rumorsmatrix_

This page is inspired by the /now page movement.

I work devops, play table-top RPGs and MMOs, collect Magic the Gathering, and like procedural generation. I live in the north-east of England with my wife and three cats.

Doing

• 40^th birthday, June 2024 in Sorrento, Italy
• Treadmill running at the gym
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Jordan de Souza; piano Nicholas McCarthy
• Guv Island, Al Murray

Playing

• Starforged: Sundered Isles, Shawn Tomkin
• World of Warcraft: Pandaria Remix, Blizzard
• Melvor Idle, Jagex; Malcs

Watching

• Interview With a Vampire, season two
• Star Trek Discovery, season five
• House of the Dragon, season two
• Timothy Cain, Fallout, Pillars of Eternity and Outer Worlds dev
• Alien Food, ironman Old School Runescape with no guides, no plugins, no wiki
• Arbitor Ian, deep dives into the Warhammer 40k lore; book club with Mira Manga

Reading

• The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
• Death's End, Cixin Liu
• The Redemption of Time, Baoshu

Coding and devops

• Redesigning and developing this website
• Devops at a small e-commerce company
  • Maintaining a legacy codebase
  • Server updates
  • Improving reporting