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Designer. Sharing photos of the sea, mostly. Just trying to have a nice time. よろしく🙌 #PUSB Making websites weird again at mrfrisby.com, building costawork.app

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100 most recent original posts · fetched 25 June 2026 · @mrfrisby.com on Bluesky ↗

June 2026

25 Jun
Post-work cold-plunge might’ve saved my life. To make sure I’m going to have a post-cold-plunge cider. And then maybe another just to be sure. You can’t be too careful.
25 Jun
I've been integrating my experimental personal MCP server into stuff and seeing how it responds. It's actually pretty good. I don't really know what I'm going to use it for yet, but I like the idea that I can have a portable way of sharing my opinions on stuff and then use it to do things.
Raycast chat connected to my personal MCP server, in order to answer this question, the tool went and used 4 tools from my server which covered my Stated Positions, my Design Philosophy, my views on Taste, and my collected writing from my newsletter. The answer to the question is clearly built off of that corpus, and whilst it isn't written like I would write it (Raycast seemingly needs specific instruction to use the Writing Style tool which my MCP server also provides), the things it is saying are consistent with my thinking.
24 Jun
I’m living the dream here. Two games on, not quite watching either of them. I think this might be the ideal way to World Cup.
24 Jun
It’s all happening in the garden this morning. That owl should be sleeping, surely?
24 Jun
Shout out to historical Stuart for having a litre of cold brew ready for this morning for a little cold foam iced latte situation.
23 Jun
Working from the garden this morning whilst there is still some shade and I am being joined by this lot. I think I counted 11 of them. #tits
Video
23 Jun
I took these out of the bean freezer at the weekend and they’re bloody delicious. I shall have to plan in another stop in Porthleven this summer to grab some more fun stuff from Origin.
21 Jun
Father’s Day day lunch with my giant 7 year old a massive place of meat and beans. 🥰
19 Jun
I wonder if the electronic number board the fourth official is holding could be a bit bigger. There isn’t quite enough room for two exclusive advertising partners in the current form. Might need two officials to hold up a corner each, but I think it’s doable. #USAAUS
18 Jun
Do you ever wonder how different Jazzy Jeff’s life might’ve turned out if he’d been called Jazz Jeffrey?
18 Jun
More stuff - Changed to the music page so that when a CD is opened its neighbours form a stack below the opened CD which moves to form the header for the details panel that opens below it - the panel now includes track listings.

Also added a Colophon and a Changelog because why not.

mrfrisby.com
17 Jun
What the fuck is happening. It’s the 23rd minute of the game and I’m watching Emma Hayes drawing on a literal chalkboard with some bulb in a cowboy hat on the PIP. At least there’s also some awful music playing in the stadium.
17 Jun
22 degrees in an enclosed and air conditioned stadium. Stopping for a little drink. Games gone.
17 Jun
Is the massively oversaturated picture an ITV problem or an American problem. The Croatian goalkeeper looks like he’s just emerged from a nuclear reactor. It was like this for the Dutch game the other night, too. #ENGCRO
17 Jun
Did some nerdy stuff on mrfrisby.com last night as a chance to learn about some things I’ve not played with before - P3 Colour space, OLKCH palette, webmentions, view transitions, etc, etc.

It’s coming along, and I’m learning stuff, and that’s nice.
16 Jun
What a world we live in where a fifteen year old can apply to join the literal army but can’t chat to his nan on Facebook.

Still, with all that free time they’re going to have they’ll be able to not get a job nor afford to continue into university education nor go live and work in Europe for a bit.
16 Jun
The latest experiment to go live on mrfrisby.com is a personal MCP server. I have taken a lot of the personal and professional context I wrote for costawork.app and have bundled it into an MCP server which knows what I think about lots of things related to design leadership (cont.)
16 Jun
I’m solo parenting this week and also have a job and I don’t understand how these two things are supposed to be possible together.

Oh yeah, sure, I can come to school sports day for 3 hours during working hours. That’s fine.
14 Jun
Waiting for Ally McCoist on co-comms to mention the centuries long trade alliance between an otherwise isolationist Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate and the Netherlands via the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the artificial island of Dejima near Nagasaki and its major influence on Japan.
14 Jun
Aside from all the deaths, the worst thing to have come from the pandemic must be people referring to the National Health Service as “Our NHS”. Makes me want to vom. Truly awful.
13 Jun
Watching my first bit of the World Cup. In retrospect maybe the last one wasn’t so tin pot after all. Everything about this feels like a cheap impersonation of a football tournament.
13 Jun
Spotted this little bit of light reading in the book swap at the local garden centre book swap sandwiched between a trashy novel and a Gorgonzola cook book.
The UNHCR handbook for Emergencies (second edition). I might have been tempted if had been a first edition. Why wait until everyone else has had their fun with the emergencies??
13 Jun
Happy Spend the Best Day of The Summer Getting the Garden BBQ-Ready for Summer day to everyone celebrating.
Someone should create a business that comes and cleans your BBQ and BBQ area in late spring so that you don’t have to waste one of the few BBQable days of the year cleaning the BBQ instead of cooking on it.
13 Jun
The Venn diagram between people who use “compute” as a noun and people who are incels is a single circle.
10 Jun
I just published the first photo essay on the new version of my website. This is the first time I've designed something like this, so go easy on me - I think it's looking pretty good for a first stab with some things left to iron out.

mrfrisby.com/photos/nakas...
9 Jun
The next bit of mrfrisby.com I want to play around with is a photos section. Rather than a hosepipe of all of the crap I post here I figured I would instead create some nice editorial style photos essays for trips or themes or whatever. First up though a vageuly 1950s National Geographic index page.
8 Jun
To celebrate Bluesky increasing the photo limit in posts from 4 to 10, here are ten photographs I took on my last trip to Japan.
8 Jun
Pretty happy with how this /music page is coming along. I have it now pulling currently playing stuff out of the library into it's own feature section and some cover-derived colour stuff happening in the grid. Make Websites Fun Again.

mrfrisby.com/music
7 Jun
More messing about on mrfrisby.com - I’ve been recreating an early 2000s Japanese/English electronic dictionary in the form of a guestbook. It has sound effects and a vocab quiz and you can leave me a message!
6 Jun
DNS willing you should be able to see the makings of my new website at mrfrisby.com. It has this silly page which might melt your computer and there's also a guestbook if you want to say hello. Maybe I'll add a hit counter and a web-ring, or one of those fancy mouse cursors that sparkles :P
6 Jun
Noodling around building a new website like it's 2002 again. Expressly making it a bit silly because there are enough dickheads taking themselves too seriously on the internet already.
1 Jun
Last summer I smashed the screen on my previous e-reader and went back to reading on my iPad and on paper for a while, but I recently saw this tiny e-reader that fits neatly inside the journal thing I carry with me everyday and so I’m giving it a go.

May 2026

31 May
The garden really sprung to live whilst I was away. There are flowers and new growth and sweet smells everywhere.
29 May
A two post week on DLM. Today’s is a short note on two failure modes of design leadership and how the current state of our industry accelerates them both if we aren’t careful about retaining our connection to the things we build and the materials we build them with

open.substack.com/pub/designme...
27 May
I need a Bluesky mute option that mutes the name of a given public figure unless and until they have died.

I don’t need to hear any more from Tony Blair until he is live tweeting his arrival in hell.
23 May
My son (who is 7) has recently started using an old and very limited phone to take photos and text me and his mum from and he has started texting ‘I love you’ to end conversations and every time it makes me want to lie down and sob. What a lovely boy. God I hope he doesn’t become a prick.
23 May
I think the hardest thing about being in Barcelona is seeing kids in Barcelona shirts and not being able to immediately write them off as derivative, boring, lame little shits with no actual regard for football.

This must be what it’s like when Catalonians visit Coventry. #PUSB
23 May
The cross is everywhere in Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. In the steel columns, the window frames, the right-angle intersections of marble and glass and metal. MvdR didn't put it there as a symbol — it arrives as a consequence of rational construction.
23 May
Why do I keep overhearing Sting every day in Barcelona? Is Sting culturally significant in Catalonia in a way he hasn’t been in Britain for a good 20 years?
19 May
I want a sky sports news crew to join Taylor Harwood-Bellis on his morning dog walk tomorrow ala Roy Keane post-Saipan. #efl
18 May
How is it that in all of Heathrow there’s not one competently made coffee on offer?

Why does all chain coffee taste like it was designed specifically for smokers?

Has a portafilter ever been rinsed between shots anywhere inside the airport boundary?

I try not to be a coffee snob but *come on*.
18 May
Off to Barcelona again. This time for a couple of weeks. Expect somewhat sunnier videos of the sea and perhaps the occasional photograph of a good building.
17 May
I hung this print of a painting of a pair of cormorants on a piece of slate on the kitchen wall and I think this little view of it and the wallpaper in the hallway and the little blue patchwork print make for a pleasing combo.
15 May
I got eyed up by a national treasure tonight. I’m too much of a gentleman to say who it was but I need all you to know it happened.
15 May
Do you ever think about how the British government stripped Shamima Begum, a 15 year old victim of grooming, of her citizenship without trial — but Margaret Thatcher’s son bankrolled a mercenary coup in Equatorial Guinea and got to keep not only his citizenship but also his baronetcy?
14 May
Me and Squirrel Regis here are both enjoying a spot of lunch and steadfastly ignoring the news.

Squirrel Regis is one of many squirrels who live in the big tree in front of my house, all of whom are called Squirrel Regis which is obviously to honour Coventry City legend, Cyrille Regis.
A squirrel (Squirrel Regis) enjoying bird food scattered by over-zealous tits below the squirrel-proof bird feeder in the garden.
11 May
There was a shed plonked in this spot in the garden by the previous owners, and over the spring we finally got it down and now I get to enjoy the best view as the sun comes up over the estuary with the trees all exploding into life. It’s very nice.
5 May
ALL LIVESTOCK UNLOADED & PENNED for FUTURE COLLECTION MUST PAY THE PRESCRIBED TOLLS

By Order of the Council
2 May
A new visitor to the birdfeeder this morning. He’s often up in the tree but rarely comes this close to the house. I guess that new food must’ve been too tempting to resist.
Video

April 2026

29 Apr
大阪風豚玉お好み焼き​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​作った🤤
26 Apr
One of the pohutukawa plants we planted two years ago is trying to flower. If we get a mild summer we might be in business. It’s super rare in England to get these to flower beyond the first year, so this is very exciting. I’ll have to go check on the 3 others dotted around the garden.

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