Over the summer break I started trying to make a set of custom emoji which could be tiled to make geometric patterns in interesting ways, got bogged down in various fiddly issues, and wrote a quick tool using Observable so that I could visualise the maths behind it. I liked …

Early this year I finally got weary of dragging my collection of mp3s from one iTunes installation to the next. I'd worked out a fairly nice solution where I had the library on a 2TB SSD connected to my laptop's dock, so the music collection didn't take up any space …