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Today's LLM fail: my export script was failing to load pages, not used it for a while so wanted a quick check before investigating. It spent ages getting nowhere, analysing more and more files... Turning the dev server off and on fixed the issue 🤦🏽♂️ before Claude finished thinking.
My boy is going for World Book Day as Lindon from Cradle. Made him a little Dross to sit on his shoulder 😄 The white hand was a bit of challange to sort out with paint and corn starch.
More adobe nonsense... InDesign has two Paragraph panels that look identical - one has settings the other doesn't, and that menu is the only way to get Google's Playwrite cursive font to actually join up.
Tried the Claude Chrome extension for grabbing context off X threads. It does that well enough. No chat history though, and switching tabs kills your session (combined with the above: ugh). There's a connector in the main app too but it chokes on multiple browser profiles. Or is it just me?
This is the type of AI help I'm here for... 😆 Spotting the typo in one of 12 nearly identically named files was actually helpful.
I almost lost an entire debugging story because I forgot to screenshot along the way. Again. 🧵
I've been working on making a mystery image activity tool. Suffice to say, I'm not impressed with AI's attempts at pixel art. Wanted to do a few quick mockups for the valentine's day activity set. Neither good nor on topic.
Trying out a variety of workflows and run into a 'fun' issue today. Asked Claude Code to do some refactoring on a Codex created PR via `@claude` and it happily done the job, but never committed anything. 🤔
Obsidian + terminal plugin + claude code or any other cli agent is the secret sauce I've been missing. Finally can stop abusing Cursor when working on my MD notes 😂
Did some refactoring today and realised I was creeping towards reinventing form state management as some of the activity component were getting more complex... Well, happy to say I did not do that and setup Tanstack Form instead.
Made me pause while I was walking past a book store. Is the book any good? ;D Be More Bird by Candida Mayrick
Wasn't sure what to expect, as I've only listened to one of the songs before, but Hades Town was fantastic - entertaining performance, great voices, and the way they use the light to shape the scenes! 🤯
Not sure if it's just me but for some reason password protecting a pdf exported from InDesign with a password containing a - makes Acrobat claim the password is wrong, even if I just copied and pasted it 3 times for exporting, confirming and then opening. 🤔 Weird and annoying.
Downloaded Atlas hoping it might help me fill out some forms quicker when a lot of SEO optimised, repetitive text is needed. Here's my gripes 🧵
My son's favourite books had an animatic made (sadly the Kickstarter wasn't enough to make a full feature animation). It was a lot of fun watching the characters come to life :) They also handled the shortening of teo books into one movie quite nicely! youtu.be/JJMuJCLsYeQ?...
Cradle: Unsouled - The Animatic Movie
YouTube video by Will Wight
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TIL: Starting a question with 'Explain...' in Antigravity, seems to make it act like the Ask mode in Cursor. Now I can finally get answers to my million questions of ' WHY did you do this AI?!'
I lost my phone yesterday. 😱 Thankfully got it back today, but it was pretty nerve recking. Just the thought of having to deal with a missing authenticator app and all the 2FA that goes on daily makes me shudder. Lesson learned: keep location on (my battery will 😭). Any other tips?
I was about to praise Antigravity for doing better, but then it does something stupid... What words would you put in a word search when making a booklet called 'Days of the Week Word Searches', when specifically told to make one page for each day of the week with 3 different puzzles on each? 🧵
Why the lack of a Chat option is such a big deal in Antigravity... Maybe it's just me, but I like to understand what the code is doing. Sometimes you learn something new from what the AI spits out. 🧵
I've tried Antigravity and it has not replaced Cursor for my workflow. It's quite nice when it works, but seems geared for feature tackling and more hands off work. I won't say no to free tokens on Gemini's new model, so I'm now double IDE-ing 🤣 What irks me the most is:
I've not painted in some time. Due to: getting more writing done, parenting, and those extra road detours that life throws in for fun (not fun). BUT! Got in the studio the other day, grabbed three bottles of ink, and brush. I always lean towards cats. #kidlit #authorillustrator
A brief break in book updates and worksheet work... due to Cradle inspired cake activities 😅 Orthos & Little Blue
Out today in the UK is a new paperback printing of Children of Time, the 10th anniversary edition, including a brand new in-universe short story ‘Unbearable’ and some other bits and pieces. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Book progress update! ✨ I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.
This book will be tested on children 🥼 ;) I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵
When kids are in the other room, what’s scarier: 👻 silence 😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...) Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?
I made a weekly workbook for my kids this week. Ask me anything 😄
