Today marks ten years of war in Ukraine and I thought I’d write a commentary piece about that:

→ Eye on The Press: Ten Years of War

Reflecting on ten years of war in Ukraine and our reaction to it in the West

I watched the Putin interview so you don’t have to:

→ Eye on The Press: The Interview

What Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin says about the war in Ukraine, the US government and Putin himself

Last week, I wrote the following about the EU’s new regulation on “artificial intelligence”:

→ Eye on The Press: How Not to Pass a Law: The EU’s AI Act

Oh no, the Nazis are coming! I guess the way to stop them is to act very clueless, very quickly!

I’ve updated my Retro Achievements Page. I’ve got 26% of the achievements for Mystic Quest now.

I was watching Irene Aldana vs. Karol Rosa from UFC 296 the other night. Joe Rogan called it “probably the fight of [2023], period” and I think I agree. What a banger!

I have so much respect for both of these women. Absolutely amazing. Tough as human beings come.

“Spaceship Corridor”

Nikon Z fc, Nikkor Z 40 mm ƒ/2 (ISO 3200 • 1/125 s • ƒ/3.2)

I’ve gradually continued work on my tiny soulsborne roguelike hack & slash game Dark Embers. I’ve previously described the idea here. I now have a a basic game engine going with player animations, a particle system and a way to spawn and despawn game objects like campfires. I’ve also started to implement enemy spawning. Next up is basic pathfinding for the enemies and then collision detection, before I turn to animating the enemies and writing a basic combat AI for them.

I’ve added a separate page for my retro achievements to this site.

→ Achievements Page