Do love a sunset on the coast
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Short, quick thoughts and comments.
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Our long weekend away started with dinner in The Chequers. Jam rolly-polly and custard for pud and now looking forward to a bag of Space Raiders at tomorrows tuck time to complete the school nostalgia.
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Bookmark: Command Line Interface Guidelines — Simple layout, presents longform content in a readable way. Clear sticky headers and side nav to jump to content. Love the use of iA Writer Duospace and Editorial New
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Coming to realise that if your design system documentation looks, behaves and performs better than the products you are serving, thats adoption not being met and thats a problem.
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My first time experiencing a Wassailing this weekend where tradition dictates that we bless the health of the orchard in the hopes that they thrive and provide a good harvest.
This involves a Wassail King (or Queen) leading the processional song and activities including Morris Men dances and song, lighting bonfires and ends with a big round of noise from the crowd (this could be hitting pots and pans or generally shouting), as far as I can understand this was to ward off bad spirits that may ruin a crop.
Looking forward to next year! Heres to a good 2023 crop.
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New Walkman (yes, its the early 2000's calling but what a beaut!): Sony Walkman NW-ZX707
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Listening: Previewing Tropic Morning News from the upcoming First Two Pages of Frankenstein — The National. Much of the same, which is no bad thing.
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Tempted by the new Macbook Pro with M2 Pro or M2 Max chip. I'm keen by the M2 Max but debating the need for all that power, especially for digital design and development projects. But I do want to experiement with 3D... Something to noodle on.
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Enjoying the return of Winterwatch on the BBC. Once the bike is sorted I'm looking forward to getting out there with the camera and seeing what I can find around our new area.
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I always love KEXP sessions but their latest with The Smile was extra special. 10/10
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Really enjoying taking notes on the fly like this. I'm expecting this space to be where I post thoughts the most so I do need a better way of organising them, but also a better way of posting. A while ago I was playing around with posting a note via SMS using Twilio and IndieKit — I must reopen that and give it another go.
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Finished A Clash of Kings — some clear differences from the TV adaption but nothing which has impacted the overall story as yet. I enjoyed this more than A Game of Thrones but that was mainly because of the lack of difference between the TV and book adoptions. I do wish I read the books first but there you go. On to A Storm of Swords!
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We've just posted Lotties Wisdom Panel DNA kit after much fussing to get the swabs in her mouth for cheek cell samples. Not sure what to expect but looking forward to getting the results back nonetheless.
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For almost a month I've been playing around with the early access release of Cron — touted as the next generation of calendar apps for professionals and teams. The experience is overall improved from Google but I'm not yet convinced that this will completely "change the game". I have been using it as an individual so next steps is to see how it plays with my work calendar.
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Got access to the TestFlight alpha of Ivory by Tapbots — a few hours usage and its the subtle details which are making my Mastodon experience so much better: A clearer user experience, tighter leading on the typography (I wonder if this could be a setting to change for folks) and pleasant transitions between states.
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Very excited to dive in to the Paul Nicklen Masters of Photography course — one of my all-time favourite nature photographers.
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Just listened to episode 200 of the Adam Buxton podcast and my word, that impromptu David Bowie rap towards the end by a very special guest — hilarious!
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What better way to break in my new Rega Planar 3 than with Kelly Lee Owens self-titled LP.
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2021 marks 25 years since the first Mission Impossible film and coincidentally when Tom Cruise’s “Dorian Gray painting” was finally completed. 🍿
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Farewell Adobe Flash (although it will always be Macromedia Flash to me). For a lot of digital designers out there it taught us so much about the importance of animation, movement and the sheer amount of diverse interaction you could create. Such an important piece of kit.
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Excited to finally be able to talk about this: Introducing Twilio Frontline now in private beta.
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UK reality TV: Too much squashing, not enough quashing.
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So much to think about and unpack after watching Extinction: The Facts.
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Really enjoying using LiebeHeide on a personal project. This wonderful handwritten font also reminds me I need to finish another little experiment of converting my own handwriting to an OpenType format.
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Spending a lot of my recovery time reading about how to build a concrete base for a shed. A wasted childhood not paying attention to my dad is really starting to show!
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Day 2 of gallbladder removal recovery. Not much sleep and feeling particularly sore. Note to self: take painkillers before bedtime.
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The first few lines I find when reading up about general anaesthetic — "It's not clear exactly how it works...". Human nature in a sentence right there.
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Got the go-ahead to use Basier — a gem of a sans serif — on a new brand and site design 👌🏼
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If this works then this post will have come from IA Writer to my personal site 🤞🏼
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The latest hack on Twitter has got me thinking again about the Indie Web community and the strong mission they’re taking with owning your content and syndicating it where you want it. Exploring more into this...
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