2024-02-17: Thinking next week might be the time to try making something small with HTMX 🤔

2023-09-27: Never underestimate the way that making something work can make the day brighter. Also in related …

2023-09-12: Shaking off the Groundhog Day vibes with Astro Creep on the stereo, and some new code stuff later …

2023-09-06: Finally snagged myself a Newton 📷

2023-07-11: Sorting out a new Trello account tomorrow for the business, and making sure I schedule in training …

2023-06-30: Silo, episode 10. Going in.

2023-05-19: Considering it’s been a short week, I’ve got a lot done. Time for a beer.

2023-04-20: Finally getting round to watching the 2003 cut of Alien 3 📽

2023-04-12: Watching Top Gun Maverick before work. Looks good in 4k 📽

2023-03-22: Starting the day with Extrapolations episode 2 📺

2023-03-21: Goals for the week: move the new brandedPixels site along, try out Eleventy, play with some Flutter …

2023-02-23: Finally started watching “The Neon Demon”. Recorded from Film4 nearly two years ago, strange to see …

2023-02-21: Nothing like half remembering something you read last night, then being unsure if it was on …

2023-02-14: Watched Titanic at the cinema for the first time this century last night. The 4k transfer was …

2023-01-17: Sometimes it’s just a Bon Jovi “Slippery When Wet” turned up kind of morning 🎵

2023-01-08: Giving Clone Wars a go.

2023-01-06: Arc browser invite has arrived. Time for a test drive 😎

2023-01-01: Started watching Yellowstone 📺

2022-12-29: Finally watched Lightyear. That was fun 😎📽

2022-12-26: While I enjoy AAA games, I miss the simplicity of pick up and play. None of this “do the load out”, …

2022-12-17: Thinking 2023 might be the year to do some gunpla builds 🤔

2022-12-09: Just tried ChatGPT for the first time. That’s seriously cool.

2022-12-04: Keep thinking about spinning up my own Mastodon instance. Handy guide over here Host your own …

2022-12-03: Watched Gaz Brookfield at The Bodega in Nottingham last night. Great gig, he really puts on a show.🎵

2022-11-24: Finally watching Contagion.

2022-11-24: Depeche Mode playing, JavaScript to be written, and a ton of maths to implement. That’ll do 😎

2022-11-20: New day, new book. Love the film, thought it was about time I read it.

2022-11-08: Lunchtime viewing, “First Contact: An Alien Encounter”. Dramatisation and discussion on what …

2022-10-29: Well, hello 😎📷

2022-10-28: Just started The Peripheral on Prime.

2022-10-26: Starting the day with Hidden Figures 🚀

2022-10-14: Getting deeper into the Flutter learning path on raywenderlich.com today 😎

2022-09-14: Started watching “The Conversation” starring Gene Hackman. Definitely can see the connection to …

2022-08-31: Usual long trip around the streaming services for pre-work entertainment. Settled on Doom (again).

2022-08-29: Installing the Flutter SDK and IntelliJ on the MBP, playing a bit of Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels, …

2022-08-11: First album of the day: “Some Girls Wander By Mistake” by The Sisters Of Mercy 🎵

2022-08-04: Finally worked out why I think lyric videos are shit and make my brain itch. Or at least this is the …

2022-08-01: Switched from Sketch to Figma at the end of last week. Haven’t had chance to kick the tyres properly …

2022-07-24: Giving the new Resident Evil series a go 📺

2022-07-12: Taking time out to watch the @nasa JWST live stream.

2022-06-28: Watching Halo on Paramount+, enjoying it so far 📺

2022-06-25: Almost Famous was on the TV when we got home. One of those films I can watch from any point until …

2022-06-23: Just finished watching the first episode of “Strange New Worlds”. Wow 🚀

2022-06-20: Watching The Martian again 📽

2022-06-08: Just finished Night Sky season 1 on Prime. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I really enjoyed it 📺

2022-06-06: Time to finish my brew and make some new things.

2022-05-24: Rewatching some General Magic over lunchtime for some inspiration 📽

2022-05-21: “Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers” was everything I hoped and more. Highly recommended 😎

2022-05-20: Starting the day with the Blade Runner soundtrack 😔

2022-05-16: Watching Das Boot season 3. I should really get round to watching the film sometime.

2022-05-14: Bryan Adams kicked ass tonight 😎

2022-05-14: Bettleship on the TV, noodling with some JS in CodePen

2022-05-14: Apparently I’ve been an Adobe Creative Cloud customer for 10 years now.

2022-05-10: Latest edition of the Kirby newsletter has dropped. Always good content, whether you work with …

2022-05-10: Started watching Foundation this morning. I haven’t read the books, one episode in and I’m enjoying …

2022-05-07: Took a couple of days, but the new Mac Studio is all set for some hard work next week.

2022-05-04: 8 hours into migration with 10+ hours estimated to go, I really wish I’d thought ahead and bought a …

2022-04-29: Mac delivery postponed until Tuesday. Ah well, bit more time to sort the HD out.

2022-04-29: New desktop Mac should be arriving today, and it’s my first desktop since 1999 that …

2022-04-29: Long overdue iMac archive and delete session. This might take a while.

2022-04-21: Using @microsoftedge for the first time in a while - web select is a great new feature!

2022-04-16: “Let’s go back to the rock at see it at 440” 📽 The Andromeda Strain

2022-04-15:

2022-04-13: Started lunchtime with Star Wars Episode 9, then switched to Ex Machina 📽

2022-04-07: “This is Paul Cunningham, Capricorn Control” 📽

2022-04-05: Watching [Outland] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/) before work. Classic, and one of the …

2022-04-02: Just finished reading Freelancer Magazine issue 4. Essential reading for freelancers - a sign of a …

2022-03-31: The RocketBook was a bit of an impulse buy, but this week it’s been really useful. Meeting notes …

2022-03-30:

2022-03-30: Halt And Catch Fire is available on iTunes. Might have to invest 📺

2022-03-30: Really enjoying “The Billion Dollar Code” on Netflix 📺

2022-03-27: When you get home, turn on the TV and Chef hasn’t long started 🙂

2022-03-27: Watching Prometheus on Disney+. Got to say the combination of my AirPods Pro and Apple TV 4K is …

2022-03-18: Had a great day working on the new @brandedPixels website. I haven’t spent a day playing around with …

2022-03-13: Strong possibility of finally watching Ghostbusters Afterlife tonight…

2022-03-12: Mac #10 ordered - the first time since university/this century my desktop machine won’t be an iMac. …

2022-03-08: Broken ground on the (long overdue) new @brandedpixels website today. I’ve finally got something to …

2022-02-24: Listening to “Flood II” on Spotify and all of a sudden I wish I was in Whitby watching the sea with …

2021-12-28: Might have a noodle around with some SwiftUI tomorrow. Then again, I might watch my new “This Island …

2021-12-22: Now more than ever, Make Joyful Things

2021-12-01: Starting the day with Airwolf season 1, episode 2 😎

2021-11-06: Just signed up for a “Free Range Magazine” subscription with @PicsAndInk (curated indie magazines). …

2021-10-13: Public EV charging? No worries, take a book 📚

2021-09-22: Blake’s 7, day two, season 1, episode 4. Why haven’t I watched this before 🚀

2021-09-21: Just opened @snippetslab and it’s been updated. Nice! Snippets Lab for macOS

2021-09-16: Update macOS, reboot and lo and behold as regular as clockwork, “Adobe Creative Cloud is missing or …

2021-09-14: One of the best bits with indie software is finding things in the details. Hope the new version …

2021-09-11: On my own this morning, so I’ve watched one documentary, ordered work things, and added more browser …

2021-09-07: I’ve been waiting ages for this 📚

2021-09-07: Standing desk day 2: it’s brilliant, but I’ve got to flip it over and fit the cable management (that …

2021-09-01: Looks like creating that 81 page PDF proved a bit taxing today, followed by the inevitable “Creative …

2021-09-01: New Fully desk has arrived. Now it’s time to rearrange the studio so I have room to build it 😎

2021-08-28: Time for Extreme E qualifying 🏎️

2021-08-26: New Fully desk arrives next week 😎

2021-08-22: Watching a bit of Expedition Volcano on iPlayer. Seriously impressive.

2021-08-21: Hopefully I’ll get to test this lot out next week 😎

2021-08-17: I really should have known better than to open the Creative Boom link 28 of the best online …

2021-08-14: Popped over to Pimoroni just to get a power supply, and ended up adding a few extras to the order 😎 …

2021-08-11: Just had this arrive in the post from a friend I helped with some CSS bother. It’s been in my wish …

2021-08-10: Might order a standing desk today. Narrowed it down to one manufacturer, now it’s just the desk size …

2021-08-02: Rewatching a bit of the Apollo 11 documentary before work - liftoff 🚀

2021-07-29: “Missions” season 2 is now available on iPlayer in the UK. Season 1 was brilliant, …

2021-07-22: Find of the week - RunJS. It’s like Tinkerwell but for JavaScript. No brainer purchase 😎

2021-07-16: Just realised I can add new website feeds directly to NetNewsWire using the share sheet from the …

2021-07-14: Finally fixed the PHP highlighting issue with Sublime text 4 by removing the ES6 package. Happy …

2021-07-12: Plan for the week: try and build an AppGyver MongoDB demo app. Should be fun 😎

2021-07-10: I’ve decided to give micro.blog another try. I’ve been reading a lot more indie web recently and I’m …

2020-09-15: Starting season 2 of SeaQuest DSV 📺

2020-09-15: Watching an episode of The X Files season one (“Fallen Angel”) with a brew. Just like lunchtime in …

2020-08-11: Got to say, I’m really enjoying watching seaQuest DSV on the Horror Channel. I don’t think I’ve seen …

2020-07-12: Picked up a Kirby CMS license yesterday for my new domain (fancied a change from WordPress). 20% off …

2020-07-10: Friday link pack #9 The photo above is when I met William Gibson during his "Idoru" book tour, at Andromeda in …

2020-07-03: Friday link pack #8 The Bond themes that could have been. Michael Hawley has died. I hadn’t heard his name before (not …

2020-06-19: Finally bought myself a Raspberry Pi Cortec Rover from Pimoroni (sale on, 20% off!) 🤖

2020-06-16: 20 minutes or so left of Space Force. Really enjoyed it, hope it gets a season 2

2020-05-29: Friday link pack #7 The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names "Putting 100,000 dots or stick figures on a page …

2020-05-29: Missions, season 2 I watched season 1 of this on BBC Four in 2018. I didn’t know season 2 had been released, and …

2020-05-21: Another day, another domain bought. Wonder if I’ll get round to building anything on this one, …

2020-05-13: 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 …

2020-05-13: Just noticed season 3 of Somebody Feed Phil | Netflix Official Site lands on the 29th of May. Real …

2020-05-13: 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 …

2020-05-01: Friday link pack #5 CleanShot X for Mac This screenshot/video capture tool is great - even lets you capture scrolling …

2020-05-01: Dog walking in the rain

2020-04-29: 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 …

2020-04-17: Friday link pack #4 Future Crunch seriously nailed it in this week’s edition. So much good stuff in there, but here are …

2020-04-15: Just caught the first episode of DEVS. Yup, I’m hooked.

2020-04-15: Seriously great edition from Future Crunch in the inbox today. If you haven’t heard of them "We are …

2020-04-10: Done some work, time for a film or two. “Reign Of Fire” is first up 🎥

2020-04-04: Totally missed that season 2 of Cosmos started on National Geographic UK last Sunday. Catch up TV is …

2020-04-03: Friday link pack #3 Location data of phones on a Florida beach during Spring Break via The Loop Life size pizza table …

2020-03-29: Just finished the last episode of Picard. Damn that was good 🚀📺

2020-03-29: First film of the day - Tomorrowland 🍿

2020-03-29: Trying to decide between watching “The Thing” or the 70s version of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” …

2020-03-28: Time for a bit of Doom Eternal 🎮

2020-03-27: Thinking about my phone, one thing I’d really like is if the layout changed over the day - “you’re …

2020-03-27: Friday link pack #2 Nintendo Customer Support Goes Above And Beyond For 95-Year-Old Grandma's Busted Game Boy Nine Inch …

2020-03-27: Starting the morning with some pre-work Disney+ action. Time for The Phantom Menace 📽

2020-03-25: Starting the day off with Europe “Out Of This World” 🎵

2020-03-24: Watching “The Imagineering Story” 📺

2020-03-24: Mockoon - run mock APIs locally I’ve been working through “Building Forms with Vue.js” by Marina Mosti, and a tool she mentioned to …

2020-03-23: Outside one of the local pubs (seen while dog walking).

2020-03-20: Friday link pack #1 Flight 008, a multi-part science fiction story Following on from the XPrize “Seat 14C” science …

2020-03-20: 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. …

2020-03-19: "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 …

2020-03-19: Flea has a book club! So with lockdowns/isolation/home working rampant, I thought I’d post some things that I’ve found …

2020-03-19: Ok here goes. After listening to a lot of the @monday micro.monday podcasts in the last week, and …