It’s an old-style weekly digest. In the end I didn’t end up liking the “micro-posts-as-digest” format I trialed for a few weeks. The resulting posts were hard to read, and I didn’t like posting on Mastodon and having to consider whether the post would make sense in this context.

Happenings

  • I’d hoped sickness season would be over, but we all got sick last week, including me.
  • It’s Easter break now, which will just end up being some much needed recovery I think.
  • One goal this Easter is to get the record player back up and running. We put it away because we didn’t want little children messing with the player or the discs. But we think we can trust them enough now. The tricky part is we don’t have a proper hifi cabinet, so it’s trying to find a place to house it for now.
  • I started teaching my child chess today. At the moment we’re just playing pawns vs pawns. He’s never played a strategy game before in his life (he’s 4), so there’s a lot of new concepts even with just pawns on the board.

Links

  • parseword.com. The new game from the creator of Wordle. It’s basically a cryptic crossword clue, but you have to actually parse the clue by clicking on each word or group and performing the required mutation until you land on the answer. I’m undecided as to whether this is more or less difficult than just solving the clue in your head. An alternative to minutecryptic.com, anyway.
  • V-Rally 3 on the Game Boy Advance Smokes DLSS 5 on X2 5090s. DLSS is essentially replacing every frame of a game with an AI-rendered frame, in real time. It looks weird and uncanny, and not as pleasing as the work of a skilled human graphic artist, as this video demonstrates with the example of V-rally 3 on the GBA.
  • Linkdump No 100 from Andreas at 82mhz. A milestone for his link collection series.

Watching

I watched Into The Spiderverse while I was sick. It was pretty cool.

Playing

Still playing Chrono Trigger emulated on my phone. I’m also playing through Shadow Of The Colossus (2018, remake of 2005). I can see why the original had such an impact.

Reading

I fell behind on my online book-club reading while sick. Just didn’t have the energy. But I wasn’t mad about our current book anyway, so I’ve just picked up next month’s with The Right To Oblivion by Lowry Pressly.