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After making hardwood gift boxes for the 20-sided dice I made to give as holiday gifts, I decided they needed an additional wrapping to protect them, and to create a reveal for the wooden boxes. I cribbed the closure for this box from a classic Japanese product packaging design. The Celtic knot on the sides is the same one I used for the silver medallions on the wooden boxes. These …

riving white oak Twelve-thirty-one. What better time to look at what’s what. I’m not going to write “in 2024, I did this/that/the other…” – mostly. Or maybe that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m still working in the shop, making carved boxes, ladderback chairs and some other odds and ends. And waiting/hoping for the next large commission to come in so I can make some larger joinery projects. I had a …

I love a beer festival. Many of my faves are now sadly defunct (Walsall and Birmingham spring to mind) – however there is so much great beer variety in pubs these days that it could be argued that these festivals aren’t needed any more. And yet it always was nice to see the same faces at these festivals every year. And that’s what makes beer festivals so special. They are …

Taking the new year holiday to try and prepare for the upcoming year. Trying to review the last year and figure out where I’d like to do something different. I am going through my social media feeds and trying to konmari1 as much as I can. Being selective on people with good signal to noise. Removing people who are (often quite understandably) reacting to something frustrating, rage inducing, etc. I …

Years ago, Teller performed a magic trick.1 First, he’d have you pick a card. He would attempt to produce the card, but fail, indicating the card may have travelled elsewhere. He’d then lead you on a short walk to a nearby park, and then be inspired to dig a hole. Buried there, beneath undisturbed grass, was a box. When opened, the box would, somehow, contain the card you’d chosen. An …

Documents from and recordings of all presentations at the Lunar and Planetary Institute's Planet Characterization Conference, held in February 2024, are available for reading and viewing here.My presentation on February 21 was one of several under the heading, "The Impact of Taxonomy on Public Perception of Science and Our Universe: Advantages and Pitfalls. All the presentations are worth watching. Mine is titled, "Impact of the IAU Planet Definition on Public …

We live our lives never truly knowing when the day comes that something remarkable happens. I was doing totally normal errands today in the middle of town when I saw a sun dog, a common enough occurrence, but it was so bright I decided to snap a shot. But as I got out of the car, I realized something more complex had become visible, something I'm fairly sure I've never …

2024 was another lite reading year for me. The fact that it was an election year probably didn’t help, and one of my resolutions for 2025 is to spend a heck of a lot less time keeping up with the dreary treadmill of the 24-hour news cycle. Even videogames proved to be a better use of my time, and I wouldn’t mind plugging another 100 hours into Slay the Spire …

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I’ll never forget hearing Paul Simon’s album Graceland for the first time. As a kid growing up in West Texas surrounded by country music and perpetually drowning in the blood of Christ, the South African musicians on that record blew my world apart. At the same time, Paul Simon’s songwriting pulled my world together. I find every song on the album to be worthy of discussion. (Except “Crazy Love,” which …

I’ve just released a huge update to the Theme Machine. This is a tool a first put online last summer for building color palettes and exporting them as CSS custom properties. If you haven’t played with it yet, go a head and give it a try. Note: I made the tool responsive, so you can play around with it on mobile and see what it does, but it’s really designed …

I'm cross-posting again. This was posted on izzzzi yesterday, but's really an astrid dev log post I guess! I started reworking autotriggers in astrid again this weekend... I think this time they're nicer, simpler: basically just an array of structs in shared memory. The structs have an interval, a phase, and a payload field with a corresponding enum that indicates the type of the payload. There's a thread whose sole …

As the church bells were chiming on Christmas Eve, Dina and Kb clinked mugs of hot lemon and honey tea with us Bookfayries, toasting to the demise of germs and the hope for brighter, sniffle-free days. They spent Christmas battling the flu and now having emerged from the duvet fortress determined to leave all traces ...

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Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations, loops, setting dynamic values, and more. This is a quick post pointing out some other minor particulars: Duplicate keyframe properties The order of keyframe rules Custom timing function (easing) …