This Week with Taylor & Gordon

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

What Makes Today a Success – web app myThreeTasks – currently in beta Gamifying Productivity Lots of ideas to improve the app For streaks, only working days count Invite only – great marketing User gets to choose what their tasks are – big or small Frustrations this week Video issues for the Panto video – ... Read more

Helpful Triggers Create triggers to give you good habits Obligation is a good trigger Rewarding yourself for doing tasks that maybe you don’t enjoy doing Putting the Kindle in the right place to make picking it up easy Put things by your car keys to remember to take them with you Wednesday… working on Panto ... Read more

New Season, New Colour Pantomime week Filming shows, taking photos, rehearsing and performing Next job is editing System created a couple of years ago to allow for streaming Doesn’t really make a profit – but I do it for my own reasons, and is very rewarding Taylor is 3rd Generation for these shows Widow Twanky ... Read more

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Busy performing for Christmas New 3d printer delivered, which was better than my last delivery Tracking information wasn’t great but the delivery was fine 44kg in weight – need to make sure I was in Heavy even after packing taken off Taylor helped me carry it upstairs and checked that it worked Bambu H2C – ... Read more

Another new location – which do you prefer? Discovering an empty room, since Taylor moved out Best use of the new room Upgraded guest room to a larger room and a double bed Removed single bed and put up shelving to make a storage room Solid surface needed for new 3D printer, along with places ... Read more

Busy season – lots of projects to finish The Budget was this week Managing expectations – Yodel delivery company Two different delivery times on two different days missed – not even attempted They hung up on me when I called them Web chat was as useful as a chocolate spanner Knock on effect for expectations ... Read more

Back at Gordon’s Home New Bambu Lab 3d Printer Talking about the H range of 3d printers How to deal with filament purging H2C introduced to combat this Purge towers and induction heating Duel heads, 6 swappable nozzles Automatic Material System (AMS) requirements Nozzle sizes Pricing and features Ordered TPU for the first time Taylors ... Read more

A week off due to Taylor moving into his first flat. Taylor bought his own flat after a six-month process and had to purchase and assemble nearly all new furniture. The move temporarily reduced Taylor’s work output as he prioritised making the flat livable. Taylor is debating whether to keep his office space versus working ... Read more

Most episode in this season so far? Wispr Flow – speech transcription – https://wisprflow.ai Easier to speak than to type – works better than Siri Removes Ums and Ahhs, and is context aware Smart by including people that have been mentioned (in Slack for example) Apple Intelligence should be at this point by now, but ... Read more

Putting Your Life on Hold When other things happen Shut down for a week long show Resting for months at a time due to health issues Income Protection and Critical Cover Insurance for Income if you are unable to work Cover for customers We are able to take over each others customers if needed Plan ... Read more

Only Newcomer’s Award at the local magic club 3D printed plate stand for Taylor Squash Plate award SEO and the changes that are happening A brief history of how SEO has worked in the past Search engine results are now showing an AI summary first in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) Learning how to ... Read more

Origins of our podcast Home Assistant – https://www.home-assistant.io/ Using recent experience to make the experience better Creating a universal notification hub Using ChatGPT to create automations Creating a list of entities for use with AI AI can then use the correct entities in scripts and automations Creating another list so AI can suggest automations Creating ... Read more

Project design signed off after lots of work Revisiting – organising and hosting our local community day QR code would show them a live schedule, which could be changed on the day Software that powers it has changed since last year and isn’t as user-friendly as it could be Previously used https://Frontly.ai Revisit software you ... Read more

Perspective Training plan at the gym – restarting Giving yourself a forfeit if you fail Give yourself a motivation “I only have an hour and a half”, or “I have an hour and a half” Looking at the situation with a different perspective Forfeit instead of reward The monetary amount of the forfeit is all ... Read more

Another week has passed Stingers – after credits on a film Wednesday night cinema trip Automating the timings for leaving, travel, time to eat and then time to enter the screen to miss the adverts Bonus extra content during and after credits – https://aftercredits.com No API available but it does run on WordPress That means ... Read more

Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Stop saying yes to please people Setting core values to allow you to make decisions Do you have the bandwidth to do things? Declutter projects Delete projects, no archiving Saying yes to help people Doing things you want, and enjoy doing Family and Friends are possible exceptions If ... Read more

Back from holidays Renovating my Gordon’s Magic box of tricks Jezo Bond took on the project, vinyl graphics printed by Rob Gaffney Went to see Jezo perform at a holiday park in front of a real audience Can be a difficult audience, need to grab their attention When collecting, the box was amazing Brand new ... Read more

Last episode before holiday How Gordon research’s Look at what I use a product for and what I want to use one for in the lifetime of a future upgraded version What is the product capable of, what do competitors versions have, what features are the most important to me. Mid range is normally a ... Read more

Voicepal (phone app) – Ghostwriter in your pocket Helps to rid yourself of writers block Transcribes your verbal thoughts and then asks questions using AI Learns from examples of your writing style How strict or free do you want it to be Creating blog posts to your website is great for the search engines Getting ... Read more