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Daily notes, when I remember.

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Discovering an old podcast

Long-time readers may remember that this place used to be called the Infodump. Back in 2020 I apparently experimented with launching my own podcast. When I say "apparently", I mean I just found the file but have no memory of actually making it. Lockdown, you remember what that

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Musing...

I posted to Development Hell this morning, which is always a little bit of a pain because you have to add images and links manually, nothing works quite as well as it could, and then you have to go through a whole questionnaire about tags and labels and sections and

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Thinking about community

Cartoon Gravity and the Pleasant Green site are great places to post, and I love building them, but they are both fairly light on feedback (I don't know how much feedback other sites like these get, so I have nothing to compare to.) In the past, I have

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Highland Pro released

The best screenwriting app just got a big update.

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2025-02-12

Some thoughts on news sources, and a great creative interview link.

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2025-02-05

I've been neglecting Cartoon Gravity of late, because lots of things needed to be taken care of at the beginning of the year (mostly things that didn't get done at the end of last year!). I'm still here though, and there have been posts

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2025-01-22

Fishing with the Yakuza

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2025-01-21

On Elon's flailing and social media.

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2025-01-20

A piece pirated from the Development Hell Substack

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2025-01-11

A slow start to the year from my end, but I can feel a head of steam starting to build now. Today, I'm nudging forward a Development Hell piece, Saltmarsh Number 9, and a movie script that I want to pass the halfway mark with this weekend. While

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Top of the Year

A few bits and pieces of news and progress for the top of the year.

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Cinephilia & Beyond

A plea to keep one of the best sites on the internet going.

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Against punditry

A really GOOD piece on understanding the other side.

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This is Not a Waste of Time

My friend Joseph Brett posted this video yesterday. He made it over God-knows-how-many hours/weeks/months. Jokingly, when he posted, he referred to it as "time-wasting". I'm sure he doesn't really think that, but I want to underline that doing something creative, with love

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On Audubon

I was going to write something else entirely today, but then I came upon this piece: How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair – The Marginalian and it has been obsessing me. The eagle-eared will know that Aldrich Kemp keeps a (stolen) first

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A few days away...

Inspiration from Amsterdam.

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2024-10-08 - Interview link

I recently did an interview with design expert Andy Polaine for his Power of Ten podcast. It's essentially an hour of me banging on about film and TV development and the state of the industry. If that sounds like it might be up your street, it's

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2024-09-15

The above image is one of my favourites from any comic book, and the quote is one that I have returned to over and over again since I first read it in Planetary many years ago. This all prompted by Warren Ellis’s piece today on the untimely death of

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2024-09-10

This morning, I would like to direct your kind attention to the Rise Calendar. Until recently, Rise was just another nice looking calendar app with a neat feature which would automatically block out time for focused work if your weekly schedule started getting too heavy. Now, though, Rise has entered

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2024-09-09

It has been a minute...

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A new App Stack - July 2024

The first half of this year has been pretty busy with writing projects, and the meat of my procrastination has involved venturing down the usual rabbit holes of new productivity and notes apps. Now that I’m slowly coming up for air, it becomes apparent that I have pretty much

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2024-07-06

So that was a week - we recorded the entirety of Season 3 of Aldrich Kemp from Monday to Thursday, and then got a shiny new government on Friday. Not a bad week's work. The recording went incredibly well, and every single member of the cast was on

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Nosferatu

At last, it's being done properly:

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2024-06-24

Have been hopping between apps like mad these past few weeks, as one and then another added new features or offered major updates. i've found lots to like, as well as lots of cases where an app WILL be good but hasn't got there yet. But

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2024-06-19

I have, for some time, being wanging on about the amazing Tana app. Now that Tana Core has been released, I have a handful of invites to distribute. These offer Tana at the initial pricing, which is cheaper than it will be when it goes public, and I believe there