Souls Like Strings

• If your Jest tests are hanging indefinitely, it might be a render loop caused by lazy and state/observable updates
  • 'maybe' being the operative word, I still don't properly understand why that was happening
  • but the actual behaviour was never broken and removing lazy fixed it after hours of wall head-butting, so I'll take it
• Honeycomb does not let you have an SLO covering two separate endpoints, e.g. comparing the successful requests for OTPs to successful uses
  • Seems like a useful feature for... pretty much everything
  • There are a lot of cases where you want compare...

Cyberpunk revenge Spiderman

Why

• Stunningly detailed pixel art
• Unique movement mechanics feel amazing
• Excellent pacing between gameplay and story
• The story actually rivals the gameplay for best part

Why Not

• There's definitely an initial adjustment period to the movement
• This is a cyberpunk setting, it's pretty dark

Impressions

I came into this expecting a fun action platformer, and for the first ~6 hours that's exactly what I got, with a bonus serving of amazingly detailed pixel art. The core mechanic of grappling feels amazing once you get used to it, thought that took me...

Let the dice fall where they may

Why

• Well written characters with cool designs
• An interesting story with consistent themes
• Peaks and valleys of pressure make progress feel earned
• Role-playing elements are pretty strong

Why Not

• Themes are arguably a little too consistent if you zoom out a bit
• Success snowballs, you can be kinda OP by the start of the DLC
• Some DLC dialogue doesn't seem to change based on your choices

Impressions

Citizen Sleeper starts off as a pressure cooker. You wake up on a space station called 'The Eye' as a...

Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer.

Sadly the rich were not eaten

Beck Garrison lives on the seastead, the classic libertarian dream of a sovereign nation in the middle of the ocean. If one ever made it further than the 'buying a cruise ship' phase. In Beck's universe they made it quite a bit further than that, and the book's strongest point is building out what these seasteads would look like.

A few different 'nations' have sprung up on the converted cruise liners and sea platforms, from the debauchery of New Amsterdam to the unrestrained techno-capitilism of Sal...

What Went Well

Projects

Plenty of game & books reviews here, not so much progress on any coding projects because of that. Not so much being none, zip, zilch.

Games

SILKSONG IS DONE! What an incredible game, but man it took me a long time to beat. When it came out I wasn't expecting to sink anywhere near as much time into it as Elden Ring, but apparently Team Cherry made a(nother? Didn't finish to original back in the day) 100+ hour metroidvania. Or I'm just terrible at Silksong's combat, which is definitely possible. Either way it's definitely my...