drisc.io | Journal and Blog

Spent a wonderful week in Spain with my Uncle and his family on my first proper holiday outside the UK in years.

It’s too damn hot again, if this is Spring then I’m dreading Summer this year.

After over a month of waiting for the voucher to appear in my email I finally have my new bike.

Due to world events petrol has become a pricy proposition recently, I don’t really go anywhere other than work and it still is hitting my pocket.

Over the past 6 months I haven’t really used my iPad Pro for anything, trying to do any coding tasks on it was a chore and required external services or hardware.

Today I fulfilled a childhood dream, I got to see a rocket launch in person and go to Kennedy Space Centre.

It’s been a while since I started moving my site to Hugo.

I like using my iPad on the go.

I’ve hosted my site on Linode for years at this point and haven’t updated Ubuntu from 18.04 in all that time.

Did a lot of work on my site redesign today, after going way to far in the minimal direction I have added CSS Grid back to the site to display images and my wiki entries in a much nicer way on supported browsers.

I recently started participating in the Peak Streak event on RetroAchievements.

I had ideas about creating a new static site generator in C a few years ago and got decently far into it but it eventually fell by the wayside.

Today was the final test of my apprenticeship.

I didn’t manage my health very well and ended up in hospital this past week.

Yesterday was my last day of college.

I’m close to the end of my apprenticeship now, just a couple of months and I will be free from exams and coursework, back to simply doing my job and being able to work on side projects without a school deadline of some kind poking my brain.

I’m still kicking, been busy with work and playing video games.

Been a while since I updated my journal.

Had a bit of a break from working on programming things to sort out my house.

I stumbled across this video several days ago and have been consumed with the idea of learning how to write my own PlayStation games ever since.

My static site generator written in C is coming along finally.

I hadn’t played RuneScape for a good 13 years until yesterday when I decided to try out Old School RuneScape to scratch a nostalgia itch in my brain.

Ghost, my dwarf hamster, passed away today.

Spent a couple of hours sticking acoustic dampening tiles to the ceiling of the workshop, it has helped reduce the echo a lot in there which is good because I plan to record readings of short stories.

I’ve had a near constant stream of coursework and questions to complete for the past 2 years so it will be nice to have a couple of weeks of not needing to worry about it before I start the next 2 year course.

Yesterday I got to meet the cat that I will be adopting.

I’m not good with heat.

I finally wrote a blog post, I’ve been meaning to start writing stuff for years now but always put it off.

I’ve been at my new house almost two years now and while I have my own space again after several years not being able to fully unpack, it is only one room.

Found a box of cables in the back of a closet today, it contained gems such as Parallel cables, VGA to S-Video adapters and an actual FireWire 800 DV-Cam cable.

Spent today on the late shift at work, not much to do since everything my team is responsible for had the courtesy to not break so I got on with some of my outstanding college work.

I love the weekend, it means I can sleep until midday if I want.

I picked up my copy of The C Programming Language for the first time in a year, cloned Alchemists git repo and sat down to look at it again.

Spent some time going through the CSS of the Merveilles Town theme and adding to it, will probably push the changes tomorrow or this weekend after I’ve finished more college work.

Started writing up a blog post on a project that I’ve been working on for the last month.

I found out about The Neon Kiosk today and decided to restructure and publish some of my journal entries in the correct format for it.