A thank-you for community shop and village shop volunteers: the committee, rota coordinator, early shift, till and counter volunteers, delivery drivers, stock and local producers volunteers and the founders. The shelves before opening, the bread on the step or the window at Christmas as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, gift rules, photo and privacy tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your community orchard volunteers: a photo of the trees on apple day as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for community orchard volunteers: the chair and committee, tool keepers, pruning and grafting volunteers, variety recorders, apple day and press teams, wassail organisers and schools volunteers. The orchard in blossom, a branch heavy with fruit or the tasting table as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, gift rules, photo and privacy tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your art society volunteers: a photo of the empty easels before the session as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for art society volunteers: the chair and committee, exhibition and hanging teams, life drawing and workshop organisers, programme secretaries, hall stewards and beginners' mentors. The easels before the session, a jar of brushes or the exhibition room as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, gift rules, artists' copyright, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your angling club volunteers: a photo of the water at first light as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
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A thank-you for your folk club volunteers: a photo of the back room before the singers arrive as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any folk club, singaround, song session, music session, acoustic club, folk festival, fo...
A thank-you for your scarecrow festival volunteers: a photo of the scarecrows along the lane as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any scarecrow festival, scarecrow trail, village festival committee, harvest festival, c...
infra: add ASPA to the Hygiene list (#229)
Site release 0b59592: infra: add ASPA to the Hygiene list (#229). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.
Video - Launched: Lansdown Foundry - draw and design fonts
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Release - Lansdown Foundry @ thechelsuk - iPad and Mac app marketing site Version v1.0.0
About
- Marketing site for Lansdown Foundry: An Mac and iPad app to draw and design a typeface with Apple Pencil, then use it in every app. Your strokes become a real, installable font, with the thick and thin of a pen, kerning and accents.
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- First release
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Release - Unsettled @ thechelsuk - iOS app marketing site Version v1.0.0
About
- Marketing site for Unsettled: is a spy puzzle hidden in an ordinary-looking phone.
What’s Changed
- First release
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Release - Mltply @ thechelsuk - iOS app marketing site Version v1.0.0
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- Marketing site for mltply: A free app where Buddy the robot asks the questions in a chat, plus printable workbooks for Years 1 to 7 with the answers worked out. Daily practice on screen, proper practice on paper.
What’s Changed
- First release
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Release - EngMan @ thechelsuk - iOS app marketing site Version v1.0.0
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- Marketing site for my engman: Coaching cards for engineering managers app and productts.
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- First release
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CogDogBlog
• CogDog The Blog
Comment On Back to the Porch
I have no hopes to convince anyone of my point that may or may not surface in this post, but heck this is my blog home, and here I am right! Or welcome to be told how I am wrong, Just visit, ok? So I came across this post — er newsletter thing by a […]
A thank-you for your bird club and bird survey volunteers: a photo from the morning count as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
Written by the team behind Puzzlify. Puzzlify is our product, so weigh what follows with that in mind. We've tried to make this useful even if you never use it. We're not affiliated with any bird club, birdwatching society, ornithological society, ringing group, county or st...
A thank-you for your Friends of the Library volunteers: a photo of the book sale table as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for Friends of the Library volunteers: book sale sorters, events organisers, home library delivery volunteers, story time and summer reading helpers and digital help volunteers. The sale table, the shelves or the library on a quiet morning as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, gift rules, borrowers' privacy, photo tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
Small Offerings
• Hugh
Site Changes
It’s been a busy morning. In keeping with the rebrand I mentioned last week, the blog has now moved to a new url – smallofferings.com. Unless you are reading this via RSS or on Mastodon, it should be seamless for you. If you are reading on RSS, the new feeds are here. It’s being syndicated … Continue reading "Site Changes"
SOMETHING WORTH READING
Be careful, writing may kill you. It was October 26, 1938, and John Steinbeck was feeling exhausted and ill. Just a couple of days earlier, his stomach had gone to pieces...
I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn't fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible. One of the things we're doing is trying to establish a language for frontmatter for Markdown files that are meant to be displayed by a browser. It just invented one, gave it wrong default. I have to find these things on my own. And what happens when it wipes out a site without checking with me first. It has done this, this year. The journalists are being led by the nose by the industry to the dramatic problems, without any detail. But this must be plaguing every shop that uses the AIs to make software that depends on no one fucking with it. And that is basically every piece of software ever written.
A thank-you for your local history society volunteers: a then-and-now photo as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for local history society volunteers: programme secretaries, archivists, oral history recorders, journal editors, walk leaders and enquiries volunteers. A then-and-now street photo, a ghost sign or the archive shelves as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, archive permissions, living people's privacy, JPG and scanning tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.
A thank-you for your coding club volunteers: a photo of the first project as a jigsaw, with your note at the end
A thank-you for coding club volunteers: club leads, mentors, teachers and librarians who host, technical volunteers, kit keepers, parent and young helpers. A screenshot of a child's own project or the club room as a private digital jigsaw with your note at the end. Words first, school gift policies, children's privacy, JPG tips, piece counts, honest pricing and ideas that are not a puzzle.