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A WeblogPoMo Retrospective

WeblogPoMo is over. You can read all my posts here. I followed the hashtag all month and also followed the @pomo account. I was flooded with excellent posts daily including people who just started blogging which fills my small web heart with joy. There's nothing I love more than reading about things people are really into and WeblogPoMo has delivered...

Fri May 31, 2024 14:19
The Converse Experiment: Report One

When I got married, I wore a suit and a pair of black Converse Chuck Taylor All Star's. They were brand new and the first time I wore them was the day of our wedding. The day after I just put them on because the wedding was over and they could just go into the normal shoe rotation. Then a month went by and I realised I had worn them every day which...

Thu May 30, 2024 17:53
Link Dump #4

My Famicase Exhibition 2024 - A design competition where people design fake famicon game covers. This 3D printed mechanical digital clock is glorious. Look Mum, No Breakpoints! - A great intro into using CSS clamp for fluid design. 8BitDo have some new keyboard extensions. I'll definitely be buying the Super ABXY. Handheld List. Excellent list of...

Wed May 29, 2024 23:52
Adding Covers to Almanac

Almanac, my media logging blog, has been ported across multiple systems in the past few years. Of the ~1300 posts, some were manually entered, some were done via an API, some were imported from Letterboxd. The data was sporadic at best and I had no posters or covers which after seeing Pat's watched page and Ste's media page I knew I wanted to have....

Tue May 28, 2024 11:42
Orzo Bolognese Recipe

A really easy recipe that Baby Knight can't get enough of. Ingredients: 500g beef mince 500g passata 250g of orzo 1 beef stock cube Grated cheese Brown off the mince in a saucepan Add the passata, the stock cube, and the orzo, plus 250ml of water Simmer for about 20 minutes while stirring it occasionally otherwise it'll all stick together...

Mon May 27, 2024 11:28
Two Game Posts Saved from the Archives

While working on Almanac to make sure all the posts have all the info and images they need, I came across two posts that didn't really fit there. Both of them were based on memes doing the rounds on Twitter in 2018 so I've moved them here such that they can be found easily. #GameStruck4 This one was doing the rounds on Twitter, I think from this Vice...

Sun May 26, 2024 15:13

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