This Week with Taylor & Gordon

A hot week

End of the school year shows

Zen Browser – https://zen-browser.app/

A calmer internet – reimagined ways to browse the internet

Left sidebar tabs – keeping your browsing area clean

Taylor didn’t like Chromium based browsers and this one uses the Firefox framework

Three different frameworks available – Chromium, Webkit and Mozilla

Browsers adopting newer technologies

Build your website based o...

Another Hot Week

I created a song about the heat – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7HVHCe88w&t=13s

Historical Data – backdating data for the new personal website

Finding data from the past – flights for example

Going through emails of the past for flight details

Also, Events, theatre shows, football matches, and other trips

Way Back Machine is good for some of these things

Piecing information together from m...

New Tools purchased

Fanttik Slim V8 Apex Car Vacuum – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D8T3LTNN

Great for the car to get down the sides of the seats

Hose attachment great to get into the 3d printer

Can be used for keyboards and electronic devices

Fanttik F2 Master Mini Cordless Rotary Tool – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3CPRZXW

Lots of attachments for drilling, sanding, polishing etc.

Perfect for post-processing 3d print...

Very hot week

Celebrating 250 episodes of This Week With

Statistics for the podcast

Episode 1, 24th April 2000

Keeping a record of what we have been up to

Total run time

Shortest and Longest episode

Average length, Average time between episodes

Number of episodes per year

We outlived the pandemic which was the reason for starting

Health Kit for the podcast

Transcripts and thanks to the lady behind them – Hayley

Backdating the...

News – Apple WWDC happened, which means new software beta’s and an insight on new AI features

Learning a New Skill – 3D Modelling

Huge subject to learn

Personal version of Fusion

Metal bathroom holder needing to be modelled and printed in plastic

Simple model, but there were lots of measurements to get right

Didn’t have the bottles to go in, so had no idea if they were going to fit

Took a photo and calibrate...

New location, Gordon’s Office

We went to Wordcamp Europe in Poland, Krakow

European Wordcamp is the biggest of the conventions

Reasons for going – networking with friends and colleagues

Theme this year seemed to be AI

Connecting WordPress using MCP to Claude

Using AI to build pages, perform WordPress operations, correct grammar, create images, pretty much everything AI is good at

Need to have a good understanding of wha...

News – AI is created by a machine, so is not owned by anyone!

Archiving Documents – for personal and business purposes

Making searching easy and have it bring up relevant documents

MCP server – to work with Evernote using AI on a CLI

AI will create a context for the document – notes summarising the content

Adding manual tags will work well but adding tags by AI makes things even better

ScanSnap scanner is a ...

Show week

Sorting out collection of props – old and more recent – some valuable, some not

Spreadsheeting all the boxes

Printing a Book Box with a living hinge for the cast

Running out of filament at one point

Not a great deal done on a show week

Very tiring

Waiting for Ikea to send replacement box lids still

Noted plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/noted/

Adding notes that will remind you how to do things in t...

The Diary of Anne Frank Tickets for 14, 15, 16th May 2026 – https://www.parlourplayers.co.uk

Sending large files over the internet – 4.8GB

wetransfer.com – maximum of 2GB for free accounts

Blaze Quantum – for larger files – https://blaze.cx/

Purchased on AppSumo many years ago

Keeping track of the software available to us on a spreadsheet

If you forget you have software available to you, it is useless ...

Internet went down Thursday Night – and took a week to get back up

Lots of hassle getting it fixed

Cloud smart home devices all stopped working

Reflection – looking at yourself through a friends eyes

One thing they think you do well and one thing they think you could do better at

Would anonymous feedback be better? Does the person who gives you the feedback make a difference?

Likening this to testimonials for your busin...

Client Handling – Losing a Customer

Delays on both sides

Need all content before we start work on the site

The sitemap grew from 12 pages to 42 pages

Communication with the client was not good

New design requested

When the content is delivered the work then needs scheduling in

The design is being taken on by the client as they liked them

Prices change over time and the contract needs to show deadlines in place

Fixes to put in...

Rehearsing for Anne Frank

Co-Working for half a day a week

Keeping the other person accountable

Using your skills to help the other person

Not wasting time chatting

Progressing projects quicker

Would this work for you?

Time is scheduled every week and kept clear

Considering adding a system to monitor and check progress

Data to see if it is helping or not

Making notes of what you are looking to do on your week

Time to think about th...

Shows all over Easter

Waited 19 years for this…

I had a call to see if I wanted to upgrade to Fibre

Upgraded my internet to Full Fibre (FTTP) which is now available, last Tuesday

Fused fibre cables together with a £4000 machine

20Mbps (on a good day with ADSL) up to 800Mbps download, and 0.4Mbps to 80Mbps upload

Upgraded network at the same time

New Router and Switch – Unifi Express 7 and USW Flex 8 Switch

Needed the s...

Last Remaining POP! Jobs

Bubble Convention Videos – post process

All videos complete and uploaded for attendees

Adding a process to the website for video distribution and purchasing

Limits in place for who can view and purchase them

Using Vimeo for protection to keep the value

Re-using a similar system from Snippet Club

Videos ready for members by the end of the week – will leave it til after the Easter break

Content va...

Didn’t manage an episode last week

Pop! Bubble Convention – filming all sessions, talks and demonstrations

4 rooms to cover over all 3 days, 3 sessions happening at the same time

Collate video and audio, edit them and upload before the next session finishes

3 cameras needed, DSL, DJI Osmo Pocket 3 and iPhone 16 Pro

Audio was really important for the speakers

Theatre show had two cameras for a Multicam edit

Strange Apple...

Convention for Professional Bubble Artists – AOIBA

Filming lectures and shows

People attending get access to the videos

Capture, edit and upload as we go, so I don’t have a ton of work to do when I return home

DJI Mics for speakers

Cameras for each room

Planning and equipment takes time

CinemaSync web app

Deciding what to watch at the cinema each week

Review timeline, compare films

Comparing films, times, screen types e...

Ambient Dashboard – Magic Mirror…

An interactive display showing whatever is important to you

Running on a Fire TV stick in kiosk mode

Showing upcoming meetings, sports events, time to leave with traffic taken into account

Heating, Home Automation stats etc.

Turns off when Taylor leaves the flat

Up-to-date white board

Building it from scratch allows any tools to be added – more flexibility

Multiple pages if neede...

Lots of small tasks completed this week

Two 6 hour coding sessions for Taylor

Blackpool Magic Convention is happening next week

Longing this year by 1 day or 33%

Worlds biggest Magic Convention

Catching up with friends you don’t see very often

Very tiring but also very rewarding

Friend’s Meetings

Making time for friends and family – scheduling them like a meeting

Cinema and Tennis as examples

Giving your sole atte...

Herman Miller Chair – https://ukstore.hermanmiller.com/collections/seating/

Fully Adjustable – very high quality chair

Expensive but very good.

Purchased second hand one on Facebook Marketplace, 1 hour away

Built June 2025, so very new

No headrest – but one has been purchased and will be delivered

Researching and purchasing the best we can afford

Tax Bill paid

Keeping track of your energy usage

Fuel company suppli...