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Video Games I played in the first half of 2026

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I played a lot of games so far this year, most of them from a single franchise.

Resident Evil

Here are the all the RE games I played this year, in the order I played them.

Book I Read and Video Games I played in 2025

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I played a lot of games this year:

Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D *
Dragon Quest 1 *
Suikoden 1 Remaster *
Oblivion Remaster (main lines, basically no side quests just for a quick hit of nostalgia)
Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 (did not finish, played about 5 hours - just didn’t hook me)
Sports Story
Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters * (I played all 6 all the way through and it was great)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles *
Star Wars Outlaws

Because of all those games I played I only read one book this year, Rowdy: The Roddy Piper Story. It was great.

Albums of 2025

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Favorite Albums of 2025

Big Thief - Double Infinity
Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Massage Parlor
Geese - Getting Killed
Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override
Laufey - A Matter of Time
Saintseneca - Highwallow & Supermoon Songs

Some albums I haven’t listened to very much yet, but seem really good:

Favorite Music 2020-2025

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Just thinking about some of my favorite albums from the past five years (in no particular order):

The Songs of Bacharach & Costello (Deluxe Edition) - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
Dragon New Warm Mountain - Big Thief
Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
Shadow Kingdom - Bob Dylan
Carnage - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Please Daddy - Sarah Mary Chadwick
Me and Ennui are Friends Baby - Sarah Mary Chadwick
I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace - Nick Cave
Wild God - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Woodland - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

And some albums I really liked, but I’m not sure if they hit that ‘favorite’ category:

MacOS Finder Be like - lets open settings

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I know that you regularly open Excel, but what if like every tenth time we opened Bluetooth File Exchange instead?

Note: This was happening before the Tahoe update. After the update to Tahoe nothing has changed, every so often it decides that I want to go to some random setting page than an application I use all day every day.

Sports Story

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Sports Story was such an amazing game - so much freaking charm. I think it was just about the perfect length.

The Killers - Sam's Town

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I listened to The Killers al bum Sam’s Town today, I forgot how much I like this album. Looking at the Wikipedia article it seems like I’m not alone. When it came out I remember it getting a lot of hate.

Books I Read in 2024

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I didn’t read a ton this yeaar, my pile of books to read just keeps growing. Hoping to clear out a lot more in 2025.

Albums of 2024

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Some albums I really liked and listened to a lot:

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Messages to God, Unadorned
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Joan as Police Woman - Lemons, Limes and Orchids
GloRilla - GLORIOUS
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
Alejandro Escovedo - Echo Dancing
The Decemberists - As it Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

Some albums I like, but haven’t listened to a lot:

Games I played in 2024

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I played a lot of games in 2024, but I only finished a few.

Games I finished:

Baldurs Gate 3 I played bunch of this in 2023, and a bunch in the first half of 2024. It is an amazing game. I want to do a full write up on it at some point.

Yakuza Like a Dragon

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I played about 10 hours. It was pretty fun, but not enough to keep me engaged. A few years ago I put 20ish hours in to Yakuza 0 but never finished it. I want to like these games but the battling and the traveling always turns me off.

iPhone 16 Pro

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I upgraded from the 14 Pro to the iPhone 16 Pro. This thing is great. Screen is somehow a ton better; almost no bezels. It’s lighter too (at least until my case gets delivered).

Star Ocean: The Second Story R

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I played Star Ocean Second Story on the original Playstation back 1999. The art was amazing, the battling was annoying and the story was fine. I never beat the game back then.

MacOS Dock Placement

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My MacOS dock has been on the left of the screen since about 2006. I don’t know why I made the change, but after I made it I never reconsidered it. I’m a developer and having that extra height for long files seemed reasonable.

Astro Bot

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve only played 2-3 hours so far, but this game is so much fun. There is a level where your character (Astro Bot) can shrink down to be really really tiny on command and it is amazing.

Apple Music - Smart Playlist Issue

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I was creating a new smart playlist in Apple Music. I was trying to set up two separate conditionals a ‘match all’ rule and ‘match any’ rule so I include a variety of artists (any rule) and exclude specific genres (Holiday). I knw this was possible, but I could not figure out how to do it.

Laravel Reverb Issue

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I recently had an issue trying to run the new Laravel Reverb.

I kept getting an error like the one below:

Games I Played in 2023

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I played some games in 2023, I liked most of them a lot (one I wasn’t so hot on). In no particular order…

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Baldur’s Gate 3
Spider-Man 2
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Mario RPG
Starfield

Books I Read in 2023

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I did not read much this year. I played two games a whole butt load and re-read the Lord of the Rings trilogy - it didn’t leave much time for new books.

Albums of 2023

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Some of the albums I listened to, and enjoyed the most in 2023….

The Songs of Bacharach & Costello
Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom
100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs
Laufey - Betwitched
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Australian Carnage