An interesting post that’s helped me understand a bit more about the way Bluesky’s “composable” moderation and federation works: Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far. I’m tempted set up my own PDS, just to test it out.

Finished reading: The Rose at War by Danie Ware 📚

Folks who have read the Sharpe books — do you recommend reading in timeline order, or release order? I’m feeling tempted to pick them up and give them a go.

Nothing puts me off a product category I’m interested in faster than the Instagram ads algorithm.

Looks like I’m going to be visiting that there London town in May, in what will be my first trip away from home since… ooh, 2018?

Finished reading: Lazarus: Enmity’s Edge by Gary Kloster 📚

I did some work last night on improving build times on my blog.

An initial implementation, that covers just the existing images, brought times down to ~30 seconds. It’s such a dramatic improvement I might just roll it out this weekend and deal with processing new images later…

It turns out I kinda like coming into the office. When I’m the only person here.

The urge to just migrate my personal site to Micro.Blog is hitting pretty hard at the moment. @manton has been knocking it out of the park lately with the new features, and the recent pricing plan changes make it an attractive proposition. One to ponder on while I try to fix my build time issues

I’ve somehow ended up in a situation where I have both system-wide and user-only versions of Microsoft PowerToys installed on my work laptop, which means neither can be upgraded or uninstalled because they complain about the presence of the other 🫠

Welp, guess I need to urgently finish some more projects so I can get in on this Darkoath boxset

&10;A photo of new Darkoath miniatures, which are of a fantasy barbarian tribe design, above a picture of the “Darkoath” army box, which has an illustration of a character as the the box art

Me: “I’m going to be productive this weekend and get stuff done”

Also me: watches approx 14 hours of Final Fantasy cutscenes instead

Y’know what, they may not be the latest and greatest, but the Khorne half of the Age of Sigmar 1st Edition starter set (2015) holds up surprisingly well.

(Yes, I am only just getting around to assembling them in 2024…)

Finished reading: Temple of Silence by Richard Strachan 📚

Finished reading: Blacktalon by Lianne Mercial 📚

I’ve fallen down the LogSeq rabbit-hole (kinda forced to, as work stopped allowing Obsidian)

Thing is, I’m already using it far more consistently than I did Obsidian, and it’s only been 2 days. 🤞🏻it might be the note taking system I actually stick to… Full blog post maybe coming later this week

Every time I need or want to make a graphic for something, I miss Fireworks MX just a little bit more. That was such a good bit of software, and Adobe just flat out let it wither. I built so many websites in the early 2000’s using Fireworks, and it made the job fun.

Finished reading: The End and the Death: Volume III by Dan Abnett 📚

Currently reading: The End and the Death: Volume III by Dan Abnett 📚

Every so often I’ll leave a pile of paints on the desk and stumble across some unexpectedly 🔥 colour combinations. This is today’s: bold oranges + deep magenta.

4 Vallejo Game Color paint bottles. Left to right they are: Orange Fire, a bold orange mid-tone; Hot Orange, a bold orange that leans to red; Deep Magenta, which is a darker, slightly purple magenta tone; Sunset Orange, a lighter orange that leans more to yellow