TLDR: I'm still using Todoist but a bit less extremely. I've almost finished my free trial of Todoist so I figured I'd dump my thoughts about it again. It's still the best TODO service I've seen. All my tasks still go in it and I still refer to it daily. Read More
There's a design thing called The Principle of Least Astonishment. Basically design things that do what the users think they should do. Anyway! I work by a principle which I've named The Principle of Greatest Annoyance. I half jokingly say that I'm reasonable at doing software stuff because when using Read More
Since the SU&SD review of Food Chain Magnate (FCM) back in Febuary 2016 I've wanted to play it. Earlier this year there as a reprint/people found some spare stock/someone made bootleg copies of it. Jen said it was worth the price tag so I got a Read More
Imagine you're writing some code. Maybe you're putting your recipies in git and doing CI/CD on them. Imagine you've got tests written in python using pytest. You're not a complete scrub and you're using a virtualenv. You've got pylint to lint your code. Your tests run. VS Code is Read More
Imagine a Project Tracking system like Jira but designed for life as well as being not terrible. You can make tasks, assign them to people[0], give a deadline, add some comments, and put them in projects. Pretty simple CRUD right? Well yes but the execution is where the magic is. Read More
We've recently moved to a house rather than a flat[0]. I've noticed that adjusting radiators to get equal temperatures in various rooms is an art not a science. I know the Nest exists but it's not smart enough. Here's what I want: Firstly just ditch the cloud. The small Read More
As part of #4feldherren I committed to 1000 points of Blood Angels. Well that's going to get turned into an army and for that I'd like 1500 points. So I'm making a little adjustment to my 1000 points. Roughly 1000 points in: 143pts - HQ - Astorath 117pts - HQ Read More
It took me about 2 hours but this is what you need to put in your .travis.yml language: csharp solution: dot-net-core-on-linux.sln mono: none dotnet: 2.1.4 install: - dotnet restore script: - dotnet build - dotnet test HelloWorld.Tests/HelloWorld.Tests.csproj Why is this this good? Read More
I've not written about Hive here before. I'm not sure why. I sort of assumed that I already had. I'll recommend it to basically anyone. It's such a pure and neat little game. You'll be placing and moving some really sturdy hexagonal pieces around the hive in order to pin Read More
As it tradition here, I write about the latest expensive big of Google kit I've bought. As we know I bought the Pixel C so fill the gap betwixt phone and computer. At the end of last year I bought the Pixel 2 to replace my One Plus X. How Read More
After I completely destroyed the opposition in our first #4Feldherren I've apparently agreed to 1000pts of Blood Angels. Here's what I see myself painting: A squad of Hellblasters because they look rad and are simple so I can really nail the basics of the colours scheme. Lemartes Astorath 2 Squads Read More
Superuser on the Discord has requested I participate in this meme/chain letter. Superuser's is here. The idea is that you pick the Game of the Year for every year you've been around. Mine are as follows: 1993: Probably crying 1994: Same as last year 1995: Sand pit 1996: Drawing Read More
It's like Scythe but older and better. Viticulture came out in 2013 and it was developed by Stonemaier Games. That's the same company behind the hit diesel punk game Scythe! Viticulture sees you being in charge of a vineyard in Italy as you try to amass 20 abstract victory points. Read More
I bought a Fire TV Stick. Despite the adverts featuring one Jeremy Clarkson (if Amazon could stop marketing towards centrist dads that'd be amazing). Why though? Well we've been using the Xbox One as the media center/hub/platform for ages now. I bought the Xbone with my first real Read More
I guess I'm being contrarian this year by picking the latest incarnation of 40K to be my Game of the Year. Especially as the only people who seem to take GOTY seriously are video games people. 2017 has been a big year for 40K. The game has changed a lot. Read More
Well at least for me[0]. February 2014 to September 2015 was maybe the best time I've had with board games. I'd picked up the Netrunner core set in July 2013 but bounced off it. My pals and I just couldn't grasp the rules like we did with Magic. Over Read More
It's coming to the end of the year and I'm reflecting on some predictions I made on GNR episode 30. We'll do a wrap up of it later but I thought I'd write a little bit about my failed experiment 2017x52. I was aiming to post at least one photo Read More
It's great! I'm not saying the device has changed my life but it's a big step up from the OnePlus X. I'll break it down in terms of features. The camera! Oh my. The flagship feature of this device. It's amazing. I've been taking lots of photos over the last Read More
I post about two things here, games and Google products. I bought a Pixel 2 (non XL 64GB) and it arrived yesterday. My oh my is this a lovely device. No weird issues with keyboards like the Pixel C. Just a beautiful device with rock solid software (so far). We'll Read More
I'm still making progress towards finishing my 4 Feldherren commitments. I've finished Roboute Guilliman pictured below. He was great fun to paint. I decided to omit the very fragile flaming torches from the base. I've finished a squad of the Sternguard Veterans. This squad took ages to finish. I went Read More
x1101 sent a question to the podcast a few weeks back about what we're listening to these days. At this moment I've got 29 feeds in my podcatcher (I still use Pocket Casts, recently it got SONOS support). I wont bore you with the full list but I'll go through Read More
On the last episode of Geek News Radio we (Joe, Mike, Fab and I) decided to embark on #4Feldherren. This is basically A Tale of Four Warlords but with a German hashtag. The idea is that we commit to painting some miniatures by a date, report progress and hopefully get Read More
I was given Ican Gold for my birthday back in February. Last weekend we finally took it for a spin. Incan Gold puts you and your pals in a Indiana Jones style situation where you're venturing into some ruined temple and completely unethically stealing all their stuff while trying not Read More
It's another card game from Fantasy Flight! It's got the Star Wars licence! It's not an LCG? WHAT? I saw Star Wars Destiny then forgot about. I thought it was impossible for FFG to put out two Star Wars card games at the same time. That'd be madness surely? WELL, Read More
