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goodsniff
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goodsniff is a personal blog at goodsniff.substack.com about design and culture. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link goodsniff for behind-the-scenes accounts of making Bluey, told as a multi-chapter series by someone who worked on the show. Linked posts cover the art direction and the show's Brisbane look.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Big Art Idiot. YOLO Head of Design. Previously Bluey Lead Art Director. Worrying array of other things. Click to read goodsniff, a Substack with thousands of subscribers.
What Hacker News says?
They definitely have been using it in tourism campaigns, especially with Bluey's World: https://teq.queensland.com/au/en/industry/what-we-do/marketi... https://readytorumble.com.au/advertising/for-real-life It really is an amazing place to live (although hot in the summer!), but career opportunities can be limiting in Australia and Brisbane. Catriona Drummond touches on the same in her substack [1] mentioned in the…
Comment linking /p/creating-bluey-tales-from-the-art-04b
on “How we built Bluey’s world”It seems like a condensed version of the first 2 chapters of this: https://goodsniff.substack.com/ Good read so far! Chapter 3 delves more into the highs and lows of working on the show.
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on “How we built Bluey’s world”Weird, I think the link changed. I was quoting from part 3, I believe, and it’s been changed to part 1. Edit: yeah part 3 https://goodsniff.substack.com/p/creating-bluey-tales-from-t...
Comment linking /p/creating-bluey-tales-from-the-art-eae
on “Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director”As someone who struggles to make anything that looks good, I am fascinated by designers ability to take a brief and bring it to life using their own unique artisic voice. The second part to this is a fine example - https://goodsniff.substack.com/p/creating-bluey-tales-from-t... I've always wondered how they managed to make the show look and feel Brisbane, and this delivers.
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on “Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director”