Taylor and Gordon talking about what they get up to during the week. They discuss new and interesting software that they have found, as well as the problems they faced and how they solved them.
London, UK
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 attention to other people so you don’t push them away Making time for your children Shared calendars so we can see what each of us are doing No show next week due to Blackpool Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 supplied In Home Display SMET2 compatible power monitoring Bright App – https://glowmarkt.com/bright Glow Display / CAD – https://www.hildebrand.co.uk/products/ihd-cad Works with Home Assistant so you can collect live fuel usage Watch for usage spikes quickly See custom usage for devices that report power usage, currently only washing machine and tumble dryer Tado X don’t report usage Electric sockets and power strips that report power usage are available Keep track of the power hungry devices in the home and office See your energy usage as a Sankey Chart Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 – corruption is to blame The next step when the video is complete is to find the root cause and fix it Big video job coming up so this is important Backup and storage planning Adilo is going back on their contract for Lifetime Deal Users Closing “legacy” account illegally and move to subscription Vimeo is cheaper so I would have to move everything back again Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 DVDs Problems with recording hardware Errors in the Bambu AMS – Automatic Material System, and having to take it apart to clear the broken filament Tiny magnets and strings leaping for freedom Battling to get them back in and stop them attracting Getting the videos finished to a self imposed deadline Don’t upgrade software in the middle of a project Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 in Aladdin Time Logging – Tallyho – https://tallyho.app/ Toggl is great but has more features than needed Tallyho is minimal and does what it does really well For the client and Taylor Contacting the developer to request features and updates Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 – 2 print heads and 7 nozzles Scraper was the first print, followed by a poop chute (which was a great design) Third print was an accessories box, which I am really pleased with Keeping both printers to make sure I always have a printer available for me Filament shelving coming soon as my collection is growing Tournaments – three of them, Paddle, Squash and Tennis Playing with people better than you, otherwise you will never improve Learning from people who know more than you When you get older and have experience people come to you Being kind to newbies to help them, so they can give back in the future Nearly a new season – what colour should we use next for our cover art? Leave us a comment or get in contact. Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 for filament Visit to Ikea – asked Taylor to help in return for helping him Lots of other house upgrades Robovac and mop – new front door Knock on effect from Taylor moving out Take advantage of opportunities that present themselves Saving money on fuel costs and soft water with one less person in the house Updates & Projects New door handles and toilet seat – new skill unlocked New plugin for social proof and another for specialised shipping calculator Reuse plugins on other sites and for future customers Kyle’s recommended timer cube – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Productivity-Gravity-Countdown-Countup-Vibrate/dp/B0F9DM7G14/ref=asc_df_B0F9DM7G14 Focus for a set amount of time Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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 Looking at if I am not setting correct expectations in my company Amazon are very good at failed deliveries In the future I will probably pay slightly more to choose the company that doesn’t use Yodel Quick Capture Making notes quickly when you think of them Syncing to Notion Gordon finds pen and paper works best for him, but not always possible 3d printing solution for notes and thoughts Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you.
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
Planting seeds in the minds of your customers Busy week performing as it is the end of the school year Moved from December to Summer over the last few years Sowing the seed for another show next year – pointing out the positives Performing at one child's birthday, 4 years running Making a suggestion of ... Read more
Visiting Jake Woods in Ireland Main platform is WordPress, but also a little bit of Shopify WordPress is open source and easier to work with Which is better – depends on what you are selling Shopify allows only 3 variants of a product Started in Hospitality, but saw the possibilities of the Internet Self Taught ... Read more
Taking Time Off Watching F1 at Silverstone Laptop hardly got used, no work was done First time podium for Hülkenberg Great infrastructure for getting people in and out Systems in place for emergencies Feeding huge numbers of people Celebrities attended including YouTuber Colin Furze Staying Curious New 3D Printer – Bambu X1C Improvements in technology, ... Read more
New 3D printer accessories arrived Printing infill patterns Tidying Up Loose Ends – last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time New systems in place to track and complete projects Checklists to make sure everything is done New workflow with new projects Brand Image update Changed from Magical Entertainment to Gordon's Party Piece ... Read more
A very expensive week New roller banners – replacing with good quality ones New bunny hutch to replace one that is nearly falling to bits New MacBook Pro M4 – rewarding himself for working hard Raycast – https://www.raycast.com/ – your shortcut to everything A really useful application for finding things and information quickly Adding your ... Read more
WordCamp Europe 2025 Showing off WP Extended Putting faces to names from forums Mini celebrity in a small niche Talking to vendors Site Mait – WordPress AI Voice Agent – https://sitemait.com/ WP Umbrella – manage multiple websites themes, plugins and so much more – https://wp-umbrella.com/ Integration with Patch Stack – https://patchstack.com/ Drunk nerdy people The ... Read more
Our episode recorded in Basel, Switzerland (no mic so sound is not as good) WordCamp EU 2025 – largest of the WordCamps in the world Networking and meeting up with friends WP Entended – https://wpextended.io/ Functionality that should be in core – No conflicts between modules Free and Pro versions available Conventions are really tiring, ... Read more
Bank Holiday Weekend setting up Home Assistant Automations Lights on and off in office Playing Apple TV will dim the lights and turn them back up on pause Wordcamp Europe 2025 – Basel, Switzerland – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/ Talks, workshops, networking, looking around Basal and the Alps Might pre-record an episode next week at Wordcamp Looking forward ... Read more
Home Assistant – Home Automation Discussion on Home Assistant and its relevance for Taylor's flat Purchasing and setting up the Home Assistant Yellow Details about the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Experience with the component issue and customer service from Pi Hut – http://thepihut.com Cost analysis of setting up the Home Assistant system Hardware and ... Read more
Trix – Children's Entertainer Convention Meeting and networking with other professionals I was in Stoke on Trent from Sunday through to Wednesday Seeing people you only see once a year – stopping and chatting Lectures, Talks and Shops Chatting is what I find the most useful and interesting – Brainstorming 4 hour drive each way ... Read more
Gordon performed in a VE Day performance at The Magic Circle this week Wordsearch Game Creation Generate a wordsearch that is customised with certain words like a birthday childs name AI Code Creation using an app called Cursor – http://cursor.com WordPress Local, creates a local install of WordPress so you can built quickly without needing ... Read more
Frustrating Things… Very annoying especially when you have no control Waiting for a new battery pack for devices like my phone Found it cheaper elsewhere after the order so cancelled the order and re-ordered Lost in the post TWICE Royal Mail appears to have been the culprit by losing or not tracking the packages correctly ... Read more
5 year anniversary for This Week With News: The chatbot on the website will now show you which episode content is in. Expense Tracking – looking to move out and getting finances sorted Subscriptions that get forgotten Figuring out existing subscriptions and new subscriptions / monthly expenses that are coming soon Annual payments, like TV ... Read more
Special Guests: Marc P Summers & Leo Summers Travel with family Tracking flights with Jet Lovers app Training Leo to find his way around an airport Maths – using numbers for anything you want Fibonacci as a middle name No limit to Maths Problem solving is the fun part The Hedgehog Principal – https://worldofwork.io/2019/07/the-hedgehog-concept/ Anything ... Read more
EPISODE 200 Special Guests – Marc P Summers and Caroline Ainslie Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for a second time at the age of 64 in January 2026 Looking for more people to join Caroline's team Using your skills to achieve success 20th anniversary of Bubbly Maths Oldest person to climb Kilimanjaro was 89 Success mentality – ... Read more
Special Episode leading up to our 200th episode next week We have guests, Marc P Summers, Automated Marketing Agency and Caroline Ainslie, Bubbly Maths AI in Business – The Portrait Agency – looking for high value customers using AI to check an estimate of their home address house value Then checks with AI to see ... Read more
Embracing the Unusual Magic Show and Magic Workshop Surprise Birthday Party – he was blindfolded Working with another entertainer Also a party in a marquee in a scouting field 1.5 hours straight with no break Used my EcoFlow power for sound and electrics – Use link for 10% off – https://www.ecoflow.com/uk/referral-rewards?inviteCode=ALLJXEKDBP If you think you ... Read more
Next Steps when hitting a brick wall Stepping away to think about things Or breaking down the problem into smaller chunks Projects taking longer than they should because you have to think and decide on the way forward Making notes about processes that you don't do very often Keeping in contact with customers Difficult when ... Read more
UI Design – Building a booking system Adding in travel time as a buffer Making it easy for customers to see what is available Making it into a plugin to make it easy to maintain Having the power to say No… Not capacity at the moment, so I have to say no Kyle Van Deusen ... Read more
Trouble waking up with an alarm… Habit of turning the alarm off with your voice without realising Alarmy App – challenges to solve before the alarm will turn off Scan a barcode, take 20 steps, submit a photo, memorise the pattern of dots etc. Another alert a few minutes later – making sure you are ... Read more
Deepseek has been causing waves – https://www.deepseek.com/ Self Assessment Tax Submission Digital Tax – talked about for many years, not implemented yet Pro's and Con's to the new system Making sure you get your accounts in early You need time to save for the payment, so submitting it early is in your best interest Submitting ... Read more
Splitting up projects into manageable tasks – quite time consuming to do Action Hub – a web app designed to do this automatically Paste specs and notes and return in JSON format the various tasks which are then added to Motion via the API Ability to set time and bulk edit as required before exporting ... Read more
Busy week with Pantomime. Robin Hood – https://www.sdclub.org.uk Filming the pantomime Two cameras – fixed wide shot and a close up Technical issues on the first night of recording Two groups of children on alternate nights so the footage was very important Master and then second video with other groups performances Setting it up and ... Read more
New Season – Season 6 started last week New colour – Yellow, for this season. All graphics for the podcasts, vidcasts and website have been updated with the new colour Manage Your Focus – creating tasks that need to be done Getting work, writing a project list, create the tasks and then do them Context ... Read more
Happy New Year New Season, New Colour Formula 1 Exhibition and Guys and Dolls Oura Ring – https://ouraring.com/ Track heart rate, Activity, Sleep and more Tracking while watch is charging API available for personal website content 75 Day Challenge update New Years Resolutions !! Finish personal projects that have been started More reading this year ... Read more
Our seasonal video to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved ... Read more
This Week With – Season 5, going on Season 6 Reflection on last 5 years Why we started This Week With Keeping a record of what has happened Transcription and languages If you get anything from our episodes, let us know New Highlight Colour – leave a comment with your suggestions Thank you to Taylor ... Read more
Subscriptions Meal Prep to eat healthier Sent to you once a week on a Sunday Using subscriptions to save you time or do a job you don't enjoy Car cleaned once a month Audit subscriptions every now and then – check you still need or want them December is quieter this year than it was ... Read more
Winter has definately arrived Christmas Cards – branded for The Creative Tinker – sending them to clients Keep the company in the minds of the clients Quite expensive to do – but a nice thing to do Cost of postage is huge at the moment Sending them through a service to make it easier to ... Read more
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