Robb Knight
Maker of web things, sticker merchant, viral toot-based business man, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Human dad.
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The kids are both in nursery now and I'm back at work after two weeks off at Christmas.
The sticker sales are going well, I've just about broken even if you do some flexible maths and I have a new pack incoming in the next few weeks.
After this post, my Raindrop queue is down to just eight links. Enjoy.
ISBNDB looks like an amazing API for books - it's paid, so not ideal for hobby projects but could come in handy for bigger projects.
Cinemapper shows filming locations for movies on a map which is always fun.
I think we all hate printers with a fiery passion but this open printer has piqued my interest.
Yamatter is "a command-line tool to inspect and transform YAML front-matter data". I've done stuff like this with custom scripts in the past, this would have saved me a lot of time.
enclose.hgorse is another day game I enjoy but definitely can't trust myself to play every day.
James used microformats and granary to turn his HTML element of day list into a web feed and RSS feed.
Keeping this Apple Photos exporter bookmarked for if I ever try to nuke my Apple Photos usage.
Turns out those pkpass ticket files you sometimes get to add to Apple/Google wallet can be converted to PNGs relatively easily.
Brad has a great post on the tools and techniques he uses to clean fountain pens.
Hot Dang Press make very cool iron-on art.
Get out of my <head> is an incredibly handy reference for what should be inside your head to show previews, favicons, and other related things. I added a link to this on Lens.
I think I found the only UK-based company that makes pen cases, storages, displays, and trays - Turner's Workshop.
Opus No. 1 is that fucking song everyone has on their hold music.
Speaking of music I Want my MTV Rewind is amazing.
These two Struthless videos are really worth your time:
I've had this article from Jason saved for a while and I haven't stopped thinking about this line:
I want to make things because I’m human and alive.
I sketched it too because why not.
Outtakes is a new section for failed or disregarded ideas, inspired by anh.
I had a note for a while that said "Scroll all the colours". I had a look around and there wasn't anything that did this but once I started thinking about it I realised how boring it would be. I did stumble upon all RGB though: "The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every RGB color (16,777,216); not one color missing, and not one color twice.". Cool.
This also had it's own sub-failure of sorts - I started writing out my ideas on index cards, à la Paloma, and it was helpful to focus on a single idea (like the one above) but I also have ideas in my journal, Obsidian, Notes, my brain, probably other places. A failure yes, but it showed me I need to sort my shit out and work out a single place to put all these.
Until next time, be excellent to each other.