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12 | {{ singleContent | safe }}
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15 | {% if singleTags %}
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26 | {% endif %}
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2 | title: Hello Storygraph
3 | displayTitle: false
4 | tags:
5 | - reading
6 | - learning
7 | ---
8 |
9 | I've recently started using [Storygraph](https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/gemcopeland) (thanks Sonia) to track the books I'm reading. It's a not-Amazon alternative to Goodreads.
10 |
11 | When you sign up, you're asked you a series of questions about the kinds of books you like. It also analyses the mood, pace and genre of the books you read, and then recommends more books based on this. I never actually used Goodreads (I had some low-fi Arena channels for tracking books instead), so I'm really enjoying these kind of features. Apparently I mainly read "slow-paced fiction books that are reflective, informative, and adventurous".
12 |
13 | It seems quite hard to find people you know on the platform, so follow me if you have it (@gemcopeland)!
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1 | ---
2 | title: Lichen collages
3 | displayTitle: false
4 | tags:
5 | - process
6 | - nature
7 | ---
8 |
9 | Making collages out of public domain images of lichen, textiles and others bits.
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/src/_includes/assets/css/components.css:
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1 | .button {
2 | background-color: var(--color-2);
3 | border-radius: 0.125rem;
4 | color: var(--color-white);
5 | display: inline-block;
6 | margin-bottom: 1rem;
7 | margin-top: 0.5rem;
8 | padding: 0.125rem 0.5rem;
9 | text-decoration: none;
10 | }
11 |
12 | .tags {
13 | display: flex;
14 | flex-wrap: wrap;
15 | }
16 |
17 | .tag {
18 | color: var(--color-grey-dark);
19 | font-size: var(--font-small);
20 | line-height: var(--line-height-small);
21 | }
22 |
23 | .tag a {
24 | text-decoration: none;
25 | }
26 |
27 | .tag:after {
28 | content: ",";
29 | margin-right: 0.2rem;
30 | }
31 |
32 | .tag:last-child:after {
33 | content: none;
34 | }
35 |
36 | .activity {
37 | margin-bottom: 0.875rem;
38 | }
39 |
40 | .activity__time {
41 | color: var(--color-grey-dark);
42 | margin-right: 1rem;
43 | }
44 |
45 | .header--article {
46 | margin-bottom: 0.875rem;
47 | }
48 |
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1 | .is-tabbing .header--desktop {
2 | display: none;
3 | }
4 |
5 | /* Visually unhide the site header */
6 | .is-tabbing .header--site,
7 | .is-tabbing .header--site .nav,
8 | .is-tabbing .header--site .nav__list,
9 | .is-tabbing .header--site .nav__item,
10 | .is-tabbing .header--site .site-title,
11 | .is-tabbing .header--site .nav__link {
12 | clip: auto;
13 | height: auto;
14 | overflow: auto;
15 | position: static !important;
16 | width: auto;
17 | }
18 |
19 | .is-tabbing .header--panel {
20 | display: none;
21 | }
22 |
23 | .is-tabbing .header--site {
24 | padding-bottom: 1rem;
25 | padding-left: var(--gutter);
26 | padding-right: var(--gutter);
27 | padding-top: var(--gutter);
28 | }
29 |
30 | .is-tabbing .header--site .aria-title {
31 | clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
32 | height: 1px;
33 | overflow: hidden;
34 | position: absolute !important;
35 | width: 1px;
36 | }
37 |
38 | .is-tabbing .nav__link {
39 | padding: 0.5rem var(--gutter);
40 | }
41 |
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1 | ---
2 | title: Design & agency
3 | displayTitle: true
4 | tags:
5 | - teaching
6 | - Common Knowledge
7 | - Evening Class
8 | ---
9 |
10 | I recently did a remote lecture for the [Transformation Design](https://www.hbk-bs.de/en/studiengaenge/transformation-design/) course at HBK Braunschweig.
11 |
12 | The students are currently doing a subject on *operating systems*, looking at the frameworks and structures that surround design: established and experimental ways of working, cooperation, organisation and solidarity.
13 |
14 | It made me so happy that this course exists! I spoke about my own practice as a digital designer, the different studios I've worked for, collectives I'm part of and the different tools, structures and processes that I've learnt about and found useful in my work.
15 |
16 | I also went on for quite a while about how great I think worker cooperatives are — planning to write this bit up in more detail soon.
17 |
18 | [View the presentation](https://www.are.na/block/5761464)
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1 | ---
2 | title: Mushrooms from Epping Forest
3 | displayTitle: false
4 | tags:
5 | - walk
6 | - mushrooms
7 | - nature
8 | - photolog
9 | - London
10 | metaImage:
11 | src: https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/5761367/original_d3a71b66353dbe182e45c0c36c3553ea.jpg?1576907036?bc=0
12 | alt: Mushrooms from Epping Forest
13 | ---
14 |
15 | Some of the mushrooms KG and I found in [Epping Forest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest). We managed to find loads of field blewits, which are edible (and delicious)!
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/src/tags.njk:
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1 | ---
2 | section: writing
3 | pagination:
4 | data: collections
5 | size: 1
6 | alias: tag
7 | filter:
8 | - all
9 | - nav
10 | - post
11 | - posts
12 | - profile
13 | - activityCurrent
14 | - activityPast
15 | permalink: /writing/tag/{{ tag | slugify }}/
16 | ---
17 | {% set title = 'Tag “' ~ tag ~ '”' %}
18 |
19 |
20 | {% include "components/head.njk" %}
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 | {% include "components/header-writing.njk" %}
25 |
26 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
21 |
22 | {% include "components/profile.njk" %}
23 |
24 | {% include "components/footer.njk" %}
25 |
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1 | ---
2 | title: New tools
3 | displayTitle: false
4 | tags:
5 | - tools
6 | - digital design
7 | - workflow
8 | - reading
9 | ---
10 |
11 | Lately I've been enjoying using [Arc](https://arc.net/) , a new Chromium-based browser. It's such a joy to use: they've completely rethought the UI / UX design of a browser. There are big changes (like spaces; easels; a sidebar with all your tabs, including pinned tabs with previews) and little details like "mini-Arc" (which opens a small version of the browser when you follow a link in a messaging app or email). The only problem is that it they haven't worked out the performance issues yet so it crashes quite often. I have high hopes though!
12 |
13 | I've also migrated from using Feedly + Pocket to using [Readwise Reader](https://read.readwise.io/) for everything. It's really well designed and great to have everything in the same place. The highlighting works really well, including over the original article, and it's fun to play with their Ghostreader GPT tooling.
14 |
15 | I'm also using the original [Readwise](https://readwise.io/) app, which surfaces three random highlights from my collection every morning. It's surprisingly hard to get highlights off a Kobo (something I miss about my Kindle, which just had all highlights in a plain text file). However, I found this tool called [October](https://october.utf9k.net/) which syncs from Kobo to Readwise. I added my old Kindle highlights too, which means it's been surfacing my highlights from the last decade or so, which has been amazing.
16 |
17 | The other tool that I'm happy to have found recently is [Voiceliner](https://a9.io/voiceliner/), a simple app that allows you to record voice notes which it then automatically transcribes. You can rearrange the hierarchy of notes and attach a location too. It's super useful — basically what I was using my Signal note to self for anyway. Plus, it's open source and does everything locally.
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1 | ---
2 | section: thinking
3 | ---
4 |
5 |
6 | {% include "components/head.njk" %}
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 | {% include "components/header.njk" %}
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
33 |
34 | {% include "components/blocks.njk" %}
35 |
36 |