Hi! I almost didn't write this out today. I'm very low energy. But I'm doing it anyways! Praise me. I turned 30 last week and I don't feel very strongly about it. I thought I'd have a crisis but I think my constant worry about time slipping away with me not doing whatever I want to achieve before I die is already overriding any potential feelings I'd have about a number LOL. The number doesn't matter anyways. I feel the same that I did at 29, but I'm also probably different than I was when I was 29. It is what it is. It was a nice opportunity to meet up with some friends in New York and eat good food and spend a little too much money as a result. It was awesome! I love my friends. That said, the newsletter you desperately missed while I was on vacation: ## Interesting Stuff ### [Antonymph](https://lyra.horse/antonymph/) Just watch this! It's better if it's a surprise. ### [Infinite Craft](https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/) This little toy harkens back to the days of yore, when there was more than five websites. Play around with it during a boring meeting. ### Infinity Cube I got one of these as a stim toy and it's been a wonder. I already like it more than my fidget cube (sorry fidget cube). It has that perfect tactile feel to it, the motions to use it feel great, and it has some heft. Big fan! ## Planted this Week ### [[Kunitsu-Gami - Path of the Goddess]] I wrote some initial thoughts on this real-time-strategy-rpg by Capcom. It's cool and fun! ### [[Tech Stack - 07252024]] Every time I swap out stuff in my day-to-day tech stack, I've decided to update with a page here, along with notes on the changes and whatnot. This patch: analog changes! I've been getting into using a bullet journal and physical pomodoro clock, and it's been a nice change of pace! ## Media Corner Man. I dunno! Nothing particularly thrilling going on in the media realm for me at the moment ,which is usually a sign that I need to create something, but I simply haven't had the time. I've been popping into *Street FIghter 6* now and then, and just grabbed a very strange looking game called *Mato Anomalies*. We'll see how it goes. I'm also thinking of finally getting into *Dread Delusion*, since it just got its final content update. If you've played it, let me know what you think of it! Besides that, I'm doing a Dawn of the Demon run in *Nioh 2*. It's beating my ass! I'm rusty! I need to remember how to buildcraft! But I could play this game forever tbh. Absolutely a top 10er. Lots of good music lately though! Like, a lot a lot. Like, "Shugo Tokumaru just dropped an album for the first time in 7 years" a lot. So I'm just gonna bullet list it: - *Song Symbiosis* - Shugo Tokumaru - *Bando Stone and the New World* - Childish Gambino - *Lost Woods* - bknapp - *RUSH: The Music of EVO 2024* - Zaid Tabani - *SMILE!* - Porter Robinson[^1] - *Isthmus* - Throwing Snow And of course, *brat* summer is in full effect. ## Status Update Honestly alright! Feeling a little listless, but I always do after I have a vacation and then come back to my capitalistic day-to-day. It's like for 30 seconds I remember what life could be like if I didn't look at code and spreadsheets and slack all day, and then get snapped back to it. But I'm fine otherwise! :) I'm you're doing well too! ## Signing Off Have a wonderful day! [^1]: This one's just okay imo but /shrug