I was about to praise Antigravity for doing better, but then it does something stupid... What words would you put in a word search when making a booklet called 'Days of the Week Word Searches', when specifically told to make one page for each day of the week with 3 different puzzles on each? 🧵

Why the lack of a Chat option is such a big deal in Antigravity... Maybe it's just me, but I like to understand what the code is doing. Sometimes you learn something new from what the AI spits out. 🧵

I've tried Antigravity and it has not replaced Cursor for my workflow. It's quite nice when it works, but seems geared for feature tackling and more hands off work. I won't say no to free tokens on Gemini's new model, so I'm now double IDE-ing 🤣 What irks me the most is:

I've not painted in some time. Due to: getting more writing done, parenting, and those extra road detours that life throws in for fun (not fun). BUT! Got in the studio the other day, grabbed three bottles of ink, and brush. I always lean towards cats. #kidlit #authorillustrator

A brief break in book updates and worksheet work... due to Cradle inspired cake activities 😅 Orthos & Little Blue

Out today in the UK is a new paperback printing of Children of Time, the 10th anniversary edition, including a brand new in-universe short story ‘Unbearable’ and some other bits and pieces. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

Wow! That could be amazing for wildfires. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdKhbbjn/

Book progress update! ✨ I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.

This book will be tested on children 🥼 ;) I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵

When kids are in the other room, what’s scarier: 👻 silence 😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...) Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?

I made a weekly workbook for my kids this week. Ask me anything 😄

I hate that I have read Asimov's wiki page.

I was going to write about what I’d do if I had to start again from scratch, but both parenting and the MDL site are still a work in progress. It’s also hard to detach some lessons learned from the experience that brought them about. But here’s a few things I wish I had done earlier:

We’ve been stuck in post-summer chaos, in need of a reset to our routine. I’ve been less consistent and the kids responded by avoiding the work more than usual. A bit more flexibility and variety in the activities will hopefully improve my results.

It’s autumn now. And I notice this because my routines are changing involuntarily. I spend more time holed up under blankets and less painting at my desk. Maybe I should pick up more digital work again cause that’s easier to do as a blanket burrito 😂 Expect more drawings from now on #Art

That was a cool fun fact video about (not really) NATO phonetic alphabet: youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?...

Worksheet update! The kids do love to insist on following the instructions to the letter, so when on occasion I asked them to write something else (or god forbid more!) it was like talking to a lawyer. Now the text is editable, directly in the worksheet creator for each new sheet. :) #devlog

Day 65 of making custom #mdlWorksheets. Working on our Polish vocabulary and some of the diacritics.

Day 66 of making custom #mdlWorksheets. Mazes and times tables! #worksheetsForKids #homework

I tried the Sora 2 video model, and while it's impressive, I still stand by the fact that humans are just better. cassidoo.co/post/moose-g...

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Day 62 of making custom #mdlWorksheets. More Cradle inspired colouring :D Some of the days of the week just don't seem to stick at all :(

Had a request for a different math activity today and DS decided he wants an erupting volcano with numbers on boulders. Both kids are doing number sorting at school so I could reuse these for both kids - one sheet with 1-20 and another with up to a thousand. #worksheets #mathHomework

Day 61 of making custom #mdlWorksheets. Big word season and misspellings activity for days of the week.

Day 58 of making custom #mdlWorksheets. Back to a trusty maze and examples of the -ck spelling since it was the first spelling problem we hit during the OG assessment.

Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image was code-named "Nano Banana." Everybody likes "Nano Banana" so much they kept calling it that. Now, it appears, even Google may be calling it "Nano Banana." www.reddit.com/r/singularit...

We've been practicing tracing to work on handwriting. But my son keeps rushing through them trying to single stroke the whole word. Even though I've said many times that it's not necessary. Anyone knows activities to break this habit? #homeschooling #dyslexiaSupport #handwriting

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. -Credits: NASA

Day 35 of making custom #worksheets for my son. He asked for more Cradle images for colouring. As reward for good work yesterday he got Orthos :D #spellingPractice

Surprisingly thoughtful take despite the title What screen time really does to children's brains - BBC News share.google/BbW6JacuiEon...

Hello, I am some sort of giant predator in an action film. Once I have encountered the human lead I will relentlessly pursue them through considerable personal risk, even taking on other large predators, despite a human being barely a mouthful for me.

Adorable little kitty… 🥰 🐈

That was a fun read, lol open.substack.com/pub/davebarr...

I think the only hope is that eventually they’ll run so many ‘inconclusive’ UBI trials that everyone will de facto be on UBI even though they won’t ever decide to implement it.

The reform party are nothing more complex than russian-funded and oil-company funded corrupt scumbags who are deliberately wrecking our country to line their own pockets. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Every one of them belongs in a cell. Or better still, lets deport them to Moscow.

Final week recap (took me a while...) dreamdevourer.com/bolt-hackath... #hackathon @bolt.new

always more money for war. always more money for cops. always more money for billionaires. always more money for tech corps. free busses? here's why that will never work!

please realize that allowing an app to have complete access to your phone’s photo library inevitably leads to this, which is why iOS keeps asking if you’re really sure you wanna allow it www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...

Got a month of boot.dev access in the latest Humble Choice. Would love to pass it along. Anyone interested?

Slowly starting to feel the pressure of the looming deadline 😂 dreamdevourer.com/bolt-hackath... @bolt.new #hackathon

Especially the conclusion really hits in this video. youtu.be/O5DpniToXq4?...

A design focused week, less hacky and more staring at cute pictures lol dreamdevourer.com/bolt-hackath... #hackathon @bolt.new

Interesting comparison: youtu.be/gACXOi_Hq9A?... #ai #design

I wish there were more creative approaches to learning like this www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…