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Do you like joy?

My mom has this saying that she attributes to her dad: “Anything worth doing is worth doing right.”

My daughter came to hang out with me for a little bit at work today.

This podcast is really great and covers albums that I love.

For me and my brain, this game is absolutely perfect. 10/10.

Nice day here in Seattle!

This joke is great.

I finished Octopath Traveler, as in I finished all eight story lines.

Just Wait ‘Til I Get These Fucking Rubber Bands Off by a lobster.

This is from iA Writer and Working Copy and a bunch of Apple Shortcut glue.

I was using Claude Code to make some style tweaks to this blog, and happened to notice that my first post was from May 2006.

I’ve been playing more JRPGs, mostly Dragon Quest games and I love it.

This blog has a lot of posts about SHMUPS but I haven’t played shmups in quite a while, at least with any seriousness.

Full album continuous mix here.

I recently watched the movie Harakiri and it’s now one of my favorite movies.

My new hobby is to ask “small” LLM models to summarize movies for me.

I’ve been playing a lot of Tetris the Grand Master 4: ABSOLUTE EYE and it’s so great.

For a long time, I’ve used VPN solutions like WireGuard and Tailscale to get into my home network when not at home.

Usually in my life “VM” means “Virtual Machine” but not this time. 411VM was a skateboarding “video magazine” that ran from 1993 to 2005.

In the past I wrote about having a leaky TODO list and how I implemented that in org-mode.

Kool Keith is a genius and here he talks about buying boring food so that your friends don’t eat it all.

I’ve been an Emacs user since I was in college, which was a long time ago and happened on Sun SPARC machines that had keyboards with Ctrl in the correct spot.

There’s a new Lord Finesse album out: The SP 1200 Project: Sounds & Frequencies in Technicolor.

Yesterday a friend and I biked down to check out the new bike lanes that opened on the Seattle Waterfront.

I was in a meeting at work the other day reading a document (it’s AWS, we have meetings where the first X minutes are spent in silence reading a doc) and the term “PSK” was used with no definition so my brain had to think about it for a second.

Still got it.

Go listen to Frank Stokes.

I joined Speedy’s E-Bike Rescue, which is like AAA for e-bikes.

Happy New Year!

This game is really amazing, my favorite shmup released in 2024.

This album remakes Pretty Hate Machine using 8-bit computers and consoles.

Rickey Henderson passed away a few days ago and it hit me hard.

I’m sitting in a hotel in Grand Junction, CO using my iPad Pro to remotely play games on my gaming PC sitting my house in Seattle, WA and it works pretty damn well.

Whatever I want it to be for!

Someone put a bunch of issues of MicroTimes on archive.org which is super cool.

I use Hugo for this blog and I like it.

I recently beat Doom Eternal and have been making my way through the DLC and goddamn I love this game.

I’ve been using Nix for a while now to manage my dotfiles and all that, which I wrote about here previously.

We spent Thanksgiving day at Disneyland and it was magical!

AWS Lambda has turned 10 years old!

I really liked this game and found it to be good and spooky.

In honor of Halloween and spooky things, I was thinking about the first time I was scared by a video game.

I’ve dealt with lower back pain for probably 15 years.

10 out of 10!

Do you like holding up on your controller for extended periods of time?

A quick review of some movies that either have ‘cop’ in the title or where the main characters are cops.

I finished this game last night and liked it.

Have you ever seen “The Octagon” from 1980 starring Chuck Norris?

I’m real sad that Steve Albini has passed away.

This video shows the progression of speedruns for King’s Quest 1.