Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things

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27.07.18 Vim + Dash = Killer Documentation Lookup
Dash is a great documentation app that I use a lot to look up methods for the various languages I use. I used to fire-up a browser and …
25.07.18 Iterations
Lots of prototyping going on right now to try and get this new thing where I want it to be. Getting there.
24.07.18 Automatic Creation of .gitignore using the Command Line and Vim
I recently chanced upon a great little service called gitignore.io which provides an easy way to make .gitignore files for pretty much any …
23.07.18 Interactions
22.07.18 My File Naming Convention
Over the years I've had a pretty loose approach to naming files. When you've got deadlines often times you're not concerned with how a file …
15.07.18 Less, but Better
Recently I've noticed something with my work output — year on year I'm making less. When I first started my site almost twenty years ago, I …
27.06.18 Carefully Everywhere
21.06.18 Late night Formboxing
19.06.18 Transitions
18.06.18 From the archive: Chomsky Space
I took some Noam Chomsky sound bites and put them into a 3D interface. The idea was encourage exploration through sound and typography, …
13.06.18 Prototype #2
Better but lots of voids and I cracked it getting it out the mold. Forward!
13.06.18 Forming
13.06.18 First concrete cast made with a form from the @teammayku FormBox
Mixture wasn’t right and the release agent didn’t work as expected, but it’s a start.
10.06.18 There’s something very satisfying seeing a notebook become worn, dog eared and …
Each mark is a scar from its use, a moment in its history, whether that be jotting down a phone number, a take-away food list, notes on …
05.06.18 Storing and Organising Physical Things with Sortly
Much of my work these days is creating physical installations, often using various components — be they digital or analogue — that I have …
04.06.18 A Thank You to Processing
There are two pieces of software that have been a big part of my career: one was Flash and the other was — and continues to be — …
04.06.18 Upgrade your thinking more often than your software
From Notes to Myself @producedforuse
01.06.18 Holding the Door Open for Others
In my new book Notes to Myself, there's a note about holding the door open for others. Whilst literally this is always a nice thing to do, …
01.06.18 Nine lovely Japanese stamps
21.05.18 Simple Header File Switching in Vim
I've recently been working on a project in OpenFrameworks which uses .cpp and their associated header (.h) files. I wanted to find a way to …
21.05.18 My Fave Vim Colour Scheme
Colour schemes in coding IDEs are a very personal thing. For a long time I favoured Gruvbox, which I found really pleasant to work with. …
17.05.18 My Most Used Day-to-Day Vim Features
When you first starting using Vim as your default editor the amount of things to learn can be overwhelming. I've been using Vim for about a …
17.05.18 Spiky data hammer-head
16.05.18 Deleting Thousands of Lines not Containing a Pattern with Vim
Here's a small demonstration of why I love Vim so much — editing large amounts of data such as csv and tsv files. Let's say I have a fairly …
16.05.18 Twitter activity 2015
16.05.18 Sync Vim Configuration using Dropbox
My day-to-day coding machine is my iMac which over the years I've setup with my perfect (for me) Vim configuration. When I'm out on the …
16.05.18 Tube like structure made from coding commits
I like on this you can see the different moments of activity around the different major code releases.
16.05.18 Moment of Creation — Git Repo Visualisation in Physical Form
This is using the same data as yesterday but I’ve changed the chamfer to not be as severe. I like how you can see lots of activity then …
15.05.18 Git repo activity in physical form
These might make nice gifts at the end of a project.
14.05.18 Swirl