If you walked into a museum, you could probably identify a number of artworks from across the room. You don’t need to be an expert to spot a Picasso. In the same way, even if you’re not a car aficionado, I bet you’d recognize the Volkswagen “Think Small” advertisement. I’d argue it’s the most well-known…
Sometimes running Adland® gives fun perks. Friday before the Superbowl I was sent a local ad just as I was about to clock off and try to weekend a little before getting up and working all Sunday. I checked the ad out and was genuinely happy for the team who managed to write a script and shoot a spot in just a few days with everyone on the team taking on several job roles. Local ads are nowhere near the budget of the nationals, so I don't hold them to the same standards, but they can be super weird and quirky like Dan-O's Seasoning or just fun underdog ads showing off your product's best features like the ToughBuilt – All Pros Welcome / Super Bowl Prep ad.
So I posted the ad asap and emailed back that I was genuinely impressed with the plucky team to pull that ad off, and that I thought the product was cool – mentioning in the post that my toolbox is literally a wooden box built by my great-grandfather. It's not exactly easy to drag around when renovating homes and building stuff, which I do for fun.
I honestly hope the entire team do a re-enactment of this ad, using Toughbuilt bags and gear to drag all the Super Bowl fixings to the top boss' house. And perhaps they just expanded the market for these gear-holders, soon we'll spy these bags at tailgate parties everywhere. I actually want one now, that 16″ Massive Mouth bag looks hella useful. My toolbox is an actual giant wooden box built by my great grandfather.
It doesn't hurt that the Toughbuilt 16″ bag looks like a giant Duracell battery. Instantly I received an email back asking what my address was and if I was serious about wanting a toolbag. I said yes, and then this darling arrived at my house!
This gift is so appreciated too! I opened up my big box of tools that I have lying around here and managed to fit them all into this thing, everything was swallowed by by the massive mouth, including my sander!
This is honestly really cool, now I can drag every tool I have around in one neat little bag! Easy access to all of my screwdrivers! Even the hammer fit in there no problemo! I promise I won't become a hardware influencer here, but as I actually use toolbags, I can honestly recommend this. The spot for the clip-on pouch is brilliant too, you can add a hammer holster, a bag for nails etc, a knife, or whatever it is you need to keep easy access to. It's bloody brilliant!
Good design shouldn't just be aesthetically pleasing, good design has to also be useful to the users of the object designed. This is a great example of good design.
Got up, sipped coffee, casually scrolled Twitter while figuring out what to wear, when the video of a Boeing in flames caught my eye.
“Aha!” I thought, “I shall wear my Boeing shirt!” A very long time ago, when I lived in Amsterdam I befriended an American artist who was living there. His dad worked for Boeing. “That is soooo cool!” I said to him, in earnest, “it's my favorite logo, I would love to have that on a shirt!”
“Really?” he said, quite surprised that someone was so geeked out about a logo, “I'll tell dad to get you one.” And that was how I was gifted a gen-u-iiine Boeing shirt, the real dealio, the classic logo, and I wore it beaming with pride. For some daft reason I still believe I have this shirt. Alas, I do not.
So I made a new one. With an updated logo. You can wear it too.
I tried to get “Gumroad” working today, because I was a momentary idiot and thought it was alright to use a third party. It's really never okay. I should really buy a house and some land to grow my own food, because as simple as it is to just leave stuff to other people and companies, they will pretty much always fail you when you need them. Like Gumroad did to me, today. The “temporary code” they sent never arrived, so I could not login. Instead I threw my hands in the air and installed a fresh version of Prestashop to connect to my printful where I print my shirts.
So you can buy that shirt right here, right now in my little shop.dabitch.net if you'd like. 🙂 I bought some for myself. (edit – I moved servers and killed that shop
Now as it turns out there are a lot of things that are no longer compatible with one another. Prestashop and Printful are some of those things, so here are a few notes in case someone finds this. Get Prestashop 1-7-7-3 at a minimum, it'll give you no issues when you install it and use it with php-7.3. You'll find that the Prestashop module has had some updates 6 months ago (which broke my setup), but not much else in the activity and discussion side at Github, where many people are lost and looking for answers. In my search for a fix even ran into a note I accidentally left for myself in August 2021 battling this exact issue.
From that I sussed out what the problem was. So I began from scratch with the above mentioned variants, and I edited the “printful.php” page in the printful module before I uploaded the .zip to read like this starting at line 83:
$this->ps_versions_compliancy = [
'min' => '1.6.1',
'max' => '1.7.7',
];Yep, I'm essentially just lying to the module about it being compatible with Prestashop 1.7.7 – and it works.
Oh, and a funny thing about Gumroad, turns out I've blocked their entire domain because they send out spammy messages all day long which are impossible to unsubscribe from, so I accidentally locked myself out – not realizing they would eventually move to “we email you a security code” even if I log in with my Twitter or my Stripe. Good riddance.
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