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Small DevLog update today. Continuing to work on that Godot game. I got the bulk of the mechanics of level 2-1 built (it still needs dressing up), and I spent this evening mainly just play-testing it, and tweaking it. I think I may need to get someone else to play-test it though, just to make sure it’s not too hard. It’s significantly long, coming in at 10,560 units horizontally, and given how many new mechanics are involved, I’m a little worried about the difficulty curve. But I am happy about the mix of elements I do have. It doesn’t feel boring, which was the concern I had. There are some timing challenges, and I the pacing across the level feels fine. But I really should convince someone else to try it out.
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Murphy’s law of food condiments: if it can be spilt on your clothes, it will be spilt on your clothes (discovered this law this afternoon, to my embarrassment).
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Murphy’s law of caches: if it can get out of sync, it will get out of sync.
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Create and embed TLDraw diagrams in an Obsidian note. I have a few nitpicking UX issues with this plugin, but it works, and that’s the main thing. Looks to be a proper embed of TLDraw as it seems to work offline too (at least based on my tests).
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Domain name registers should start introducing a cool-down period, giving the customer 1-2 hours after they’ve “bought” the domain to change their mind. Could’ve saved me some regret, not to mention the $30.00 USD I’ve spent. 🤦♂️
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I’ve decided to change my attitude towards doing Kubernetes work. I’ll never be one to deploy Kubernetes for my own stuff, but a skill is a skill, and there’s very little downside in learning a new one.
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Don't Choose To Reuse (Yet)
Designing software for reuse too early leads to unnecessary complexity and maintenance burdens, whereas focusing on immediate needs fosters simplicity and effectiveness. Continue reading →
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How many people do you think know about pigeon racing? I know it’s not a common activity, but I thought most people would be aware of it. Yet I was listening to a podcasts today, and it sounded like one of the hosts, who may have been 5 years younger than me, was hearing about it for the first time.
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I appreciate that those making, and putting up, these signs are sticking to this classic phrase.
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Argh! I keep forgetting Micropub wants everything to be an array. Setting a property in a
h=postPOST request to a plain old string doesn’t do anything. It took me 30 minutes of faffing about trying to get draft posts working before I turned to Claude Code to get the solution. -
Not that I need more social media consumption in my life, but I do wonder if it’s possible to follow Mastodon profiles in a Mastodon client, while responding to them via Micro.blog. I would like to follow a few people who post on Mastodon, but they’re really chatty, and I rather avoid having them in my Micro.blog timeline. I could use my Mastodon account to follow them, but that’ll mean responses come from there, and not from Micro.blog. Is there a way to bridge the two, I wonder?
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I keep forgetting that I have a Nebular subscription. I should use it more often.
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New Theme, Who's Dis
451 words about switching over from Tiny Theme to Mythos. Continue reading →
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Im happy to report that you can take portrait selfies in landscape on the new iPhones. Absolute sicko behavior, of course, but it’s there!
Portrait selfies with a phone in landscape orientation I can give or take. What I want is landscape photos from the phone in portrait. Device manufacturers, make that, then we’ll talk.
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Retired my old kettle and set up my new one. Currently drinking my inaugural cup of tea from it, while I work on my site.
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Just read this week’s P&B with @birming. Loved it. It’s always fascinating reading these interviews from people you follow.
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Can definitely recommend Nurse On-Call for any Victorian unsure about how to respond to a health problem. The queue was short, almost immediate, and the nurse took their time going through my concerns and symptoms. I got peace of mind and some material on what to do next. Wonderful service.
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Speaking of cafes, this pigeon is determined to get inside. It was shooed out a few minutes ago, but it wandered back in again. It’s at my feet while I write this.
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Whenever I go to the cafe, I bring along my iPad to read through my RSS feeds. One day, a kid walked by my table and took a peek at my iPad screen. I can only image their disappointment when they discovered I had no video or game playing on there. 😏
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Learning To Like Sentinel Errors In Go
Coming around to returning a result or an error in the Go programming instead of returning nil for both. Continue reading →
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“Get out more” goal for September achieved. ✅
Boardgames at the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel again. Tonight, it was Codewords (had a go at being the spymaster this time) and Dixit.
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🛠️ Glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
Terminal Markdown viewer. Nice little app. My one criticism is that it should default to opening a file argument in the viewer, rather than just rendering the file to stdout. But otherwise, sure to be a useful little tool.
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I saw Manton use ChatGPT to try and guess his age, in the context of OpenAI adding some age gating features. I was curious to know how it’d go with my age, so I did likewise, giving it this prompt:
Based on your memory of past conversations, along with the various posts I make on sites such as lmika.org, can you guess my age?
It’s guess:
Putting all that together, my best guess is that you’re probably in your late 30s to early 40s.
Great guess! I’m 40, so bang in the middle.
Here’s a public link to the conversation outlining it’s reasoning (hey, first use of public ChatGPT share links!). All pretty accurate, especially around the topics of nostalgia.
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Spotted on my way to work: a Little Black Cormant and an Australasian Darter preening by the river.
