I’ve been hearing for a couple of weeks now that Taurus (sun) and Aquarius (moon) are two of several signs for whom significant change and upheaval is starting on February 17th and lasting for a couple of years.

I just learned that for me, it will be embodied in the change from Tuesday to Friday for household waste pick. It has been Tuesday for 22 and I have several cleaning and tidying habits pinned to collecting the various waste bins around the house and it is going to take me both those years to adjust!

My employer has provisioned a new laptop for me. For the first time since 2010 or so my daily driver will be a Linux system - Ubuntu since that’s their standard.

I have a lot of disentangling to do from big tech still (I’m heavily entrenched in the Apple ecosystem still) but I’m pleased by this step.

Kind of big update to Combat!: The Game: http://robsdreamco.com/ctg

The same core mechanics and same basic graphics, but implemented much better and with a better overall interface.

The newest functionality is that it now supports mouse and tap to control characters and works on mobile. It is too small on mobile right now, but is functional. There's some other niceties like specifying some settings (map and number of characters).

I might be shelving this one for a little bit. I have two other ideas that have been pushing their way forward but I really wanted mobile support so I can play it at idle times and figure out what I want to next with it.

I am enjoying playing it probably more than any other game idea I've built out. I really enjoyed _building_ Inventory Management: The Game, but couldn't get it to a point where even I enjoyed interacting with it as a game so it's a nice change of pace.

At work there’s been a long-time, mostly harmless issue where a url used by most services has had an extraneous 9 at the start. I’ve thought that I was the cause of this, since I do a lot of work on the template and make a lot of typos and my name is attached to many of the affected lines in git blame.

But! Today a colleague found the true root cause (probably!) and my name is attached because I kick off a lot of the new services. In reality the error was made in a script that is part of that process, by someone who is no longer with the company AND I didn’t like!

The best kind of vindication.

I have been playing with a game idea and I have a very early version put together:

http://robsdreamco.com/ctg/.

It's basically a very basic implementation of combat from ultima 4. very simple right now with 1-4 identical controllable characters against 1-4 identical computer monsters and everyone has 1 hp

and there's no graphics and everyone has melee weapons

An audio play.

A sliding drawer. A clank, a resonant thunk. A sigh, heavy, and some rustling. A sliding drawer, dishes jostling. Plastic vessels, placed on the floor. Clatter, brief. Kerplunk into soapy water.