Reading - Sam Hardacre

Reading

A collection of 16 posts

Hooking them in...

My youngest son has been obsessed with a show called Spidey and his Amazing Friends for a good while now. If you're unaware of it, it's basically a Spider-man show aimed at audiences too young to read or watch the films. Recently, Disney+ also dropped a Star Wars show called

Bound to books

A discussion in the OnTheSide Slack community was prompted by a post by Sam King about getting rid (or keeping hold) of physical media like CDs and DVDs. The discussion also turned to books with some members getting rid of books after reading them but I really struggle to do

Reading goal for 2023

I didn't do too badly in 2022 for reading, at least when it comes to comics. I had a steady flow of reading material throughout the year but I wasn't really paying any attention to logging what I'd read and when so aside from a few notable reads, I can't

20 in 2020

In the years prior to 2020, my reading habit had taken a bit of a nose-dive. I'd pick up a book every so often and work through it, but I wasn't reading nearly as much as I wanted to. With 2020 being a nice round number, I decided to aim

The Count of Monte Cristo

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 also taking

2018 Reading List

2017 has been a shocking year for my reading. Other than comics, I've not finished reading a single book this year and I'm not at all happy about that. Admittedly, I've been busier drawing commissions than previous years so I've not been completely idle. That said, I don't think I've

Staying relevant

Last night saw a group of creative types congregate in Huddersfield for another HuddsDigitals [http://huddsdigitals.com/] meetup. As a change to the usual format (casual meet in a bar over drinks), we saw ourselves involved in a more structured panel/group discussion talking about keeping up-to-date in a fast

User Interface Design

One click, big difference

I've been an avid Kindle user since Luisa [https://twitter.com/pooisa] first bought me one for Valentine's last year. I started with a 3rd gen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Third_generation] model until earlier this year when I broke it [http://instagram.com/p/KA5wwSGOsi/]. I

Self-improvement

Life after RSS...

Back in 2007, I bought my first MacBook. I remember spending an hour or so that morning setting up the apps I needed, dropping some music into iTunes and adding email accounts to Mail. I discovered that here in the Mail app was where RSS feeds were dropped. I immediately

Self-improvement

Challenge for August

I'm very happy with the progress I've made in the last year, going from reading next to nothing at all to reading something, be it articles or part of a book, every day. As I'm a glutton for punishment and feel I need to make a dent on the backlog

Releasing the dam

Over the last few months, I've been lagging behind in my reading of web related articles and watching of past conference videos. I've been saving many of them up for occasions when I need to kill some time which, until recently, rarely came along. Since starting my new job, I've

Self-improvement

Marked improvements

I've never been much of a reader. I've always liked reading but growing up I had a very illustrative, visual disposition which meant I spent less time working on my reading skills. As a result, when I hit my mid-teens and started to pick books up, I found the speed

The Road

A man and his son struggle to survive whilst preserving their humanity in a world where it has all but disappeared... We join the characters after they've been on the road for some time. Sleeping on the ground under blankets and a tarp. It is a constant struggle to find

Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design

There are some web design books that you pick up knowing that it will change the way you think about designing websites. This is one of those books. After giving a brief introduction to the origins of Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte goes through the process of creating a responsive

Need to read

I'm currently sitting in the office of Oli [http://twitter.com/#!/oliverker] and Chris [http://twitter.com/#!/christophercox] having just got back from this year's DIBI conference reflecting on the work I do and the drive to learn even more. On the drive down from Newcastle, Mark (aka greenboyroy [http:

Self-improvement

TV is killing my time

In November 2009, Luisa and I moved from our flat in the village I grew up in to our first proper house. I can't remember why exactly but due to the TV cabling being set up to receive Virgin Media (and we weren't subscribed to them) we were essentially without