When you’ve finished work for the week, but it’s so hot outside that you stay in the office eating ice cream instead of heading out βοΈπ₯΅
A study of rainbows
With it being Pride Month and all, I’ve been playing around a little bit with CSS to create a rainbow hover state for my site logo.
Here’s a static version of the active state, for those on mobile:
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And here is the dynamic version in all its glory:
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I quite like the effect π
Oh, and here is a rainbow flag that was left over from the process:
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Serpentine Pavilion 2014
As much as I like this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, my favourite is still Smiljan RadiΔ’s one from 2014.
Note posted 17 June 2026
Our next flat is progressing very slowly, but today has an important gate to pass, so fingers crossed π€
Note posted 16 June 2026
The fact that we have 24 moving boxes we haven’t unpacked yet suggests that even in the tiny flat we had before, we had a lot more stuff than necessary!
Serpentine Pavilion 2026
I quite like this year’s pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery.
Brunch in Canary Wharf
6 more photosI made some signal flag icons
As a little evening project yesterday, I created a set of signal flags as icons, using CSS and SVG.
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Note posted 13 June 2026
Saturday night means pick & mix sweets π
Character counter tool
Here’s a little hand-cranked tool for counting the number of characters of a text. I’ve created it for when posting microblog posts here on the blog, as those can only be 240 characters long.
Photo posted 12 June 2026
Note posted 12 June 2026
On the radio, they said the best part of a world cup is just before a single ball has been kicked and anything is still possible. Hopefully including Belgium winning, as I got them in the office sweepstake!
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