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This game was a lot of fun.

I appreciated that they led with addressing some of the biggest concerns, especially from long-time Mac users.

I finally finished this.

But for now, suffice to say: when I look around me at the impact AI is currently having, I see little reason for enthusiasm—let alone the little-questioned, quasi-religious belief that this fundamentally flawed technology will one day soon bring about some

I did Inktober this year (2025).

I love our 2022 Mazda3.

I struggle with phone cases.

🔗: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo Realistically this is the only thing they could have done.

The reason I’m so onerously explaining this is that I do not believe the majority of people hate technology, but what the technology industry has become in search of growth.

I completed Advent of Code for the first time.

I’m not a fan of the current crop of generative AI products, as the folks I work with are no doubt already sick of hearing.

Before Christmas, my wife mentioned it’d be cool to get a digital photo frame to put some of the many, many photos we both take on display, instead of locked away on our phones.

I feel like it’s sorta common knowledge today, especially if you’re a developer, that most modern software does not give the slightest shit about gobbling up as much RAM and as many CPU cycles as it wants.

For desperate and frustrated people I’ve lost two seperate evenings to this so I might as well get a quick blog post out of it.

Background Fluent interfaces are very common in the PHP world, as well as many other object-oriented languages.

For a while after I got serious about good test coverage, my tests would often end up quite sprawling, usually with only one assertion of any real value per test case.

Disclaimer: as the title suggests, I’m still new to Go.

Back in January I opened a small pull request to the Laravel framework to enable query-time casting of Eloquent attributes.