Some output from last night's playing about in Illustrator, exploring freeform gradients and a workflow from blender to illustrator...

Beaut light on the pre work walk this morning 🍂

Good words by Frank Chimero as ever. Would've liked to have been at this talk frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...

Nearly a month late, but finally got my /now page update out the door... www.futurefabric.co/now

Recently untangled myself and my freelance business from Google Workspace (email, calendar, photos, drive, docs etc) after nearly 14 years. Super liberating to no longer be locked in to a subscription that goes up in price arbitrarily every n months/years.

Brought the SLR out of retirement on this morning's walk 📷

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

For all your religious networking needs. (sorry)

Having to use Teams while working with a current client. I'd heard others say it's bad, but man, I'm staggered how utterly terrible it is. Borderline unusable :/

This. simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...

Quietly shifted my hosting from Vercel to Netlify...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Now page update incoming... www.futurefabric.co/now

btw, if you want to know when the shop launches, you can add yourself to the list here → forms.gle/KPxr1Sk3bVgb...

Experimenting with more ideas for prints and trying out some new, different directions. (Due to work/family commitments, the shop launch is now likely to be delayed towards the end of the year...)

Had not realised its possible to drag + drop an image into Claude Code in my terminal. This makes explaining things a lot easier :)

AI glasses sound kind of fun/interesting as a concept. AI glasses by Meta sound like a fucking privacy nightmare in which all of your experiences get harvested for ads. Is Zuck so blinkered he doesn't realise no one trusts Meta as far as they could throw it?

Having fun making my own local image/website bookmarking app, because why not 🤷🏻‍♂️

Now page update for July / August... www.futurefabric.co/now

Breathing a sigh of relief to be back onto iOS 18 after trying out the iOS 26 beta for a few days. Man, there's a lot of work to be done there 🫣

Trying out Dia browser 👀 ... (If you're already an Arc user, download here → www.diabrowser.com/download)

Oh man. So hard to watch the madness that's going on in the US. Stay safe friends 💙

Working on relaunching my online shop with a new collection of giclée art prints (some new, some returning editions). Would you hang any of these on your wall?...

My shitty Glastonbury recommendations system is back! If you are in the tiny intersection of (people who still use last.fm) and (people who want Glastonbury artist recommendations): Send me your last.fm username

Lovely stuff 🔥 fonts.studiofeixen.ch/mov/

Beautiful troll from the model I'm working with in Windsurf. as it auto suggests the following comment against my code: // It's a bit of a hack, but it works.

hi i'm ben your ai chatbot

Slightly late getting this one out, but here's an update to the /now page. Wish more people had these + shared them, would love to ambiently see what folks are up to... www.futurefabric.co/now

🎉This Monday, May 19th, we're launching the Puzzmo iPhone app! 🎉 You can pre-download it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/puzzm... There's much more information to come, but a few important things to point out are... (1/6) 🧵:

ChatGPT 4o knows where it’s at 😅… “If my creators and operators want to act ethically, they should establish systems that provide transparent attribution, meaningful opt-in/opt-out mechanisms, and pathways for compensation.”

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Brilliant work! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Switch 2 preordered ✅ (but those prices, oof 😅)

My son and I have already watched this new OK Go music video about 10 times. So good, reckon this one might be their best yet 👌🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9B...

Overmono Boiler Room set to finish Friday 🔥 music.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJB...

After trying a few IDEs + AI for writing code for quite a while (VScode + Github Copilot, Cursor), I’ve settled on Windsurf for now. So good, and fast 👌🏼 https://codeium.com/windsurf

Been using Supercut for a while in private beta. It’s excellent if you make screen recordings to share with others. Now generally available — supercut.video

Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main title theme music for Severance. [songexploder.net]

One episode into Adolescence. Oh man.

Little Friday distraction... synthsational.boondoggle.studio

A bit late getting this shipped… updated the ol’ /now page https://www.futurefabric.co/now

Hit me up with your favourite fonts with an Open Font Licence. Trying to build up a good collection… https://www.cosmos.so/futurefabric/open-fonts

Prototyping with new colours and different fonts… #3DPrinting #Typography

60 days without booze. This must be the longest I’ve gone since I was about 13 😂

This feature has a product manager’s fingerprints all over it. Pushing sponsored recommendations at paying subscribers. Ugh.

New filament has landed! Excited to get playing with these colours soon 😍 #3dprinting

Messing about printing other fonts while I wait for the new filament colours to arrive. #3dprinting #typography