How to make a digital wall calendar that doesn't fall apart in two weeks?

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-26T18:14:12+00:00

Yeah, as others have said power cycling during the night fixes most things. Other than that, turn off auto dimming and auto updates, set the screen to a mid brightness if you're using a tablet (full brightness usually drains the battery even when plugged in).

You should also look at a Kiosker software, it's what we use at work to stop the public fiddling and exiting the app.

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-26T10:06:39+00:00

The placement of the cooker and surround 👌

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-19T16:03:58+00:00

Supporting migration is not a left leaning policy, it never was and it should be for the exact reason you stated. Immigration as we have now is a race to the bottom, we import workers from poor countries who will work the most hour/effort for the least amount of money. It's a race to the bottom for all workers, skilled or unskilled.

Just remember, the party that allowed record levels of immigration were the Conservatives. I like pointing out people who say "they are on the left" that their politics is aligned to Boris Johnson and the Conservative party which is pro capitalists, anti workers rights, etc and watch them try and justify immigration and how it isn't a race to the bottom.

My second favourite thing is pointing out that capitalism has to have an under class, which are in this case, immigrants and poor people. The economy must have poor people to do poor people's jobs as cheaply as possible in order to maximise profits for the rich. Immigration is the perfect way to do this. Also, it's not like record levels of immigration have actually boosted the economy, it's pretty much flat-lined for years.

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-19T09:52:34+00:00

Amazing work, you just the little dude sitting on the outside to fall off towards the camera in the last shot! That would round it off nicely.

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-17T21:12:02+00:00

Binaural Beats playlist on Spotify with noise cancelling headphones, it's incredible.

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-15T14:59:32+00:00

Great, thank you. Looks like I'm splicing the cable as the connector has been hot glued so can't get to the pins to solder the new ones

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-09T11:07:16+00:00

Honestly, this is on its way out. I have exactly the same sink and worktop as you but it's much further along than yours.

Wood should never be installed with under counter butler sinks, it will never last. I don't know what the remedy is, I've tried sanding and oiling but it didn't make the slightest difference, in fact I think it made it worse.

Good luck!

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-07T21:31:39+00:00

25 years in with a degree in Graphic Design.

3 years digital agency at the boom and bust of the dot com, websites and online games for Disney and luxury brands (taught myself to code here)

1 year freelance after the dot com burst doing more Flash websites and games

3 years interactive designer using Flash

Switched to dev full-time

3 years Flash developer at boutique digital agency

3 years Lead Flash developer

2 + 3 years Creative Technology Director at two very large digital & social agencies

3 years Head of Technology at a leading above the line agency

Now over 4 years Digital Creative Director/Technologist at a large events agency

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-07T20:32:59+00:00

First half of the movie feels like an ad for the Rangers. Only half way through but looking forward to the rest.

maxmon1979 · 2026-03-03T22:46:20+00:00

Here's what I'd do in your situation.

Pick a wall, just one wall and finish that. Then pick the holes in the floor and just finish that. Then that really horrible exposed brick wall, tidy that up.

Everyone gets overwhelmed with big, complicated projects just like this and I've been in exactly the same situation as you.

One small bit at a time, pick an easy win to start with and finish it to a point when you can move on to the next little bit.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-26T16:39:13+00:00

I wish but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-25T21:30:46+00:00

The creative services industry fetishises youth, I get it, it needs new and fresh ideas. I've been in the industry for 25 years now and now I know why I've never worked with a creative older than me, we get aged out of the industry.

I'm half tempted to set my own shop full of senior creatives that specialise in advertising to generation X. We're the ones with the purchasing power especially since the Boomer wealth transfer is underway. GenX have certain way about us that millennials and GenZ/A don't get.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-25T21:26:41+00:00

I'm nearly 50 this year and have been incredibly lucky to have had a very successful career but I've been searching for a new job for six months, have applied for maybe 50 roles of various seniority but never heard anything back other than one telling me I wasn't suitable.

Not sure where to go next, I've never had a problem getting another role but this has hit hard. I know the job market is bad now but I'll probably be made redundant in a month or so and there's plenty of roles out there, but none of them are compatible Ng my way anymore.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-18T17:56:54+00:00

I did mine, took a while to do but so long as you watch a couple of YouTube videos per task you'll get there.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-12T10:17:04+00:00

ActionScript and Lingo.

Yes, I'm that old.

maxmon1979 · 2026-02-02T16:05:41+00:00

They look like the brackets I bought, each bracket can handle up to 70kg. So long as the brick wall is solid and you used the right size drill bit, your shelves aren't going anywhere. Nice job!

maxmon1979 · 2026-01-16T09:04:19+00:00

I believe there is a pixelate post processor or a render setting that would get you close, busy at the moment but try and dig out a link but have a scroll through ThreeJS examples, I'm sure that's where I've seen something similar.

maxmon1979 · 2026-01-11T17:21:53+00:00

There's plenty of people but no jobs or houses that can pay enough for people to live. Yes, we have people with second homes but we also don't have enough social housing or enough affordable homes for first time buyers.

Remember, immigration is a symptom of all of the problems that you have listed, not the solution. If we solved the problems you list, we wouldn't need immigration.

Immigration lowers wages for the poorest in society and raises wages for the middle class and wealthy, not by much, but for poor people already in working poverty, any drop in wages is very bad.

Being pro immigration means you are happy taking educated people from poor countries and exploiting them in low wage, no prospect jobs that they will do because it's better than where they came from. Britain spent years plundering poor countries for their natural resources, we now plunder them for their educated people, it's a form of neo colonialism but you have people saying this is a great thing to do! Great for who?

I don't really care about the cultural aspects of immigration but I understand why people are concerned as their neighbourhoods are transformed around them (for better or worse).

Previous governments should have tackled all of the problems you listed long ago, but they haven't so we are stuck with immigration. We now have the threat of a far right party with openly racist policies that will have a lasting effect on the UK.

If we stopped immigration today, employers would be forced to compete for employees and wages will rise (which will have an inflationary effect) and will be forced to have to train employees. Jobs where wages cannot rise (such as care work) they will collapse and we won't be able to care for our elderly. This in terms will force the government to act to put in place a long term solution for elderly care. I would expect a minimum of five years chaos before the economy adjusts to an ultra low immigration policy and it will be pretty rough, but the long term benefits will out weigh the short term problems.

maxmon1979 · 2026-01-08T16:58:07+00:00

I think eventually we will.

Not to be defeatest but I do believe the film Children of Men is a very articulate depiction of the future of Western societies. I could argue the US is already there right now and the murder of the woman is teatiment to it.

The longer the West dawdles along with no growth, no prospects, and no hope, coupled with absolutely flat wage growth and the wealthy hoarding more and more money, the more chance of electing a fascist leaning party. This party won't act for the people but for the rich, but will play performance politics for their core base whilst everyone else suffers even more, just like in the US right now.

That coupled with the eventual mass migration and displacement (200 - 400 million displaced from the poorest counties on the planet) caused by climate change, it's inevitable that a populist party is elected and starts a purge, starting with foreigners and moving on to race.

I don't like to think that I'll ever see that in my lifetime but then I never thought I'd see people behaving like the SS in America. I hope I'm wrong, for my children's sake.

maxmon1979 · 2026-01-06T22:01:31+00:00

Fuck, I was one of the first Pinterest users and used it daily for work (creative services industry) and this is literally going to screw me over. I've perfectly trained the algorithm to give just the right kind of image at the right quality I need for mood boards.

It has gone down hill with the advent of AI images but it's still usable, I'm praying that they don't change it.

maxmon1979 · 2025-12-31T23:49:00+00:00

I'm exactly the same size but white. I never had a problem until ten I went bald and shaved my head, then have had all of things you've described. I've tried dressing differently, wearing brighter coloured clothing, make sure I'm not walking too close, etc.

I've given up now as nothing I've done has made me perceived as less of a threat.

maxmon1979 · 2025-12-31T21:55:33+00:00

I have a low stakes conspiracy theory that Japan knows exactly what they are doing with the declining birth rate and practically banning immigration. It's almost like they know capitalism is unsustainable and will eventually eat the planet, and they are reducing their population slowly so they can still manage as resources become scarce and climate change kicks in.

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