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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Reviewing Mildliner Smells
I got my hands on the Fragrance Mildliner pack for what I thought was a bargain price of £5. If I'm honest that might be about £5 too much but here we go anyway. I sniffed these pens hard. Soda Blue / Cotton is the worst one by a long shot. It smells like the strongest washing powder you've ever smelt in your life. What I imagine a laundromat smells like. Olive / Green has a smell but it's very mild, kinda like wet grass I suppose. Almost imperceptible though. Sherbet Yellow / Citrus is the onl...
Cult Pens Anniversary Mystery Box Review
At the start of the month Cult Pens, for their anniversary, put up a birthday mystery box for £100. No other information, just choose a nib size and they'll send out a mystery box: We can't tell you what's inside, because it's a mystery, but we can tell you the contents are worth way more than the price, and have an RRP of at least double. "One part of my brain knows mystery boxes are a good way for a company to move stuff that isn't selling, the other half wants to buy it anyway" wa...
Exporting Vinted Sold Data
Over the past month or so I've sold a bunch of stuff on Vinted and I wanted to know how much I've made but Vinted don't give you that data, at least not in a nice way. They have monthly reports but that shows what you started with and ended with which only works if you don't withdraw or spend anything, which I had. So I went to the sold page, scrolled the infinite scroll list until it had loaded the months worth of stuff and whipped up this snippet to take the price and title of the item and add...
Weeknote #2001
I haven't done a weeknote in a while and this one is packed with links because I've got very behind on all the things including my saved later list. What do you mean you don't have custom artwork for your weeknotes? Weirdo. First off, I was thinking about Y2K as one does and I remembered that these keyrings were everywhere in 1999. I am somewhat annoyed I missed weeknote 2000 to post this in but here we are. While I don't think all of these truly "replace" the premium ones they clai...
How Many Mildliner Colours Are There, Really?
This is, in fact, another post about how many colours of Mildliners there are but it should be the final one of this format. Last week I posted about the Mildliner mix colours in which I said I was going to look into redoing my Mildliner reference site and I've done just that with version two. That right there is the mildliner colours. Now let's talk about the mildliner colours. Can we talk about the mildliner colours please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mildliner colours with you al...
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