What is Simon Cox up to now?
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Last updated: 03 November 2025
Lots more work on the Pottering Studio, as it is now called, cladding finished all bar the trims, all walls are insulated and I knocked up a temporary workbench so it can be used while we wait for the first fix electrics.
Meanwhile I found time to go to the October BrightonSEO , met up with old friends and made some new ones and had a great time. SEO is not dead by a long way! (Though it is ageing…)
Biggest news has been the release of the Affinity 3 Studio - and it is free, no subscription unless you wish to use the Canva AI, which I'm not keen on anyway. I was worried that Canva might make it subscription only but they have pulled a master stroke that I think will get a lot of Adobe users interested. So far everything I have seen in V3 is either the same as V2 or better.
Work
The Chrome extension is still in private beta and I still need to set some prime time aside to think of how to improve it further. If you would like to have a play then you can find it here: Simons Schema Analyser.
A project I worked on has been shortlisted for a Drum award - I'm listed in the credits but it was very much a team effort. Hope they win!
If you want me to have a look at a project of yours, please do get in touch.
Hobbies
Progress on Whitesands Quay. Slipway former is in place and I have build the mole of the quayside wall. That's clad in Wills sheeting and half painted. I am also making progress on the main quayside wall. I need to write this up at some point!
Gaming
Have played the Roottrees Are Dead on Steam - very enjoyable puzzle game where you are trying to work out a family tree from clues scattered about. Not yet learnt the rules for Stupor Mundi now it is on BGA and am meant to be playing it.
Always happy to play online so please do invite me for a game of something! Me on board Game Arena.
Reading
Still slowly reading Hello World by Hannah Fry. 'Still' because I fall asleep almost immediately. I used to read books avidly but not so much these days.
Ideas
About Now Ideas is an interesting site that allows searching of small sites like this that have About, Now and Ideas pages. This site now has all three!
What I'm Listening To Now
This is a list of the 18 tracks I last listened to on Spotify. If you give the page a refresh in a few moments it might update if I am listening right now!
and a bigger list of the tracks I listened to just before these.
NowNowNow
This page was inspired by the Now Now Now movement. You can find out more about it at nownownow.com.