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I backed this pen Kickstarter despite breaking my rule of no hardware Kickstarters - the company, Antou, seem to know what they're doing but we'll see. They have a lot of nice stuff on their site including this pen rest. The pen should be arriving in August some time. Pica is a new font management app that looks great and it's free. I need to get a handle on all the fonts I have. I'm not a font designer but if I was I might need to make proofs and Hellbox is the one. Two fascinating fonts I…

Preamble June-Boree is a reimagining of Arcadia June. June-Boree is "a challenge board spanning the entire month consisting of 30 unique challenges". I wanted to make a poster for June-Boree and it was a good excuse to use some excellent fonts like Parkly. View the full poster here. The Challenges Day 1: Create your thread in the forum to track your progress! Your Name - 30 Challenges Easy one. You can see my thread on the forum here along with comments and such which I won't be including here.…

Avengers The movies, overrated with the exception of Infinity War/Endgame which was some of the best movie experiences I've ever had. The comics, underrated. The stories from the comics is where it's at but it's not a medium that everyone can enjoy. There are so many great Avengers and Avengers-adjacent stories available if you're willing to give it a try. My recommendation is Kelly Thompson's West Coast Avengers run. Weeknotes Underrated. I love reading people's weeknotes and I've found it a…

Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? I'm a developer and dad to two girls living in Portsmouth on the south coast of the UK. By day I work for a SaaS company and in my own time I work on my many side projects. In a previous life I worked at a certain clown's restaurant which is where I met my wife some 15 years ago. Although developer is what I get paid to do I'm trying to move towards more making; websites, stickers, shirts, art, whatever. I have no idea what that looks…

I got my hands on the Fragrance Mildliner pack for what I thought was a bargain price of £5. If I'm honest that might be about £5 too much but here we go anyway. I sniffed these pens hard. Soda Blue / Cotton is the worst one by a long shot. It smells like the strongest washing powder you've ever smelt in your life. What I imagine a laundromat smells like. Olive / Green has a smell but it's very mild, kinda like wet grass I suppose. Almost imperceptible though. Sherbet Yellow / Citrus is the…

At the start of the month Cult Pens, for their anniversary, put up a birthday mystery box for £100. No other information, just choose a nib size and they'll send out a mystery box: We can't tell you what's inside, because it's a mystery, but we can tell you the contents are worth way more than the price, and have an RRP of at least double. "One part of my brain knows mystery boxes are a good way for a company to move stuff that isn't selling, the other half wants to buy it anyway" was what I…

Over the past month or so I've sold a bunch of stuff on Vinted and I wanted to know how much I've made but Vinted don't give you that data, at least not in a nice way. They have monthly reports but that shows what you started with and ended with which only works if you don't withdraw or spend anything, which I had. So I went to the sold page, scrolled the infinite scroll list until it had loaded the months worth of stuff and whipped up this snippet to take the price and title of the item and…

I haven't done a weeknote in a while and this one is packed with links because I've got very behind on all the things including my saved later list. What do you mean you don't have custom artwork for your weeknotes? Weirdo. First off, I was thinking about Y2K as one does and I remembered that these keyrings were everywhere in 1999. I am somewhat annoyed I missed weeknote 2000 to post this in but here we are. While I don't think all of these truly "replace" the premium ones they claim to, I'm…

This is, in fact, another post about how many colours of Mildliners there are but it should be the final one of this format. Last week I posted about the Mildliner mix colours in which I said I was going to look into redoing my Mildliner reference site and I've done just that with version two. That right there is the mildliner colours. Now let's talk about the mildliner colours. Can we talk about the mildliner colours please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mildliner colours with you all…

A couple of weeks ago Ben was kind enough to send me a 3-pack of Mildliner Mix pens — two-colour highlighters made by Zebra. This led me down a path of looking for the second set called "Cool" but the price of shipping meant I would have been paying ~£5 a pen which I wasn't willing to do. Then this week, as I am want to do, I went over to Stationery Pal (that website is riddled with ads just a heads up) and they had a big banner on the home page about a ten pack of Mildliner Mix so I ordered…

Today my 2026 Lamy Safaris arrived even though Lamy themselves still haven't actually announced them. Thank you to the fine folks at Fontoplumo for putting these on sale early so I can get my grubby hands on them. The yellow is striking in person and is exactly as bright as you think it will be. The pink doesn't jump out at me quite as much but the colour is still great. I think I would prefer the pink to have the black hardware because on the yellow it looks fantastic. I'm not going to…

I found the solution to an obscure problem I had on a random Reddit thread

A review of Set A and B of the new fine mildliners

A fix for Disney Plus error code 73

A library to fetch all your repositories to another machine