Playing Alan Wake 2 and now Cobtrol. Then reading the novel Prophet and the graphic novel The Department of Truth I am fully immersing myself into reality bending government agencies.
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Short-form thoughts, links, and updates.
Alan Wake 2 is such a fantastic game I just wish it wasn’t scary cause I could recommend it to so many more people.
The absolute pain of trying to find XL size washing up gloves
Starting my mini sabbatical off with some chilled out keyboard assembly
If password managers spent as much money on YouTube adverts as VPN companies the world would be a better place.
Watching the episode of Voyager where Janeway has to use her own personal holographic smut fiction barkeep to rescue her own crewman from the holodeck.
God I love Star Trek.
Oof £45 import fee on £35 keyboard switches from aliexpress.
Why buy a SAD lamp when I can just set my IDE to light mode?
Listening to a lot of old video game soundtracks while working these days.
Please enjoy the original unreal OST: youtube.com/watch?v=NgRqKu6n5SU
UK Vegan Christmas Sandwiches review thread for the coming month:
Me as a child: Eurgh all these stickers on this laptop are so lame.
Me now: I need a bigger laptop so I can fit more stickers on it.
Up first M&S. Cracking name. Suprisingly crunchy despite so much veg 7/10 festive but a tad slimey.
Video from my last talk come comedy show earlier in the year at Brighton Ruby is online now. Ever wanted to see a few hundred people play Pac-man? But only after some stressful live debugging?
brightonruby.com/2023/new-game
They have made the new Ultimate Peter Parker unnecessarily hot.
Fully on board with this.
#ffconf in general is a good vibes conference, but there is always a talk or two that makes me go “oh god we’re all doomed”
Starting with the “oh, it me” talk to kick off the day at #ffconf with a talk about imposter syndrome.
I dunno gang, maybe this whole “internet” thing was a mistake #ffconf
Shameless plug to an old project I did at the BBC back in the day about html, css, js and using a house metaphor to describe it to non technical folks #ffconf
bbc.co.uk/gel/features/builder
Let’s gooooo #ffconf
“Just use the damn selector” is the best quote of the day so far #ffconf