Robb Knight
Robb Knight — Maker of web things, podcaster, and pizzaiolo
Web development, Apple ecosystem, and creative coding projects.
rknight.meThe real web, the small web, the indie web is amazing. Don't give Facebook and the rest of these clowns your content.
Robb is the human embodiment of the indie web. He builds tools like EchoFeed, reviews highlighter pens, podcasts, and blogs about whatever catches his attention — from creative coding projects to retro web badges. His site itself is a statement: hand-crafted, covered in webring buttons, and proudly human-made.
Written by Robb Knight since 2009.
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Weeknote #2017
The St Jude Fundraiser passed $150k overall and we hit $6k on ours last night. We still have drawing slots available and some sticker news is coming soon. Donate here. Stop Omarchy is a well-cited resource by Brennan explaining exactly why Omarchy is more than just a Linux distro run by a facist. I caught some of the most recent Dennis the Menace show on TV and I can't believe they made him look like this. This dotgrid desk mat is also a whiteboard of sorts. If I didn't always use my St Jude × R...
Analogue Defaults
A few months ago, Brad came up with analog defaults loosely based on the Hemispheric Views app defaults. I've been meaning to write mine up but having sat on it for a while I don't think it's worth me having a dedicated page like my app defaults or /now. My personal usage is better served by my #currentlyInked tag for fountain pens and this post as a general overview. On a Sunday evening if I have time, I sit down and pick out new pens for the week for each category I carry in my Rickshaw Filmo...
Greyscale in Doodle Scan
Last night I was reading this excellent post about scanning pencil artwork and the first step the artist mentioned is setting the pallette to greyscale. This made me realise how useful that would be on Doodle Scan — the black and white mode is good but only in some circumstances where the drawing is just lines, greyscale would be much more useful for illustrations with colour or shading. Like all the other features on Doodle Scan, it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to do this. After some di...
Weeknote #2016
Our St Jude Fundraiser has blasted past $5k, and I had to make a an Obsidian base to keep track of all the drawings I need to do. The first one arrived yesterday and if you want one for yourself there's one slot left right now. You can donate here. Thanks to Melanie pointing it out, I fixed a bug in Lens where it would catch SVG title elements when it shouldn't. It’s not for me but the detail on this Wallace and Gromit set is fantastic. Matt reviewed the Ulanzi D100H. I love buttons and knobs. T...
Drawing for St Jude: Petrichor
If you missed it, Adam and I are raising money for St Jude this month and you can donate here. One of the rewards I offered this year and last is I will do a drawing of whatever the donator wants. These vary from the very simple "a horse" to the detailed like "a platypus on a unicycle in Japan at night". George ordered one with this in the notes: Did you know, petrichor is "the smell of dirt after rain"? It's a pleasant smell that indicates that life is returning....
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