New Fully desk arrives next week 😎
Watching a bit of Expedition Volcano on iPlayer. Seriously impressive.
Hopefully I’ll get to test this lot out next week 😎
I really should have known better than to open the Creative Boom link 28 of the best online stationery shops for creatives in 2021 😎
Popped over to Pimoroni just to get a power supply, and ended up adding a few extras to the order 😎 Oops.
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 reading it. 📚 🚀
Might order a standing desk today. Narrowed it down to one manufacturer, now it’s just the desk size 🤔
Rewatching a bit of the Apollo 11 documentary before work - liftoff 🚀
“Missions” season 2 is now available on iPlayer in the UK. Season 1 was brilliant, can’t wait to watch this 🚀
Find of the week - RunJS. It’s like Tinkerwell but for JavaScript. No brainer purchase 😎
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 a “well, duh” moment.
Finally fixed the PHP highlighting issue with Sublime text 4 by removing the ES6 package. Happy highlights again 😎
Plan for the week: try and build an AppGyver MongoDB demo app. Should be fun 😎
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 round.
Starting season 2 of SeaQuest DSV 📺
Watching an episode of The X Files season one (“Fallen Angel”) with a brew. Just like lunchtime in high school 📺
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 📺
Picked up a Kirby CMS license yesterday for my new domain (fancied a change from WordPress). 20% off until today too, bonus 😎
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 the ending though). Nice little find via Facebook The History of Ulysses 31: A Worldwide Hit Barely Registered in the US.
I’ve had the MP3 of this for years, but of course somebody would have uploaded it to YouTube. William Gibson’s epic Neuromancer, dramatised by the BBC. H/T to The Loop for reminding me I had this - very jealous he managed to buy William Gibson a pint, I just met him briefly in Forbidden Planet Birmingham at the book singing for Idoru (the first day I ever skipped sixth form).
Every time I read something about LinkedIn I get the guilty feeling that I should actually do something with my profile. If Tobias Van Schneider is giving it a recommendation, maybe I should schedule some time.
Mixed emotions on the impending end of Flash. When I started my professional career back in 2001 Flash was a big deal, and I spent years building sites and product specifiers with it. Even now I’d defend the “Lego Technic” quality of the IDE, and how quickly you could get a proof of concept demo up and running. Shame that Adobe never went fully down that route. Are Technica has a good article here.
Some seriously great work here Womb Stories H/T Creative Boom.
LA fireworks filmed by drone, set to Blade Runner Main Titles by Vangelis.
Deep dives going on in Spotify this week. I was fortunate to catch Stabbing Westward on tour with White Zombie on the Astro-Creep tour. This was the single at the time, What Do I have To Do.
And sometimes after a long day making things, you just fancy listening to the track from Cars, Life Is A Highway.
Amazing how often a working day can dissolve into this kind of thing - Malcolm In The Middle, Hal changes a lightbulb.
The DUST podcast keeps getting better. I can’t seem to link to specific episodes but if short “immersive science fiction audio stories” are your thing, you need to check this out.
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs H/T The Register
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 the ending though). Nice little find via Facebook The History of Ulysses 31: A Worldwide Hit Barely Registered in the US.
I’ve had the MP3 of this for years, but of course somebody would have uploaded it to YouTube. William Gibson’s epic Neuromancer, dramatised by the BBC. H/T to The Loop for reminding me I had this - very jealous he managed to buy William Gibson a pint, I just met him briefly in Forbidden Planet Birmingham at the book singing for Idoru (the first day I ever skipped sixth form).
Every time I read something about LinkedIn I get the guilty feeling that I should actually do something with my profile. If Tobias Van Schneider is giving it a recommendation, maybe I should schedule some time.
Mixed emotions on the impending end of Flash. When I started my professional career back in 2001 Flash was a big deal, and I spent years building sites and product specifiers with it. Even now I’d defend the “Lego Technic” quality of the IDE, and how quickly you could get a proof of concept demo up and running. Shame that Adobe never went fully down that route. Are Technica has a good article here.
Some seriously great work here Womb Stories H/T Creative Boom.
LA fireworks filmed by drone, set to Blade Runner Main Titles by Vangelis.
Deep dives going on in Spotify this week. I was fortunate to catch Stabbing Westward on tour with White Zombie on the Astro-Creep tour. This was the single at the time, What Do I have To Do.
And sometimes after a long day making things, you just fancy listening to the track from Cars, Life Is A Highway.
Amazing how often a working day can dissolve into this kind of thing - Malcolm In The Middle, Hal changes a lightbulb.
The DUST podcast keeps getting better. I can’t seem to link to specific episodes but if short “immersive science fiction audio stories” are your thing, you need to check this out.
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs H/T The Register
