Factorio.

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I finally watched the Good Place! It was incredible. I woke my wife up last night sobbing during the ending.

Linux and foss software. You bunch of bastards now im a huge nerd

I've been writing a software library that parses a military communications standard. Every time I push updates I get a hundred or so downloads immediately, and I'm probably on a watchlist now, but the code is fun.

Composting.

It all began with me saving some coffee waste because I heard that it's good for... plants, or something... Then it got covered in mold. So I looked into what to do with moldy pile of coffee ground and that's when I learned about it.

I started by putting the moldy coffee ground in a bucket. Then I incorporated green kitchen scraps that wouldn't get too wet like onion skin, bokchoy root, and some dried leaves from the yard. After a while it became like soil (even smell like it), and that's when I knew I succeeded.

Right now I am onto a new batch. I tried something different this time with fruit scraps as well as eggshell. I also put some shallots that I thought was going bad. Instead of rotting, it sprouted in that pile. Guess it shows that it's good for something, right?

I started listening to Garbage. I'd heard a few of their songs before but I had no real opinion. Caught one lately and something clicked. Haven't heard a bad song yet.

The solar eclipse in exactly two weeks. In preparing for it though, I've become amazed at the sheer recklessness people have shown in capitalizing on it. Ordinary people for example are renting their driveways for hundreds of dollars, weather anchors are claiming you can see the solar eclipse through the clouds to escape having to give overcast warnings, and I just bought solar eclipse glasses which I recently learned ignored a fatal manufacturing error that makes them 100% unusable. So I've felt forced to go full DIY.

I'm going to be pissed if this is how things are when Betelgeuse explodes, or I'm going to be exploding too.

1. Delicious in Dungeon. It's delightfully bonkers in a way that works for me as a very occasional anime viewer, and for all of the gore (actually middling to low for the genre, I guess), it's damn near kid-friendly in its wholesomeness level.

2. On a brief break for the moment, but in the last year I've made 7 hand-wired computer keyboards.

Making my own baked beans in tomato sauce. I'm trying to get it good without adding sugar, and have a killer recipe ready for when I visit my family next.

It's incredibly cheap and delicious and satisfying.

I've played Rocket League a little bit since it came out, but I was never very good. Past couple months, I've been playing a lot more, and actually making contact with the ball in the air. I still can't get past Gold, but I'm guessing the base-level skill has gone up a bit since it launched, or at least thats what I tell myself. I seem to destroy in casual and mostly get destroyed in ranked.

Slay the Spire, a roguelike deckbuilding game. I thought that sounded horribly boring but decided to give it a chance, and I've been hooked on it. Playing on the Steam deck is perfect for this game I think.

Digital kitbashing for tabletop minis: using 3d modeling programs like Blender to hack together elements from different mini model files, in order to make custom minis to 3d print. I've even started playing around with rigging them so I can repose them easier.

Biblical scholarship. I'm an atheist but after listening to Data Over Dogma podcast I've become very curious about the history of the Jews and early Christians and how the respective bibles were brought together.

3D printing. Don’t recommend it … it’s addicting.

Ice skating! The classes are pretty cheap,

Rechargeable AA & AAA batteries.

Modern emo music. Started with Jank (I was late to the game and read up on it after the discovery) and I've done a deep dive into it. I'm mid-30s, always kinda looking for some new music, and the genre seems like a good mix of energy and interesting guitar licks. Just seems fun.

I say modern emo because to me emo was what the early 2000s produced.

Freebords, it is kind of like a skateboard that acts more like a snowboard. Waiting for more dry weather to try and learn to use it!

TIC-80

Wrestlemania is coming up in a couple weeks, and I've been weirdly obsessing over it.

I downloaded an emulator and have been playing Digimon World 2. It's a game I used to play as a wee lad and never even came close to beating.

Now it's like the end credits of Step Brothers. I'm here to kick its ass on the playground.

YubiKeys, slide rules, and Squid Game.

Job for a Cowboy. Their latest album, Moon Healer, is fucking incredible. If you're into technical death metal it's a must listen