Robb Knight
Maker of web things, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Cat dad and human dad.
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I got married and had a child. No time for anything else. Thank you for reading.
This year I wrote 60 blog posts including this one which is a big jump compared to last year's 19. My most popular posts[1] for the year are:
Checking my Letterboxd I only watched a handful of new-to-me movies this year. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania were equally disappointing in their own special ways. Barbie was...fine? Maybe the hype set my expectations too high but it was fine. Whatever. It's a sad state of affairs that Superfast! was the best new-to-me movie I watched this year (here my review on episode 5 of We Got Family).
Just two shows jump out at me as worth recommending this year:
I've continued to use my MusicThread shortcut to send new albums and tracks to the relevant playlists:
Punk Tactics by Joey Valence & Brae has easily been my favourite album of the year, with One More Time by blink-182 a close second. The Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition was also in heavy rotation for me this year as well. According to Apple Music my top artists were (I promise this is a 2023 list and not 2005):
According to Playstation Wrap-Up, I played four games this year:
Of those I stopped playing Guardians because I found it boring and I'm halfway through Spider-Man and Last of Us. Stray is the only game I've finished.
In last year's end of year post I said:
I did start Men Who Hate Women and hopefully will finish it soon.
I did not finish it yet. Maybe next year. The only book I read this year was the Johnny Decimal workbook which I enjoyed so much I wrote a post about it.
The only new podcast I added to my subscriptions is Hemispheric Views. I enjoyed it so much I went back and listened to all 78 episodes over three months. Hemispheric Views was also how App Defaults started, more about that below.
At the start of the year I switched over to social.lol and using Mastodon rather than micro.blog which led to a few related projects:
Echo I am still using heavily and I know that RecentFM and omgnow.js is being used by at least a few people. I have plans to make Echo a more user-friendly project but that's a way off yet I think.
This year I was organised enough to setup a sub-campaign for Relay's annual St Jude fundraising campaign and I (with the help of Adam) was able to raise $12,590.57. You can read the blog post here for more of the juicy details on the campaign itself.
The real fun (aside from raising lots of money of course) comes from the japes in the Relay discord. It started with Septembed, then deskmat.help, then Coin Me, Daddy, and finally Donation Treats. These were all separate websites for the majority of the campaign but towards the end I merged them into a single project for my own sanity and slapped Zach's incredible donation daddy logo on it. I can't wait for next year, me and Adam have some fun ideas already (it's basically September anyway).
We also sent out over 100 sets of stickers to people who donated. I was pretty proud of how well the stickers I designed looked, so much so I made the Ruminate one our proper artwork.
Photo courtesy of Leon Mika
It's been a pretty good year all told. Now if I could find a way to get paid to make stupid web apps all day that'd be great.
🗓️ Here's my end of year post for 2023 https://rknight.me/just-2024-things/
I did way more than I thought I had.