Company is still looking for a project for me, with the prospect of some DevOps training in the mean time. So I’m looking into that sector more than before, and boy, it’s even worse than I remembered and seen from the sidelines. Sure, there’s kubernetes at the core, but everything else is available in multiple competing projects, all with a huge feature set and fanbase of their own. Reminds me a lot of JS framework fatigue…
I had to help my partner with a broken file cabinet, and that was rather surprising. The lock was broken, so I looked into means of opening it - and apparently that’s way too easy, for almost all file cabinets. All you need is a somewhat sturdy and slim object, and voila. Those locks seem to be mostly there for courtesy reasons.
Health #
Too dark and cold for my nice evening strolls. Hey, I do have this Nintendo RingFit I bought during the lockdown…
I’m getting a bit of numbness and aches in my right arm and fingers. Switched my mouse to the left hand, hope this doesn’t turn into medium-length RSI as I had before.
Media #
Watched the second season of The Diplomat, which wasn’t as good as the first one. Rufus Sewell is still the best thing in there.
Arte had The Conversation with a “young” Gene Hackman, and I never saw that particular Francis Ford Coppola movie. I quite liked the mood, surveillance was the big theme there, with the Hackman character choosing that as his trade, and now he can’t let go. And the tables do turn a bit. Recommended.
Started with Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer. As he puts it, it’s a good crossroads to start into religion, philosophy and social issues of the time. And, well, it’s good RPG research.
Gaming #
No tabletop RPG sessions at all. Even our regular online game got canceled. Hope this will pick up again in the new year, when everyone is back from their families and vacations and hungry for some dice and collaborative story creation.
Consumerism #
My Eizo “Radiforce” arrived, an old monitor meant for health care purposes. It’s rather chonky.
No Black Friday shopping. Don’t need anything really right now, which feels good.
Side Projects #
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I forked the textpod Rust application used for note-taking. There’s not too much progress in the main branch, although the developer did the one thing I hacked in already (moved the HTML to a separate file). I’ve got some ideas there…
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There’s a chance I get to do some Go coding for work. Slim, but at least it’s an excuse to dabble with it again. So I’ve fused some other side project ideas with this, a collaborative bookmarking application, because we don’t have that already.
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Someone on Mastodon started an “advent” of prompts for Tabletop RPG backgrounds, so I’m using that to fill in some stuff on my bigger setting-focused project. Let’s see how this turns out.
Links #
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Wilbur - A heightmap tool some people use for fictional maps. Windows only, and the mountain ranges this creates look a bit unrealistic. I might be a good prompt for manual enhancement.
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K.M. Alexander’s Map Brushes - and these might be the tools for this. If you can’t make it realistic, make it either usable (e.g. hex maps) or pseudo-period-accurate.
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New MilkyTracker release - I have a soft spot for trackers, which both seem a lot simpler to create music than a full-fledged DAW, and also something computer geeks did for their own usage. So it doesn’t look and work like either professional “workstations” with their visual multi-tracks, nor like old-fashioned music notation. Anyway, this release contains a full-fledged synthesizer. Might be worth fiddling with.