How to turn a family or grandchild photo into a digital jigsaw for a grandparent: choosing the photo, keeping the pieces big enough, making sure the link opens easily, and other ideas for grandparents far away.
🖋️ Obsidian Vaults - Three seems to be optimal. For now.
I seem to have narrowed down my Obsidian vault count to 3;
Documents
.. is a fairly new one as I have been wrapping my head around using Wander and Marked 3 in conjunction with Craft and Obsidian to create documents that find their way into the outside world for 1-1 consumpt...
A small gift for a pet person: their pet's photo as a jigsaw they solve in the browser
How to turn a favourite dog, cat or rabbit photo into a digital jigsaw gift: picking the photo, choosing a piece count, writing the note that appears at the end, and other ideas for pet people.
Fisetin as a Senolytic Flavonoid: UK Evidence 2026 | LongevityTortoise
Evidence-based UK review of fisetin for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-10-06.
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
Halfway
Halfway across, where it was as hard to go back as to go on, he thought of giving up. There would be no better time. Nowhere else could they say neither "he ought to have turned back" nor "he might have made it, had he fought."
I’m taking a break from Reddit
You see Reddit and to a larger degree YouTube give me the false opinion that I’m learning something. I’m doing deep dives. I’m taking away educated content. The reality is I’m doom scrolling through engineering and AI subreddits while likely r...
👁️ I often complain about appalling customer service handling by various corporations - particularly the AI ones that aren’t really AI, rather a voice recognition bot following a basic rules engine … so I felt a real shiver pass through my body when the AI voice answered.
How can I help you?
But ‘fair dos’ to Verizon - a fairly complex problem solved in a few minutes - great voice recognition and routing - no human in the loop.
Stuck in Apple's ecosystem
I bought Brave Origin shortly after it came out, but I’ll be god damned if Apple’s ecosystem doesn’t keep pulling me back in.
Leo AI is pretty good for stupid little questions, and Brave Search is the best search engine I’ve ever used. Siri AI feels better to me than Leo tho...
A thank-you a whole class can share: a class photo turned into a jigsaw for the teacher
End of term, a retirement, a teacher who held a group together through a rough year: the usual answer is a card plus a mug or a gift card. Those are fine. But if you want something that feels like the class rather than a shop, a shared photo is hard to beat. Here's one small...
A holiday gift for someone abroad that skips the post: a photo jigsaw they open from a link
If someone you love is spending the holidays in another country this year (a sibling on a work posting, a friend who moved, a son or daughter on a gap year), the usual problem shows up around now: international parcels are slow, customs fees land on the recipient, and anythi...
A Halloween costume photo the grandparents will actually look at: send it as a jigsaw
Written by the Puzzlify team. Puzzlify is our product, so read this with that in mind; the second half of the post is ideas that have nothing to do with us.
Every year the same thing happens: the costume took two weekends to make, the kids wore it for three hours, and the pe...
A small anniversary surprise: your first photo together as a jigsaw, with a note at the end
Written by the Puzzlify team. Puzzlify is our product, so read this with that in mind; the second half of the post is ideas that have nothing to do with us.
Anniversaries have a way of sneaking up. You know the date, you meant to plan something, and suddenly it's Thursday an...
After the trip: turning your favourite travel photo into a jigsaw for the person you went with
Written by the Puzzlify team. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh this accordingly; we've also listed other ideas at the end that have nothing to do with us.
You come home from a trip with a phone full of photos, and within a week they're buried under screenshots and receipts....
A get-well gift for someone in hospital or recovering at home: a favourite photo as a small jigsaw
Written by the Puzzlify team. Puzzlify is our product, so read this with that in mind; a good part of this post is ideas that have nothing to do with us.
When someone you care about is in hospital, or stuck at home recovering from an operation, the days get long in a very pa...
A retirement send-off from the team: a photo jigsaw with a note from everyone
Written by the Puzzlify team. Puzzlify is our product, so read this with that in mind; a good part of this post is ideas that have nothing to do with us.
Retirement send-offs at work tend to follow a script: a card that goes round the office in an envelope, a collection for ...
Andy Sylvester's Web
• Andy
Podcast on design engineering in software development
I am 2/3 of the way listening to this podcast, and it is giving me some insight into the (visual) design of software. In my career in the aerospace industry, this was not a topic that was included in most of the software I worked on. Maggie Appleton talks about the importance of the human […]
👁️ My Drafts count is down to the 30s - no small event.
🔗 Wrong Way, Right Direction — Gapingvoid
This one also relates to a Johnism …
No decision is still a decision.
🔗 Mercury’s CEO on their Principles of Writing (and AI Usage) | Hunter Walk
Always enjoy hunter - only recently discovered Mercury - saved this one to my Readwise.