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Game of Life Web Component

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:58:00 GMT

I made a web component to render Conway's Game of Life in an offscreen canvas.

🔗 Fergus Dunnet

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:06:00 GMT

is an artist, illustrator, puppet maker, animation and well of creativity.

🔗 LocalFirst.fm

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:20:00 GMT

A podcast about local-first software development

Generator Functions

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:58:00 GMT

I wanted a chance to play with generator functions and found them extremely useful in simulations

🔗 Computer Lib/Dream Machines

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:50:00 GMT

In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."

🔗 Star Trek Chairs

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:20:00 GMT

Countless off-the-shelf office chairs, lounge chairs or car seats appeared in Star Trek productions. Here is a list of the models that we found, among them many design classics.

🔗 Merlin

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:06:00 GMT

is a scarily accurate app that helps you train your recognition of bird song and general identification.

🔗 📺 Cloud Doughnuts

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:20:00 GMT

Love these tiny doughnuts, really quick to make and a great special treat. I added ground cardamom to the dough and the coating.

🔗 📺 The 5 minute baguette

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:20:00 GMT

This recipe is brilliant, perfect for quickly putting together the night before to bake in the morning. You can also use 100g of liquid starter or preferment in place of the yeast and the timings still work, just remove half the weight from the flour and water.

Global Game Jam 2024 - Boffo and the Great Art Heist

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 08:18:00 GMT

Took part in my first game jam and had a lot of fun.

🔗 Borneo Orangutan Survival UK

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:36:00 GMT

"Saving orangutans from extinction, together"

🔗 OneKind

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:36:00 GMT

is a Scottish animal rights charity helping to end animal cruelty, and protecting wildlife, farmed animals and pets. One of their recent campaigns resulted in snares being banned in Scotland!

🔗 Scottish Ornithologists' Club (SOC)

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:36:00 GMT

"On the one hand, a birdwatching club. On the other, a network of volunteers across Scotland, gathering vital information about Scotland’s wild birds.". They have a wonderful library that is well worth a visit and useful app.

Daily Code Hour

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:22:00 GMT

Public accountability to build something fun with code every day

Hello World

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:20:00 GMT

In which the author welcomes the reader to their new journal with the enthusiasm and optimism only a brand new blog can instill.

🔗 Back To The Future

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- A Wonderfully playful collection of photos taking an old photo and recreating it as closely as possible with the same people and location. The attention to detail in the outfits, props, lens choice, and treatment is superb.

🔗 Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behaviour

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- Really interesting article about the Pac-Man ghosts personalities and some links to go more in-depth. I love the complex behaviour they managed to get from such simple rules.

🔗 Sonic Pi

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a tool from Sam Aaron that lets you make music with code.

🔗 Matthew Somerville

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a programmer, musician and remover of bank holidays. You may know him from accessible train times, his work at mySociety or one of his many other projects.

🔗 Water Wigs

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a fun project by Tim Tadder where he captures bald heads being hit by water balloons.

🔗 Letters to the Ocean

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- "Every day for twelve years, I sent a letter to the Pacific Ocean. The letters were returned by the US Postal Service with markings indicating that “no such place exists.” I have over 3,000 returned letters which I have exhibited at various points."

🔗 📺 The Irrepressibles

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- I saw Jamie and the Irrepressibles live when Nicolette was supporting them at a gig in Manchester and went in completely unprepared for the mix of theatrical, orchestral, electrical and vocal power. Well worth seeing live.

🔗 How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

🔗 RadioLab: Colors

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- I don't think there are many people who haven't heard RadioLab (Though if you haven't listened they have a great backlog), but I love this episode about colour in particular. 🌈🦐

🔗 Rune Guneriussen

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

creates photos with light, structure, nature and curiosity.

🔗 Zugakousaku

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a collection of examples of interactive design/storytelling.

🔗 Obsolete technology

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- "There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society."

🔗 Clarkesworld Podcast

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- This is an amazing resource, over 11 years of short fiction stories for free. (patreon)

🔗 📺 Morgan Cooper

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

has a masterful use of colour in his shots and I love the intentionality, storytelling and variation in his work.

🔗 T.J. Sheehy

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is another software developer who was instrumental to my understanding and way I approach my work. He has a quiet, gentle, humble way of teaching, and unexpected passion and determination for finding the best solution.

🔗 Within the Wires

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- Each season is 10 episodes and is standalone, but they are all set in the same alternate universe. That said I would still start with the first season. Brilliant storytelling and sound design.

🔗 Myfanwy Tristram

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is an illustrator, activist and comic artist with a sharp eye for people and fashion.

🔗 Light and the Eye

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

this series of articles is the perfect follow-up to "Color Wheels are wrong?" and goes into much more depth about the physics, mechanics and evolutionary purpose of colour vision. It's not a light read but it is fascinating.

🔗 Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is an interesting article talking about how we physically see colour versus how it is traditionally taught and how it relates to the actual physical attributes of the spectrum. The description of how the filters work is one of the clearest/easy to understand I've read.

🔗 The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- Feels like a space western in the same vein as Firefly, great character development.

🔗 Dr Julius Neubronner’s Miniature Pigeon Camera

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

🔗 Present & Correct

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a design blog and I love the links they share it's one of the first feeds I check. "We want to spark a distant memory, make you smile or look at the most mundane in a new, and fonder, light."

🔗 📺 CodingTrain

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- I recently came across this channel and haven't fully dived into the archives yet as there are over a decade of videos spanning a huge range of programming topics, the style, friendliness and positivity is so refreshing and I really love his teaching style.

🔗 Alex Trost

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a front-end developer and also runs Frontend Horse. I really enjoy the energy and playfulness he brings to everything he produces.

🔗 Cassie Codes

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- I love Cassie's playfulness, whimsy, design sense and expansive knowledge. Would recommend having a look through her CodePen, treasure trove of learning.

🔗 📺 Math For Game Devs

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

by Freya Holmér is one of the clearest, best explained series teaching the maths commonly used in GameDev/Animation out there. Her videos on The Continuity of Splines and The Beauty of Bézier Curves are both really well made, researched and worth watching

🔗 A Pickpocket’s Tale

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- "The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins."

🔗 Anna Powell-Smith

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

makes a lot of very interesting data-vis projects, from mapping money laundering for Private Eye to Land Ownership and the Doomsday book.

🔗 Precious Plastic

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

🔗 Valerie Aurora

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

in her first programming job debugged a nuclear explosion detecting satellite using the offset of a reflected giant space laser!

🔗 The Game Design Round Table

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- It's worth exploring the large backlog of episodes, some really great interviews and discussions about all aspects of game design, theory, digital and physical. They aso have a great Discord community.

🔗 Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

🔗 Midst

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a semi-improvised story told by "a trio of playfully omniscient, mysterious, and unreliable narrators". It's great at painting a world and drawing you in and lovely sound design. Start at the beginning, I didn't get into Moonward (Season 4) but the first three seasons are fantastic.

🔗 Yousef Khanfar

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a master of light and landscape. I've been lucky to attend a couple of his workshops which were instrumental to my learning about composition.

🔗 📺 Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow, and more

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

by 3Blue1Brown. I'd love to have a play with some vector fields.

🔗 Finn Anderson

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a signer-songwriter, pianist, composer for theatre and all round lovely human. Into The Arms Of Ghosts is my favourite wind down album.

🔗 How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

🔗 Elephant Town

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is the latest webcomic from Danielle Corsetto, I'm loving the pacing, style and character development.

🔗 Joe Wright

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a software developer I worked with briefly and learnt a huge amount from in that small time. Watching him methodically convert a giant monolithic piece of mission critical legacy code in place to something sane, tested and predictable was inspirational.

🔗 HOWTO: Be more productive

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- brilliant article by Aaron Swartz on being productive and the non-fungibility of time. I found this really helpful. Most his articles are a great read, another recommended one is Fix the machine, not the person.

🔗 The Prisoners' Dilemma

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- a post from the sprawling brain of Robin Houston exploring the Prisoners Dilemma and how the optimal play changes when looked at over time. Lots of other great stuff on his blog, I especially love the series on mazes and his experiments with flood filling.

🔗 Superformula

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- there is something magical about these shapes, the simple rules that form them and the way they reflect nature in 2D and 3D.

🔗 A Precious Hour

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

, my mind often comes back to this post. I'm going to try and adopt the practice. "Starting at the beginning of February, I made a change. Each day I blocked off a precious hour to build something."

🔗 Kristin McClement

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a singer-songwriter, print artist and member of the Wilkommen Collective in Brighton. Give her a listen.

🔗 Poline

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a tool for generating and exploring colour palettes. It is magical and addictive to play with, and a great to experiment with theory.

🔗 Dave Whiteland

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a writer, comic artist and programmer. Wonderful things come from his brain. He is currently interviewing cats. He published one of the very first web comics.

🔗 The Great 78 Project

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is an effort from the Internet Archive to digitize the original 78rpm discs which were made from shellac and are starting to degrade. It's a treasure trove of amazing music and interesting recordings.

🔗 Nicolette Macleod

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is an artist, incredible singer, writer and composer for theatre and dance as well as my partner in-crime at URSALUNA Studio.

🔗 The Illustrated Jules Verne

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- The Original Illustrations of the Voyages Extraordinaires. All the beautifully etched plates.

🔗 📺 DIYPerks

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- Another person that approaches everything he produces with a positive, encouraging and methodical manner. A natural teacher.

🔗 Schneier on Security

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

- "I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people."

🔗 East

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

by Meera Sodha is one of my favourite cookbooks, I've never made a recipe from it that I haven't really enjoyed.

🔗 📺 Mathieu Stern

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

creates videos experimenting with lenses and cameras in novel and interesting ways. I really enjoy his playing with vintage lenses and projector lenses.

🔗 MIT Press: Open Access Materials

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

nearly 300 books mostly covering topics connected to science and technology.

🔗 Godot Engine

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is an open source game engine I've recently started playing with and really enjoying.

🔗 The Green Roasting Tin

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

by Rukmini Iyer is brilliant for recipes you can just throw in a tray in the oven and have something really tasty. There's really quick and longer recipes

🔗 Hexagonal Grids

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

This is a great guide exploring different approaches to working with hex grids. There's pseudo code examples for each of the approaches.

🔗 Hifi Archiv

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a hoard of retro hifi adverts and manuals grouped by manufacturer. I particularly love the Philips ones.

🔗 Hot Bread Kitchen

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a bakery in New York that employs immigrant women from all over the world, the recipe book is full of a huge variety of breads and some meals that go with them. The recipes are super clear and I've always been successful making them.

🔗 Void.as

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:20:00 GMT

is a studio from Norway that make amazing light installations.

Jane Goodall Institute Hackathon

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:40:00 GMT

I took part in the Jane Goodall Institute's Code for Good Hackathon which despite missing two weeks due to covid, made something great and enjoyed getting a chance to use RedwoodJS

Meshroom is awesome!

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:19:00 GMT

I've been playing around with photogrammetry using Meshroom and Blender and getting some interesting results

Second Prismic Slice Contest

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:15:00 GMT

My entry into the second Prismic slice contest

Prismic Slice Contest

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:15:00 GMT

My entry into the Prismic slice contest

Trailer for the SeaGazing Podcast

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:34:00 GMT

Listen to the trailer for our new podcast about marine conservation and coastal community in Scotland

Love and Gold

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:21:00 GMT

Nicolette has released her first album, give it a listen on Bandcamp.

Dwindle: a Tapir's Tale

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 07:34:00 GMT

My good friend Dave Whiteland has released a wonderful and tragic online story that you should go and read

NomNom Insights has launched!

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:21:00 GMT

We've been hard at work for months getting ready for this and now it's open for everyone!

Two Birds - Myfanwy Tristram & Zara Slattery

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:31:00 GMT

Myf's latest book is out and it's beautiful.

Dustin Curtis - Yours vs. Mine

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:01:00 GMT

A link to an article from Dustin Curtis about how to refer to a users items

Basic Shapes

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:13:00 GMT

I made a set of 39 custom shapes you can use in Photoshop

Summer

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:12:00 GMT

News, links and a thank you to W3C Sites and .NET magazine for featuring my site

Paper Scissors Stone

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:39:00 GMT

I made a few little games in JavaScript

Broadbent Awards Site Launched

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:00 GMT

I designed and built the site for Broadbent Awards

WordPlay

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:41:00 GMT

A little set of PHP functions for playing with text that I released. Looking back I think this might be the first bit of opensource code I wrote.

Welcome Chickens

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:12:00 GMT

Say hello to our six new chickens! (Note from 2023: I think the chicken cam needs to come back!)

WebKit CSS

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:00:00 GMT

An experiment with CSS shadows using the nightly Webkit build

Morning Frost

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:00 GMT

A couple of photos I took on a cold morning.

Thank You Apple

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:00:00 GMT

I installed the 10.5.2 update this morning and hurrah you can now browse folders in list view from the dock again.

Bad form Yazsoft!

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

I'm moaning again, this time about software auto-updating to a paid update. Not sure why I was so grumpy back then.

Refreshed Broadbent Site

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:15:00 GMT

I’ve refreshed the style of the Broadbent Studio site and it’s now online.

3662018

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Wishing you a happy new year 2018! Some news and links.

Social Network Requiem

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:44:00 GMT

Some bad poetry I wrote in 2008 about social media. Some things change; Some things stay the same. I no longer have a landline.

3D Folder icons 1.0

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:52:00 GMT

A set of custom folder icons for use in the Finder that were featured by Apple on their old downloads site.

Happy New Year!

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:54:00 GMT

Wishing you a happy new year 2008! Some news and links.

CMS Icons Preview

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:44:00 GMT

A preview of a set of icons I'm working on for use in content management systems

3D Folder Icons Preview

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:00:00 GMT

Preview of a set of custom folder icons that I'm working on.

There’s a reason it’s called “Design Premium”

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:45:00 GMT

A grumpy rant about the cost of upgrading Adobe software in the UK compared to the US. What a sweet summer child I was, unaware of the subscriptions soon to be unleashed.

New Icon Set Preview

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:50:00 GMT

Preview of a set of custom folder icons that I'm working on.

Valid xHTML/CSS buttons

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:09:00 GMT

A prettier alternative to the valid xHTML and CSS buttons from W3C

Back from China

Fri, 11 May 2007 11:08:00 GMT

Have added some photos from visit to China to my Flickr

Buzz Out Forte Photoshop Contest

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:32:00 GMT

It's that time of year again! Buzz out Loud Photoshop contest 2007

Buzz Out Loud Photoshop Contest

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:56:00 GMT

My entries into the Buzz out Loud Photoshop contest

GDC 2005 San Francisco

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:34:00 GMT

Some photos from San Francisco

Renewal Arts Photography Workshop

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:56:00 GMT

Some of the photos I took at a photography workshop in Switzerland