wars Episode 9, then switched to Ex Machina 📽

Apr 7, 2022: “This is Paul Cunningham, Capricorn Control” 📽

Apr 5, 2022: Watching [Outland] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/) before work. Classic, and one of the greatest fonts on screen. Chunky. Means business.

Apr 2, 2022: Just finished reading Freelancer Magazine issue 4. Essential reading for freelancers - a sign of a good magazine is a browser full of new tabs 😎 …

Mar 31, 2022: The RocketBook was a bit of an impulse buy, but this week it’s been really useful. Meeting notes direct to Dropbox? Sorted.

Mar 30, 2022:

Mar 30, 2022: Halt And Catch Fire is available on iTunes. Might have to invest 📺

Mar 30, 2022: Really enjoying “The Billion Dollar Code” on Netflix 📺

Mar 27, 2022: When you get home, turn on the TV and Chef hasn’t long started 🙂

Mar 27, 2022: Watching Prometheus on Disney+. Got to say the combination of my AirPods Pro and Apple TV 4K is brilliant 😎

Mar 18, 2022: Had a great day working on the new @brandedPixels website. I haven’t spent a day playing around with Sketch for a long time 😎

Mar 13, 2022: Strong possibility of finally watching Ghostbusters Afterlife tonight…

Mar 12, 2022: Mac #10 ordered - the first time since university/this century my desktop machine won’t be an iMac. Bring it on 😎

Mar 8, 2022: Broken ground on the (long overdue) new @brandedpixels website today. I’ve finally got something to use my first @getkirby license on 😎

Feb 24, 2022: Listening to “Flood II” on Spotify and all of a sudden I wish I was in Whitby watching the sea with a beer.

Dec 28, 2021: Might have a noodle around with some SwiftUI tomorrow. Then again, I might watch my new “This Island Earth” Blu-ray 🤔

Dec 22, 2021: Now more than ever, Make Joyful Things

Dec 1, 2021: Starting the day with Airwolf season 1, episode 2 😎

Nov 6, 2021: Just signed up for a “Free Range Magazine” subscription with @PicsAndInk (curated indie magazines). More to read!

Oct 13, 2021: Public EV charging? No worries, take a book 📚

Sep 22, 2021: Blake’s 7, day two, season 1, episode 4. Why haven’t I watched this before 🚀

Sep 21, 2021: Just opened @snippetslab and it’s been updated. Nice! Snippets Lab for macOS

Sep 16, 2021: Update macOS, reboot and lo and behold as regular as clockwork, “Adobe Creative Cloud is missing or damaged, click repair”.

Sep 14, 2021: One of the best bits with indie software is finding things in the details. Hope the new version comes soon to iOS, @soulver is brilliant.

Sep 11, 2021: On my own this morning, so I’ve watched one documentary, ordered work things, and added more browser tabs to review on Monday. I think I need some …

Sep 7, 2021: I’ve been waiting ages for this 📚

Sep 7, 2021: Standing desk day 2: it’s brilliant, but I’ve got to flip it over and fit the cable management (that I forgot). Seriously impressed with the quality 😎

Sep 1, 2021: Looks like creating that 81 page PDF proved a bit taxing today, followed by the inevitable “Creative Cloud needs a repair - again” 🤣

Sep 1, 2021: New Fully desk has arrived. Now it’s time to rearrange the studio so I have room to build it 😎

Aug 28, 2021: Time for Extreme E qualifying 🏎️

Aug 26, 2021: New Fully desk arrives next week 😎

Aug 22, 2021: Watching a bit of Expedition Volcano on iPlayer. Seriously impressive.

Aug 21, 2021: Hopefully I’ll get to test this lot out next week 😎

Aug 17, 2021: I really should have known better than to open the Creative Boom link 28 of the best online stationery shops for creatives in 2021 😎

Aug 14, 2021: Popped over to Pimoroni just to get a power supply, and ended up adding a few extras to the order 😎 Oops.

Aug 12, 2021: Just had this arrive in the post from a friend I helped with some CSS bother. It’s been in my wish list for a while, and I’m really looking forward to …

Aug 10, 2021: Might order a standing desk today. Narrowed it down to one manufacturer, now it’s just the desk size 🤔

Aug 2, 2021: Rewatching a bit of the Apollo 11 documentary before work - liftoff 🚀

Jul 29, 2021: “Missions” season 2 is now available on iPlayer in the UK. Season 1 was brilliant, can’t wait to watch this 🚀

Jul 22, 2021: Find of the week - RunJS. It’s like Tinkerwell but for JavaScript. No brainer purchase 😎

Jul 16, 2021: Just realised I can add new website feeds directly to NetNewsWire using the share sheet from the browser on iOS. That simplifies things, but it’s also …

Jul 14, 2021: Finally fixed the PHP highlighting issue with Sublime text 4 by removing the ES6 package. Happy highlights again 😎

Jul 12, 2021: Plan for the week: try and build an AppGyver MongoDB demo app. Should be fun 😎

Jul 10, 2021: I’ve decided to give micro.blog another try. I’ve been reading a lot more indie web recently and I’m wondering if I just didn’t “get it” first time …

Sep 15, 2020: Starting season 2 of SeaQuest DSV 📺

Sep 15, 2020: Watching an episode of The X Files season one (“Fallen Angel”) with a brew. Just like lunchtime in high school 📺

Aug 11, 2020: Got to say, I’m really enjoying watching seaQuest DSV on the Horror Channel. I don’t think I’ve seen it since the original run 📺

Jul 12, 2020: Picked up a Kirby CMS license yesterday for my new domain (fancied a change from WordPress). 20% off until today too, bonus 😎

Jul 10, 2020: Friday link pack #9 The photo above is when I met William Gibson during his "Idoru" book tour, at Andromeda in Birmingham, 1997. Loved Ulysses 31 as a kid (can’t remember …

Jul 3, 2020: Friday link pack #8 The Bond themes that could have been. Michael Hawley has died. I hadn’t heard his name before (not that I can recollect anyway) but wow, what a life: …

Jun 19, 2020: Finally bought myself a Raspberry Pi Cortec Rover from Pimoroni (sale on, 20% off!) 🤖

Jun 16, 2020: 20 minutes or so left of Space Force. Really enjoyed it, hope it gets a season 2

May 29, 2020: Friday link pack #7 The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names "Putting 100,000 dots or stick figures on a page “doesn’t really tell you very much about who these …

May 29, 2020: Missions, season 2 I watched season 1 of this on BBC Four in 2018. I didn’t know season 2 had been released, and both are on Prime! It’s French with …

May 21, 2020: Another day, another domain bought. Wonder if I’ll get round to building anything on this one, or if it’s just another “good idea …

May 13, 2020: Friday link pack #6 Cozy Lego I’ve never heard the term before I listened to the tested.com “This Is A Test” podcast but wow these photos look amazing. Words don’t do it …

May 13, 2020: Just noticed season 3 of Somebody Feed Phil | Netflix Official Site lands on the 29th of May. Real feel good 📺

May 13, 2020: Quick link to some useful dev tools Fayaz Ahmed has posted a great list over on dev.to “I am surprised more people are not using these tools!!”. Some really nice inclusions for API, HTML …

May 1, 2020: Friday link pack #5 CleanShot X for Mac This screenshot/video capture tool is great - even lets you capture scrolling regions intelligently. Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic …

May 1, 2020: Dog walking in the rain

Apr 29, 2020: NASA and the Open Source Rover This made me smile so much last night. NASA JPL has created a website where you can drive a rover in 3D (works perfectly on mobile too), plus it also …

Apr 17, 2020: Friday link pack #4 Future Crunch seriously nailed it in this week’s edition. So much good stuff in there, but here are some of their quick links from near the end of the …

Apr 15, 2020: Just caught the first episode of DEVS. Yup, I’m hooked.

Apr 15, 2020: Seriously great edition from Future Crunch in the inbox today. If you haven’t heard of them "We are a group of scientists, artists, researchers and …

Apr 10, 2020: Done some work, time for a film or two. “Reign Of Fire” is first up 🎥

Apr 4, 2020: Totally missed that season 2 of Cosmos started on National Geographic UK last Sunday. Catch up TV is an amazing thing 📺

Apr 3, 2020: Friday link pack #3 Location data of phones on a Florida beach during Spring Break via The Loop Life size pizza table and meatball pizza via Under Consideration …

Mar 29, 2020: Just finished the last episode of Picard. Damn that was good 🚀📺

Mar 29, 2020: First film of the day - Tomorrowland 🍿

Mar 29, 2020: Trying to decide between watching “The Thing” or the 70s version of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” 🤔🎥

Mar 28, 2020: Time for a bit of Doom Eternal 🎮

Mar 27, 2020: Thinking about my phone, one thing I’d really like is if the layout changed over the day - “you’re done with work for the day, let’s shuffle those …

Mar 27, 2020: Friday link pack #2 Nintendo Customer Support Goes Above And Beyond For 95-Year-Old Grandma's Busted Game Boy Nine Inch Nails make Ghosts V-VI available for free …

Mar 27, 2020: Starting the morning with some pre-work Disney+ action. Time for The Phantom Menace 📽

Mar 25, 2020: Starting the day off with Europe “Out Of This World” 🎵

Mar 24, 2020: Watching “The Imagineering Story” 📺

Mar 24, 2020: Mockoon - run mock APIs locally I’ve been working through “Building Forms with Vue.js” by Marina Mosti, and a tool she mentioned to use was an open source free API simulator called …

Mar 23, 2020: Outside one of the local pubs (seen while dog walking).

Mar 20, 2020: Friday link pack #1 Flight 008, a multi-part science fiction story Following on from the XPrize “Seat 14C” science fiction competition from 2017. "Eleven of the biggest …

Mar 20, 2020: We are waves of the same sea I meant to post this a while back (pre-vaccine release), but it was left languishing in the drafts. If you read one thing today, this newsletter from …

Mar 19, 2020: "One day I'll create a proper blog for myself" Yeah. One day. When I get a spare hour or two. When I decide which static site generator I want to use. After a long time reading other indie blogs I …

Mar 19, 2020: Flea has a book club! So with lockdowns/isolation/home working rampant, I thought I’d post some things that I’ve found which are totally unrelated to coronavirus. There are …

Mar 19, 2020: Ok here goes. After listening to a lot of the @monday micro.monday podcasts in the last week, and seeing my Facebook feed turn more anxious I've …

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