Easter break ends today. What a bummer!

Happenings

  • Went out to a country park with my family, my parents, and my sister’s family on Easter monday.
  • I got a Miyoo Flip! This cute little GameBoy Advance SP-inspired console will play any game up to the PS1 era from an SD card. It also can play some more modern games via PortMaster. The first thing I did was install SpruceOS, then remove the thousands of games it comes preloaded with from the card — I find the overwhelming and distracting. I just want to play one game at a time, really.
  • Went for a picnic + playdate with one of Mr Four’s friends and his mum. It was nice, the weather was like summer.
  • Visited my in-laws and took them for a walk around the canal near their home.
  • Had my friend round for a bit. We played games with Mr Four while having a nice chat.
  • Went into work for a couple of days to tidy my classroom and process old wads of paper (mostly old student work and tests).
  • Mr One has stopped having night time tantrums, but his bedtime is still dreadful. He fights sleep for 2-3 hours every night and has done for about 3 weeks, which means we don’t get proper evenings to unwind without the kids.
  • I made pizza. It was pretty good, though one of them turned out too oily — sundried tomato and pesto. The flavours were good though, and I reckon a lot could be mitigated by draining off and absorbing some of the oil with kitchen roll.
  • Mr Four had his first swimming lesson. He loved it and did very well.

On this site

I wrote a post about Neovim note-taking for the April vim blogging carnival. I also wrote a guide to the sonata form in classical music, complete with examples and an exercise. I hope someone gets something out of it — when I learned about this concept in around 2017 it significantly improved my appreciation of classical music.

Links

  • It’s Time To Grow Up. If you watch the new Harry Potter or ever buy Harry Potter products, you are putting money in the pocket of one of the world’s most notable billionaire anti-trans activists, who directly funds anti-trans groups and has founded a trans-exclusionary rape crisis centre. Thankfully, it’s a children’s book, and you can live without it.
  • My favourite 2-player games. I have a couple of these but discovered some more I’m desperate to play now. Tak looks super interesting!
  • qpwgraph. This is a cool app. For a call this week, I wanted to put my PC’s audio out and microphone through the call. This Qt app is a virtual patchbay for PipeWire where you can just draw connections between audio sources and sinks.
  • The Snake That Ate Itself. What 100% Claude-generated code means for Claude Code.
  • Dandelion Honey. My wife and I were talking about making this last year, but we missed the season. It looks fun and tasty, especially as a vegan who doesn’t eat honey.

Playing

I moved Chrono Trigger and my save from my phone over to the Miyoo Flip, where it feels right at home.

Reading

As with last week, disrupted evenings have made keeping up with reading hard. I am behind on the schedule for the reading list I’m doing this year. But I am enjoying the book (The Right To Oblivion by Lowry Pressly), and it is giving me plenty to think about, which is what counts. Essentially, it is answering the question “why is privacy valuable?”. And it rejects the idea that privacy is protecting information that you would not like getting out — that’s secrecy. Rather, privacy is about having spaces in your life where you don’t have to be accountable to anyone or present anything to the world.