Tommy Palmer's Blog

Even after writing Elixir and Phoenix for quite a few years, I've picked up some new tricks at Verna and I wanted to share my favourite one.

I wrote about Lineup.fun a few months ago, but now I'll be sunsetting it.

I've used Tailwind on more than a few projects, and I tend to go back and forward on my opinion of it.

The crypto trend brought some utter shit to my LinkedIn inbox.

Recently, Valve announced a new home console.

In 1984, a 21 year old woman named Mary Manning had seen enough.

I like music, and spend a lot of my time, money, and energy seeing live music.

I'm working on a new version of Lineup.fun, and because I can't finish one side project without starting another one, I spent some time recently adding a Now Playing section to the footer here.

Minimum Viable Product means different things to different people.

For 14 years now, I’ve operated a website that does 1 thing - it tells people if they should wear shorts that day.

When I was 9 years old, my uncle gave me his copy of DOOM.

New episodes of Black Mirror are out, and once again has some great episodes about Wot If Ya Mum Ran on Batteries.

I love keyboard shortcuts.

What a week.

At the end of December I managed to catch Reverb just before it finished.

It's Christmas time!

Back in the olden times, going into work on Tuesday meant picking up a free copy of Timeout before getting on the Tube to read all about the goings on in London.

If you don't know them, Kneecap are a hip hop trio from West Belfast who are famous for rapping mostly in Irish and being very politically vocal.

It's easy to always think back to March 2020, and what that did to us all, but instead I like to think back to Summer 2020 - with the big C keeping us inside for the past 3 months, everyone was desperate to socialise.

In 1972 a report was published on humanity's impact on the Earth.

Our day at the Kennedy Space Center was just the start of 2 weeks in Florida.

Lila and I just returned from Florida.

There's been a noticeable shift over the last two years or so towards owning your own corner of the Internet.

Unless you've been living in a cave, you've probably spotted that the second part of the Dune duology has taken over the world.

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

About 10 years ago, I burnt my hand one morning while cooking breakfast.

Right at the end of 2023 I finished up working at CastRooms.

Here's a rundown of things I did in 2023: I proposed to Lila on a beach at sunset in Portugal and she said yes.

Films Throughout 2023, I've logged every film I've watched on Letterboxd.

A few weeks back I decided to hold off posting and instead give my site a makeover.

Jumping on the bandwagon.

About a year ago, I wrote a post when I got back into blogging and RSS.

It's the perfect day for a rundown of all the spooky things I've enjoyed this October.

I have lived in London for 10 years now.

I've filled in a lot of forms lately.

Two years ago, I made an amazing discovery.

I just got my Playdate a few days ago.

A few months ago I decided to give Apple Music a shot.

Hotted June on record for the UK.

2023 has been the year of big tech in some sort of self imposed death spiral.

Music has the right to children ascending the throne Right at the top of the month, I was at my favourite music festival getting destroyed and listening to stupid donk remixes.

I started writing this straight after my last one.

I'm just back from ElixirConf EU.

I'm late again, but getting better.

Over the last few weeks, I've been glued to one of the best documentary series I've watched in ages - PsychOdyssey.

If you ever meet me, I could happily talk for hours on end about TV, films, and videogames.

My partner had surgery had the end of January, so her and I have been taking it easy.

Yeah, yeah.

After moving to Walthamstow, I kept finding status of elephants all over the area.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the future of transport.