@aardrian tagged me in his "tag, you're it" post in March, and it's taken me until now to get to it:
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
And with permission, I've tagged lolaodelola@mastodon.social to take up the baton 😊
Tag, you're it
Adrian Roselli tagged me in his Tag, you're it post in March, and it's taken me until now to do it.
Why did you start blogging in the first place?
I have no idea why I began blogging! It probably had something to do with having owned my own domain name since the late 90s but...
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).
It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...
https://tink.uk/advice-for-life/
I have no clue how to play in a band, how to record and track, let alone mix a track. But I love music and I could listen forever to Rick Beato interviewing Eric Valentine about every little detail of his productions – this guy really knows and loves his stuff! Incredible! 😮 #music #audioengineering
“Head of Algorithms”
What a job title. 🧙✨😁
We've been turning out and I came across an old newspaper I own, dated 23 November 1963 - the day the UK headlines reported that JFK had been assassinated.
I came across it originally about 30 years ago underneath a pub carpet where it'd been used as underlay, presumably sometime in late 1963.
Also came across a leatherbound journal dated 1895, apparently written by one James Smith and dedicated to someone called Mabel.
It's full of quotes, poems, and excerpts from hymns including one by Charles Wesley.
I have no idea where it came from or who the owner might be. The handwriting is barely legible in places, though there is what I think is a piece of pink blotting paper still tucked in the back.
And no, it’s not Figma Sites. 😁
That’s Squarespace.
Wow, that body is …… classy?! 😅 #bestpractices
✨I wrote a MEGA blog for Aardman all about how we made 'Wallace & Gromit: Shot on iPhone', a commission from Apple last year that I had the great pride in directing. It's a multimedia extravaganza blog with words, images & videos taking you behind the scenes of how we made it: aard.mn/WGShotoniPhone
Yessss! My own site went through its own grunge period. A mixture of influence from Seven to David Carson 👌 [contains quote post or other embedded content]
That escalated quickly. ☺️
I built myself an ‘enclosure’ out of LEGO blocks to house some LED light strips controlled by the Teenage Engineering OP-Z using DMX! No external laptop or anything, this is just the OP-Z with a controller and cables underneath!
🍿👀🤗
Just added the recipe for the sticky pork belly slices I made the other day to my website:
https://tink.uk/sticky-pork-belly-slices/
CC Scott@tweesecake.social and mattmay@mstdn.social
Sticky pork belly slices
This recipe for sticky pork belly slices is one where you can turn up the heat if you like your food with a chilli kick to it. Otherwise, it's just sweet and sticky and just a little bit crunchy all the way.
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Makes: 2 helpings
Time: 10 minutes prep + 60 minutes
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👀 We’re getting there …
This episode was incredibly good! It’s super interesting that HTML imports would actually be possible (and also that they might be called <rupert> – and include lazy loading)! Thank you guys! 👏
https://front-end.social/@shoptalkshow/114652349874960200
🤩 The latest Safari 26 Beta does not disappoint in terms of #CSS features:
⚓️ Anchor Positioning!
🪄 Scroll-driven animations!
🌯 text-wrap: pretty!
🌈 contrast-color()!
⏲️ progress()!
and more!
And this sentence: “We value the principles of progressive enhancement and separation of concerns.” 😉
Great work, @jensimmons and everyone else involved! 👏
https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/
It’s really about time for #RTJ5, don’t you think?
👉🏻🤛🏿