Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- adobe
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
- Bookmark
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- FOTB
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- fzf
- Git
- gridmarkets
- Hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- iOS
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
/2018
- 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 b…
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 to …
- 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 — Pro…
- 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 l…
- 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 l…
- 15.05.18 Git repo activity in physical form
These might make nice gifts at the end of a project.
- 14.05.18 Swirl
- 09.05.18 Brian Eno: Stop Being Frightened
I loved every moment of this.
- 09.05.18 Code Signing Processing Exported Apps
I recently discovered an issue with sending an exported Processing app to someone via the Internet and wanted to make a note of the…
- 09.05.18 All of these in the palm of my hand are generated from music
Probably should do something with them one day.
- 02.05.18 Scenes from never to be seen projects Number 5479
- 30.04.18 Awaiting pencils
- 28.04.18 Prototyping with Pencils
- 28.04.18 Crude Oil Prices 1987 – 2015
Some weekend experimentation with Data Terraforming.
- 25.04.18 Data landscape
- 24.04.18 Generating grids
- 18.04.18 Pretty much any process can be drawn like this
- 10.04.18 Brian Eno on co-operative intelligence and not getting a job
- 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…