Daily meditation While being in lockdown with a 5 year old and a baby less than 6 months old, you don't get much time to switch off. When the kids are asleep, jobs around the house need doing. When they're done, I've got comic work I
More than yesterday I'm almost half way through my fifth Inktober project and I thought this would be a good time to write about something I've been thinking about for a while. For various reasons, this year I've gone through patches of struggling to get into a
Stress-free Inktober We're about a week into Inktober 2019 and I just wanted to take a moment to get my thoughts down on how this week has compared to previous Inktober projects. This is my 5th consecutive year taking part in Inktober. Each year, I've had a specific
15 years It was around 2am on Sunday 3rd October 2004. I was sat up in bed struggling to breathe when I decided lying down would be a good idea. That's when I stopped breathing... The days preceding this, I'd been getting out of breath after short walks.
The end of web side projects I still love working on the web. I still love building stuff that people can use but after 16 years building digital products, I'm finding the last thing I want to do when I get home is spend more time at a computer... When I was younger, I
Social Media Facebook free I opened my Facebook account in 2007. At the time, I was deemed a bit of a late-comer to the system and for a long time I resisted. I had Twitter for friends far away, I saw my local friends every few days back then. I think I even still
Week notes Week notes #10 So I missed a few weeks, don't hassle me... wait, no-one is hassling me. Okay, we're cool. I've slept a lot since the last entry so I'm going to cover the last week or so. Baby H! So the big news of
Week notes Week notes #9 Another week gone by already! The last couple of weeks I've been late or absent with an update so here I am drafting this on a Saturday evening, "will the surprises never end?" I hear you ask... Last week's post [https://blog.nocturnalmonkey.com/
Week notes Week notes #8 The other week, I missed an update. This week I'm a day late. It's all unravelling so fast! The horror! It's gonna be a short one this time. There's honestly not much to report, even as a record for my future self
Week notes Week notes #7 I missed an update last week, I want to send these out on Sundays and I just couldn’t find time last weekend so I figured I wouldn’t beat myself up and just skip a week. Apologies to those who were eagerly awaiting the update last week. It’s
Comic grid The other day I was listening to Make It Then Tell Everybody [http://makeitthentelleverybody.com/2019/04/sarah-bowie/] and there was a discussion about having a grid to hand for putting comic page layouts together. I'm starting to put pages together for a comic so I thought I&
Game of Thrones If you haven't seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones ("The Long Night") then don’t read further. Ok? Yeah? You sure? Ok, if you’re still here, I don’t want you giving me hell about spoilers. This isn’t a long post. This
Week notes Week notes #6 It’s been a long week of sunshine, sea, shells and eggs. I’ve had a week off and it’s been great so who cares if this post is a day late! It’s gonna be a short one this week. I worked on Monday but then had the
Week notes Week notes #5 Compared to previous weeks, it’s been all go these last 7 days. Work is going well. My boss went to the US for the Masters so I worked remotely all week. I managed to bag myself a desk at my old company so it was great to work in
Week notes Week notes #4 Sunday again. I'm writing this with a background soundtrack of Hakuna Matatta while the boy watches The Lion King. After a few weeks of ups and downs with work, things are looking a bit more positive... I have a new job! I'll be working for a
Design Systems Typography in Design Systems (rebound) About a week ago, I read Dan Mall's article, Typography in Design Systems [http://danmall.me/articles/typography-in-design-systems/], and I've been meaning to write a quick rebound post to expand on the section about the system in code with something I've been doing in
Week notes Week notes #3 It's Sunday morning once again so it's time to drop another one of these updates. Let me just start with Brexit. What a shit-show the whole thing is. Either put it to the people for another vote or cancel the whole thing. On the work front,
Week notes Week notes #2 Last week I began by saying it's been a largely uneventful week. I feel like saying the same this week so I guess from now on, unless I start my Week notes saying anything different, my default overview of the past week will be "uneventful". Saying
Week notes Week notes #1 This has largely been an uneventful week. I'm still in redundancy limbo at work not knowing for certain whether I'm going to be made redundant or not but kind of already know that's gonna be the case. I don't plan on posting
Week notes Week notes #0 There seems to be a resurgence in personal blogs which is great and it's got me inspired to get back into writing more. Another thing I’ve seen cropping up quite a lot is the idea of posting week notes. I’m sure there’ll be people out
Design Sony: using their head(phone)s Followers on Twitter will know I love podcasts. I listen to them every day and as a result have acquired a fairly chunky number of subscriptions [https://blog.nocturnalmonkey.com/listening-to/] along the way. One of the most recent additions is the Unusable Podcast [https://podcast.theunusable.com/], a show
My Apple buying habits A few days ago, I sent this tweet: > “The reality is many consumers are quite content with the iPhone they have and they will only get a new one when it breaks or slows down...” ☝️ yup, that’s the case for me https://t.co/LPb9tS3AKH — Sam Hardacre (@nocturnalmonkey)
Reading The Count of Monte Cristo Last year, I planned to read more [https://blog.nocturnalmonkey.com/2018-reading-list/] and failed miserably. I used to read a lot and the last few years it's tailed off a bit so this year, I wanted to try again and not fail. This time is helped by Lu
Personal Re-thinking my podcast habit I'd like to start by stating this is a very personal revelation. You're probably going to read this and think "Duh, you've only just got here?" so don't say I didn't warn you. I've been listening
