This is also a much better thing to receive as a creative than a hyper detailed AI image. The less detail added to the core concept the better.

got an award from my client at their xmas party

Thank you to whoever designed the new Scrabble app that is actually just Scrabble and not loads of other crap

William Kentridge's 'Singer Trio' at Yorkshire Sculpture park earlier this year.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

This morning kiddo gave me a tour of of all the things she’s been secretly building in Minecraft whenever she’s playing alone 🥹

Spotify wrapped is really reminding me I need to switch... last I looked Tidal seemed like the best recommendation for streaming in terms of catalogue, quality and artist share. Any opinions on that? I try to also support artists as much as possible in other ways but Spotify gotta go

weird professional moment while snacking as I reviewed a website for 2026 updates and realised that the snack was actually made by the client and had the web address I was looking at written on the side

There’s a nice ice shader applied to the tops of the cars this morning.

Hard drive kept randomly filling itself up — turns out the culprit was Apple's 'Intelligent Download Assets' service... it got stuck downloading Apple Intelligence bullshit and filled my disk with 380gb of incomplete downloads.

the trick to perfect poached eggs is you just leave them inside the shell

Really insightful (and well produced) video from Tim looking at electronic music and systems that connect rather than divide us... a timely perspective. Technology can and should be a tool for building bridges and shared culture.

I was interviewed for a podcast for the first time. Beforehand I felt strong imposter syndrome and afterwards I am worried I will sound arrogant and didn't say anything interesting. So... that's what that's like.

A great article on 'one thing per page' grillopress.github.io/2019/01/31/o...

don’t mess with me, I’m cosy as fuck

Going to see Robert Henke talk and then perform this evening on 'the complex relationship between creating art and building the tools necessary for it' yes yes yes 🤓

love receiving code generated by LLMs from non-technical clients 'co-pilot says just use this!' so you want my workflow to be you talk to co-pilot, send me code that I implement, then I tell you it's not working, you tell co-pilot and so on yeah? great great great cool

for the next few weeks I'm dedicating my life to telling people to watch the clipping tiny desk

song

sometimes I find things from the pandemic on my computer and it feels like a fever dream

Thought this was pretty clever from Discord, not just telling you about the feature but letting you actually use it before subscribing to confirm changes. Not that I'm going to but props.

I bet it feels good to be a little piece of salmon on a tiny rice bed

this house is home to the long standing legend of the dinner man, a character I invented to dissociate from the process of making the dinner

it's nice to have friends who put your nonsensical voice messages to good use

Congrats to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of the Green Party! Excited to see this play out 💚

iOS 26 is ok if you reduce transparency and motion in accessibility that is my full review

Buskers make our city vibrant but too often they’re pushed out. It was great to get out on the streets with the musicians & artists. They deserve safe, accessible spaces to perform. Sign the petition with @wearethemu.bsky.social urging Westminster Council to Back The Buskers.

your inner wolf is a duck

Amit Sheen shows us even more corner-shape goodness. We’re really spoiled with CSS now. frontendmasters.com/blog/underst...

look I’ll defend your right to be a silly billy with my life, but the moment you start acting like a nincompoop you’re outta here ok?

serious business

that kinda stuff

Family visiting from Tokyo! So excited to see them... today was my last proper day of work til 26th August while I spend quality time with them 🥰

I joined the Green Party today to support @zackpolanski.bsky.social for leader. I’ve voted Green a few times but never been a member. It’s only £60/year or £6/13 for concessions/low income. Zack is genuinely progressive across many of the issues that matter to me, I encourage you to check him out!

I'm strongly of the opinion that if you're invested in the outcome of this election (and most trans people are), you should join and vote. Democracy is more than just ticking a box every five years. #BackZack

just found a note I made this morning while still half asleep, of a memory from a dream

why did nobody tell me there are new strange new worlds episodes out? 🤩

FlowFest 2024 was definitely one of those events you can't stop talking about, which is why I can't wait for FlowFest 2025! Picture a day of knowledge bombs, animation & design magic from incredible speakers, set against a backdrop of steel drums, festival games, food, drink, and... some sun 🌞(🤞)!

The web design event everyone's talking about is back! 🎉 🗓️ FlowFest 2025 | Friday 8th August | Manchester If you missed last year's incredible community gathering, this is your chance to be part of something special. flowfest.co.uk 🧵👇1/3 #FlowFest25 #Webflow

incredible booth setup for the pride ‘double ended disco’ night

holy shit minutephysics just dropped a half hour about harmonic dissonance the first minute he's got a 3D graph of dissonance-space 🤓🤓 trt: 27:58

All the pieces are coming together nicely for our little one day festival style Webflow conference in Manchester, 8th August — last year was a blast! Tickets only £60 and still a few left: www.flowfest.co.uk (beautiful site brought to life by Osmo)

visiting relative said at family dinner tonight "your generation didn't have a woodstock" and i said "yes we did"

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

Had the pleasure of beta testing this and really excited to start using it in production builds — absolute game changer, especially with the stuff they’re planning down the line.

honestly we're best mates, I just love him, I would hang out with him all the time even if he wasn't acquiring my company for $6.5 billion

flying ant day seems to have arrived 2 weeks early

morning

they made a dark chocolate version of my favourite biscuit, so I have a new favourite biscuit now

did a bit of this the other day