Souls Like Strings

• Every time I try a major dependency upgrade (React, Node, etc.) it's an absolute lottery whether it'll be a 3 line or 3 day change
  • Thank god for Typescript and (better than before) test coverage though, without them it'd be hopeless
• Caching is amazing until you have to troubleshoot a problem caused by cache
  • If you're going to use a variable as part of a cache key, make sure it can't be undefined
• Yet another NPM social engineering attack made me go through all our dependencies to see if we need them
  ...

• It's very important to clarify requirements from the PM before holding an RFC meeting
  • otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time because no one knows the problem they're trying to solve
  • still managed to hash out some parts of it though
• Even if I had all the necessary info, I definitely could have facilitated better
  • maybe ok to open by giving an overview since not everyone had time to read it, but should've prepared something
  • should have opened by going through the comments
  • then asking if anyone had questions/opinions overall
• Caching is amazing, I...

Maybe not a good sequel, but a great game.

Why

• You want a different but familiar take on Dark Souls
• You enjoy being thrown into ridiculous situations and fighting your way through
• You like power-stancing to the same unhealthy degree as one of my coworkers

Why Not

• The only reason you liked Dark Souls was the interconnectedness of the world

Impressions

This one didn't pull me in to the same degree as the original; I took two long breaks to play other games (Ender Lillies/Magnolia, then Persona 5) and I think that's the biggest...

Since I'm doing something unusual by playing a game on release, I decided to compound the bizarreness and use a journal-like format for this review.

I've grouped my thoughts by area, in the order I encountered them, which might not necessarily be the order you encounter them in. If you need to get pastan area you haven't seen without spoilers to see one you have, clicking the table of contents on the right should jump you to the area you want without revealing anything above it. It might reveal stuff below it depending on screen-size/paragraph-length though, so probably don't do...

What went well

Projects

• Migrated this blog to 11ty
  • started adding more of my own to it
  • and started producing a lot more content, not just the weekly TWIL
• Added a 'Links' section to TWIL posts and found a lot of great sites for my RSS feed
  • Feels like I have a steady flow of quality articles to read that I'm pretty happy with now
  • Once you get it set up RSS is so much better than trusting the algorithm, and blogs I like linking to blogs they like makes that much easier
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