Agree with this comment:

I miss MISS the 2000's Flash era. User friendly? Not so much. Creative as hell? You better believe it!

Hmm I want to upgrade to macOS Tahoe less and less. Some really weird decisions have been made.

It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. You know, the ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard.

And it’s terrible. What a regression.

When me and Emma eventually renovate our house having everything as a computer seems like a terrible idea.

This looks like a lot of fun. Will pick this up for Switch.

Sometimes it gets so bad one can’t see the base text color: everything is highlighted. What’s the base text color here?

Really enjoyed this one. I agree that I don't want to see fireworks going off in my editor. I'm trying out the authors theme alabaster right now.

We went to Echuca over the weekend with family, friends and Spudly.

Nice little games list. It reminds me that I still really want to play Blue Prince. It's sadly still not on Switch but it's weirdly on the Mac.

Offfff this one hurts. I haven't played through the whole game yet but I watched most of this video. Agree with a lot of Wood's concerns. The game is way too linear and is not true to the original Metroid Prime philosophy. I enjoyed the remaster of Prime 1 way more than this current game. It shows how important design and story is vs pure technological advancements.

Nice long educational post on good logging. It makes a lot of sense going with the wide events pattern. Some of my works code bases work like this but not all of them.

I liked the Will gets powers story line. The ending was kind of like Lord of the Rings with all the different stories closing out.

Will be teaching Spud this trick this week.

I've been trying to get out into the surf more this summer. I've learnt a couple of things over the past few days:

• I currently have a 6'8 NSP board that's 21 inches wide and 2.75 inches thick
• I've really struggled to stay buoyant on the board in bigger swell, I can barely sit up on it, I also struggle a bit with paddle power as I'm getting used to a new wetsuit
• I gave ChatGPT a whirl to give me some ideas on what would be a good board based on my experience level and height/weight
• It outputted this

You should look for a mid-length / easy paddler board that’s all about: stability, catching waves early, easy paddling (especially in a wetsuit) and confidence building

Recommended size range for you (75 kg, open beach breaks): length 7’0″ – 7’4″, width ~22″ – 22½″, thickness ~2⅞″ – 3″, volume ~48 L – 55 L

• The epoxy soft boards look like a good option based on these specs, something like this board or this one would be quite nice
• I'm not going to get a new board right now but it could be something to keep an eye on
• Jake has also been helping me this week with surfing and took me out in this water, the best way to read the conditions he thinks is to use Swellnet and read the report at observed beaches, someone does the Mornington Peninsula every day which is handy

He's a lovely pup.

I finished Hyper Light Drifter in the last few days. It's a solid game without being amazing. It had a very nice top-down Zelda game art style which I enjoyed. The bosses were solid whilst arguably being quite easy. The music was awesome; really cool synth sound design.

This was really fun. I don't think there's a way to share your results but I took some screenshots.

A couple of shots from this week.

A cracking listen this.

My takeaway: the English captain Douglas Jardine is literally an evil cartoon villain. Most of the team hated him.

I might watch this documentary on it next.

Fun little Google easter egg.

Search for

Times New Roman

and

Lucas de Groot

It's like they looked into my mind and created a game. Is this the perfect game for me?

This was one of the worst hacks in my area of expertise that I've ever seen.