Lachlan Cooper

@lachlancooper
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Software engineer, game liker, he/him.
@gingerbeardman Really wanna see this in all its glory, hope it's coming to Australia! Hard Boiled in 35mm a couple of years back was so fun.
God I wish I could do anything half as well as Christian Donlan can write.
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-pure-and-scattered-beauty-of-modern-zelda
Taming the pure and scattered beauty of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild

To celebrate The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary, an essay on the ineffable magic of the extraordinary Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild.

Eurogamer.net
@henke Whoa, Stephen Russell? I must play this ASAP
@radiatoryang Damn that's a great piece of writing. Can't believe DS2 is 12 already.

Like perhaps I should support the format produced by the various browser extensions that can scrape your Steam purchase history page and generate a CSV.

The main problem here is Steam's history page, which groups purchases by transaction instead of a proper itemised list. Hmmm.

The app is mostly for my own use, but I'd like to release it publicly too.

Spend tracking being the main feature, I need to think about ways to make it useful to the average #Steam user who hasn't been meticulously recording all their purchases for years.

The app is a single Go binary that uses SQLite to store synced data, so it's suuuper snappy to do anything. Every interaction is under 300ms.

Finally got a chance to work on my #Steam library tracking app.

It already does something I haven't seen anywhere else: of course it can sync my games, playtime, achievements via the Steam API, but also link this to my actual spending via CSV import. (I've been keeping a spreadsheet for years).

So now I can see which of my games have the best and worst $/hr, total spend by developer, publisher, or genre, $ per month/year; basically anything. It's really cool!

Finally got album art for bluetooth audio working in my car, after several years across multiple Android phones! All it took was changing AVRCP version from 1.5 to 1.6 and restarting my phone.
It's #BandcampFriday again! I just picked up the new Gorillaz album and a couple of old favourite Mirah albums.