I was just hanging up the phone when she walked in. I’d been talking to my tail-light guy. Someone had smashed my tail light. She walked right in, didn’t even knock. Must have read the sign on the door that said “walk right in.” “You Hellman?” she said. “Who’s asking?” …

So you have a website. How charmingly antique. I have one too! And you’re using static HTML instead of a CSS—good for you! Much harder to hack, or so I’ve been led to believe. Maybe you’ve built a whole site with a theme. Maybe you’re using a static site generator…

I’m pretty comfortable with macOS, Windows, and Linux, switching between them as needed. I mostly use macOS at work, and my personal laptop is usually a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine. But when I recently bought a Framework laptop, I had the choice not to pay for Windows. Could I do it…

If you’ve taken up watercolors, you’re surely familiar with the popular colors of today: the Cadmium Reds and Yellows; Hooker Green, Sap Green, and Viridian; Cobalt, Cerulean, Prussian Blue, and Ultramarine. There are a few colors you don’t hear much about anymore. Why don’t people use them? Green Bice (above) Also called Verditer…

Here at Attempted Not Known, we pride ourselves on personally crafting quality comic/objects. But what actually happens when your order reaches our massive business campus? A mega-corporation I ain’t. Everything I make is by hand, and it’s complicated.

If you take a lot of notes, you probably already have a system. Maybe you use Notion or Confluence; maybe you’re bullet journaling; maybe you’re a Zettelkasten fan. You might already use something like Dropbox or OneNote to sync your notes across devices. …

My dad gave me a bunch of his old art stuff. One item was this antique Winsor and Newton watercolor box, probably from the 1960s. I’ve been getting into watercolor painting recently, and thought it would be interesting to bring this kit back to life. …

I’ve been playing Fortnite Battle Royale. It’s a video game in which 100 players run around an island shooting each other until only one player survives. …

If you aren’t using Markdown to take notes, you’re missing out. Because Markdown uses text symbols to indicate formatting, you don’t have to use menus or complicated shortcuts to format your text. That makes it possible to take beautiful notes very quickly. There are many Markdown editors, including some specifically…