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Jon Hicks
@hicks.design
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Gentleman Graphic Designer/Artist who wears many hats. Shoegazer, Birder and over-eater of eggs. Works on the Troika music podcast and Supernatural Detective's Field Guide in his spare time. https://hicks.design https://supernaturaldetectives.com
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Mint Royale @mint-royale.com · 6d
I don’t really see what the point of instagram/tiktok will be once absolutely everything is fake. If you can’t trust any images or videos at all to be real will people really still spend hours on there wasting their time working out what is ai or not? Can’t imagine they will
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 6d
thetab.com/2025/10/01/a... doomed. at least gen alpha's parents are just going butlerian jihad
All the most fun Gemini AI photo prompts behind the viral trends you can't avoid on TikTok
My selfies have never looked so good
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 5d
Calling any fans of Stars of the Lid out there: do you have any audio, video or photos from when you've seen them live? If so, please do get in touch!

This is for a side project I’m doing that’s kind of related to a recent blog post: hicks.design/journal/star....
Stars of the Lid Live - Hicks.design
Going down an internet rabbit hole of hunting unreleased Stars of the Lid material
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 6d
My kingdom! My kingdom for a vector world map with an equal earth projection that features all the small islands* properly and each country is a path with an ID attribute of the country name ordered alphabetically

*Wikimedia commons is close, but enough detail commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bl...
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Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social · 9d
Release the Rockford Files.
a man wearing sunglasses and a suit and tie stands in front of a fence
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit and tie stands in front of a fence
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 9d
Personally, I would use Söhne for everything!
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 9d
I had a conversation with the developer - because of licensing cost he had to swap the font he had for a similar open source one. I'd suggested Outfit as a close replacement for what he had (which is what he used), but he mentioned that it will be customisable.
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 9d
Yep, this is very much not a replacement for Apple Music - a companion for sure. For replacements, there's 'Albums' or 'Marvis' (didn't get on with their UIs), Cider (nice UI, but no lossless), or Daft Music (a very new app: daftmusic.app the only reason I want to update to MacOS 26!)
Daft Music – The Definitive Apple Music Experience on Mac
Daft Music is a fast, beautifully designed Apple Music app built natively for macOS. Enjoy high-performance playback, elegant design, and a seamless music experience.
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Stuart Frisby @mrfrisby.com · 12d
Morning #Devon
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Ahem. ‘They’ being Radiohead.

Can has edit feature now please @bsky.app?
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Went to the Ashmolean Museum tonight to see “A conversation with Stanley Donwood”.

He mentioned how he works in the studio while they’re recording, and that HE WAS WITH THEM IN ABBEY ROAD A FEW WEEKS AGO. More evidence for the new album rumours!
A queue going up steps to a grand museum entrance with ionic columns either side. A female interviewer and the artist sitting in front of a large screen showing his artwork
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
We all make mistakes. I know I have…
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Went to the Ashmolean Museum tonight to see “A conversation with Stanley Donwood”.

He mentioned how he works in the studio while they’re recording, and that HE WAS WITH THEM IN ABBEY ROAD A FEW WEEKS AGO. More evidence for the new album rumours!
A queue going up steps to a grand museum entrance with ionic columns either side. A female interviewer and the artist sitting in front of a large screen showing his artwork
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Ah, thanks! I was imagining it was like the old iOS 1-6 system that added the gloss layer at the system level.
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Since 2005, I've had an office away from home, sharing with other freelancers. It's been SUCH fun, but it's now time to move back home.

To find people we could share with, we had a tradition of making them watch this. If they found it funny, we knew we'd be OK:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSG2...
Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt (via Serafinowicz and Popper)
YouTube video by Boing Boing Video
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 12d
Me too, which is why I haven't updated. And yet…
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 13d
Would love to know what's up with some apps on iOS 18 getting an 'enforced' liquid glass effect. I thought that was added at an OS level?
App icons for Instagram, BBC Weather and Monzo, with annoyingly shiny top left and bottom right corners. It subtly makes them look crooked
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 14d
Yup! There are many out there, but I really like the approach of Longplay: hicks.design/journal/long...
Longplay - Hicks.design
In my search for the
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 16d
Great time to dive in to Kirby! I’m currently building another project in this wonderful CMS.

- 100% control over markup.
- Doesn’t inject any scripts or other bobbins like a certain popular CMS
- Beautifully clean and customisable back end
- Easy to update, backup or move elsewhere.

❤️
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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 17d
Our licences are still discounted this week: getkirby.com/buy

Get even bigger discounts by buying one of our volume packages! Licences can be bought in stock and activated, or moved to future clients later.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20d
Dear everyone in tech support, If anyone tells you to use the phrase "I completely understand how confusing this feels" please just kick them in the nuts and ignore them. My tech woes are not "confusing" and my feelings are irrelevant. My problem is that your tech does not work the way it used to.
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 20d
Yay, where are you off to?
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 20d
Bypass//Engage #3: A (free!) live Ambient and Experimental music showcase at Fat Lil’s, Witney on 16th November 2025 7:30pm

The Balloonist (Ben Holton from Epic45 and Birds in the Brickwork)
Nine Is The Level
Nick Rees

Perfect antidote to the darkening evenings!
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 20d
👏💯
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 20d
I don’t remember the wooden dock at all - was that actually a thing?
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21d
There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 22d
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz348bs
WHY IS it so expensive to take the train? They're going that way anyway, why can't they just drop me off? David Chittock, Cheltenham
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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 22d
I don’t mind the capsules/button shapes, but I can’t be doing with all the shiny edges and constant “things moving distracting you from content”. Turning on ‘Reduce Motion’ helps on iPad, but doesn’t solve the blingy edges
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