I'm Mark Norman Francis, a software developer and development manager who builds things of and for the internet. I use this website to collect my thoughts and ideas, and to collect the parts of me that I leave lying around on other sites on the internet.
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Truly deserving
High-five, tree
Am I the only one?
Trying to do a joke
Say it now
Cake
Mostly video game content, where I try and make them more watchable and less erratic by judicious use of repeated attempts to get the best footage and a lot of editing.
Nathan Evans Wellerman Family Tree — shantytok mashup/supercut
Assassin's Creed II — Chapter 10 — Emilio Barbarigo
Chips for week 41, 2021
October 18
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I did a few small bits of work on hasworn, and made a silly video.
This is the second in a series of
articles about hasworn — the site I run to catalogue which tshirt I
wear on any given day. The project is open-source and published on
Github, and …
This is the first in a series of
articles about hasworn — the site I run to catalogue which tshirt I
wear on any given day. The project is open-source and published on
Github, and …
A little note to mark the end of the restoration of this site that I
started a year ago, and the work done to do the final part — restoring
the handful articles I've written since 2005.
Back in 2014, I put up a little website with about 20 GIFs on it.
For the next five years, I only added one more GIF. Then last year, I
started adding GIFs on a regular basis. Today, I've got over 350 GIFs
published, and another 300 in the queue. But why?
In which I get jabbed in the arm with a needle. Twice.
On Monday, chapter 54 of my Horizon Zero Dawn playthrough went live, and it contains one of my favourite sequences from the entire game (the first 16 minutes of the video). youtube.com/watch?v=xF2poD… To celebrate this …
An attempted troll of Star Trek nerds turns into a twitter thread, turns into a short article summarising which Star Trek movies to watch, and some background TV episodes.
Tidying my whiteboard as I’d been using it to keep paper and notes like some kind of todo list (the horror). I keep a lot of trinkets on there too, and just uncovered my favourite …
Mortlach 12y review
Mortlach 12y review: two thumbs up. I’ve only ever rated two other …
I still scrub up okay
Despite having left the house for anything more than popping to the …
Many presents
Now I have time on my hands I’m doing some tidying up …
Snooze central
Itsy is not a lap cat … until there’s a cushion or …
Fettercairn 12
I’ve been trying a new whisky every month for a year and …
New lanyard
Replaced my standard issue boring blue lanyard with one that has a …
Black cat appreciation day
Roxy eyeing up my pork chop pillow for #BlackCatAppreciationDay. I’ve always loved …
My commute has changed for the better
Having moved office buildings, my commute has changed for the better again
ISO 8601 compliant gumbo
Gumbo —
October 09
Two splashes of white on black
Roxy —
August 31
Asleep and cozy
Itsy —
August 18
This one is large, that one is far away
August 18
Gravel is comfy
Roxy —
June 25
Found a cobweb to stick her nose in
Itsy —
June 25
Asleep in the round
Roxy —
June 06
Smol snooze
Itsy —
April 02
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