Fixing Illustrations on a Dark Background with CSS 🔗
If you've visited my site recently you might have noticed some illustrations I've done appear on some pages, notably the home page and my 404 page. I [...]
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Remove Valance Endcaps from Primrose Awning 🔗
Warning: boring homeowner awning post. The valance on my awning had come off the runner and was hanging out the end of the awning casing so I need to [...]
Weeknote #2023 🔗
I've started work on a card game and I have no idea what I'm doing so if anyone has any good articles to check out, send them my way. I was personally [...]
Fix Kindle Stuck in Sign In Loop 🔗
I recently bought my wife a new Kindle so I grabbed her old one to sign into my account. I put my username and password in, then it would ask for my 2 [...]
Weeknote #2022 🔗
X is bad. Obviously. Davey hits the nail on the head here: People return to X just want followers in the strictest sense of the word. Sycophants that [...]
Now (October 2026) 🔗
Doing... I hand-delivered the final drawing for St Jude this morning and we're almost halfway through Inktober — I am furious to confirm that practici [...]
Weeknote #2021 🔗
I'm not updating my personal Mac so this isn't relevant to me but this script turns off all the Apple Intelligence shit on MacOS and gets the model sp [...]
St Jude 2026 Recap 🔗
Here we are, a week into extended September and Relay's annual fundraiser has come to a close with over $750k raised — and nearly $9k of that came fro [...]
Kodak Charmera Review 🔗
Over a year ago I bought a Kodak Charmera keyring mini camera; it's a tiny little camera that takes photos at 1440x1080 and I was lucky enough to get [...]
Weeknote #2020 🔗
Dave is doing important work here, holding Cadbury Heroes to account. MacOS 27 broke the drivers for my thermal printer but thankfully someone made a [...]
I Was a Guest on The Pen Addict 🔗
Brad is walking in Memphis this week for the podcastathon so we recorded this episode a couple of weeks ago. We talked about the incentives we're both [...]
My Inktober Setup 🔗
It's Inktober again which means I'm drawing one thing a day, in ink, from the official[1] prompt list. I'm tagging my posts with #Inktober and #Inktob [...]
Weeknote #2018 🔗
We've added new stickers to the St Jude fundraiser including a sparkly Jimothy. You're gunna want this one. Donate here. We've got a new garage door g [...]
Shotbox 🔗
Since I made Doodle Scan I've had a bunch of ideas of things I can do with image manipulation — it led to me finally doing my favicon generator. The t [...]
Pen N Review 🔗
Back in July I broke my own rule of never backing a hardware Kickstarter and backed a hardware Kickstarter for a Pen N — a pen that supports 100s of r [...]
Weeknote #2017 🔗
The St Jude Fundraiser passed $150k overall and we hit $6k on ours last night. We still have drawing slots available and some sticker news is coming s [...]
Analogue Defaults 🔗
A few months ago, Brad came up with analog defaults loosely based on the Hemispheric Views app defaults. I've been meaning to write mine up but having [...]
Greyscale in Doodle Scan 🔗
Last night I was reading this excellent post about scanning pencil artwork and the first step the artist mentioned is setting the pallette to greyscal [...]
Weeknote #2016 🔗
Our St Jude Fundraiser has blasted past $5k, and I had to make a an Obsidian base to keep track of all the drawings I need to do. The first one arrive [...]
Drawing for St Jude: Petrichor 🔗
If you missed it, Adam and I are raising money for St Jude this month and you can donate here. One of the rewards I offered this year and last is I wi [...]