The Particular Finest

67 81 months ago marked the 10th anniversary of my posting Contempt Culture to this very Particular Finest.

I can’t stop thinking about this sentence.

Hey.

You’ve probably noticed I don’t post much here anymore, with the last two entries being announcements of radio appearances, and the entry before that being almost two years old.

Okay this is ALSO VERY COOL.

Hey, I’m still here!

Tech, as an industry, is splitting.

I am pretty fucked up.

So here’s fun Today I learned that Contempt Culture, the deeply important critical look at tech culture, was cited in a study.

I wanted to write a retrospective on the 2010s, a summary of everything from moving to New Zealand (It’s been about a decade!

I don’t like Dark Souls 3.

So Spiritfarer, the latest game from Thunder Lotus, came out just the other day.

On May 14, 2020, my company Eiara launched Cloud Island, a Mastodon instance hosted entirely in New Zealand.

It’s 2020, coronavirus is Intense Af, social distancing is in effect everywhere, and more and more businesses are making the sensible call of “Work From Home!”

I used to write.

I want to preface this piece with, I adore Metroidvania games.

So, I watched the new Tomb Raider movie over the weekend, and, it was good!

Well So much for my goal of regularity when it came to these posts.

So.

Not a lot this week due to BEING VERY TIRED and doing prep work for a talk.

Time Played: 55 minutes Yeah, giving up on this game.

Time Played: 4.7 hours Started playing Stellaris again, after a fairly long haitus.

Time Played: 12.6 hours Stellaris is… I think I’m falling out of love with Stellaris.

In my last post about gaming stuff, I wrote about how I wanted to write a program to scrape the Steam API and store it so I could look back on the year and see what I’d done.

I keep meaning to write these posts, this commentary on the games that most affected me, most touched me, were most present and prevalent in my life through the year.

You might be familiar with tech joke accounts on Twitter, stuff like PHP CEO and I Am Devloper.

If you got to see my talk about Human Driven Development at WDCNZ or LCA, you’ll remember that one of the concepts that I brought up was the idea of “That Guy”, the team member that has great technical knowledge but no one really wants to talk to.

So one of the things that I keep getting asked about is when I refer to my past and my future as different people.

This post was originally a tweetstorm!

So you may have noticed last time that I said I’m trying to create complex JSON objects from within Terraform.

One of the things I do as part of Eiara is write a lot of Terraform, an infrastructure definition language, to provide a sensible baseline cloud instantiation of infrastructure and resources.