Happy Holidays!

This will be the last newsletter this year, and what a strange year it's been.

Here in the UK everything is starting to slow down (at least in my house) and we focus on staying warm, eating and giving (and receiving) presents. I normally take as much time off as I can in December. For me it's a time for family, and relaxing. Before I had a child I would spend a lot of time playing video games, and working on side projects and doing things I had no time for the rest of the year. Now I'm a Dad there's a lot more preparing for a proper Christmas, and entertaining a 5 year old - which is a different type of fun.

This year I hope to spend some of my free time working on Brush Ninja - specifically working on something brand new. I have started making a little app for making small magazines. The magazines will be 8 page booklets that you print on a single piece of paper and then, with a single scissor cut and some folding, turn into a comic/ magazine/ book/ leaflet/ whatever you like.

Hello - hows things going?

I was going to write this on Monday but my internet stopped working. That's one of the problems with working digitally, we're at the mercy of things that we can't control. It's working at the moment though so I'm going to finish it off.

I've been a bit slow with new features and functionality recently. Sometimes I feel bad about this, like I should be pumping out new features all the time, but Brush Ninja isn't my job - I need to do other work to earn money to provide for my wife and son (BTW big thank you to my awesome Patrons who continue to support me!). Plus I just need to do other things for my own mental health.

However I've recently been getting the Brush Ninja itch again and so I am now building out some new features for the app.

Hi there - I hope you've had a wonderful summer break!

I normally write the Brush Ninja newsletter on the first day of the month but you may (or may not) have noticed that last months was missing. I'm going to say this is because it's the summer holidays and I was taking some time off, but actually I just forgot. Sorry.

But at the same time, I did enjoy some time off. I haven't worked on Brush Ninja for a month or so, but I have a list of things I want to work on (including things I have have mentioned in previous newsletters) so I hope to start on them in the not too distant future.

Privacy

Hi there - I hope things are going well.

The educational year is winding down now. I believe it's mostly stopped in the US, and here in the UK the summer holidays will begin in about 3 weeks. As such I'm preparing for the summer break and looking back at what I've done over the last year.

Last month I launched the Eraser brush on Brush Ninja, and it seems to have gone really well. There were a couple of bugs, but they weren't major ones, and overall the improvement has been well worth the wait (I think at least).

The birth of Brush Ninja

Hey there - hope you're well.

You may have guessed from the subject line but this month I discovered how to add an eraser to Brush Ninja.

Eraser!!!!

I say discovered, it's a feature that was recently added to the graphics library I use. It's all very new so it's likely to change, but I have an early version working.

Hey hey - I hope this email finds you well!

I’ve been taking a bit of time off from building Brush Ninja this month. I make Brush Ninja for free, and so I have to do other “real” work as well in order to earn a living.

As such there’s no significant development updates but there have been some smaller bug fixes and improvements which are always satisfying to publish.

I’ve also been thinking about what I can do with Brush Ninja in the future.

Hey there - can you believe we're already a quarter of the way through the year?

When I set the schedule for this newsletter I didn't consider I would be sending it out on April Fools. Fortunately I don't join in so there's no tricks in here.

Hey there - I hope everyone is doing well.

Here in the UK we're getting ready for schools to reopen next week. They were closed at Christmas because of a spike in Covid cases over the holidays.

However, homeschooling my 5 year old hasn't stopped me from working on Brush Ninja.

Over the last few weeks I've made quite a few tweaks and improvements to the app and they are currently being tested by the Brush Ninja patrons (join my Patreon to get access to the beta).

Hi there, welcome to my brand new newsletter! 😃

This is the first issue of the Brush Ninja newsletter so I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has signed up. I wasn't sure if anybody would so it's fantastic to see that so many want to be kept updated!