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Day 9: Ram. #inktober
Just in case this isn’t clear, this is meant to be a ram’s head on the end of a wooden battering ram. Ram on a ram, get it? (Drawing the knots of wood is hard)
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My ego is going to regret this. But what the hell, I’m going to give Inktober a try this year. Here’s day 1: Apple. #inktober
Pretty awful, but at least the alt description generator knew what it was: “A hand-drawn sketch of an Apple computer with an apple displayed on the screen and a keyboard below it, labeled PAL 1 APPLE.” (yeah, I screwed up the heading).
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Got a bit bored today. Fortunately Acorn comes with an eye-dropper and Galvji, the closest to SF Pro I had available to me.
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š ļø Lottielabs: Browser-based tool for making key-frame animations.
Signed up to this after watching Matt Birchler’s video about it. This is a small tool for making key-frame animation (motion graphics) from within the browser. Had an idea for an animated seven-segment display countdown, which I had a go making as a GIF. It was pretty easy to make, and came out pretty well, although not exactly how I imagined it.
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More DOS game nostalgia watching on YouTube over the last few days. This time on Commander Keen, an absolute favourite of mine growing up. For all the other Keen fans out there, this one’s for you.
And yes, making this is how I spent my evening. š
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Cracked open Acorn to come up with a new wordmark for Apple:
Yes, I know I’ve got work to do. š
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Working with PostgreSQL is an absolute joy. Such an amazing database. Just goes to show that the fun tech out there is not always the new and shiny. The battled hardened, featureful, bread-and-butter tools that tends to get overlooked can be just as good (Linux falls into that category as well).
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If Slack’s looking for features to add, my vote would be for personal “annotation” messages in threads, similar to what Hey mail has. Many a time I receive a support request as a Slack thread, and it’d be nice to add notes such as customer IDs as a message that only I can see.
Here’s a mockup:
Edit: I knew I talked about this before. And looking through On This Day, I found this post, where I professed my wish for FastMail to add the same feature. Probably a good hint that such a feature should be table steaks for any system involving other people.
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Playing around with Vintage Logo this morning. HT to @odd and @mandaris for posting a link to this iOS app. Theyāve got some very nice logo templates here, including this art deco one featuring a bird in flight.
Used it to make this logo, which I call: lodgings for the evening.
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