About
New Phone, who this?
Hi, I’m Dandelion-Utilitarian, though most folks just call me Dandy. You might remember me as HexDSL from my Linux content days, but these days I’m more of a writer than a YouTuber. Around here, you’ll find my thoughts, reflections, creative ramblings, and the occasional deep dive into the Bible.
I’m a British fella in my 40s, living life with my loyal Chihuahua, Backup, and a grown-up daughter (hello, daughter!). I spend my time writing strange novels, indulging in old and often terrible sci-fi shows, and sketching with great enthusiasm and questionable skill.
Hardware I use to a make things
People often ask about my hardware. It’s not particularly interesting, but here’s a list of what I use.
- MacBook Air (M2, 16GB Unified memory and 1TB storage) and a magic mouse because, I like it
- iPad Air (M2, 512gb storage) with a pencil pro
- iPad mini 6 (I accidentally ended up with this, I use it for reading the news)
- iPhone 14PM (I have no reason to upgrade)
- Apple Watch (Series 10, 46mm)
- Kindle Paperwhite (2024)
- Claw 8ai+
- A Miyoo mini
- A big bluetooth speaks
- Marshall Major 4 headphones
- Airpods, 4th gen
Software I use to make things
- Ulysses - Writing
- FadeIn - Scripting (usually comic pages)
- Procreate - General sketching, and recently comic pages
- ToonSquid - For animation
- Apple notes - Notes (shocker!)
- Apple Reminders - Task manager
- Apple Calendar - Do I need to explain that one?
Things I like
These are some of the things I enjoy, in no particular order. Books are listed separately on the books tab of Dandelion-utilitarian.com header
Apps & Games
- Chess.com - though, I have no natural aptitude.
- 🎮Titan Quest - An ARPG
- 🎧 Apple Music - For music
- ✝️eSword - The best Bible study app that doesn’t require subscription
- 🎮Loop Hero - A game about tweaking things
- 👩🏻💻Wipr - An adblocker
- 🗞Apple news - For news and magazines
- 🧱Pixaki - Pixel art app, for when I am that kind of mood
- 🔖Kiwix - For using a local copy of wikipedia
- 📚Yomu - An ebook reader for ipad
- 📘Apple Journal - recently switched from Diarium.
- 📡News Explorer - an RSS reader.
Video media
- Star Trek 🍿📺
- The Muppets 🍿📺
- Murder, She Wrote📺
- Vampire Diaries 📺
- Mean Girls 🍿
- Casablanca 🍿
- Hackers 🍿
- Everything everywhere all at once 🍿
- Pretty in Pink 🍿
- Breakfast Club 🍿
- Nebula.tv - it’s like YouTube but with less rubbish 💻
A random list of objects I like
- 🎮My 3DS, despite the fact that I have not turned it on in over a year
- 🥤Cans of Pepsi Max (Cherry)
- 👟Crocs - No shame!
- ✝️Bibles that have nice covers
- 🏙Really big buildings with lights on
- 🔋Battery powered things, because wires suck
- 🥺Photos from the 80s and 90s
- 💾Floppy Disks
- 🐐Goats (I didn’t know where else to put them)
- 🐸Frogs (see above)
- 🥤Plastic yellow cups filled with yellow pop.
Social media.
Look… No one should be on social media, its trash and basically toxic to humans… but when I post to this website, it’s set to cross post to Blue Sky because it seems like a good way to make people aware of my site, I never interact with social media, I don’t even check Blue Sky notifications. I will reply to all comments on my website and if you send me an email, I will definitely read it and reply if I think I have anything useful to say.
I also use Discord because at the moment there isn’t anything better, or at least less awful. You are welcome to come talk to me there.