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This is what I am supposedly working on now. Last updated in April, 2019.

Work

I'm a developer at Infi, so that's were I spend most of my time actually making things.
We were present at Exec(ut), a conference for students. We wrote a small blog post about it, and soon we'll get a bigger one detailing our Space Invaders inspired game. It was a lot of fun (and hard work) to build, on a very diverse stack.

I recently wiped my server and wanted to started clean again; there were a lot of old projects on there with all sort of mess. I am now trying (with tiny steps) to get everything setup using Ansible, which gets kind of interesting when you want to setup Let's Encrypt certificates. I may or may not give up – it's a nice puzzle but I'm not really invested in Ansible so my interest is limited.
While setting everything back up, I discovered that, for some reason, Gulp isn't as smooth an experience as it was before. Setting it up was a bit of a pain, plus NPM was telling me about vulnerabilities (jikes) although it wouldn't tell me which, so I'm rewriting it using Webpack.
I'm building another book case, isn't that nice. (Yes).

Procedural Generation in Game Design. Each chapter is another case from practise by a different game designer, which makes it a really interesting read.
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson, it's a bit long winded and has a hard time getting to the point, but enjoyanble nonetheless. I think that goes for most of Stephenson's work.

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur C. Doyle (read by the excellent Stephen Fry). It's been here for a while, that's because it's really off and on. (Mosty off).
Zer0es by Chuck Wendig. It's okay. Narrated by Ray Chase, who is very good.
Bright Ruin by Vic James, the last part of the Dark Gifts series, read by Avita Jay. It's an interesting mix of alternative history, fantasy, politics and action in a YA package. And it has some pretty good heroines, for some reason there are a lot more of those in YA literature than in the "grown up" stuff.

I recently caved and bought a Switch. I want to say that I'm having a lot of fun with Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart, but if I'm honest I am just spending way to much time on Stardew Valley again, for which Switch is just the best platform.
I loved the experimental nature of What remains of Edith Finch! All those different mechanics were really cool, although I find they detracted a bit from the story for the most part. The fish factory though… I tell you, never did any game mechanic drive the story home like that one did. Respect.
Gone Home is decidedly less pretty, but I found it much more engaging. If I could ever leave a legacy like that (haha no) I can die a peaceful person.

I'm rewatching Altered Carbon, just because it was awesome the first time and because I recenlty read the book and some parts are rather different.
I've just finished Scorpion, which is both terrible and hilarious (and sometimes tedious). If you're a bit of nerd, do yourself a favour and watch the first episode. It's amazing.
Firefly. Because it's Firefly, why do you ask?
It took me a few episodes to get into (because everyone kept saying it's awesome), but now I'm hooked on Russian Doll. Because it is awesome! A sort of extra long, extra weird and extra not family friendly Doctor Who without the Doctor. Yeah okay it's its own thing all right.
Speaking of, when is the last season of Doctor Who coming to Netflix?! It feels like it's been years.
ES6 for Everyone by Wes Bos, which is really awesome (he is great at video tutorials!) and makes me think there might be something to this JavaScript thing after al. Although Kotlin remains my one true love.

This page was inspired by nownownow.com, and other people who have one (or really the reverse, because that's how I found out).

Curious about what I did before now? Check this file's history on GitHub!