Nix Remains Useful for Side Projects
Nix is a sophisticated package manager. Nix has a steep learning curve; but those who do take the time to learn it are often enthusiastic about its benefits. The trade off with Nix is this: you put in effort up front to declaratively describe your software, and then you reap the benefits, such as being able to reproduce the same [...]
XCOM2 WOTC Added Some Good Parts
XCOM2 WotC I bought XCOM2 WotC (“War of the Chosen”) in a bundle for the Nintendo Switch. I’d completed a playthrough of the base game first. Overall, I found the game enthralling, but didn’t enjoy the RNG parts and so save-scummed my way through. I just completed a playthrough of XCOM2 WotC. And while I still don’t like the RNG [...]
XCOM2 has its Moments of Fun
XCOM and Civilization: They’re Okay I recently picked up the XCOM 2 Collection for the Nintendo Switch. I was lucky to catch it on sale at a discount of 85%. I just completed a playthrough of the base game. The collection also includes the expansion “War of the Chosen”, but I didn’t want to dive into too much content at [...]
Netflix's 1899 is Fascinating
Netflix’s “1899” comes from the same creators as “Dark”. I’d watched “Dark” a few years ago; watching the first two seasons in 2019, and then its final third season some time later. It’s very much a case of “if you like one, you’ll like the other”.
With “1899”, I definitely enjoyed it enough to binge my way through it. [...]
I Played Star Wars Republic Commando on the Nintendo Switch
I had played “Star Wars: Republic Commando” years ago on the PC. It’s a first person shooter game, and its setting is very cool: Star Wars, but from a grittier perspective of the soldiers fighting in the Clone Wars, rather than the more operatic stories of Jedi space-wizarding their way around the galaxy. Although it did release on the PC, [...]
Capsword is a Neat Keyboard Feature
QMK is a framework for customising how your keyboard functions. One of its relatively new features is “Caps Word”. Roughly, it’s “like caps lock, but only for one word”. This is quite useful for programmers, since writing program code often involves writing stuff like const THE_CONST = "some value";. – So, it’s as if shift is pressed for any letter [...]
Review of Apple Pencil for Note Taking
I recently purchased the Apple Pencil. There is a more recent “2nd Generation” Apple Pencil, but the iPad I have is old enough that it doesn’t support that “2nd Generation”. Overall, it’s been a useful thing to have, I like using it, but it’s also probably not worth the cost. I have found it useful. Before having an Apple Pencil, [...]
Disco Elysium
One Beautiful Moment from the Game I’d only really call something a “spoiler” if it ruins enjoyment from watching the story. e.g. The classic show “Columbo” is re-watchable, and we always know that Columbo will bumble around and annoy the villian in all sorts of homely ways, and ask “just one more thing”.. but it ruins the suspense if you [...]
Post Factorio Playthrough Ramble
Okay, so maybe Factorio is “hyper-engaging”. After playing through the game a bit on the Nintendo Switch, I decided that I’d go back and play the game in order to complete a few more of the game’s achievements. So I went to load my savegame from when I’d completed a game on peaceful, only to discover that this savegame was [...]
Factorio on the Switch Still Scratches the Itch
Factorio is a game which is widely regarded as addictingly fun to play. The ostensible goal of the game is to assemble & launch a rocket ship. The start of the game is reasonably familiar: you control a character, mine some ores from resource deposits, and then use these resources to assemble tools or whatever item you need. (e.g. you’ll [...]