Random Blips
Welcome to my little stream of consciousness. This is where I drop quick thoughts, odd ideas, passing observations, or whatever else pops into my head. No schedule, no theme - just random blips whenever I feel like it.
- Oct 19, 2025
Spent the afternoon walking by the river. Used the time to capture some images with the full-spectrum. Got a few decent pictures! Still getting used to darktable, but here’s two shots taken today:
- Oct 15, 2025
Thanks to a (for now unnamed) sponsor, we managed to pick up another 22 notebooks for iSTEP!
We’re gonna wipe the drives and do a fresh system install to prepare them for the next introductory courses in the refugee center.
In a just over a month we’re then going to be driving down to Elbasan for a couple of weeks to assist A2B . Excited to meet our Shqiptar friends again!
- Oct 13, 2025
Got quite a lot of messages and replies from people who’ve been following these blips. I haven’t told anyone about them so I’m genuinely surprised there’s that much interest (and also fun to hear about the ways people got here).
Thanks for the many kind words!
Finished the initial two flower presses. Waiting for the autum leaves now!
- Oct 12, 2025
Went for a quick scoping session! Photo is taken with my phone as I don’t have a astro camera laying around.
- Oct 9, 2025
Rebels had a beautiful demo (demo at 15:50) at this year’s Deadline. Also really enjoyed Bitman & Ribbon’s Shader Lowdown (intro at 2:40).
I got a RCA Cosmac VIP laying around. Maybe it’s worth checking whether it could do some gfx? I haven’t found any online for this platform..
Update: Looks like Douglas Crawford created some effects via Chip-8 as part of a simple spreadsheet application.
- Oct 7, 2025
Had a late-night hang with an old friend, which led to some common thoughts that I consider to be worth sharing
Most of what I work on or care about is so far from what others tend to focus on that it’s usually easier not to bring it up. The gap feels too wide, and the conversation never seems to go anywhere.
There’s rarely anyone in my circle who shares the same interests, and, unsurprisingly, the few who might are often in similar situations. Frankly, most people don’t really care about which specific issue you traced down to some obscure logic in a module, no matter how interesting the process was for you.
Puzzles like this are really only interesting to those involved in solving them. There’s no tangible result to show, no (visible) success to be proud of. Everything just returns to the status quo.
I do have a tendency to surround myself with people that have niche interests, no matter how far off they are from my own. Not because I would engage in whatever their passion is, but I’m drawn to the way they talk about what they care about. Listening to their enthusiasm, reading their thoughts, it’s like watching someone get lost in a world of their own.
I appreciate those fleeting moments when I meet someone else who’s been swimming in their own deep end.
Please stop configuring your repositories to automatically stale and close issues, thanks!
- Oct 5, 2025
I have been asked to make some banana bread, so here’s my first attempt at banana bread! It’s gluten-free - but holds up well. Will see how it scores tomorrow.
