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Posted by NIGHTEN on July 28, 2025 I wanted to brainstorm an idea with you: How to reuse a single art into multiple posts. This is especially important for me, as I prefer to make fewer illustration that I can repost at any time - instead of always grinding and chasing trends. And good art takes a long time to make,...
After questioning my usage of Safari and wanting to stop using it, it remained my main browser, despite its flaws, including the lack of options when it comes to default search engines.1 Before accepting my fate as a Safari user, I had tried other browsers. Because I still refuse to consider a Chromium-based...
"What's your favorite color?" "None, I don't have one." I always get the impression that my father is a slightly odd person. So he doesn't have a favorite color. I asked him about that when I was very young and I thought his reply was the weirdest thing ever. I really don't know much about him. For example, whatever...
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. Douglas Crockford, computer programmer Poem: A type A type for <script>s, a type for <style>s, A type for <div>s and <span>s, But JavaScript's the type of code That's not at all a fan. I read an article on dev.to (again) that talked about how...
This book took me months to read. I started it in mid-March. It is now, if you haven’t looked at a calendar recently, late July. And it’s not as if this was a bad book. It did start slow, but it picked up quickly. But there was just something off about it that I couldn’t put my finger on until the very end. The...
I find concentricity in design beautiful.There’s something deeply “correct” to my brain about how from the bezels to the apps I use the most, a single anchoring point guides the design. And even with my deep love for concentricity- I also think applying it to everything is deeply misguided. macOS 26 Tahoe feels like...
Went to Watershed in Bristol today to watch the ballad of Wallis island. Excellent film, a bit of British awkwardness, some fabulous comedy, a bit of sadness and some amazing views of west Wales. Would recommend, some would say it is a bit of a romcom, but don’t let that put you off – this reminded me more of the...
A swell in reactionary shuffling online caught my eye this week. I’m no stranger to the art of tearing things down. Back in college, I’d regularly take this very site offline, replacing it with the deliberately cryptic—an unexplained song lyric, an angsty declaration, a message so encoded even I couldn’t decipher it...
A while back, I decided it was time to finally learn how to touch-type. I was never a slow typer, but my hands constantly roamed the keyboard instead of staying in the home position. Inspired by Steve Yegge to do better, I settled on using GNU Typist (the command is gtypist) as my practice partner. GNU Typist is run...
The problem: you switch macOS system appearance to Light/Dark theme, but Helix‘s appearance does not adjust. Apparently, I’m not the only one who is bothering to switch Helix’s appearance at runtime. There are a couple of GitHub issues discussing the topic from different angles: #8899 - Automatically select...
En mi afán por encontrar formas de amplificar este estado de ánimo de mitad de verano me estoy fijando mucho en la música. Estoy ambientando mucho mi casa poniendo sonidos en los altavoces que me ayuden a sentir todavía más que estoy en verano y que es momento de despreocuparse y descomprimir. Ya empecé haciendo una...
Adding some flare back to the current uninspiring design of Mac OS wasn't enough. After spending a day using an old Mac running Mavericks, I realised how I probably need to find a tiny place somewhere in the past. A certainty formed after a couple of hours playing with my recently acquired 2013 MacBook Air. I hadn't...
Tomorrow evening we leave for Italy. Thankfully. At last. The journey is both long and quite straightforward. One huge day and then an easy few hours, on the next. The possibility of doing it in a single day is tantalisingly close, but it just doesn't work. At least not whilst living in Scotland[1]. sleeper It...
Let there be lapsesWeeds in the garden, unswept porches,A walk never taken,A flower unnoticed,Missed bill, missed text, missed appointment.
Listen to A Sensual Exploration of Chocolate I am not a religious man. My temples are not made of stone, and my prayers are not spoken in archaic tongues. But I do have rituals. I do believe in communion. I believe in the sacred act of unwrapping a piece of good, dark chocolate. It begins with a sound. The crinkle...