10:13: 🔗 wow Caves Of Qud is coming to Switch m.youtube.com/watch?v=DisUBYdc

I used to play a lot of Qud, as well as other dense trad roguelikes. Handheld pick-up-and-play anywhere would definitely persuade me to pick up Qud again

10:22: 🔗 Some criticism of the Australia social media ban criticaledtech.com/2026/02/05/

I have posted before about being broadly sympathetic to the ban, other than perhaps the privacy implications for adults. I don't find the article very persuasive because it seems to equate social media ban with a complete internet ban. "Social media have educational content"... well, so does Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and many many other sites. Same for facilitating social connection — it can be done without having to go through harmful apps

16:03: 🔗 long but interesting video on progress towards Audacity 4. I use Audacity for most audio tasks, which I don't do super often, meaning I'm definitely in the camp who lacks expertise and finds Audacity's clunky UI a stumbling block — I can nearly always achieve what I want, but often takes several attempts and I always feel I'm doing it inefficiently. All these changes look great to me, and I hope they're not too alienating to expert users. As someone who has never worked on a large software project, the breakdown of the design decisions and trade offs is fascinating

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_

19:15: I know all the discourse is about how bad Windows 11 is but man Office is such a mess as well. So many weird behaviours and UI design leave me thinking "man that's fucked up" every day.