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Guy sitting across from me on the commuter train home has an open beer in paper bag and is watching a show on his phone with the volume up, no headphones. Just doin’ his thing on a rush hour train.

Just gave @penpot a try for a project. It is much more mature than I had expected! But there are still quite a few bugs, quirks, and inconsistencies that make working with it very cumbersome. Still a way to go until this is a serious alternative to #Figma IMO.

Just to name just a few bugs: text is suddenly jumping to different positions, some gradients are flipped in the opposite direction while editing, I get sudden color changes for multiple elements although I was changing the color for just one element, and my collaborator can’t see images I added to the layout. Also, the color picker just stopped working completely in my project – whenever I want to pick a color, Penpot crashes.

And as the project has grown a little, zooming and panning is now starting to get really laggy… 😕

Hope the team fixes most of those issues quickly, because overall it definitely is an impressive open-source tool. 👏💚

Heading to London today to give a talk at D&AD festival! I’m so stoked I get the closing slot - 2.40pm on the Queen Elizabeth Hall stage! I’m gonna bring the noise, neon and nonsense! ⚡️💥🎉

Content Creator.

https://brendandawes.com/blog/twtwtw-11-may-2025

“Curiosity thrives in the space between expected and unexpected, between map and territory” - @joanwestenberg.com - love this (and will def be incorporating this in my talk on curiosity and its role in design the next time I give it!) see also: need to talk to @ethanmarcotte.com about curiosity too

Good grief. made a pot of tea that's sticking to even my ribs (and my ribs are quite accustomed to tea you could stand a spoon up in).

I joined host Peter White on BBC Radio 4's In Touch programme ast night, to chat about the forthcoming European Accessibility Act (EAA) and what impact it might have on blind and low vision people in the UK (if any):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cdh4

Hey internet! I've been working on a mega blog, going behind the scenes of how I made and 'played' the @beyondtellerrand.com titles! Put the kettle on and settle down for a good ol' read: https://blog.jam-factory.com/behind-the-scenes-beyond-tellerrand-2025-title-sequence/

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Before reading this classic on robots and machines I had no idea it was a series of nine short stories. Of course the Will Smith film has absolutely nothing to do with the book except a borrowed title and a character name. Thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end, still as relevant today – if not more so, with the creation of the Three Laws of Robotics underpinning all the stories. My favourite chapter was probably chapter eight – Evidence.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15386/9780008279554



Behind the scenes of how I made and 'played' the title sequence for the creative festival Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf

In this episode of Open Studio, Martina Flor dives into one of the most common questions creative professionals face in 2025: Is social media still worth the effort? 📉 Tired of pouring hours into content that doesn’t perform? 🎯 Unsure how to grow an audience or reach client...

Gonna do my first newsletter publish soon! Those folk subscribed will be first to be notified of when my mega-BTS-blog of how I made the @beyondtellerrand.com titles goes live! blog.jam-factory.com https://blog.jam-factory.com/

As heard on @shoptalkshow 😘 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetf8sTTUNE

“This is not mixing!”

@danworrall is back and reviews an over-marketed AI-powered channel strip audio plugin that claims to do the hard work for you so that “you’ll effortlessly get your mixes spot-on 100% of the time”…

How do you expect it to end? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkWJj79HFwUa

Alright, so … websites.

Hope’s box opens wide
Dance, sound, code intertwine,
New worlds bloom anew.

Another page from my new Now Becomes Then publication featuring a code made souvenir of the Pandora Variations which was acquired by @kukulabanze back in 2021.

Link in bio for more information.