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

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27.03.18 3D trails not quite working correctly yet
26.03.18 In Pursuit Of My Perfect Coding Environment
Over the years I've been trying to get to my perfect setup when it comes to making the most of the tools I use and maximising every last …
26.03.18 John Maeda — Design by Numbers
A book that really pushed forward the idea of designing with code to create new forms. A classic.
24.03.18 Tick Tick
23.03.18 Just six of the 500 Japanese stamps I got off EBay
23.03.18 The Best Pencil Sharpener
Mentioned over the years in more than one of my talks, this is the KUM Automatic Long Point sharpener. It is without doubt the best …
22.03.18 Joining Future Everything Board
I'm honored to announce that I've joined the board of Future Everything. Since 1995 Future Everything has been exploring the meeting point …
21.03.18 The best ruler
As many of you will know I’m a bit of a stationery geek with draws full of pencils, pens, paper and of course rulers. When it comes to a …
20.03.18 Eye Health and Working with Screens
For many years now I've been suffering from quite chronic dry eyes, brought about through working with screens, my lack of blinking (you …
20.03.18 Saying Thank You
Whenever I finish a client piece of work I take time to say thank you by popping something into the post. Often it’s a physical souvenir …
19.03.18 Post from Instagram to Kirby
I'm a big fan of the IndieWeb movement and the idea of publishing your content to a place you own and control rather than exclusively on …
19.03.18 Tangerine
14.03.18 Amongst the Leaves featured in Data Walking publication
Huge thank you to @dhunterrr for asking me to take part in his Data Walking project, visualising environmental data captured around the …
13.03.18 Landscape
13.03.18 Exploring the Data Terrain
13.03.18 Mesh exploration
12.03.18 Test output for Form & Code Workshop later this week
12.03.18 Working on more examples for my Form and Code workshop @projectunitx this …
10.03.18 Goodbye XCode, Hello Vim and OpenFrameworks
Since moving to Vim over a year ago for all my coding, using another code editor is always a chore. Such is the case using Xcode when …
08.03.18 Dawesome Toolkit Update 0.9
A small update to the Dawesome Toolkit, my library for Processing. It's sometimes handy to be able to get a list of the colours your …
07.03.18 Crazy-Fast Finding and Opening Files on the Command Line
It's usually always the case that I have a terminal session open somewhere on my Mac — either managing a Git repo, working with a Nodejs …
07.03.18 Diving into the archive
06.03.18 Create systems which allow for play
I’ve always felt the computer is part author, especially in coded work. You put parameters in place but there’s scope for plenty of play …
06.03.18 12345678910,11,12!
05.03.18 Quicker Git with Handy Bash Functions
In the course of a typical day I'll write a lot of Git commits, typing out git commit -a -m 'a message' and then doing a git push again and …
05.03.18 Thank You Sinclair ZX81
On the 5th March 1981 a small home computer was released that, without exaggeration, changed my life. The Sinclair ZX81, retailing for …
05.03.18 Repeat
03.03.18 Across the globe
02.03.18 Back your sh*t up!
This work that we all make — these little fragments of digital ephemera — well, I think it's important. Over the years that work builds up …
02.03.18 Work-in-progress
Oil tankers can be beautiful.