Blood, Sweat and Pixels. I finished another book. A quick one, Blood, Sweat and Pixels is a book featuring behind the scenes stories of video games - many of which I’ve played. It’s eye opening and very easy reading. Sad to see the impact of the endless growth march has on so many creative projects. I’m happy that I seem to have replaced much of my phone screen time with book reading time.
Travelling West. I spent the end of the week visiting friends and relatives in Bristol and Hereford. We got to visit a live archeological dig at Arthur’s Stone - good for getting one’s imagination going. Chilly Daddy in Bristol was also a good spot for some noodles, before getting your ears blasted at NQ64.
Games. It takes two… years? We must be nearly there now surely. I also swapped my Xbox One X for a Series X at Computer Exchange. First impressions are that it’s a lot better, faster loading times and frame rates at 4K. Xbox OS (?) is still mind boggling though - just faster - which does help.
Working. At work I’ve been trying to plan Enterprise OPA and OPA content and helping out where I can with some first time OPA contributors with moderate success. Some train focus time also produced a Regal GitHub action. We had a lot of ‘XY Problems’ this week from users and I learned that kubectl port-forward bypasses pod network namespace port forwards.
Points. An internet person took an interest in running their own deployment of my photos website. I did a little refactoring to remove some of the more Charlie-specific parts of the application.