Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 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
- 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 …
- 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
- 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 …
- 01.03.18 Flights all booked for @offfest — doing the closing talk on the first day in …
Come say hi!
- 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 …
- 21.02.18 Detail
- 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 …
- 17.02.18 Work-in-progress
- 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 …
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 07.02.18 Using a restaurant style Tab Grabber as a todo list
This is something I’ve been doing for over a year now. Rather than write down my daily task list in a journal or in some web based system, …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the CP5 …