Happy June, in May I drew lots of pictures, made good soups, played old games, bought a second Fender Telecaster. You can see it next to the one I already had. It is much redder. I have only played two gigs with it so far but there will be many more. Have a great month!! 🥰

Hi everyone my Star Wars opinion is that this game should have been called Age of Empires Strikes Back.

An update for anybody wondering whether I still hang out with spiders and play old games…

I’ve been having such a nice time with OpenLoco lately. I loved Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion back when it came out, and this is a very fine open source implementaiton of it. It’s still so satisfying to watch my charming little transport empire operating.

Sorry, science, but Age of Empires proves that Herman Melville was right.

Trying to understand old functions I’ve coded:

Had to wear a thrift shop outfit for my gig on Saturday night so I picked brown corduroy jacket + waistcoat and flared jeans and kept making Disco Elysium Expressions.

A few previews of Gilt in motion: https://ben304.blogspot.com/2026/04/devlog-22-gilt-in-motion.html

I’m looking at a product video for a bread slicing and bagging machine because I couldn’t sleep without finding out how they get loaves into the bags so neatly but now I’m confused by “Up to 40/42 bags per minute”, surely the use of “up to” should only quote the highest figure?