Writing

2026

  • A year of Jelly at Exciting

    2 min read

    It’s been a while since there was anything new here, and I’m a little overdue in mentioning that Jelly, the shared inbox for small teams, has been living here at Exciting for about a year now.

2017

2014

  • A Little Printer Mystery

    3 min read

    Some sad news from BERG today, one consequence of which being that the Little Printer service may only be running for another six months or so, depending on whether or not another company can be found to buy the service.

2013

  • Little Advent Calendar Publication

    1 min read

    We’ve made another publication for small, connected printers like our own Printer and BERG’s Little Printer, but this one’s a bit more seasonal.

  • Making things — it's all about the polish

    2 min read

    We enjoyed Phil Gyford’s new application Twelescreen earlier today, and the background post he wrote about how it came to be, and how he’s even somewhat unsettled that the tools of Big Brother might seem so… useful.

  • Hello, World

    2 min read

    Hello, in fact, just to you specifically. Thanks for looking in. Welcome to Exciting.

  • Crimer Show Printer Publication

    3 min read

    We’ve been exploring the possibilities of small, connected printers for a while now – not only how to build them, via our Printer platform and dabbling with BERG’s Little Printer, but more importantly how best…

  • Introducing HeyList!

    3 min read

    Probably the most important and useful aspect of going to conferences and meetups is spending time with the people there. It’s often useful finding out what new things communities are working on, what they are…

2012

  • Printer Questions

    6 min read

    The response to our open source printer project has been amazing, but some people rightly have questions, so I’ll try to answer them here.

  • Hello, Printer

    17 min read

    For over a year, I have been playing around with printing things out on a receipt printer. Recently, a few accidents of implementation gave more life to my tinkerings than I had originally intended.