Apr
18
I probably didn’t mention here that I don’t use Twitter any more, I’m on Mastodon.
andy piper: tumblings
Snippets from my online life.
New site just dropped #makers #3dprinting #studio #craft
Jul
9
What I’ve been doing in 2022 (so far)
Preamble: my content
It has been a while since I’ve written a general “what I’m working on” post, so I’m fixing that now. It has been a busy year — I last published a newsletter in March 2021, and I didn’t get back to writing — primarily technical writing– until the start of 2022.
I’ve also diversified my writing between my own site, occasionally Medium, developer-focused posts on DEV, and…
Jan
8
Usborne’s 1980s range of childrens’ coding books have been released as free PDFs
I learned to code from a lot of these books
Feb
15
I made a Wi-Fi controlled Owl lamp
Owl LED Nightlight
A couple of years ago, I picked up a simple LED nightlight on Amazon, with the intention of hacking it to do “something more interesting”. The lamp could be powered with AAA batteries or a micro-USB connection, and contained multicolour LEDs that shone up into a perspex sheet in the shape of an owl.
It was always my intention to do something “interesting” with this, for…
Leaf Embroidery Technique
…..y’all. 👀
Shut the front door.
(via purpleyin)
Dec
24
One year ago
One year ago, my brother left us.
One year ago. Today. Christmas Eve. That evening, as a family, we were in the hospice with him, and I drove away mid-evening to go home and get some food, and shortly after I got home, I got the call.
Many years ago, almost to the day, my mother and I left a ward in the Royal Hampshire County Hospital on the night of Christmas Day, 2000, we drove home, went to…
Feb
4
“Korg introduces himself with a rock-paper-scissors joke when he first meets Thor, then goes on to explain to Thor how he tried to start a revolution but failed because he didn’t print enough pamphlets: paper beat rock. And at the end of the film, we see that Korg has accidentally crushed his blade-armed alien gladiator friend, thinking he killed him. Though the alien wakes up, the joke there probably sailed over everyone’s head: rock beat scissors.”
– Five Hidden Jokes You Probably Missed in Thor: Ragnarok
(via laalratty)
Mar
12
The world does! (alarmed by the front side, amused by the reverse!) (at Wych Elm)
Feb
3
Greg from Delays is battling cancer. Let’s show him some love and get Delays’ #Valentine2Number1 for Valentines Day http://thndr.me/BlvzDy
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