Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- 3d
- Analog
- Arduino
- Bash
- Bookmark
- Design
- Face-Tracking
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Kirby
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Notes
- Opinion
- Output
- Process
- Processing
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Web
- Work
- ack
- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tmux
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
/everyday objects
- 21.11.18 Sneak peek of the interface / system I’ve built for this latest piece of work
Building my own systems is a big part of my process. Doing this means I have control of every aspect, creating a tool to create the work …
- 20.11.18 Using Vimwiki as a simple, synced, note taking system
For many years I've been using Evernote to store notes, code snippets, found things from the web and a whole lot of other stuff. I like it, …
- 18.11.18 Exporting Hires Transparent Bitmaps from Processing
One of the many things I love about Processing, especially within the commercial work I do, is its ability to export high resolution images …
- 01.10.18 Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design
Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design "What humankind required, he came to believe, was an individual who could recognize the …
- 30.09.18 Radio 4 Data Stream Day
Radio 4 Data Stream Day Radio 4 takes the entire output of one day’s broadcast and turns it into art. I was very honoured to be asked by …
- 13.09.18 The visible hand within the work
I love this meringue I bought in a local bakery. I love it because, well, I love meringue, but also because by looking at its form I can …
- 22.08.18 Finding distractions
The last few days — in between working on projects — I’ve found myself just staring at the screen, pointlessly browsing Twitter, closing …
- 18.08.18 Experimental music notation resources
Experimental music notation resources There’s always new ways to look at things.
- 11.08.18 Using IBM Watson with Processing
Recently I've been working on a project in which I needed to analyse large amounts of text for sentiment and other such things. In the past …
- 02.08.18 Vim File Navigation and Bookmarking with NETRW
When I first started using Vim I read a lot about how I should install a plugin called NerdTree to enable a project drawer type file …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 — …
- 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 …
- 09.04.18 The Point of Making Pointless Things
If you've ever been to one of my talks you may have heard me say "put work into the world which deserves to exist." Whilst I'm very much …
- 05.04.18 This book changed my coding for the better
Apart from a night school course in learning Pascal, I’ve never done any formal training in programming. Whilst being self taught is great …
- 02.04.18 My favourite portable fountain pen
This is the pen I carry with me everyday — the Midori Traveller’s Company Brass Fountain Pen. Closed it’s 10cm in length so fits nicely in …
- 28.03.18 Boiler Plate Template for Processing
When I start a new Processing project I always start from the same base template. This template features some core things that I pretty …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 24.02.18 Creating ctags for Processing .pde files for use in Vim
Ctags generate a file of language objects — such as method names and vars — so they can then be used and located inside a text editor such …
- 20.02.18 Putting 'stupid' ideas into the world
I've always been a great believer in putting ideas out into the world to represent who you are what you're about. It's something I do a lot …
- 16.02.18 Tips on exporting video from Processing
Sometimes my projects involve creating HD format — or larger — videos of coded work created in Processing. There's various ways to create …
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects …