2025-08-12 21:11:44
Firstly, there were no cursed photos on it. So that's good.
I've been wanting to get a Camp Snap camera for a while but they're kind of pricey for what they are so I'd been holding off. Then I happened upon a listing on Vinted for one for £10 which is much cheaper than the £40-50 they usually go for even second hand and it was the pink one.
Camp Snap is a no-screen digital camera design to "keep you in the moment" or something equally wishy-washy. I wanted it because it looked fun and it's perfect for the kids to use. I'm not sure how much of a beating this thing can take but there's not a lot of moving parts to it so it'll probably be fine.
Despite thinking the premise is a bit wishy-washy, I actually did enjoy the fact that I wasn't checking every photo to make sure it was perfect or that afterwards I couldn't just go in and choose a new frame from the live photo. Live photos are great and I wouldn't do without them but it definitely makes having a spontaneous photo a little bit less spontaneous. "In the moment" you might say. Fuck, they got me.
You can install custom filters either from Camp Snap directly, or by making your own with their custom filter maker. I tried out a couple and I really like their vintage one. There's also a selection of filters available on Camper Snapper and Camp Shades which I've downloaded to try out in the future.
Depending on what model you have depends on how you install the filters - I luckily ended up with 103B, a more recent one but to find out the model everywhere on their site says "check the box" but I didn't have the box so how the hell does one work out which model they have? It's in the photo metadata. Why they don't mention this anywhere is beyond me.
Because of the bargain price I got mine for, I'm loathed to spend the same amount again on their wrist strap/USB C cable but that is a very cool product. If somewhere in the UK is selling those, I might grab one.
I also came across SNPSHT which appears to be basically the same product.
Anyway, I like this camera. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to just take some photos I'll be trying out some more of the filters soon.
2025-08-11 15:49:45
Update 2025-08-11
A Piracy is a Crime sticker is gunna be included as a bonus thanks to Sophie
I went on a bit of a shitposting session on Friday and the end result is I now have new stickers for sale which you can buy here. It's a pack of two for $10 that I will send out in the next couple of weeks.
The sales have been even better than the Don't @ Me ones in a much shorter space of time so much so that I'm buying printable labels for addresses — no way am I writing these ones out by hand.
The font I used is Iglesia and a modified version of the Pirate Bay logo. Talya made it into stickers for Signal which you can install here and send to your friends, enemies, or journalists included in your group chats.
These will be up for sale until the end of the week (Sunday 17th) then I'll start the totally-not-arduous process of packing and sending them out.
2025-08-09 22:21:15
We had to return the Kodak C300R because it kept overheating and not printing. We replaced it with the P300R which is what we were originally going to buy anyway.
I bought a Nahvalur Original Plus but sadly had to return it because it had a faulty nib and/or feed. I was going to get a replacement but I'm putting the money towards a Esterbrook Funky Town instead.
One of the notes in my ideas list reads "Apple Music presence on Discord?" and I can tick that off now because someone else did it. Music Presence works with Apple Music, Spotify, Doppler, and loads of other music services and it works on MacOS and Windows[1].
Speaking of music, Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda did a Hamilton medley with classroom instruments.
Continuing on music, there are a shitload of new albums out this week: Good Charlotte, Attack Attack!, Babymetal, Halestorm, and mgk. Babymetal's is particularly good.
Baseline, a new Obsidian theme, is really nice.
This "design exploration" called the monospace web is bloody lovely as is this "typographic experiment" called flexflex.
Finally, after going on a bit of tear yesterday on the 'don, I have new stickers for sale. I'll put up a proper post next week.
Don't worry Linux users, as soon as you have drivers to make audio work, I'm sure they'll update it ⤾
2025-08-06 16:22:54
I linked to this post from CloudFlare yesterday where they showed, based on the data they have, that Perplexity is using all sorts of shitty tactics to get around robots.txt[1] and other blocks based on user agent.
Perplexity then put up their own blog post where they used the best part of 1000 words to explain they either don't understand consent, or don't care.
I was going to quote various parts of the article explain why that part is bullshit but it's not worth the time. At the core of this issue is consent. Even if you agree that AI agents shouldn't be treated like other AI crawlers or if you think Perplexity is awesome, it's my website and I get to decide who accesses it. Consent.
This Hacker News commenter shares a lot of the same views as me on the matter:
I don't want my content to be accessible to you through Perplexity.
I want my work to be freely available to any person who wants it. Feel free to transform my material as you see fit. Hell, do it with LLMs! I don't care.
The LLM isn't the problem, it's what companies like Perplexity are doing with the LLM. Do not create commercial products that regurgitate my work as if it was your own. It's de facto theft, if not de jure theft.
Knowing that it is not de jure theft, and so I have no legal recourse, I will continue to tune my servers to block and/or deceive Perplexity and similar tools.
Yes I know it's just a request and not a law, stfu no one cares ⤾
2025-07-31 21:05:03
When I was at school there was no pencil case cooler than one that looked like a can of Pepsi, Lucozade, or Coca Cola. At the time, I had a Pepsi Max one for a while but I had forgotten all about it until last week when I happened upon someone selling one on Vinted so of course I immediately bought it.
It arrived yesterday and it's as glorious as I remember.
Also, I made this based off another version of the logo for no reason other than it slaps[1].
So does Pepsi Max, the superior cola. ⤾
2025-07-30 20:07:25
I'm at the end of my first journal and starting a new one on Friday. I've learnt some lessons about what does and doesn't work for me, spent some time setting up some collections for ideas to keep track of those and of course I setup the mildliner sample pages again. I'm also excited to use my yellow EF TWSBI Eco which doesn't write nicely in my current journal.
I picked up a slide for Baby Knight which just barely fit in my car and made the drive back pretty precarious but she bloody loves it so it's all worth it.
I had a lot of fun with KnightPrint. I think I'll turn it on for a bit longer tomorrow.
The Ruminate sticker for St Jude fundraising this year is designed and ready to go. I started with one idea, scrapped that, and a new one came together really quickly. Stayed tuned for updates very soon[1].
Testing is continuing on EchoFeed rules and profiles. I want to make sure I get this right so it's taking longer than I originally hoped.
I entered the TRMNL hackathon with a fun movie-adjacent plugin. Winners will be announced Friday and I'll put a post up about it after that.
Lettervoxed "is a tool that extracts esoteric words from about 25,000 movies from the past century" and feels like something I wish I'd thought of. Incredible work that led me to remembering this classic line from Ali G Indahouse (2002), one of only three movies in the corpus to use the word "knobbing":
We is knobbing two birds with one connie.
I've been enjoying the new Tony Hawk and I happened upon this community list of all the different fonts used in the games.
Mel built and released an 11ty starter kit specifically for photos, very cool.
rssrssrss can combine multiple RSS feeds into one.
This Steve Caballero house tour is wonderful (via Dan).
Pocket has been saved and is now Folio. John has the details on MacStories.
Want to render every road in a city? Of course you do. You can customise the colours and export as a PNG or SVG too.
Vert is a local file conversation webapp that supports a boatload of formats.
Pointer Pointer is very silly and I love it.
You owe it to yourself to watch this video of Vienetta being made.
David came to the same conclusion as I did about BuJo:
I just want a nice way to stay organized, not a cult!
Jordan Elver came to the same conclusion as I did about Blackpool and I didn't even get to see a big Tesco.
If you have nothing good to say don’t say anything at all, however, highlights were the very fancy car park in the centre, and the massive Tesco Extra - really, it has to be seen to be believed.
Finally, no notes on this local Facebook group post:
[local area] is a community, not a cuntmunity
It's almost nearly September ⤾
