A little bit obsessed with these visualisations of reachable colour in #watercolor sets.

I wanted to visualise the colours that commonly available #watercolour palettes are able to reach (part of a feature I'm working on for my app Undertint). For fun, I've made a tool to compare them side-by-side. I think they're rather lovely in their own right. justin.stach.uk/palette-spac...

On mapping colour... justin.stach.uk/mapping-a-pa...

If there was a copyright claim against these listings, eBay would have these down in minutes.

Playing with a new feature for Undertint: does my palette enable me to be paint a desired range of colours.

Conceding that perhaps today the butter may indeed need to go in the fridge.

As the UK takes in its newest PM, get ready for a miracle. All of the country’s deep-seated problems are about to completely vanish into thin air thanks to the new guy's "charisma"... 🧵

“People who know me think I’m ghastly”

another big one for me is how extreme wealth inequality less a moral issue and more a security risk so much money that you're insulated from every conceivable fuckup demonstrably makes you stupid like the power to drag the entire world off a cliff with you and be the only one with a parachute

Solid and thoughtful. And I couldn’t agree more with, ‘Any platform that uses an algorithm more complex than ‘people you follow in chronological order’ to be treated as a publisher, and held to account for content’.

Interesting that Starmer, like Corbyn seems to elicit the same visceral but never explicable reaction from normal folks. Makes me wonder just what is it about Labour leaders that prevents them clicking with the general public.

Please read this if you want to think clearly about the issue

My latest project, “Tatebanko” (Mac, iPad, iPhone) to create interactive paper dioramas. Shown is a Hokusai tatebanko from @mfaboston.bsky.social Author shapes and folds, then build! Trace-to-cut, pinch-to-fold, and drag-to-position in an adjustable 3D scene. Sugoi!

All this and still we don’t treat the social media platforms as publishers. Unbelievable.

Got App Store approval for v1.2 of my watercolour tools app Undertint. If you’re learning how to paint and have grown out of tutorials it might be of interest. It helps you learn how to mix the colours you see. Free, with lifetime one-time purchase Pro features. apps.apple.com/gb/app/under...

Still thinking about Backrooms. Might have to go and watch it again.

My fellow North Devonians will be interested to know this beauty was tested on Westward Ho! beach.

RETVRN

Back Rooms is very good, but even better was the two incredibly freaked out people frozen in the cinema’s dark exit corridor because they were trying to push the door open from the hinge side.

The Circle Of Life

When someone starts talking about unorthodox ways to deal with tax, you can be sure there’s Freemen of the Land or Sovereign Citizens coming up next. And sure enough…

I agree. He's made silly mistakes but the actual data proves that the economy is improving (despite a world in turmoil), immigration is down (despite what reform would like you to believe) and we're building closer ties to the EU. Not extreme enough for the left or the right though.

EQer is my app that customises your system audio based on your hearing profile, allowing you to enjoy music at its fullest. Recent improvements: - improved processing - transition audio on changes - passthrough mode - new Outputs layout apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

Beyond surreal for a *Green* party to be advocating for fossil fuel subsidies that would directly harm the poorest people in the world.

It's taken about a year but I restocked the Seafoam mug department.

The fucking people who spent three years telling us Biden was reckless fool because every Humvee begrudgingly sent to Ukraine could force Putin to nuke the world are now like, "WE THOUGHT THEY HAD NUKES, SO WE BOMBED THEIR LEADERS A BIT IN THE HOPES THEY'D BE CHILL."

Fun fact. There are no state school educated people working in corporate strategy.

EQer is particularly brilliant for the older gentleman who may have attended a few too many gigs.

Built Markset: tiny native macOS app that renders Markdown with Finder's QuickLook (press Space). No app to open, no file associations to change. Free. If you live in .md files: Obsidian, READMEs, notes, I'd love to know what breaks. markset.app #macOS #markdown #indiedev #ObsidianMD #typography

You always get a lot of angry replies here if you complain about the Greens blocking solar farms or power grid upgrades. Maybe they should stop instigating pile-ons and start instigating pylons.

"you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from" is the story of our age

I GASPED ALOUD

A reader emailed asking for updates to my Time To Statham Punch site so I added his recent films plus leaned on Claude for a better UI/layout. 🤜 Enjoy! 🤛 https://time.to.stathampun.ch

Beer people: Do non-pale malts have *any* diastatic power, or are they simply used for flavor and color?

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Don’t think much of the Up remake.

Beautiful typesetting here. No notes.

Fuck yes. And also, fuck that tedious Sitwell.

Good to see that Polanski has come round to the Security and Defence Partnership which a Labour government signed with the EU back in May 2025. What next? Support for Labour‘s successful green energy plans?

This is the fundamentally false premise that people believe, despite all evidence to the contrary.🤷🏿‍♂️ The truth is: 1) Negative, divisive content, is not the most engaging content. It's not close. 2) Algorithms reward negative, divisive content, because billionaires buy platforms and make it so.

This album carries such emotional weight for me it’s ridiculous and not a little embarrassing.

Quiet Bat People.

curing the male loneliness epidemic - then storing it in a cool dry place so I can have a thin slice of it every now and then - it's quite salty and very bitter

I made an app for beginners to watercolour. It helps you understand how to mix the colours you want with the paints you have. I’m looking for beta testers on iOS devices. undertint.stach.ltd

Sneak peek of a personal project that’s been in my brain for a while, and all about water, places and how we use it. www.waterdictionary.net

This was great, and a real primer on something I’d just blanked out as marketing shite.

The UK is a high trust society! 82% of us regard our fellow citizens as good. "Will there be a civil war?" Is not a debate anyone normal is having, it exists solely within a media bubble that can't process 2024. bsky.app/profile/jose...

Companies House has put out a statement confirming that, for five months, every company in the UK was vulnerable to the simple exploit we identified on Friday. It enabled anyone in the world to view and change their company details.

A lot of the commentary on Australia’s social media ban for kids seems to be ignorant of how just how pervasive under-16s with smoking habits used to be.