Hello, I’m Rob Hinchcliffe.

I’m a writer and an editor.

I split my time between running my own projects and working with other people as a consultant.

There’s a bit more about me here.

This is me on twitter. Mastodon.

Below are some of the most recent blog posts, the whole archive is here.

From the blog:

Notes for week of 26 February, 2024

⤳ It was a busy work week this week, all sorts of things were kicking off at Brink (you can read about them in this LinkedIn post) and the work I’m doing around the company’s comms is starting to really gain momentum now. All that planning and strategymaking we did last year is about to start bearing fruit over the next few weeks, so it’s very exciting. ⤳ Elsewhere, the house is getting back to normal after a weeks of decorating work, which means I’ve spent a fair few hours putting pictures ...

Notes for week of 19 February, 2024

⤳ I did even more record shopping this week. Met up with my friend, John in Hackney to visit Stranger Than Paradise, YoYo Records, BBE, World of Echo and Idle Moments (and some stall on Broadway Market). I picked up some Arthur Russell, the latest Mary Lattimore album, Shake Some Action by the Flamin’ Groovies and a Robert Wyatt album. Very happy. We also popped in to Donlon Books on Broadway market, which is a lovely shop. I got Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman. No more re...

Notes for week of 5 February, 2024

⤳ Highlight of the week was convincing my friend Matt (owner of the amazing When Spaceships Appear record shop) to come down to South East London for a spot of record shopping, a few pints and a pizza. Along the way we stopped in at the Book and Record Bar in West Norwood and the Four Quarters Arcade Bar and Bar Jazu in Peckham. ⤳ I started watching Mr & Mrs Smith this week. I love anything Donald Glover does, and I saw it had got some good reviews so I took a look and I wasn’t disa...

Notes for week of 29January, 2024

⤳ This week hasn’t been as ‘culturally rich’ as previous week which is a grand way of saying that a higher proportion of the week was spent drinking and eating various things. ⤳ In my defence, Nina and I were hoping to go and see All of Us Strangers at the Everyman in Crystal Palace on Friday night, but by the time I got round to booking the tickets there was only one seat left in the (admittedly small) screen. So we went to the local wine bar instead and ate our bodyweight in cheese and br...

Notes for week of 22 January, 2024

⤳ Well, we’re almost at the end of January. Practically every third person I know is ill (most with Covid), I’m doing well with my ‘read more books’ resolution and markedly less well with my ‘lose that Christmas weight’ resolution. Ah well. ⤳ Spent an evening playing Mysterium with friends earlier this week. Such a good game, that is made almost impenetrable to the allbutmostdedicated by overengineered rules and fiddly mechanics. No wonder they’ve recently released “a shorter, more streamlin...

Notes for week of 15 January, 2024

⤳ Little bit late this week, but I ‘m still here. My excuse is that is simply that last week was pretty busy; at least for midJanuary. ⤳ On Tuesday Nina and I went to see Alan Cumming do his one man show in the West End. We both gave each other an uncomfortable look when he started singing, but the chat in between was good value. It all just felt a little bit safe and ‘ITV’ if you know what I mean? ⤳ In the middle of the week I took myself to the Picturehouse in Dulwich to watch Poor Thing...

Notes for week of 8 January, 2024

⤳ I very much agree with Giles when he says Let’s make the indie web easier. I made the decision to move this site of Wordpress a few years ago (just because the plugin/update bloat was becoming too much for me), but the move to Jekyll was not easy by any means (especially as this was in a preChatGPT era). I’m still glad I did it, but I can’t imagine many people would enjoy taking on the learning curve. ⤳ By far the most lovely thing to come out of ‘the social web’ for a very long time ⤳ O...